Mid 8th century gospels, written in Northumbria.
Parchment
1-134 (with 11 and 11*, 37 and 37*). Misbound: f.102 belongs between f.6 and 7, and f.11* between f.9 and 10
Written in uncial and Insular half-uncial by four scribes.
Standard Tuckett binding, mid 19th century full brown calf over thick wooden boards (Charles Tuckett, binder to the British Museum, rebound most of the Cosin Manuscripts in the 19th century)
Written in England, Northumbria, mid 8th century, the content implies it might have been used by a bishop. The addition of documents recording privileges of Durham Priory indicate that it was at Durham Priory by the 12th century (Gameson 2010, 41).
Catalogi veteres librorum Ecclesiae cathedralis dunelm. Catalogues of the library of Durham cathedral, at various periods, from the conquest to the dissolution, including catalogues of the library of the abbey of Hulne, and of the mss. , Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).
Gameson, Richard, Manuscript treasures of Durham Cathedral (London: Third Millennium, 2010)
Mynors, R., Durham Cathedral manuscripts to the end of the twelfth century. Ten plates in colour and forty-seven in monochrome. With an introduction [including a list of all known Durham manuscripts before 1200] , (Durham: 1939)