Commentary on Boethius' De consolatione Philosophiae, with some other short works written in England in the early 12th century
Parchment
Modern pencil foliation.
Flyleaves (f.1-2), I-IX8, X12, XI8, XII6, XIII2, endleaf.
Written in late Caroline minuscule transtioning to proto-Gothic, f.1 by a different scribe.
Extensive marginal annotations in a 17th century hand.
Standard Tuckett binding, mid 19th century full brown calf over thick wooden boards (Charles Tuckett, binder to the British Museum, rebound many Durham manuscripts in the 19th century). Stains from the turn-overs of older binding faintly visible on f.1r; also four rust holes from metalwork of former clasp fitting.
Written in England, early 12th century.
Top of f.1 cropped away, possibly to remove ownership marks.
14th/15th century contents list, f.1r, registering (c), (d) and (f)-(h).
Durham library marks. f.1r, “.F.”, later 14th century; f.3r, “F”, 14th/15th century
Edicciones super primum librum boicij de consolatione philosophie , early 15th century.
In the form of a dialogue
Bloomfield, Morton W., Guyot, Bertrand-Georges, Howard, Donald R. and Kabealo, Thyra B., Incipits of Latin works on the virtues and vices, 1100-1500 A.D. Including a section of incipits of works on the Pater noster (Cambridge, Mass.: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1979)
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.
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Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).