Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Collection of medical texts, early 13th century
Parchment
Modern pencil foliation 1-98, superceding various earlier mistakes.
(I) I-IV8, V5 (=8 with 6-8 cancelled)
(II) I-IV8, V6 (=8 ?lacks 7-8)
(III) I-II8, III6 (?=8 lacks 7-8)
I: written in Textualis libraria, neat, regular, with generous ascenders and descenders. One scribe throughout.
II: Textualis libraria; a single scribe – possibly that of (I) using a more compact version of his hand
III: Textualis libraria; hand very similar, and probably identical to the scribe of (II); f.98 in a 13th century hand
A collection of three coeval parts: (I), (II) and (III), brought together by late 15th century (when titles were added to individual texts throughout, and the content of the whole was listed on f.1r by Thomas Swalwell), probably by late 14th century (when common title was added to f.1r and an ownership note to f.98v). According to the added content list, the volume then started with ‘Diuisiones et subdivisiones -?- et tegni galieni’ ); however, this entry was soon annotated hic non est. An earlier, fuller state is also reflected in a note that was added to f.97v: In isto uolumine sunt centum et x folia script[a].
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)
Written in England or France, early 13th century.
Inscription: Constat Rypon *, late 14th century, f. 98v. Identified as John of Ripon, monk of Durham 1371-1413 or 14.
liber medicinarum assignatus communi armariolo Dunolm, late 14th century
liber amphorii cum alijs De communi libraria monachorum dunelm early 15th century, f.1.
Pressmark 2a 7i B
Contents list in hand of Thomas Swalwell, f.1r
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]).