DCL MS. A.II.5Pentateuch, glossedHeld by: Durham Cathedral Library: Durham Cathedral Manuscripts
Physical description of manuscript
Extent: i+320+i f.
Size: 388 mm x 255 mm
Foliation
Post-medieval ink foliation runs 1-42, 42*-319; 320 was added in modern pencil.
Secundo folio: ta sine principio
CollationI-XXXII10
Catchwords: Contemporary catchwords.
Signatures: Contemporary quire signatures (Roman numeral flanked by dots, final verso, lower margin, centre) on every quire except the last. Leaf marking of various forms on the first five or six leaves of quires.
Layout
Up to three columns, up to 31 lines of text and up to 61 lines of gloss
Script
Written in Textualis, possibly by a single scribe.
Decoration
Illuminated initials (all excised) evidently headed each biblical text, plus the first preface.
Binding
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). Rust stain in the centre of the first leaves from metal furniture on an earlier binding
Manuscript history
Creation
Written in France,
early 13th century.
Significant fire and liquid damage to the upper edge of all leaves, with occasional bleeding into the text area.
Provenance
Pressmark: “P′. A”, added separately, 14th/15th century, f.1r, top right.
Manuscript contents
(a)
f.1
r-80
r
Modern title: Genesis, with gloss
Language: Latin
(b)
f.80
r-154
v
Modern title: Exodus, with gloss
Language: Latin
(c)
f.155
r-208
v
Modern title: Leviticus, with gloss
Language: Latin
(d)
f.208
v-278
v
Modern title: Numbers, with gloss
Language: Latin
(e)
f.278
v-319
v
Modern title: Deuteronomy, with gloss
Language: Latin
MicrofilmMicrofilmed in 1985/86 by the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Copies held by them and Durham University Library.
Digitised material for Durham Cathedral Library MS. A.II.5 - Pentateuch, glossedDigitised August 2016 as part of the Durham Priory Library Recreated project
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t2mgx41mh864.html
Bibliography
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]).
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