Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Works of Prudentius, in two uniform sections, probably written in Durham in 10th century.
Parchment
I6, II-III8, IV10, V8, VI6, VII8, VIII6, IX-XVI8, XVI-XXII8. The last two quires misbound: f.156-171 should be in the order 163, 156-161, 170; 162, 166, 164-165, 168-169, 167, 171. Parchment stub f.85.
Written space: (i). 200 x 90 mm. (ii) 195 x 100 mm.
Written in Caroline minusculeThree hands changing at f.100 and 148. 1st hand 34 lines; 2nd and 3rd 32 lines.
Adiastematic neumes in (b) - f.5, f.8, f.11-12, f.14-15.
Red used occasionally for capitals and headings
Glosses of all dates down to 12th century.
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, Durham?, 10th century.
Inscription: “liber Sancti Cuthberti de dunl”, 12/13th century, f.1.
Pressmark “1a 7i” “Prudencius .L.” with L perhaps altered to “A”, 15th century, f.1. In Spendement catalogues.
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]).
Prudentius, Carmina Aurelii Prudentii Clementis, ed. M.P. Cunningham, CCSL 126 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1966)
Mynors, R.A.B., 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)