Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Composite volume of Augustine's De civitate Dei and other works written in the late 13th to early 14th century. An original volume comprising f.25-328 (C) was augmented by the addition of f.19-24 (B) and f.1-18 (A). Inscriptions on f.1r, f.24v and f.328v associating the book with Thomas Lund, (monk of Durham approximately 1309-1350), indicates that these three elements had been brought together by the mid 14th century. The wear and discoloration of f.328v suggests it was the final page of the book for some time. At some point no later than about 1500, f.i-iv and 329-332 were prefixed and appended as fly- and endleaves.
Modern pencil foliation of medieval leaves runs: i-iv, 1-332.
A parchment tab labelled “5” or “S” is attached to f.163; another tab was formerly attached to f.293.
Standard Tuckett binding, mid 19th century full brown calf over re-used medieval bevelled wooden boards (10 mm) (Charles Tuckett, binder to the British Museum, rebound many Durham manuscripts in the 19th century) 1 possibly medieval metal clasp (similar to those on DCL MS A.I.3, etc.). The outlines of the turn-ins from an earlier cover are preserved on f.ir and 332v (the former paste-downs).
Informal note of content, now rubbed and faint (“liber de ciuitate de arbitrio Unde Malum”) followed in a different by contemporary hand by “thom' de sutton pro postilla super lucam”, 13th/14th century?, f.328v, lower margin. Possibly the Thomas of Sutton who was a Dominican friar, regent master and a disputant in the faculty of theology at Oxford in the 1290s.
Inscription: “T. Lund ?fr--[erased word or words]”, early 14th century, f.1r, lower margin. “Liber sancti Cutthberti Ex procuracione fratris Thome De Lund”, early 14th century, f.24v, lower margin. The inscriptions are seemingly by the same hand, which was also responsible for many annotations and is presumably that of Lund himself. Thomas Lund, (monk of Durham approximately 1309-1350).
Pressmark: “.E.”, later 14th century, f.25r, top right. “De communi libraria monachorum Dunelm'”, start of 15th century, f.25r, top centre.
Cited in 1395 Cloister catalogue. List of contents in hand of Thomas Swalwell, f.ivv, bottom.
Parchment: relatively even-toned, f.i-iv stouter than f.329-332. The arrangement in f.i-iv is unclear; in f.329-332 it is HF, HF. f.ir and 332v have suffered damage from their period of service as pastedowns; a discoloured rectangle, 90 x 75 mm, in the lower margin of f.iv suggests that a small sheet (?a bookplate) was formerly attached here.
Two sets of bifolia from different quires. f.i-iv were the innermost pair of their quire. f.329-332 were adjacent bifolia from a single quire which, as four bifolia originally stood between f.330 and 331, consisted of at least six sheets.
Text-block: 165-7 x 103 mm. Two columns (width, 50 mm).
Lines: f.i-iv, 34 (space, 4-5 mm; height of minims, 2 mm); f.329-332, 34, 36 or 38.
Pricking: f.i-iv, awl (prickings preserved in upper margin only); f.329-332, no evidence.
Ruling: ink.f.i-iv: single verticals flank both columns (two in total in the intercolumnar space); first and last horizontal extended. f.329-332: double verticals at the outer edges of both columns, single verticals at their inner edge (two in total in the intercolumnar space); the first three and the last two horizontals extended.
f.i-iv and 329-332 have text-blocks of closely similar size, but differ in quality of parchment, line count, ruling pattern and scribe; both were only partially rubricated; both received early annotation. It is debatable, therefore, whether they are from the same book or from different copies of the same work. Their parity in size to the rest of the book shows that they were deployed as pastedowns plus fly- and endleaves in the medieval binding whose vestiges survive under Tucketts’ leather covering; the fact that Thomas Swalwell added a contents list for the main volume to f.ivv, indicates that they were playing this role by about 1500 at the latest. f.i and 332 were presumably raised by Tucketts in 1845.
Written in Textualis semi-quadrataf.ir-ivv, a square matrix. The same hand was responsible for rubricating these pages. f.329r-332v. Textualis semi-quadrata, forward sloping. Also responsible for such rubrics as appear in these pages.
None
Written in England or France, later 13th century.
Codex I.14.2 to I.16 end, continuing directly with I.18 beginning to I.27.1§10. Rubrics were supplied on f.ir to f.iiiv (the last being for I.23), but not on f.iv (none for I.24-27). Contemporary annotations, marginal and interlinear, on every page except f.ivv
Codex I.11.4-I.14.2 then I.35.1-I.48.1. The quantity of text lacking between f.330v and f.331r is the equivalent of sixteen pages, four bifolia. Rubrics were supplied only on f.329v-230v only. Light glossing throughout, interlinear and marginal on f.329r-330v, marginal only (and largely effaced) on f.331r-332v.
Parchment: low quality with pronounced H/F contrast; H sides yellow and follicle-marked; holes and flaws; propensity to curl. The lower, outer corner of f.13, nearly detached owing to a slit, is held in place by historic sewing. Arranged FH, HF. f.1 is slightly smaller than the rest of the volume: 321 x 205 mm.
: I12, II6
Text-block: 249 x 156 mm. Lines: 51 (space, 4.5-5 mm; height of minims, 2+ mm). Pricking: awl. Prickings survive in the outer and upper margins. Ruling: ink. Single verticals flank the text-block; the first two horizontals invariably extended, the last two horizontals generally extended.
Written in Anglicana, slightly larger and more formal (approximately more closely to Textualis semi-quadrata) for headwords in the text and margins and for the colophon. Set out as block text, the keywords underlined in red within the text and repeated in the margin.
None. Headwords both in the text and the margin are underlined in red; their initials and other sentence capitals are stroked in red.
Written in England, early 14th century.
Short runs of alphabetically-ordered entries interspersed with groups of analphabetical ones, each generally with a short explicatory gloss, then a reference to book and chapter, plus often a letter (a-g) also. f.17v-18v, blank.
Parchment: modest to low quality with noticeable H/F contrast. Arranged FH, HF.
I6, but perhaps including singletons (f.23 and 24 are sewn to each other at the gutter)
Text-block: 234 x 126 mm. Two columns (width, 57 mm.). Lines: generally 50 or 51 (space, 4.5 mm; height of minims: scribe 1, 1+ mm; scribe 2, 2 mm). Scribe 3’s contribution: 35 lines (space, 7 mm; height of minims 2+ mm). Pricking: awl (at the corners of the frame) and knife (isolated additional holes). Ruling: ink. Scribe 1: double verticals at the outer edges of both columns, single verticals at their inner edges (two in total in the intercolumnar space). A further pair of verticals in the outer margin to guide the chapter numbers. No horizontals extended; all horizontals continue over the intercolumnar space. Scribe 2: single verticals on both sides of both columns (no ruling for the chapter numbers); first and last horizontals extended. Scribe 3: frame ruled only.
Scribe 1: f.19r-21v, col. 1, line 47 - Anglicana , neat, compact, rectilinear. This scribe supplied book and chapter numbers in the margins.
Scribe 2: f.21v, col. 1, line 50 - f.24v, col. 2, bottom. Anglicana, left-sloping. The book and chapter numbers for this scribe’s entries were added by a later hand which was also responsible for inserting rubrics on f.21v explaining that the second stint started with the list for Book XVII and that capitula lists for the intervening books appeared within the main text itself.
Scribe 3: f.24v (e). Anglicana, bolder than those of Scribes 1-2; citations underlined in ordinary ink.
None. Each entry throughout item (d) is headed by a paraph, alternately blue then red.
Written in England, 13th/14th century.
Capitula for Books I-X were written by Scribe 1, to which Scribe 2 appended those for Books XVII-XXII. Scribe 1 numbered his entries; numbers were supplied to Scribe 2’s entries by an annotator who provided running headings (giving the Book number) throughout and other notes
Parchment: low quality with pronounced H/F contrast; H sides yellow, some with pronounced follicle marks; holes, flaws, edgecuts. Arranged: FH, HF. A sliver of parchment, possibly a bookmark, sits between f.36 and 37; parts of a decaying straw bookmark remain between f.306 and 307.
I10, II-IV12, V8, VI-XXV12, XXVI10
Text-block: 208 x 125 mm. Two columns (width, 56 mm). Lines: 46. (Space, 5 mm; height of minims, 2 mm). Pricking: awl (prickings survive in upper and lower margins only). Ruling: ink. Single verticals flank both columns (two in total in the intercolumnar space). No horizontals extended; all continue across the intercolumnar space.
Written in Textualis rotunda. At least two hands, possibly three (f.25r-306v; f.307r-320v; f.321r-328v (conceivably the second scribe working more hastily or after an elapse of time)).
Item (g) is headed by a 7-line-high initial, historiated with a figure of a standing Deity with cross-nimbed halo, holding a green book in both hands, beside a tower and a wall (?the city of God). The Deity wears a blue over-mantle and a pink under-robe. The ground is burnished gold leaf. A bird stands atop the initial. The individual books within (g), the incipit of (f), and the incipits to Books II and III of (h) are headed by red and blue initials, 4+ lines high, flourished in both colours, with extensions in both colours. They are generally followed by one or more enlarged calligraphic capitals in black ink (those for (g) Book XVII, f.197v, were stroked in red). The incipit for (h) Book I, and chapters within (g) from Book X, chapter 9 (f.116r) onwards are headed with 2-line-high capitals, alternately red then blue, flourished in the other colour.
Written in England, Durham(?), early 14th century.
Contemporary running headings in red and blue give the Book numbers. Only Books II and XVII-XXII are headed by rubrics; only Books XI-XVI are preceded by capitula lists. Chapter numbers were added to the margins by the bold 14th century hand responsible for adding numbers to the prefixed capitula lists on f.21v-24r. Annotated throughout by the earlier 14th century hand that added the capitula numbers and which is probably that of Thomas Lund); the same hand was probably responsible for the many Nota lines bracing passages of text.
Text ordered Book II, Book III, Book I (Unde malum). The additional leaf numbering in the final four quires, which reordered them XXIII, XXIV, XXVI, XXV, may represent an abandoned attempt to rearrange the books in the order I, II, III. Red Ds and Ms punctuate the text of Book I, where one would expect Es and As for Evodius and Augustinus respectively. Annotation throughout, flagging themes, adding Nota lines.
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]).