DCL MS. B.III.15Isidore Sententiae and Gregory Dialogi
Held by: Durham Cathedral Library: Durham Cathedral Manuscripts

Composite manuscript in three parts:

Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1m1j92g7472.html

Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: ii+111+i f
Size: 320 mm x 220 mm

Foliation

Early modern ink foliation


Secundo folio: surgens ad creatorem
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)

Manuscript history
Provenance

The dates at which the three parts were joined together are unclear. The earliest certain evidence for the current state is the early modern foliation that runs throughout the volume as presently constituted. (A) and (B) were clearly together by 1395 as the entry in the 1395 Cloister Catalogue clearly refers to both. Informal jottings on Part C indicate that it had been scrapped by 15th/16th century; however, the extreme weathering on f.105v (the final page of (B) - including staining which is not echoed on f.106r (the first of (C)) - suggests that (C) was not joined to (B) for several centuries.

SECTION: (A)
Physical description of section of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: 44 f
Size: 320 mm x 220 mm

Foliation

Early modern ink foliation

Collation

I-IV8, V10

Layout

Two columns, 43 lines

Script

Written in Textualis semi-quadrata probably by a single scribe, with corrections by several hands.

History of section of manuscript
Creation

Written in England, early 13th century.


Manuscript contents
(a)     f.1-42
Original title: Sententiae
Author: Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
Date: early 13th century
Incipit: Summum bonum deus est, quia incommutabilis
Explicit: De exitu huius vite
Rubric: Quod deus sumus et incommutabilis sit
Language: Latin
SECTION: (B)
Physical description of section of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: 63 f.
Collation

I-VII8, VIII7 (=8 with leaf 8 cancelled).

Layout

Two columns 43 lines.

Script

Written in Textualis semi-quadrata by an undetermined number of scribes.

History of section of manuscript
Creation

Written in England, early 13th century.

Provenance


Manuscript contents
(b)     f.43-105r
Original title: Dialogi
Author: Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
Date: early 13th century
Incipit: Quadam die nimiis quorundam secularium tumultibus depressus
Explicit: si ante mortem deo hostia ipsi fuerimus
Rubric: Incipit prephatio libri dialogorum Gregorii pape Romane Urbis de uita sanctorum
Language: Latin
(c)     f.105r-105v
Modern title: Jottings
Date: 14th-16th century
Language: Latin
SECTION: (C)
Physical description of section of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: 6 f
Collation

3 bifolia

Layout

Two columns, 53 lines

Script

Written in Textualis semi-quadrata

History of section of manuscript
Creation

Written in Northern Europe, 13th century.


Manuscript contents
(d)     f.106-111
Original title: Compilatio Canonum (fragment)
Author: Bernard, of Pavia
Date: 13th century
Language: Latin

Fragments from books III and IV.

(e)     f.106r-108r
Modern title: Jottings
Date: 14th-16th century
Language: Latin

Microfilm
Microfilmed 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. B.III.15 - Isidore and Gregory
Digitised July 2017 as part of the Durham Priory Library Recreated project. There is an f.1r and an f.1r with a cross (f.1r x). The f.1r appears to be a paper flyleaf which has some annotations on the verso and has been foliated ‘1’ in pencil. The f.1r x is the first folio of the manuscript and has been foliated ‘1’ in ink and has had a cross added in pencil. Folio 1 contains a watermark. Additional shots of the recto and verso have been taken using a light sheet, these have been included at end of book. Pages with marginalia not visible in the image because they are too far into the gutter: Recto: 11, 17, 22, 24, 26, 33, 34, 106-111. Verso: 6, 23, 34, 106-111.
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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.   OCLC citation, Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).

de Hamel, Christopher, Glossed books of the Bible and the origins of the Paris book trade   OCLC citation, (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Boydell Press, 1984)

Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160, Commentarium in Psalmos   OCLC citation, Library of Latin Texts A (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010)

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]   OCLC citation, (Durham: 1939)

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