Durham Cathedral Library MS. Hunter 100
Held by: Durham Cathedral Library: Durham Cathedral Manuscripts
Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1m2f75r801v.html

Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: 121 f
Size: 168 mm x 122 mm
Manuscript history
Creation

Written in England, Durham, early 12th century.

Manuscript contents
SECTION: (A)    
Modern title: Computus and Quadrivium
(1)     f.1r
Modern title: Names of the months and days
Language: Latin
(2)     f.1r
Modern title: The plagues of Egypt
Language: Latin
(3)     f.1v
Modern title: Computus table
Language: Latin
(4)     f.2r-7v
Modern title: Calendar
Language: Latin
(5)     f.8r
Modern title: Table: weekday of the first of the month
Language: Latin
(6)     f.8v
Modern title: Table: age of the moon in any month
Language: Latin
(7)     f.9r
Modern title: Table: concurrent of any year in Great Paschal Cycle
Language: Latin
(8)     f.9v-10v
Modern title: Table: date of Easter for any year in Great Paschal Cycle
Language: Latin
(9)     f.11r
Modern title: Table: age of the moon on any day
Language: Latin
(10)     f.11v-12r
Modern title: Verses: terminus a quo for moveable feasts
Language: Latin
(11)     f.12r
Modern title: Claves terminorum method for finding the lunar terminus a quo for moveable feasts
Language: Latin
(12)     f.12v-13r
Modern title: Table: finding the age of the Moon on any day
Language: Latin
(13)     f.13v-14v
Modern title: Abbo of Fleury's computus table and calendar
Author: Abbo, of Fleury, Saint, approximately 945-1004
Language: Latin
(14)     f.15r-16r
Modern title: Model Paschal tables (1100-1193)
Language: Latin
(15)     f.16v
Modern title: Diagram of hours of daylight across months of the year, with zodiac signs
Language: Latin
(16)     f.16v
Modern title: Diagram of the harmony of the four elements, qualities, and seasons
Language: Latin
(15)     f.17r-22r
Modern title: Robert of Hereford's critique of annus Domini chronology
Language: Latin
(17)     f.22r-v
Modern title: Dionysius Exiguus's computus formulae
Language: Latin
(18)     f.22v-24v
Modern title: Dionysius Exiguus' critique of Victorius of Aquitaine's Paschal table
Language: Latin
(19)     f.24v-27r
Modern title: Dionysius Exiguus's preface to his own Paschal Tables
Language: Latin
(20)     f.27v-41r
Modern title: Paschal tables with annals
Language: Latin
(21)     f.41v-42r
Modern title: Measurement of musical intervals with the monochord, from Guido d'Arezzo's Micrologus
Language: Latin
f.42v

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(22)     f.43r-59r
Modern title: Helperic's textbook of computus
Language: Latin
(23)     f.59r-60v
Modern title: Paraphrases on units of time from Bede's De temporum ratione and De natura rerum
Language: Latin
(24)     f.60v-64v
Modern title: Star catalogues
Language: Latin
(25)     f.60v-61v
Modern title: Pseudo-Hyginus, De astronomia
Language: Latin
(26)     f.61v-64v
Modern title: Pseudo-Bede, De signis celi
Language: Latin
(27)     f.65r-68v
Modern title: Abbo of Fleury on solar, lunar and planetary motion
Author: Abbo, of Fleury, Saint, approximately 945-1004
Language: Latin
(28)     f.68v-69v
Modern title: Anonymous tract on computus
Language: Latin
(29)     f.69v-75r
Modern title: Isidore of Seville: astronomy, from Etymologiae
Language: Latin
(30)     f.75r-78v
Modern title: Isidore of Seville: units of time, from Etymologiae
Language: Latin
(31)     f.78v-82r
Modern title: Isidore of Seville: weights and measures, from Etymologiae
Language: Latin
(32)     f.82r-84v
Modern title: Latin-Old English glossary of medical plants
Language: Latin
SECTION: (B)    
Modern title: Medicine
(33)     f.85r
Modern title: Physiology (De quatuor humoribus corporis)
Language: Latin
(34)     f.85r-90v
Modern title: Isidore of Seville: medicine from Etymologiae
Language: Latin
(35)     f.90v-97r
Modern title: Isidore of Seville: parts of the body from Etymologiae
Language: Latin
(36)     f.97r-101r
Modern title: Isidore of Seville: medicinal plants from Etymologiae
Language: Latin
(37)     f.101r-101v
Modern title: Ambrose: Beneficial and noxious herbs from Hexaemeron
Language: Latin
(38)     f.101v
Modern title: Virtues of mustard seed from Rabanus De universo
Language: Latin
(39)     f.102r-113r
Modern title: Medical recipes
Language: Latin
(40)     f.113r-115v
Modern title: Alphabetical treatise on the virtues of medical plants
Language: Latin
(41)     f.115v-117r
Modern title: Basic humoral physiology and pathology
Language: Latin
(42)     f.117r
Modern title: Note on white hellebore
Language: Latin
(43)     f.117r-118r
Modern title: Medical recipes
Language: Latin
f.118v

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(44)     f.119r-120r
Modern title: Diagrams illustrating medical cautery operations
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. Hunter 100
Digitised November 2013
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1m2f75r801v.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.   OCLC citation, Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).

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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