An early 12th century English copy of the two main works of Josephus on Jewish history in Latin.
Parchment
Modern pencil foliation.
I9 (= original flyleaf + 8); II-III8, IV11 (10 plus a singleton), V-VI8, VII6, VIII-X8, XI8, XII-XIII8, XIV9 (8 plus a singleton), XV-XIX8, XX9 (8 plus a singleton), XXI9 (8 plus a singleton), XXII9 (8 plus a singleton), XXIII-XXXII8, XXXIII4 (= 6 with leaves 5-6, blank, cancelled). Most adaptations have been made to fit quires to books within the texts.
Written in two columns of 49 lines
Written in Romanesque Caroline minuscule by several hands, coinciding with the quires.
(h) Anglo-Norman protogothic
Inscription: A Josephus Antiquitatum de communi libraria monachorum dunelm'
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, start of 12th century.
Document added to volume
Bound in folded and upside down
Excerpted section on Josephus
Translated by Cassiodorus.
Single-sheet document, cut down and bound in sideways
Four small strips; presumably reused as spine stiffener in an earlier binding, then extracted and mounted here by the binder, mid 19th century
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]).
Blatt, Franz, The Latin Josephus. I Introduction and text. The Antiquities: Books I-V (Kobenhavn: Universitetsforlaget I Aarhus Ejnar Munksgaard, 1958)
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)