Works mainly attributed to Robert Grosseteste: a later similar group of texts is in DCL MS B.III.18 (part B) although differences in the text make it unlikely that B.III.19 was the source for B.III.18.
Parchment
Modern, correcting medieval foliation
I-XII12, XIII3 (=4 with leaf 4 cancelled), XIV-XX12, XXI11 (12 with leaf 12 cancelled or lost), XXII12, XXIII4 (=6 with leaves 5-6, blank, cancelled)
43-44 lines in 2 columns.
Written in secretary by probably 3 hands, one naming himself as John Lytham. The final tabula is in Textualis semi-quadrata.
Initials in gold leaf and red and blue mark incipits.
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 Durham, early 15th century.
Colophon to De doctrina cordis: Nomen scriptoris Iohannes plenus Amoris Muhtel (John Lytham, Durham monk about 1390-1431)
Inscription Iste liber assignatur librarie monachorum Dunelm’ per Venerabilem patrem Magistrum Willelmum Ebchestre Priorem Dunelm and list of contents in same hand, written between 1446 and 1456, f.iiv
Pressmark: 2a 5ti C, 15th century, f.1r
f.147v blank
Attributed to Robert Grosseteste, Hugh of Saint-Cher, Gérard de Liège or Guy of Rome.
Attributed to Robert Grosseteste
f.258v blank
Bloomfield, M.W., ed., Incipits of Latin works on the virtues and vices 1100-1500 AD including a section of incipits of works on the Pater Noster (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1979)
Thomson, S.H., The writings of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253 , (Cambridge: CUP,
1940)