Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Composite volume, containing: (A) Martin of Troppau, Alphabetum in Decretum et Decretales; (B) Bernardus of Pavia, Casus decretalium; (C) Giovanni Calderini, Tabula auctoritatum et sententiarum Bibliae; Tabula for Giles of Rome, De regimine principum; Tabulae for Anselm, Opera; (D) flyleaves, reused from a 7th century Gospels. Extra wear on f.2r, 111v, and 112r, the independent leaf numbering in (B) and the once larger size and trimming of (C) indicate separate origins. The content-list on the verso of the flyleaf demonstrates that all the main parts were together by 14/15th century.
Modern pencil foliation
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)
Inscription: “De communi libraria monachorum Dunelm'”, late 14th century.
Pressmark: 1a.9i.O, 15th century.
The fragment from the 7th century Gospels matches other leaves found in DCL MSS C.III.20 and A.II.10.
Parchment
I12, II14, III-V12, VI14, VII8, VIII2, IX-X12, original endleaf
Two columns, mainly 60 lines
Written in Textualis semi-quadrata by four scribes.
Written in England, later 13th century.
Series of additions by several hands in informal cursives in the 14th or 15th century.
Parchment
Continuous numbering of leaves in Roman numerals (i-xx) on the versos throughout.
I14, II6
Text-block: 230 x 152 mm. Two columns (71 mm), 66 lines.
Written in Textualis semi-quadrata by one scribe
Fifteen short paragraphs set out in three columns of up to 80 lines
Written in England, later 13th century.
5 books; themes flagged by red rubrics; headings to the many short individual entries underlined in red and black.
Parchment
I-V12
Written area: 265x 151 mm. Two columns (65-70 mm). Lines: f.132r-182r 64; f.182v-191v 55.
Written by three scribes.
Decorated initials to preface and text, f.132r. They are linked to border bars that form a continuous frame around three sides of the text, with leafy projections that form a border to most of the fourth side.
Written in England, mid 14th century.
Reference letters running down the margins. Light late medieval correction and annotation throughout.
All the entries for each letter presented as a continuous block of text, a pair of oblique lines separating one entry from the next.
Arranged with each headword at the start of a new line and with every book, chapter and part reference at the end of its line within a specially ruled subcolumn.
All the entries for each letter presented as a continuous block of text, a pair of oblique lines separating one from the next.
Thematic rather than alphabetical. Presented as continuous block text, individual entries generally separated by a pair of oblique lines.
Parchment
Written in Insular Half-Uncial
Written in Ireland or England, later 7th century.
Fragments of a Gospels, other leaves of which are found in DCL MS A.II.10, f.2-6 and C.III.20, f.1-2.
Text of Matthew 14.32 - 18.29 and 22.15 - 25.26
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] 
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(Durham: 1939)