DCL MS. B.III.5St Augustine on baptism, etc.
Held by: Durham Cathedral Library: Durham Cathedral Manuscripts

Works of St Augustine of Hippo on baptism, written in the later 12th century.


Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1mb2773v710.html


Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: i+126 f
Size: 287 mm x 190 mm

Foliation

61 and 70 used twice.


Secundo folio: quibus hec cure
Collation

1-210, 38, 4-1010, 118, 12-1310

Layout

25 lines

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
Creation

Written in later 12th century.

Provenance

Inscriptions: “Liber Sancti Cuthberti” f.1r 12th/13th century. “P Augustinus de Baptismo Paruulorum De communi libraria Monachorum Dunelm.”, f.1r late 14th century. Pressmarks “P” and “1a.3i.K”.


Manuscript contents
(a)     f.1
Original title: Retractationes
Author: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Language: Latin

Extract: ii,33

(b)     f.1v-73r
Original title: De peccatorum meritis et remissione et de baptismo parvulorum
Author: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Language: Latin
(c)     f.73r-73v
Original title: Retractationes
Author: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Language: Latin

Extract: ii,34

(d)     f.73v-88v
Original title: De unico baptismo
Author: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Language: Latin
(e)     f.88v-89r
Original title: Retractationes
Author: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Language: Latin

Extract: ii,37

(f)     f.89r-123v
Original title: De spiritu et littera
Author: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Language: Latin
(g)     f.123v-124r
Original title: Retractationes
Author: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Language: Latin

Extract: ii,33 (again)


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.5 - Augustine on baptism
Digitised March 2017 as part of the Durham Priory Library Recreated project 61 and 70 foliated twice in manuscript.
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1mb2773v710.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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