DCL MS. B.IV.36Ranulf Higden, Speculum curatorum
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Ranulf Higden, Speculum curatorum


Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1mzc77sq164.html


Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: 196 f
Size: 285 mm x 185 mm

Foliation


Secundo folio: residere per idem
Layout

41 lines.

Script

f.149-195 written by William of Kedwely.

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 England, late 14th / early 15th century.

Provenance

Inscription: Speculum curatorum Communis librarie Dunelm., f.3r early 15th century; fyshburne, f.1; Scriptum A Willelmo de kedwely, 14th/15th century, f.195; shelfmark H


Manuscript contents
(a)     f.1,2,196
Modern title: Billingham accounts
Date: 1342
Language: Latin

Fragments of the Durham Priory Billingham manor account 1341-42 used as flyleaves/wrapper.

(b)     f.3-195
Original title: Speculum curatorum
Author: Higden, Ranulf, -1364
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 Cathedral Library.

Digitised material for Durham Cathedral Library MS. B.IV.36 - Ranulf Higden, Speculum curatorum
Digitised December 2017 as part of the Durham Priory Library Recreated project
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1mzc77sq164.html
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