Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Manuscript codex containing two distinct tabulae, listing the contents of Augustine's De civitate dei and Gregory's Moralia in Job, acquired for Durham Priory by Thomas Lund.
Parchment
Modern pencil; f.27 is paginated as 27 and 28, foliation continues with f.29.
Written space: 265 x 170 mm. 2 columns.
Blue capitals with red flourishing, red stroking and underlining.
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 14th century.
Inscription: liber beati Cuthberti ex procuracione fratris Thome de
Lund and contents list, early 14th century, f.1v
Inscription: [erased pressmark?] Liber Sancti Cuthberti de Communi almariol, mid 14th century, f.2v
Pressmark and inscription: Z Tabula de Ciuit[...] De communi libraria monachorum dunelm, early 15th century, f.3r top.
In the list of books in the common press, 1395 (pressmark Z).
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]).