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Other shelfmark(s): The Durham Ritual
Physical description:
Language: Latin, Old English
Date: 9th/10th cent.
Provenance: South England
Contents:
Notes about the Regions and Cities in which the Bodies of the Holy Apostles Rest (fol. 88r)
Additional contents: Collectar; liturgical texts for the Mass and Office; educational memoranda; educational notes (e.g., On the materials from which Adam was made, On the nature of the winds, On Roman imperial dignitaries, On the titles of kings, alphabet of names and words with religious interpretations); the whole of the contents glossed in Old English.
Catalogs:
Brown, T. J., ed., with contributions by F. Wormald, A.S.C. Ross, and E.G. Stanley. The Durham Ritual: a southern English collectar of the 10th century with Northumbrian additions Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1969.
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.
Corrêa, Alicia, ed. The Durham Collectar. London: Boydell Press for the Henry Bradshaw Society, 1992.
Gneuss, Helmut, and Michael Lapidge. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100. Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 15. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014 (pp. 182–83, no. 223).
Jolly, Karen Louise. The Community of St. Cuthbert in the Late Tenth Century: The Chester-le-Street Additions to Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2012.
Other online databases: Biblissima; DigiPal; Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Entry created by Brandon W. Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 31 January 2023.