Symeon of Durham, Libellus de exordio atque procursu istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis, ecclesie, with continuation (2r–68r); Geoffrey of Coldingham, Liber de statu ecclesie Dunelmensis (68r–85v); Robert Graystanes, Historia de statu ecclesie Dunelmensis (86r–126v); Liber de miraculis et translationibus sancti Cuthberti (127r–132r: BHL 2029, excerpts); accounts of the life of Richard of Bury, bishop of Durham (1333–45) (132r–133v); Libellus de ortu sancti Cuthberti (134r–147v: BHL 2026); Richard (...
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Dated: 1st half of the 14th century (5r–85v, 134r–147v); middle of the 14th century (2r–4v, 85v–132r, 148r–152v); 15th century (132r–133v, 153r–161v)
Contents: ff. 2r-117v are dated to the mid-11th century: ff. 2r–107r: St Benedict of Nursia (b.c. 480, d. 543 or 547), Regula sancti Benedicti or The Rule of St Benedict, in a bilingual version, with the Old English translation, attributed to St Æthelwold ((b. 904/9, d. 984), Bishop of Winches...
Collections relating to the English nobility, made by Henry Bourchier, 5th earl of Bath (d. 1654), books 6 (2r–130v), 3 (144r–246r) and 5 (263r–440r); indexes (131r–143r, 247r–262v, 441v–452v)