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)
Treaties and diplomatic correspondence of the kings of France, Castile and León, Scotland and England, and of Owain Glyn Dŵr, prince of Wales (d. c. 1416) (32v–40v)
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...