Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2981 with 118. Durham, Dean and Chapter Library, A.11.17 Fragment from the "Durham Gospels" [118]

Abstract

67. Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2981 (19)

with 118. Durham, Dean and Chapter Library, A.11.17

Fragment from the "Durham Gospels" [118]

[Ker 105, Gneuss 220]

HISTORY: A slip cut from the top off. 70 of the "Durham Gospels;' Durham Cathedral Library A.II.17 [118], which George Hickes obtained (along with a slip from another Durham Gospel, Durham Cathedral Library A.Il.16) for Samuel Pepys's collection of paleographic samples in 1701, though they are dated 1700 in the collection: 'memdum - That these 2 were a Present to me, from my most hond & reverend Friends, the Dean & Chapter of Durham, | An^o Domⁿⁱ; 1700' (see James 1923: 120, Verey in Verey et al. 1980: 66). The Dean of Durham at the time was John Montague, fourth son of Edward Montague, first Earl of Sandwich, Pepys' patron. Kept as no. 19 in a large folio album of handwriting samples; the leaves are paper with the extracted samples pasted in.