York, Minster Library XVI i. 12 Historical works concerning Hexham, Lindisfarne, and Durham

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495. York, Minster Library XVI i. 12

Historical works concerning Hexham, Lindisfarne, and Durham

[Ker-, Gneuss-]

HISTORY: Written in various hands of the first half of the 14c, probably at Durham Cathedral Priory. The texts on ff. 99-182 are written in hands similar to one another, one of which writes the bishops' list running to Antony Bek ( d. 1311 ), "whose length of pontificate was not originally given but has been added in a different ink and a different hand" suggesting that the main texts were written in Bek's lifetime (Rollason 2000: xxxvi). On f. lr, top, '. .. Capella prioris D[. . .] elm' (s. xiv/xv) reported as visible in UV by Ker and Piper (1992: 722). 'Duresmie' [?] (s. xiv) f. 182r (bottom). No. 42 in the 1671 York catalogue (Oxford, Bodleian Library Tanner 88, ff. ll0r-lllv, BL Harley 695, ff. 307r-309v). An intermediary in its migration from Durham to York was perhaps Steven Batman, rector of Newington Butts, Surrey (d. 1584), who shortly after 1534 was a chaplain to Archbishop Parker and collected books for him; he is said to have owned this manuscript (cf. [Bernard] 1697: 2.5; nos. 46-47 of York manuscripts in Bernard's Catalogi, "2 vols. 4to"). Bibliographical inscriptions on ff. lr, 166r, and 183r are in hand of Thomas Rud (Ker and Piper 1992), the cataloger of Durham manuscripts, who saw the book at York in the early 18c and made inscriptions on ff. lr, 166r, and 183r.