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- 1300-1500 (James says 7) is in a 14C hand, 8) of 15C date.) (Creation)
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1 volume 8 x 5+ in., 105 ff.; 31 lines to a page vellum
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From Durham, with an inscription recording the death of Johannes Fyshburn, chancellor, in 1434, another saying "liber Johannes Hamsterly", and another stating its assisgnment to a place in the library by Master Hutton, prior. Given by Thomas Man, 1685.
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Rule of St Benedict; M. R. James's no. 6. Contains: 1) flyleaves ff. 1-8 made up of parts of 15C Durham account rolls; 2) table to the following; 3) Regula S. Benedicti; 4) appendix in another hand; 5) a table to no 7); 6) Articuli super quibus in visitacione foret inquisicio facenda ("in a later hand"); 7) a tract headed "C.R.D.A.", known as Liber "Abbas vel prior", in 20 chapters with a prologue; 8) another table; 9) a circular letter from a gaggle of abbots to the Benedictines of England; 10) similar from the Abbot of St Albans; 11) Rubrica de modo et forma procedendi in eleccione ... ; 12) an explanation of the system of Arabic numerals; 13) a note: Utrum liceat prelato absque consensu sui conventus observanciarum dispensaciones sive mutaciones facere.
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Microfilm available (with Q.G.11, 16 and 19).
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James notes items 9) and 10) appear in Clement Reyner, ed., Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia, sive, Disceptatio historica ... (1626), Appendix documents 70 and 75