Published
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.
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.
Microfilm available (with Q.G.11, 16 and 19).
James notes items 9) and 10) appear in Clement Reyner, ed., Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia, sive, Disceptatio historica ... (1626), Appendix documents 70 and 75