Catalogi veteres librorum Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Dunelm : Catalogues of the library of Durham cathedral, at various periods, from the Conquest to the Dissolution, including catalogues of the library of the Abbey of Hulne, and of the MSS. preserved in the library of Bishop Cosin, at Durham.

  • Durham Cathedral. Library
Date:
[1839]
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Credit: Catalogi veteres librorum Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Dunelm : Catalogues of the library of Durham cathedral, at various periods, from the Conquest to the Dissolution, including catalogues of the library of the Abbey of Hulne, and of the MSS. preserved in the library of Bishop Cosin, at Durham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and Bibi. Cotton, Brit. Mus. Jul. C. VI. 4, and Leland Coli. III., 10, 120. The Catalogue of the Library of Sion Monastery, near London, wbich contained 2400 volumes, is pre- served in the valuable Collection of Manuscripts at Cor- pus Christi or Bennet College in Cambridge. See Nasmith’s Catalogue, No. XLI. The only account of the literary possessions of the Church of Durham given by Leland, in his Collectanea de Rebus Britannicis, edited by Hearne, is as follows :— Dunholme. Clerici expulsi per Monachos observan- tes reliquias D. Cuthberti circa tempora Gulielmi. “ Commentarii Nicolai Triveti super Metamor- phosin Ovidii. “ Kilwardebi super iij Libros Sententiarum. Ricardi Cantabrigiensis Omelise. ‘ Qui hene prce^ sunt presbyteri.’’ “ Hiponostichon Laurentii, Prioris Dunehomensis, de veteri et novo Testamento, continens novem libros carmine scriptos. ‘ Principium rerum.’’ [Leyland. D. Bellous [Bellasis] significavit mihi Joan- nem Shirovodum scripsisse opusculum de Laudibus Anglise carmine.] “ Ejusdem [Laurentii] Consolatio de Morte Amici, prosa et carmine scripta. ‘ Scepe et supra modum' “ Ejusdem Oratiunculse pro Laurentio,* pro naufragis, * “ Fuit hic Laurentius postea Prior aut Abbas Westmonasteriensis in suburbio Londin —Haec nota extat in margine editionis Hear- nianae, anni 1774, 8vo. See, bowever, Rud’s account of Laurentius in tbe Cosin Catalogue, p. 158-160, bereafter.