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CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS
tooling, done for Abp Parker: in the same style as other books of
his, e.g. the Psalter Ff. I. 23 in the University Library, Cambridge.
Edges gilt and gauffred.
Collation impracticable in consequence of the tenderness of the
back.
History. First owned by Maelbright Mac Durnan, Abbot of
Armagh and Raphoe (d. 927). Acquired, perhaps after his death,
by King zEthelstan (925-40) and given by him to Christ Church,
Canterbury. It does not appear in their Catalogues. While there,
certain charters were written in it, viz.
After St Matthew’s Gospel, ff. 69, 70:
(rz) Charter of Abp Wulfstan. Anglo-Saxon. Kemble, Cod.
Diplom. no. 1314.
($) Note of Cnut’s gifts to Christ Church. Latin, l.c. 1328.
After St Mark, ff. 114, 115:
(c) Note on theboundaries of Hansfleot, Anglo-Saxon,l.c. 1363.
(</) Charter of Abp Eadsige, Anglo-Saxon, l.c. 1336.
(<?) Charter of Cnut, Anglo-Saxon.
(/) Charter of Abp /Ethelnoth, l.c. 321.
Kemble made use of transcripts by Lewis Morris : see below.
The next owner was Abp Parker (f 1574) who bound it, paged
it in red chalk, and added some notes and probably certain French
miniatures. Why he did not bequeath it to his College does not
appear. Like the Psalter referred to above, it may have been given
by him to a friend in his lifetime.
We next hear of it in 1755 when it was owned by one Fr. Howel,
mathematical instrument maker of London and a member of the
Cymmrodorion Society. It was shown by him to Lewis Morris the
antiquary: a letter of Morris describing it (in 1760) is printed in
Y Cymmrodor II. (1878), p. 56. In B.M. Add. MS. 14,907 Morris
has copied a description of the MS. made by Dr A. C. Ducarel,
who became Lambeth Librarian in 1757- It was most probably
acquired for the Lambeth Library through Ducarel: but of this
there is no record, nor has the MS. received any number, nor was
it entered in Todd’s catalogue.
Contents :
Frontispiece to Matthew, and text i. 1-17 . . . . f. 2
On f. 3 b an inscription in capitals, to some extent monogram-
CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS
tooling, done for Abp Parker: in the same style as other books of
his, e.g. the Psalter Ff. I. 23 in the University Library, Cambridge.
Edges gilt and gauffred.
Collation impracticable in consequence of the tenderness of the
back.
History. First owned by Maelbright Mac Durnan, Abbot of
Armagh and Raphoe (d. 927). Acquired, perhaps after his death,
by King zEthelstan (925-40) and given by him to Christ Church,
Canterbury. It does not appear in their Catalogues. While there,
certain charters were written in it, viz.
After St Matthew’s Gospel, ff. 69, 70:
(rz) Charter of Abp Wulfstan. Anglo-Saxon. Kemble, Cod.
Diplom. no. 1314.
($) Note of Cnut’s gifts to Christ Church. Latin, l.c. 1328.
After St Mark, ff. 114, 115:
(c) Note on theboundaries of Hansfleot, Anglo-Saxon,l.c. 1363.
(</) Charter of Abp Eadsige, Anglo-Saxon, l.c. 1336.
(<?) Charter of Cnut, Anglo-Saxon.
(/) Charter of Abp /Ethelnoth, l.c. 321.
Kemble made use of transcripts by Lewis Morris : see below.
The next owner was Abp Parker (f 1574) who bound it, paged
it in red chalk, and added some notes and probably certain French
miniatures. Why he did not bequeath it to his College does not
appear. Like the Psalter referred to above, it may have been given
by him to a friend in his lifetime.
We next hear of it in 1755 when it was owned by one Fr. Howel,
mathematical instrument maker of London and a member of the
Cymmrodorion Society. It was shown by him to Lewis Morris the
antiquary: a letter of Morris describing it (in 1760) is printed in
Y Cymmrodor II. (1878), p. 56. In B.M. Add. MS. 14,907 Morris
has copied a description of the MS. made by Dr A. C. Ducarel,
who became Lambeth Librarian in 1757- It was most probably
acquired for the Lambeth Library through Ducarel: but of this
there is no record, nor has the MS. received any number, nor was
it entered in Todd’s catalogue.
Contents :
Frontispiece to Matthew, and text i. 1-17 . . . . f. 2
On f. 3 b an inscription in capitals, to some extent monogram-