The ancient libraries of Canterbury and Dover : the catalogues of the libraries of Christ Church priory and St. Augustine's abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin's priory at Dover / now first collected and published with an introduction and identifications of the extant remains, by Montague Rhodes James.

  • M. R. James
Date:
1903
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Credit: The ancient libraries of Canterbury and Dover : the catalogues of the libraries of Christ Church priory and St. Augustine's abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin's priory at Dover / now first collected and published with an introduction and identifications of the extant remains, by Montague Rhodes James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 708 = Lambeth 185. Cent. xii. Liber S. Aug. Cant. Sermones noui Abbatis Rogerii. D. viii. G. ii. No. 781. Cf. C. C. C. C. 284, of cent, xiv, with Litany for use in the Abbey. No. 820 = Brit. Mus. Royal 8. A. vi. Cent. xiii. D. ix. G. i. de librario S. Aug. Cant. No. 844 = Lambeth 498. Cent. xiv. De librario S. Aug. Cant. D. ix. G. vi. No. 851 = Lambeth 414. Cent, ix (?). Liber S. Aug. Cant. D. iiii. G. iii. After No. 878. Cf. Brit. Mus. Royal 8. C. xvii. Cent, xiv, xv. Prophecia Brydlyngton de libr. S. Aug. Cant. No press mark. No. 884 = C. C. C. C. 267. Cent. xi. Liber S. Aug. Cant. Di. x. G. ii. cum A. Fine round hand. No. 887 or 888. Probably Cotton Vitellius A. vi. (Only a fragment.) It contained Hymns to SS. Theodore, Adrian and Augustine. Used by Joscelin for his edition: he speaks of it as six hundred years old and in a very strange hand. No. 892 = C. C. C. C. 276. Cent. xi. De libr. S. Aug. Cant, cum B. D. x. G. ii. No. 893 = ? Brit. Mus. Royal 13. A. xxii. Cent. x. D. x. G. ii. Liber S. Aug. Cant. No. 895 = Brit. Mus. Titus A. xxvii. Cent. xii. Press mark gone. No. 901 = St John’s Coll. Camb. B. 21. Cent, xiv early. Primum volumen speculi historialis D. Thome Abbatis. No. 902, 903 = C. C. C. C. 13, 14. Uniform with the last. No. 14 has the inscription Tercia pars spec. hist. Th. Abbatis. No. 906 = Brit. Mus. Royal 13. B. viii. Cent, xii, xiii. Liber S. Aug. extra muros Cant. No. 907 = Brit. Mus. Add. 33,241. Cent. xi. Formerly in the Hamilton Palace Library. No. 910 = C. C. C. C. 129. Cent. xv. No press mark. Second folio agrees. No. 912 = Brit. Mus. Royal 13. A. xxiii. Cronica Odonis Abbatis de librario S. Aug. cum A. Cent. xi. Title written in a finer hand than usual, as in 196. No. 913. Cf. Oxford Merton Coll. 122. Cent, xiv, xv. No. 916 = Lord Calthorpe, Grosvenor Square, Additional MSS. 1. Hist. MSS. Comm. 2nd Report, p. 46. Vellum 9! x 6\. Cent. xiv. In three hands. Written in England. Cronica Martini. Vita Alexandri. Liber fr. Joh. de Londonia de librario S. Aug. No. 917 — Brit. Mus. Cotton Tib. A. vii. (Part 1). Cent. xiv. Second folio agrees. No. 918 = Dublin Trin. Coll. 602. Cent, xiii? Liber S. Aug. D. ix. G. iii. No. 924. Henry of Huntingdon. In the preface to the Rolls Series edition it is said that MS. C. C. C. C. 280 probably belonged to St Augustine’s. No. 925 = Univ. Libr. Camb. Add. 3. 578. Cent. xiv. Second folio agrees.