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Durham Cathedral Priory

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Date: 800-1600
Places:
  • Durham, Durham
Functions, occupations and activities: Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C34664 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O65560 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
11th-16th cent: records
Durham University Library and Collections
DCD
See Pantin, Rep on Muniments of the D&C (1939);Davis Medieval Cartularies (324,326-338,341-346,348); Mon
2
13th-14th cent: fragments of cartulary c1230 (part of Davis no.324 with Cathedral muniments)
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
Carte 177 (SC. 10622), fos 1-39, 41-2
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (nos.325, 340)
3
15th-16th cent: sacrist's register
Ushaw College Library
xviii.F.5.11
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.347)
4
09th-16th cent: obit book
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Cotton Domitian A. vii
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.349)
5
13th-14th cent: composite miscellaneous register
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Stowe 930
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.350)
6
leaf from previous register
Durham University Library and Collections
MSP 13
NRA 13564

See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (350)
7
1302-1519: Priors' register
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Cotton Faustina A. vi, fos 1-112
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.351)
8
1538-39: misc deeds c1248-1544
Durham County Record Office
D/Sa/D 1,218,354; D/Sa/X 164
NRA 10404 Salvin

See Monastic Research Bulletin 5,p10
9
15th cent: history of priory and see to 1195, incorporating copies of early charters
Lincoln's Inn Archives
Hale MS 114
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.352);NR Ker Medieval MSS in British Libraries, I, London (1969),
10
15th cent: 15th cent MS of history of Priory and see to 1195
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Cotton Claudius D.iv, fos 3-89
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (no.353)
11
copies of Lincoln's Inn Hale MS 114
Durham University Library and Collections
Facsimiles 2,3
NRA 18569 Durham Univ coll
12
Manuscripts formerly owend by priory, incl calendar of obits, lives of St Cuthbert, Bede, liturgical and theological works
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Harley MSS 491,1804,1924,3049,3100,3858,3860,3864,3946,4657,4664,4688,4703,4725,4843,4894,5234,5289
See CE Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)