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	The Story Durham (formerly 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)