| Order Number | CCA-DCc/AddMs/172 |
| Title | Lanfranc's gloss on the Epistles of St Paul, with the Apocalypse |
| PreviousNumbers | J.A.3186. |
| Date | late 11th century |
| Description | Probably written at St Augustine's Canterbury, perhaps parts at Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy. From St Augustine's Abbey library.
Previously passed through the hands of Thomas Wylde (16th c) and FW (17th c); then from the 19th century of Walter Sneyd, George Dunn of Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, who bought it at Sotheby's in 1903, C H St John Hornby of Shelley House, Chelsea, and John Roland Abbey (d1969). Abbey bequeathed it to the cathedral and it was delivered in June 1979.
With embellished initials in two colours.
Contemporary binding, with flat spine and head and tail bands.
Folio 189 originally the rear paste-down, a bifolium from a Collectar, datable 1050x1075, containing hymns and prayers. Gameson suggests that it was written at Canterbury and that the scribe may be same as that of AddMs/20. He suggests it may have been a rejected manuscript. |
| Extent | 1 vol |
| Physical Description | Parchment book, in leather covered tunnelled oak boards, probably original, remains of a clasp, with a flap over the headband |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessConditions | Restricted Access. Access only by permission of Head of Archives & Library or Head of Book & Paper Conservation. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Related Material | Described in R. Gameson, The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral (London, 2008), as no 15. Endleaf discussed in R. Gameson, The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral (London, 2008), no 11. |
| Publication Note | Described in Corpus of Medieval Library Catalogues: St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury (ed B C Barker-Benfield), 2008 |
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