Cartularium Abbathiae de Whiteby
Ordinis S. Benedicti, Fundatae Anno MLXXVIII (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from Cartularium Abbathiæ De Whiteby: Ordinis S. Benedicti, Fundatæ Anno MLXXVIII Ancient index to the volume in the other four we find a catalogue of the library, a long memorial of the founding of the Abbey, and of its possessions, a copy of the questions put to the abbot at his consecration, and the memorial respecting Benedict and his suc cessors. But this historian does not note the fact that the four leaves, the contents of which he thus Specifies, are considerably narrower than those that follow them, and had evidently been written long before the volume itself was formed or bound and that all the leaves which follow up to that now marked 8 are, as clearly as their four predecessors, likewise insertions before that Which he rightly de scribes as originally intended to be the first leaf. Neither does he notice the fact, that six leaves have been cut out Out of the nine which intervened between the last page Of the index and that which is num bered 1. The leaf marked 71 is the first in a different hand from that Of its sixty - eight predecessors, and the reverse is in yet another and later hand and then follow from 72 to 114 in a hand distinctively different from, and at least a century later than, that of leaf 8 ct seq; a fresh hand again, and not much later than the last, begins at the foot of leaf 114, and continues to the foot of leaf 124. From this point to the end of the parchment part of the book the entries are in several different hands, and several blank pages and some excisions occur.
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