8vo manuscript of 121 folios of 3 separate, though continuous works: Historia Ecclesiae - the history of the churches of Lindisfarne and Durham to 1096, second section covers the period 1096 - 1144; the third, called The Chronicle of Geoffrey of Coldingham takes the history to 1199. Illustrated as plate I of AR
Item Provenance
Robert Horne 16th century Dean of Durham gave it to Archbishop Parker, later owned by H Wijn, later by Thomas Thorpe, sold by him in 1836 to Sir Thomas Phillipps; bought for Durham from Phillipps sale