Collectanea Third Series

Author : Montagu Burrows
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265236987
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Collectanea, Vol. 23 written by Montagu Burrows and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Collectanea, Vol. 23: Third Series The collection of Durham College rolls seems to have been made c. 15304 by a neat but inaccurate monk, who docketed each with a date and a short title, usually the name of the Warden or Bursars. After this they remained undisturbed till the present century, when Mr. Stevenson examined them cursorily. H e does not seem to have detected the inaccuracies of the original endorser; and, unfortunately, in cases where the exterior (i.e. The upper end) of a roll had decayed, he re-rolled it from the top, sometimes crushing the decayed inch or two inches into undecipherable fragments. However, I managed to read through the whole series; and by com parison of duplicates and careful observation of the balances and deficits carried over I found it possible to date exactly all the Compoti except a few of c. 1490 which are written on very inferior parchment. Some of the documents demanded complete transcription and most contain interesting entries 5, especially (as I had hoped) about the buildings at Oxford. This feature may be attributed to the fact that the accounts were intended for the information of the distant Prior and Convent and the same reason will account for the existence of so many duplicates 0. Most of the rolls in the box (225 in all) are in good preservation, though often discoloured 7. The following is a short catalogue of the contents of this set; a large quantity of the title-deeds, licences, covenants, &c., for the appropriated rectories is separately preserved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.