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Bede's Ecclesiastical History: Gloriosissimo regi Ceouulfo Beda famulus Christi ... pie intercessionis inueniam (ff. 3-107). The manuscript was not seen by Plummer until after publication of his edition in Bedae Opera Historica, Oxford, 1896; his notes, dated 1897, are now tipped in on f. ii. Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Oxford 1896, did not know the whereabouts of the manuscript. The text belongs to Plummer's Durham group, op. cit., pp. civ-cix, and he believed it to be a transcript of Harleian MS 4124 'with which it agrees in several minute points' (see the notes referred to). Certainly the text agrees with all the features of that of Harleian 4124 noted by Plummer in his apparatus (pp. cix, 130, 145, 228, 236, 426, 430). The manuscript also contains the anonymous Vita Bedae (ff. 107-113): Inter catholicos sacre scripture expositores ... (f. 108) adiuuando prosequi dignetur. Humane salutis auctore Christo Iesu ... laudat et adorat dominum. The text was printed in John Smith, Historiae Ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum, Cambridge, 1722, pp. 515-22. For manuscripts of the text, see T. D. Hardy, Catalogue of Materials ..., London, 1862-71, no. 985. The Vita follows the Historia in most manuscripts of the Durham group. Also included is Bede's Historia Abbatum (ff. 113-119 verso): Religiosus Christi famulus Biscopus ... et protectionis impendant. This was printed by Plummer, op. cit., pp. 364-387. Like the Vita Bedae the Historia Abbatum is associated with the Durham group of the Historia Ecclesiastica. Readings of our text again agree with those peculiar to Harleian 4124 as recorded by Plummer.
The manuscript also contains part of Richard of Hexham's account of the history of Hexham Priory (ff. 119 verso-122): Millesimo centesimo terciodecimo dominice incarnationis ... Calixti pape, Eugenii et Adriani. Our text corresponds to chapters iv-xi of James Raine's edition (Surtees Soc., vol. 44, pp. 48-58). There are chapter divisions only for chapters vii, viii, x and xi. Readings mostly agree with the York MS (York Minster MS xvi. I.12) which also ends with chapter xi. Also included is St Bernard, Sermones de diversibus, sermo xiv (ff. 122-123 verso): Beata illa et sempiterna trinitas peter et filius ... et fide non ficta. See S. Bernardi Opera, Rome, 1957- , vol. vi, pp. 262-6, or PL, 183, 667-669. Identified by the fourteenth century lister of contents on f. 2 verso as 'Quedam verba notabilia de sermonibus beati Bernardi, viz, de trinitate ...'. Together with two extracts from St Bernard, Sermones de tempore, sermo iii in die Pasche (ff. 123 verso-124): In corde duplex est lepra, propria uoluntas et consilium proprium ... non mea, inquid, uoluntas, sed tua fiat. O domine, uoluntas de qua dixisti ut non fieret ... et nobis erat utile ut redimeremur. See S. Bernardi Opera, Rome, 1957- , vol. v, pp. 105-6, 108, or PL, 183, 289-290, 291. Identified by the lister of contents as 'alia verba notabilia de lepra voluntatis proprie'. Also included is an extract from a sermon, unidentified (f. 124): Tria sunt que sic roborant et confirmant cor meum ... Hic est funiculus triplex ... qui est benedictus in secula. Amen.