1414: John Neuton and the Re-Foundation of York Minster Library

William of Malmesbury, Gesta pontificum Anglorum (History of the English Bishops), Alfred of Beverley, History of the Kings of Britain, and Bede, Ecclesiastical History (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Rawlinson B. 199-200 and C. 162)

Contained in one volume when bequeathed by Neuton, these three histories are now bound separately. The three volumes are described in W. D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ... 5, I (Oxford: Academic Press, 1862), cols 529-530 and W. D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ... 5, II (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1878), col. 72.

Fol. 8v of Neuton's copy of the Gesta pontificum Anglorum, which contains some of Malmesbury's chapters on the Canterbury-York Dispute. References to York are highlighted by marginal headings and underlinings in a tiny hand, which may date from the sixteenth century. (Reference: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B. 199, fol. 8v.) Photograph: © The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.