<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Chris (and everyone),</div><div>I'm not on this list, but Laura Dickerson forwarded me the email.</div><div><br></div><div>At a quick glance, the initial section (f. 16v, lines 1-13) touches on some sort of controversy regarding the ringing of bells in Bath.</div><div><i>Most </i>of the rest of the text is a (possibly slightly abridged) copy of Chapter 4 of William Durand's Rationale Divinorum Officiorum (c. 1280). A translation of this can be found at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/symbolismofchurc01dura/page/71/mode/1up">https://archive.org/details/symbolismofchurc01dura/page/71/mode/1up</a></div><div>(See also: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43319">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43319</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>I <i>could</i> do a more complete transcription and translation, if noone else can.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Josh Burson</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM <<a href="mailto:lauradi@rcn.com">lauradi@rcn.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<div>Did you see this? I saw paleography and Latin and thought of you.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Frank Seabright has drawn my attention to a manuscript recently acquired by the British Library – The “Red Book of Bath” (add Ms 89789) – which contains some entries relating to bells. The whole manuscript is available online at <a href="https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/?_gl=1*1eya6d7*_ga*MzUyNjgyNjQyLjE3NDkwNDE0NzY.#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/manifests/ark:/81055/man_10000025.0x000001" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/?_gl=1*1eya6d7*_ga*MzUyNjgyNjQyLjE3NDkwNDE0NzY.#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/manifests/ark:/81055/man_10000025.0x000001</a> - and as far as I can see the actual references on folio 16 verso to 17 verso are to be found on images 43 to 45 of the online version.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My Latin isn’t good enough to tackle this. Also, the British Library manuscripts catalogue isn’t online at present – they’re still rebuilding it following the cyber-attack in 2023 – so I can’t check the catalogue description to see that these pages are supposed to be about</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone with a good knowledge of Latin and palaeography willing to take a look and do a translation?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(47,84,150)">e-mail: </span><a href="mailto:pickford5040@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">pickford5040@gmail.com</span></a></p>
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