[Bell Historians] Help needed

[Joshua Burson]

Hi Chris (and everyone),
I'm not on this list, but Laura Dickerson forwarded me the email.

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.
*Most *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:

https://archive.org/details/symbolismofchurc01dura/page/71/mode/1up
(See also: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43319)

I *could* do a more complete transcription and translation, if noone else
can.

Regards,
Josh Burson

On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM <lauradi at rcn.com> wrote:

> Did you see this? I saw paleography and Latin and thought of you.
> Laura
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> *From: *c.j.pickford--- via Bell-historians <
> bell-historians at lists.ringingworld.co.uk>
> *To: *'Bell <bell-historians at lists.ringingworld.co.uk>
> *Cc: *c j <c.j.pickford at talk21.com>; 'Frank <stedmandoubles at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, 18 June 2025 8:24 AM EDT
> *Subject: *[Bell Historians] Help needed
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> 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
> https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/?_gl=1*1eya6d7*_ga*MzUyNjgyNjQyLjE3NDkwNDE0NzY.#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/manifests/ark:/81055/man_10000025.0x000001
> - 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.
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> 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
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> Anyone with a good knowledge of Latin and palaeography willing to take a
> look and do a translation?
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> *Chris Pickford*
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> e-mail: pickford5040 at gmail.com
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