Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 1650 (1520)

Present Location
Shelfmark

1650 (1520)

Date
Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

8

Gnuess/Lapidge

806

Summary

Extensive Latin and Old English glosses, dating to the first half of the eleventh century, on an early eleventh-century copy of Aldhelm's prose De laude virginitatis possibly from Abingdon. The manuscript has 58 folios.

At least 4 glossators are at work. One of the scribes (who writes the first of the several layers of glossing, including marginalia and scholia) also glosses the Antwerp Boethius (in Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 16.8) and the Antwerp-London Excerptiones de Prisciano(in Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 16.2 and London, British Library, Add. 32246). The same glosses occur in London, British Library, Royal 6 B. vii.

The manuscript is annotated by Andreas Schottus (1552-1629), a humanist from Antwerp.

Manuscript Items

Item: 

Title: 5,380 OE glosses to Aldhelm's prose De laude virginitatis

Date: s. xi1

Bibliography

Goossens 1974

Gwara 1993

Porter 1996


Object Description

Form

Codex

Support

Parchment

Extent

285 x 215 mm

Foliation/Pagination

Foliated


Hand Description


Additional Information


History

Bibliography

Goossens, Louis, 'Latin and Old English Aldhelm glosses: a direct link in the ‘Abingdon Group’,' in Anglo-Saxon Glossography: Papers read at the International Conference held in the Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, 8 and 9 September 1986, ed. R. Derolez (Brussels: Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, 1992), 139-49

Goossens, Louis, The Old English Glosses of MS. Brussels, Royal Library, 1650 (Aldhelm's De Laudibus Virginitatis), Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België: Klasse der Letteren, 36 (Brussels: Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten, 1974)

Gwara, Scott, 'Canterbury affiliations of London, British Library MS Royal 7 D. XXIV and Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale MS 1650 (Aldhelm’s Prosa de virginitate)', Romanobarbarica: Contributi allo studio dei rapporti culturali tra mondo latino e mondo barbarico 14 (1999), 359-74

Gwara, Scott, 'Literary Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England and the OE and Latin Glosses to Aldhelm's Prosa De Virginitate' (unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 1993)

Gwara, Scott James, 'Old English helm, hamel, healm: three lexical problems in glosses to Aldhelm’s prose De virginitate', Notes and Queries 37:2 (1990), 144-52

Porter, David W., 'Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Glossary in (Brussels) Royal Library MS 1650: An edition and Source Study', Rawlinson Online Editions (Kalamazoo, 1996)