London, British Library, Add. 40000
40000
General Information
131
295
English inscription (s. xi2) describing a now-lost binding of this gospel-book, and English phrases (s. xi/xii) in a Thorney name-list. Main manuscript s. xin, written in continental minuscule. Ker (1957, p. 163) notes that the manuscript was at Thorney Abbey c. 1100.
Digital Surrogate
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Item: fol. 4
Title ( B.28.8.EM): Inscriptions
Note: An inscription referring to a former binding, in a gospel-book.
Date: s. xi2
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 131
Item: fol. 10v
Title (B.16.20.2): Thorney: Names in Liber Vitae
Addition: (fol. 10r) Eglaf comes ond his broðer Vlf [...] Ðorð clapes sunuondhis wif
Note: Occasional phrases, in a gospel-book.
Date: s. xi/xii
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 131
Item: fol. 29
Title (C.51.2.1.EM): Glosses to Gospels:
Addition: (fol. 29) hold
Addition: (fol. 29) meru
Note: Two glosses in ink, in a gospel-book: 'hold' glosses 'corpus' and 'meru' glosses 'tener'
Date: s. xi
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 131
Item: fols 30r-48r
Title (C.51.2.2.EM): Glosses to Gospels: Pencil/Scratch
Addition: (fol. 30r) þætte se ahongen
Addition: (fol. 31r) to hwon geƿilnigen ƿe[...]morgentide
Addition: (fol. 48r) of geƿricsle[...]gongende
Note: 42 interlinear glosses, pencilled or scratched, in a gospel-book. Only the above examples given in Ker (1957, item 131). No images available. 'þætte se ahongen' glosses 'ut crucifigatur' (Matt 26:2); 'to hwon geƿilnigen ƿe' glosses 'quid adhuc egemus' (Matt 26:65); 'morgentide' glosses 'Mane' (Matt 27:1); 'of geƿricsle' glosses 'de uice' (Luke 1:5); 'gongende' glosses 'incedentes' (Luke 1:6).
Date: s. xi1
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 131
Object Description
Form Codex
Hand Description
Additional Information
Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Joanna Green with reference to published scholarship (2012).
Digital surrogate: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_40000_fs001r (accessed 18 July 2018)
History
Thorney Abbey
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 131
Laing, Margaret, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993), p. 64
Mary Swan and Owen Roberson