Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 06/11/2018 - 14:26 Present Location: London Repository: British Library Collection: Royal Shelfmark: 6. B. viiContents: Glosses to Aldhelm's De laude virginitatis Date: s. xi2 Medieval Provenance: Exeter General InformationKer : 255 Gneuss/Lapidge: 466 Summary: The main text is in English Caroline minuscule, s. xi2; Old English and Latin glosses are in the same hand as the main text. Ker reports that Old English s is regularly long. A list of relics given to Exeter by King Æthelstan at the end (fols 54-55) was possibly written by Drage's Scribe 10 (1978, p. 164), and is similar to the lists in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. D. 2. 16 and Bodley 579 . Digital Surrogate Manuscript Items: Item: fols 4-53 Title (Ker 1957, pp. 322-23 <a data-cke-saved-href="#nap959" href="#nap959" "="">Napier 1900, item 2 Object DescriptionForm: Form Codex Additional InformationAdministration Information: Manuscript described by Takako Kato with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2012). Surrogates: Digital surrogate: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_6_b_vii_fs001r (accessed 18 July 2018) HistoryProvenance: Exeter Bibliography: Drage, E., 'Bishop Leofric and the Exeter Cathedral Chapter, 1050-1072: A Reassessment of the Manuscript Evidence' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Oxford, 1978) Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 255 Napier, A. S., Old English Glosses, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, xi (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900) Catalogue Entry Authored By : Takako Kato
