Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 8558-63
8558-63
General Information
10
808
English annotation written on recto of the blank first leaf of the penitential texts in this manuscript (fol. 140r) in 'the earlier part of twelfth century', 'in a poor sloping hand' (Ker 1957, p. 9). Ker transcribes the annotation as 'Gyf mæssepreost his agen lif rihtlice fadie'. Main texts are in Latin and Old English, and were also glossed in Old English in s. x.
Digital Surrogate:
- Item: fol. 80r
- Item: fols 132-33
- Title (B.11.4.1.1.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [b]
Incipit: (fol. 132v) Ðæt sceal geþencean se þe byð monna saula | læce
Explicit: (fol.133r) Ælce dǽde toscade man wærlice for god 7 for | worolde
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
- Title (B.11.4.1.1.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [b]
- Item: fols 133-37
- Title (B.11.4.1.2.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [c]
Incipit: (fol. 133r) Ðas þeawas man heladeþ begeondan sǽ
Explicit: (fol. 137v) Swa swa him man tǽce
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
- Title (B.11.4.1.2.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [c]
- Item: fol. 137
- Title (B.11.4.1.3.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [d]
Incipit: (fol. 137v) BE SCRIFTUM | ON wisum scrifte swiðe byð forðgelang forsyngodes | mannes nyd help
Explicit: (fol. 137v) 7 sumum ealle lifdagas
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
- Title (B.11.4.1.3.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [d]
- Item: fols 137-38
- Title (B.11.4.1.4.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [e]
Title (manuscript): Be synna lacnunge.
Incipit: (fol. 137v) Se læce þe sceal sare wunda | wel gehælan
Explicit: (fol. 138v) 7 his sylfes geornful | nesse
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
- Title (B.11.4.1.4.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [e]
- Item: fol. 138v
- Title (B.11.4.1.5.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [f]
Title (manuscript): Be læwendra manna dædbota
Incipit: (fol. 138v) Deoplic dædbot byð þæt l æwede man his wæpne | lecge
Explicit: (fol. 138v) Aginne he hit georne
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
- Title (B.11.4.1.5.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [f]
- Item: fols 138-39
- Title (B.11.4.1.6.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [g]
Title (manuscript): Be dædbota
Incipit: (fol. 138v) Dædbota synd gedihte. On mistlice wisan
Explicit: (fol. 139v) ænige brohte. Gebringe hine[...]
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
- Title (B.11.4.1.6.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [g]
- Item: fol. 140r
- Item: fols 140-45
- Title (B.11.3.1.4.EM): Poenitentiale Pseudo-Egberti: Book 4
Incipit: (fol. 140v) HIT IS ÐEAH TO WITANNE HWI ÐEOS FEOR | ÐE BOC SY UNCAPITULOD. Þæt is forþon ðeos feorðe | boc is genumen of þam þrym bocum
Explicit: (fol. 145r) Gif he wile mid | soðre godes lufan him sylfum þingian
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
- Title (B.11.3.1.4.EM): Poenitentiale Pseudo-Egberti: Book 4
- Item: fols 145-46
- Item: fol. 146
- Item: fols 146rv
- Item: fol. 146
- Title (B.11.2.1.1.EM): Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti: Additional sections printed by Spindler [sections a-y] Part 2
Incipit: (fol. 146r) ALIA. | Ne sceal se bisceop him sylf næ[.]nie abbod geceosan
Explicit: (fol. 146r) Swa hwylc man swa ðas scriftboc tilige to abrecanne | ecre fordemednysse he sy fordemed. AMEN
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
- Title (B.11.2.1.1.EM): Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti: Additional sections printed by Spindler [sections a-y] Part 2
- Item: fols 146v-53v
- Item: fol. 153v
Object Description
Codex
Hand Description
Additional Information
Described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne Van Der Schee, with reference to published scholarship.
Digital surrogate: http://uurl.kbr.be/1609340 (accessed 18 July 2018)
History
Unknown
Bremmer, Jr., Rolf H., and Kees Dekker, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006), vol. 13: Manuscripts in the Low Countries
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 10