Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 8558-63

Present Location

Brussels

Repository

Bibliothèque Royale

Shelfmark

8558-63

Contents

Annotation on blank leaf

Date

s. xii1

Medieval Provenance

Unknown

General Information

Ker

Gnuess/Lapidge

808

Summary

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:

https://uurl.kbr.be/1609340

Manuscript Items

Item: fol. 80r
- Title (C.89.1): Gloss to Pentitentials and Rules: Pseudo-Theodore
  Addition: (fol. 80r) nu æfter þes senne deplice her behinneþ | þæt is. Erest ofer modnesse swa hit gewriten is
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
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
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
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
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
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
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
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
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
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
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
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
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
Item: fol. 140r
- Title (B.13.7.EM): Laws and Institutes, Ecclesiastical: Miscellaneous
  Incipit: (fol. 140r) GYF mæsseprest his agen lif rihtlice fadie ðonne is | riht þæt his wurðscipe wexe
  Explicit: (fol. 140r) Þæt he næfre on | wimmannes bedde forð ne gewite
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
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
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
Item: fols 145-46
- Title (B.11.2.2): Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti: Additional sections printed by Spindler [section z]
  Incipit: (fol. 145r) ALIA. And on halgum gewritum is geræd
  Explicit: (fol. 146r) nu to dæg þu bist mid | me on mines fæder rice
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
Item: fol. 146
- Title (B.11.2.1): Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti: Additional sections printed by Spindler [sections a-y]
  Incipit: (fol. 146r) ALIA | And þæt nis na to forlætenne
  Explicit: (fol. 146r) 7 | mid teara agotennesse
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
Item: fols 146rv
- Title (B.11.3.2): Poenitentiale Pseudo-Egberti: Sanctus Gregorius
  Incipit: (fol. 146r) SANCTUS GREGORIUS SE HALGA PAPA GEGADERODE SINOð | on rome
  Explicit: (fol. 146v) forgifnesse geearnian mid soðum | geleafan untweogendum
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
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
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006
Item: fols 146v-53v
- Title (B.11.5): Poenitentiale Theodori and Capitula d'Acheriana
  Incipit: (fol. 146v) ALIA | Ne sceal se bisceop him sylf
  Explicit: (fol. 153v) Ker does not supply the explicit
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
Item: fol. 153v
- Title (B.20.10): Computus: On the Four Ember-fasts
  Incipit: (fol. 153v) Ðis synt þa riht ymbrendagas
  Explicit: (fol. 153v) On þa nyhstan | wucan CRISTES MÆSSAN
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, pp. 8-10
  Bremmer and Dekker 2006

Object Description

Form

Codex

Hand Description

Additional Information

Administration Information

Described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne Van Der Schee, with reference to published scholarship.

Surrogates

Digital surrogate: http://uurl.kbr.be/1609340 (accessed 18 July 2018)

History

Provenance

Unknown

Bibliography

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

Catalogue Entry Authored By

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson