Durham, Cathedral Library, B. III. 32

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Repository
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B. III. 32

Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

107

Gnuess/Lapidge

244

Summary

A Latin hymnal and monastic canticles with continuous Old English glosses to each (of s. xi2/4); proverbs of s. ximed; a copy of Ælfric's Grammar of s. xi1 or ximed; and a Latin dialogue on declinations, s. xi1 or ximed

Manuscript Items

1. Item: fols. 1-43

Title: Continuous gloss to a Latin hymnal

Incipit: CLYPUNG TO ÐÆRE HALGAN ÐRYNNISSE [glossing 'INVOCATIO AD SANCTAM TRINITATEM']

Explicit:  ⁊ ængla mid lofum undefoh ꝥæt æt ƿe glæstan sy hit sƿa [glossing 'et angelorum laudibus admitte quod persolvimus. Amen']

Date: s. xi2/4

Bibliography:

Gneuss 1968

Milfull 2007

Stevenson 1851

 

2. Item: fols. 43v-45v

Title: Proverbs

Date: s. ximed

Bibliography:

Arngart 1981

Arngart 1977

 

3. Item: fols. 46-55

Title: Continuous gloss to monastic canticles

Date: s. xi2/4

Bibliography:

Korhammer 1976

 

4. Item: fols. 56-127

Title: Ælfric's Grammar

Date: s. xi1or ximed

Bibliography:

Treharne 2009

Zupitza 1966


Object Description

Form

Codex

Support

Parchment


Hand Description


Additional Information

Surrogates

Some images available on DigiPal, http://www.digipal.eu/digipal/manuscripts/742/pages/ (accessed 31 July 2018).


History

Bibliography

Arngart, Olof, ed., The Durham Proverbs (Lund: Lunds Universitets Årsskrift, 1956)

Arngart, Olof, 'The Durham Proverbs', Speculum 56:2 (1981), 288-300

Arngart, Olof, 'Further Notes on the Durham Proverbs', English Studies 58:2 (1977), 101-4

Gneuss, Helmut, Hymnar und Hymnen im englischen Mittelalter (Tübingen, 1968)

Korhammer, Michael, ed., Die monastischen Cantica im Mittelalter und ihre altenglischen Interlinearversionen: Studien und Textausg (Munich: W. Fink, 1976)

Milfull, Inge B., ed., The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 17 (Cambridge, 2007)

Treharne, Elaine, 'Making Their Presence Felt: Readers of Ælfric, c. 1050-1350', in A Companion to Ælfric, ed. by Mary Swan and Hugh Magennis, Companion to the Christian Tradition, 18 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), pp. 399-422

Stevenson, Joseph, ed., The Latin Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, with an interlinear gloss; derived chiefly from a manuscript of the eleventh century, preserved in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Durham (Durham: George Andrews, 1851)

Zupitza, Julius, ed., Ælfrics Grammatik und Glossar: Text und Varianten, 2nd edn (1880; Berlin: Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung Max Niehans Verlag, 1966)