Durham, University Library, Cosin V. ii. 6
V. ii. 6
General Information
110
Old English text of Bede's Death Song is part of Cuthbert's letter De obitu Bedæ, incorporated into Symeon of Durham's history of the church of Durham. Written in Durham.
Digital Surrogate
Item: p. 57
Title (A.33.3): Bede's Death Song: West Saxon Version
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Arnold 1882-85, i, p. 44
Dobbie 1937, p. 86
Ker 1957, item 110*
Object Description
Codex
Hand Description
Additional Information
Described by Takako Kato, with reference to published scholarship (2013).
Digital surrogate: https://iiif.durham.ac.uk/index.html?manifest=t1m4q77fr328 (accessed 18 July 2018)
History
Durham
Arnold, Thomas, Symeonis Monachi Opera Omnia, Rolls Series, 75, 2 vols (London: Longman, 1882-5)
Dobbie, Elliott van Kirk, The Manuscripts of Cædmon's Hymn and Bede's Death Song, with a Critical Text of the 'Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae', Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature, 128 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1937)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 110*
Takako Kato