Ely, Cathedral Library, C (or G) 60
C (or G) 60
General Information
113
Two passages in Old English in Book 2 of the Historia Eliensis Insulae; the same Old English passages are in CTC O. 2. 1 (1105) of s. xii2 (Ker 1957, item 93). Manuscript not localised.
- Item: fol. 72r
Title (A.45): Cnut's Song
Incipit: (fol. 72r) Merie sungen ðe muneches binnen ely. ða chut. ching reu ðer by. Roweþ chites noer the lant. ond here we þes muneches sæng
Explicit: (fol. 72r) ond here we þes muneches sæng
Note: Writ etc. in bk.2 of the Historia Eliensis Insulae
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 113
Stewart 1848, p. 202
- Item: fol. 77r
Title (B.15.1.94): Charters: Royal Charters: Writ of King Edward, Christ Church, Canterbury Sawyer 1088
Incipit: (fol. 77r) Ædward cyninc gret ealle mine biscopas
Explicit: (fol. 77r) þæs ic him geunnon habbe god eow healde
Note: Writ etc. in bk.2 of the Historia Eliensis Insulae
Bibliography:
Harmer 1952, no.49
Ker 1957, item 113
Stewart 1848, p. 202
Sawyer 1968, no.1100
Object Description
Codex
Hand Description
Additional Information
Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Johanna Green, with reference to published scholarship (2012).
History
Unknown
Harmer, F. E., Anglo-Saxon Writs (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1952)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 113
Sawyer, P. H., Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968)
Stewart, D. J., Liber Eliensis, Anglia Christiana Society, 3 (1848)
Mary Swan and Owen Roberson