Ely, Cathedral Library, C (or G) 60

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Repository
Shelfmark

C (or G) 60

Contents
Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

113

Summary

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.

Manuscript Items
  1. Itemfol. 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

  2. Itemfol. 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

Form

Codex


Hand Description


Additional Information

Administration Information

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Johanna Green, with reference to published scholarship (2012).


History

Provenance

Unknown

Bibliography

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)