Gloucester, Cathedral Library, 35
35
General Information
117
262
A collection of seven folios from bindings containing fragments of homilies and lives of saints, including Ælfric's texts, copied in s. xi1 and ximed. Some items were added later in s. xi2 (see Ker 1957, Art. 1-5).
- Item: fols 1-3v
- Item: fols 4r-6v
- Item: fol. 6v
- Item: fol. 7r/1-3
Title (B.1.1.28): First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Passion of Peter and Paul
Incipit: (fol. 7r) [...]uð is geond [...]
Explicit: (fol. 7r) [.]y ƿuldor
Date: s. xi1
Note: Three incomplete lines, the end of the text.
Bibliography:
Godden 1979, p. 222
Ker 1957, item 117
Thorpe 1844-46, i, p. 384
- Item: fol. 7r/6-7v
Title (B.1.2.31): Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Peter and Paul, In festiuitate Sancti Petri
Incipit: (fol. 7r) [...]ge þæt [...] andƿear[d]an [...]
Explicit: (fol. 7r) Heo soðlice mid worde ge fæstnode þæt hit swa wæreond
Date: s. xi1
Note: Fragment, fifty-five lines of the beginning of the text.
Bibliography:
Godden, 1979, p. 221
Ker 1957, item 117
- Item: fol. 7v
Title (B.27.4.17.EM): Additions, translation of Acts 12.15 [marginal]
Addition: Heo soðlice mid ƿorde gefæstnode þæt hit sƿa ƿære. 7
Note: This is a translation of Acts 12: 15 added in the margin, next to 'engel'.
Date: s. xi2
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 117
Object Description
Collection of fragments
Support: Parchment
Extent:
fol. 1 and most of the leaves :
- 294 mm x 223 mm (dimensions of most - size of leaves)
- 269 mm x 165 mm (dimensions of all - size of written space)
fol. 7:
- 273 mm x 94 mm (dimensions of fol. 7 - size of leaf; this folio is part of a leaf)
Collation:
Quires: Seven half-sheets. According to Ker, fols 1, 2 were probably adjacent. He also suggests that 'probably three leaves separated fol. 2 from fol. 3. Two leaves separated fol. 4 from fol. 5 and four leaves separated fol. 5 from fol. 6.' (1957, p. 154).
Note: The folios have uneven measures. Ruling is visible on the rectos of fols 1, 5 and the versos of fols 2-4, 6: 30 long lines.
Hand Description
Number of Hands: 3 from 1060 to 1220
Summary: These fragments are written by at least three hands. Ker notes that fols 1-3 and 7 are copied in a hand of s. xi1; a hand of s. ximed copied fols 4-6v; fol. 6v is completed by another hand of s. xi2; and an addition in the margin of fol. 7v is from s. xi2 (1957, p. 154).
Hand:
main text
Scope: Major
Script: Insular Minuscule
Ker reference: Ker 117 scribe 1
Description: fols 1-3, 7.
Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
- a of squarish proportion.
- e with a raised head in clusters such as æg and æt
- y: 'the left stroke rises higher than the right' (Ker 1957).
Date: s. xi1
Hand:
main text
Scope: Major
Script: Insular Minuscule
Ker reference: Ker 117 SC2
Description: fols 4r-6v. A round, close-set hand (Ker 1957, p. 154).
Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
- e prominently horned, with a raised head in clusters such as æ
- descenders: the ends of the descenders curve to the left
Date: s. ximed
Hand:
main text
Scope: Major
Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
Ker reference: Ker 117 SC3
Description: fol. 6v.
Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
- ð curved cross-bared ascender 'which touches, but does not transect, the back'.
Date: s. xi2 addition
Hand:
Scope: Minor
Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
Description: fol. 7v. An addition in the margin.
Date: s. xi2
Additional Information
Manuscript described by Orietta Da Rold with the assistance of Hollie Morgan, Johanna Green and Takako Kato (April 2010; September 2012), and with reference to facsimiles and published scholarship.
Surrogates: Earle, John, ed., Gloucester Fragments (London: Longman, 1861) - Facsimiles of fols 1-3v and 6r.
History
Unknown
Provenance: Fols 1-3 were found in the Register of Abbot Braunche (1500-10) and Abbot Newton (1510-14). Fols 1, 3 were pastedowns which left offset of writing on the binding boards. Fol. 2 was a flyleaf. Fols 5-6 were pastedowns in another unknown volume (Ker 1957, p. 155).
Unknown
Earle, John, ed., Gloucester Fragments (London: Longman, 1861)
Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), item 262
Godden, Malcolm, ed., Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: The Second Series; Text, EETS, SS 5 (London: Oxford University Press, 1979)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 117
Magennis, Hugh, ed., The Old English Life of St Mary of Egypt: An Edition of the Old English Text with Modern English Parallel-Text Translation (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002)
Schröer, Arnold, ed., Die Winteney-version der Regula S. Benedicti (1888)
Scragg, Donald, Alexander Rumble, and Kathryn Powell, C11 Database Project (Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/mancass/c11database/; accessed in 2009). Available for limited viewing on the Internet Wayback Machine.
Skeat, W. W., ed., Ælfric's Lives of Saints, EETS, OS 76, 82, 94, 114 (London and Oxford: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1881-1900; repr. as 2 vols, 1966)
Thorpe, B., ed., The Sermones Catholici or Homilies of Ælfric, Ælfric Society, 2 vols (London: Ælfric Society, 1844-46)
Orietta Da Rold