Hereford, Cathedral Library, P. i. 17

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P. i. 17

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Date
Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

120

Summary

57 English glosses to Aldhelm's prose De laude virginitatis, of the same date as the main text, and added after Latin glosses to it. Flyleaf inscription localises manuscript to Cirencester (Ker 1957, p. 157).  

Manuscript Items
  1. Item: fols 2v-94v

  • Title (C.31.4): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

    Addition: (fol. 2v) ad pontificale, episcopale, biscoplicum / conciliabulum colloquium synoðe

    Addition: (fol. 94v) indicium, dom

    Note: Fifty-seven glosses to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis, in the prose version

    Bibliography:

    Napier 1900, no.3, pp. 149-50

Object Description

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Codex

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Additional Information

Administration Information

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

History

Provenance

Cirencester

Bibliography

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 120

Laing, Margaret, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993), p. 56

Napier, A. S., Old English Glosses, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, xi (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900)

Catalogue Entry Authored By

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

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