London, British Library, Add. 40000

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40000

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Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

131

Gnuess/Lapidge

295

Summary

English inscription (s. xi2) describing a now-lost binding of this gospel-book, and English phrases (s. xi/xii) in a Thorney name-list. Main manuscript s. xin, written in continental minuscule. Ker (1957, p. 163) notes that the manuscript was at Thorney Abbey c. 1100.

Digital Surrogate

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_40000_fs001r

Manuscript Items

  1. Item: fol. 4

    Title ( B.28.8.EM): Inscriptions

    Note: An inscription referring to a former binding, in a gospel-book.

    Date: s. xi2

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, item 131

     

  2. Item: fol. 10v

     

    Title (B.16.20.2): Thorney: Names in Liber Vitae

    Addition: (fol. 10r) Eglaf comes ond his broðer Vlf [...] Ðorð clapes sunuondhis wif

    Note: Occasional phrases, in a gospel-book.

    Date: s. xi/xii

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, item 131

     

  3. Item: fol. 29

     

    Title (C.51.2.1.EM): Glosses to Gospels:

    Addition: (fol. 29) hold

    Addition: (fol. 29) meru

    Note: Two glosses in ink, in a gospel-book: 'hold' glosses 'corpus' and 'meru' glosses 'tener'

    Date: s. xi

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, item 131

     

  4. Item: fols 30r-48r

     

    Title (C.51.2.2.EM): Glosses to Gospels: Pencil/Scratch

    Addition: (fol. 30r) þætte se ahongen

    Addition: (fol. 31r) to hwon geƿilnigen ƿe[...]morgentide

    Addition: (fol. 48r) of geƿricsle[...]gongende

    Note: 42 interlinear glosses, pencilled or scratched, in a gospel-book. Only the above examples given in Ker (1957, item 131). No images available. 'þætte se ahongen' glosses 'ut crucifigatur' (Matt 26:2); 'to hwon geƿilnigen ƿe' glosses 'quid adhuc egemus' (Matt 26:65); 'morgentide' glosses 'Mane' (Matt 27:1); 'of geƿricsle' glosses 'de uice' (Luke 1:5); 'gongende' glosses 'incedentes' (Luke 1:6).

    Date: s. xi1

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, item 131

Object Description

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Form Codex

Hand Description

Additional Information

Administration Information

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

Surrogates

Digital surrogate: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_40000_fs001r (accessed 18 July 2018)

History

Provenance

Thorney Abbey

Bibliography

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 131

Laing, Margaret, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993), p. 64

Catalogue Entry Authored By

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

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