London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. iii

Fols 2-173 contain a continuous interlinear gloss to the Rule of St. Benedict. It also contains prayers, and an interlinear gloss to Ælfric's Colloquy, and homilies. Copied with annotations and glosses by several hands, in s. xi^med; numerous alterations and additions in s. xi²; and an addition in s. xi^ex. Ker notes 'This is certainly a manuscript described in the medieval catalogue of Christ Church, Canterbury' (Ker 1957, p. 248) Fols 174-76v contain an OE translation of parts of the Regularis Concordia, part of a dismembered copy Faustina B. iii. It is written by one hand in the Latin and English parts of the text (Ker 1957, p. 197). The manuscript seems to have been in use at Christ Church, Canterbury.

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Manuscript Items

Item: fols 3r-27v
- Title (C.27): Gloss to Regularis Concordia
  Title (manuscript): Regularis concordia anglicae nationis monarchorum sanctimonialiumque
  Text Language: English and Latin
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 242
Item: fols 27v-32v
- Title (C.16.1): Gloss to prognostics
  Title (manuscript): De somniorum diuersitate secundum ordinem abcharii danielis prophete
  Incipit: (fol. 27v) fugeles on sƿefnum
  Text Language: English and Latin
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 242
Item: fols 32v-35v
- Title (C.16.2): Gloss to prognostics
  Title (manuscript): De obseruacione lune et que cauenda sunt
  Incipit: (fol. 32v) mona se forma on eallum
  Text Language: English and Latin
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 242
Item: fols 35v-36r
- Title (C.16.3): Gloss to prognostics
  Incipit: (fol. 35v) sƿa ƿæt sƿa þu gesihst
  Text Language: English and Latin
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 242
Item: fols 36r-v
- Title (C.16.4): Gloss to prognostics
  Incipit: (fol. 36r) gif bið
  Text Language: English and Latin
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 242
Item: fol. 36v
- Title (C.16.5): Gloss to prognostics
  Incipit: (fol. 36v) se þe acenned bið
  Text Language: English and Latin
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 242
Item: fols 36v-37r
- Title (C.16.6): Gloss to prognostics
  Incipit: (fol. 36v) se þe afeallað
  Text Language: English and Latin
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 242
Item: fols 37r-v
- Title (C.16.7): Gloss to prognostics
  Incipit: (fol. 37r) gif hit þunrað
  Text Language: English and Latin
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 242
Item: fols 37v-38r
- Title (B.23.3.3.1): Prognostic
  Incipit: (fol. 37v) On anre nihte ealdne monan sƿa hƿæt sƿa þe mæteð
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 242
Item: fols 38r-39v
- Title (B.23.3.3.2): Prognostic
  Incipit: (fol. 38r) Gif mann mæte þæt he geseo earn
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fols 39v-40r
- Title (B.23.3.3.3): Prognostic
  Incipit: (fol. 39v) On anre nihte ealdne monan. far þu to cinge
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fol. 40r
- Title (B.23.3.3.4): Prognostic
  Addition: (fol. 40r) On anre nihte ealdne monan se þe hine adl gestandeð
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fols 40r-v
- Title (B.23.3.3.6): Prognostic
  Incipit: (fol. 40r) On anƿearden geareanƿearden altered to anƿeardan
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fol. 40v
- Title (B.23.3.3.7): Prognostic
  Incipit: (fol. 40v) Ðonne se mona bið acenned on sunandæig. þæt tacnað
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fols 40v-41r
- Title (B.21.4): On the Human Foetus
  Incipit: (fol. 40v) Her onginð secgan ymbe mannes gecynde
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fols 41r-v
- Title (B.23.3.3.5): Prognostic
  Incipit: (fol. 41r) Gif man biþ acenned on ane nihte ealdne monan
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fols 41r-42r
- Title (B.23.3.3.9): Prognostic
  Incipit: (fol. 41v) Kalendasianuarius gif he byþ on monandæg
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fols 42r-v
- Title (B.23.3.3.10): Prognostic
  Incipit: (fol. 42r-v) Gif man mæte þæt his mon ehte
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fols 42v-43r
- Title (B.23.3.3.8): Prognostic
  Incipit: (fol. 42v) Eft is oðer ƿise be þissum þingum
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fols 43r-v
- Title (B.24.10.2): Note on Adam
  Incipit: (fol. 43r) Hƿæt ƿæs se on þissere ƿorulde de ðe acænned næs
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fol. 44r
- Title (B.20.11.1): Computus: On the Three Fridays for Fasting
  Title (manuscript): De ieiunio
  Incipit: (fol. 44r) Þis syndon þa ðreo frigedagas
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fol. 44r
- Title (B.24.29.EM): Miscellaneous short notes
  Incipit: (fol. 44r) Sancta Maria ƿæs
  Addition: Be sancte maria ylde and be hyre forðsiðe
  Addition: Be misdæde
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fol. 44r
- Title (B.11.3.1): Poenitentiale Pseudo-Egberti
  Incipit: (fol. 44r) Gif hƿa fulice on ungecyndelicum þingum
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fols 44r-45v
- Title (B.11.9.3.1.1.EM): Forms of Confession and Absolution [first part]
  Incipit: (fol. 44r) Eala þu ælmihtiga god unasecgendlicere mildheortnesse
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fols 45v-46r
- Title (B.1.3.14): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: The Prayer of Moses [De Oratione Moysi]
  Incipit: (fol. 45v) Man mot hine gebiddan sƿa sƿa he mæg ˥ can
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 243
Item: fols 46v-47r
- Title (B.12.4.3.2): Confessional Prayers
  Incipit: (fol. 46v) Min drihten leof for þinre þære mycelan mildheortnysse
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 244
Item: fols 47r-48r
- Title (B.11.9.3.1.2.EM): Forms of Confession and Absolution [second part]
  Incipit: (fol. 47r) Min drihten god ælmihtig ic þe eom andette minra synna
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 244
Item: fols 48r-50v
- Title (B.12.4.3.3): Confessional Prayers
  Incipit: (fol. 48r) Din drihten ælmihtig god si ðe ƿuldor. ˥ þanc
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 244
Item: fols 50v-51v
- Title (B.12.4.3.5.EM): Confessional Prayers
  Incipit: (fol. 50v) Drihten þu eart scippend ealra gescefta
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 244
Item: fols 51v-53r
- Title (B.11.10.3): Formulas and Directions for the Use of Confessors
  Incipit: (fol. 51v) Gif þu ƿilt nu læof eal sƿa þe micel þearf is andetnysse don
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 244
Item: fols 53r-55r
- Title (B.11.1.4): Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti
  Title (manuscript): Confessio
  Incipit: (fol. 53r) Ic andette þe. Indulgentia, Se ælmihtiga god þe gescop heofonas and eorðan
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 244
Item: fols 55v-56r
- Title (B.11.4.4.1.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [k]
  Incipit: (fol. 55v) Æfter þissum arise eadmodlice to his scrifte
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 244
Item: fols 56r-v
- Title (B.11.4.4.2.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [l]
  Incipit: (fol. 56r) Ðæt sceal geþencan se þe bið manna saƿle læce
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 244
Item: fols 59r-v
- Title (B.23.1.7): Prose Charm
  Incipit: (fol. 59r) Gif þe þince þæt ðine fynd þe hƿirlice embe þridien þonne gang þu on gelimlicre stoƿe ˥ þæ þa halgan rode to gescildnesse gecy ˥ asette þe aþenedum
  Text Language: English and Latin
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 244
Item: fols 60v-64v
- Title (C.3): Gloss to Ælfric, Colloquy
  Incipit: (fol. 60v) we cildra biddaþ þe
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 245
Item: fols 65v-73r
- Title (B.1.9.4): Ælfric's rendering of part of Bede's De temporibus
  Title (manuscript): De primo die seculi siue de equinoctio
  Incipit: (fol. 65v) Þone forman dæg þissere ƿorulde we magon afindan
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 245
Item: fols 73r-v
- Title (B.24.12.2): Note on Noah's Ark, etc.
  Incipit: (fol. 73r) Noes earc ƿæs þreo hund fæþma lang
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 245
Item: fols 73v-77v
- Title (B.3.3.16): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Sanctorale: Saint Margaret
  Incipit: (fol. 73v) Æfter þære þroƿunge 7 þære æriste
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 245
Item: fols 77v-83r
- Title (B.1.2.16): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Palm Sunday
  Incipit: (fol. 77v) Ðas ures drihtnes þroƿunge ƿe ƿillaþ gedafenlice eoƿ secgan nu
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 245
Item: fols 83r-87r
- Title (B.3.4.35 ): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], nos. 43, 44: 'Sunnandæges spell'
  Incipit: (fol. 83r) Her sagaþ an þisan drihtnes arendgeƿrite. þæt fyr cymeþ
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 245
Item: fols 87r-88v
- Title (B.3.4.15): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Kemble 1848The Dialogue of Salomon and Saturnus
  Incipit: (fol. 87r) Hit gelamp hƿylan æt sumum cyrre þæt an ancra gefing ænne deofol
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 245
Item: fol. 88v
- Title (B.2.3.1): Wulfstan, Archiepiscopal Functions: A Pastoral Letter
  Rubric (initial): To eallan folke
  Incipit: (fol. 88v) Leofan men understandaþ þæt ærest cristenra manna gehƿylc
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 245
Item: fols 88v-90r
- Title (B.2.3.7.EM): Wulfstan, Archiepiscopal Functions: A Pastoral Letter [To eallan folke]
  Rubric (initial): To eallan folke
  Incipit: (fol. 88v) Leofan menn for ure ealre þearfe
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 245
Item: fol. 90r
- Title (B.3.4.23.1): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], no. 24 [parts]: 'To folce'
  Title (manuscript): To eallum folke
  Incipit: (fol. 90r) Georne ƿe ƿitan þæt god
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, pp. 245-246
Item: fols 90r-v
- Title (B.3.4.23.2): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], no. 24 [parts]: 'To folce'
  Title (manuscript): To eallan folce
  Incipit: (fol. 90r) Uton beon geore þancole on ælce ƿisan
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fols 90v-91r
- Title (B.3.4.29): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], nos. 35, 36: 'Be mistlican gelimpan'To eallum folce
  Incipit: (fol. 90v) Gif hit geƿyrþe þæt on þeodscipe
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fols 91r-v
- Title (B.3.4.22): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], no. 23 [parts]: 'To eallum folce'
  Rubric (initial): To eallum folke
  Incipit: (fol. 91r) Ælcne mann ic bidde þe ænige godes ege hæbbe
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fols 91v-92r
- Title (B.3.4.25): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], no. 27: 'To eallum folce'
  Rubric (initial): To eallan folke
  Incipit: (fol. 91v) Hit ƿæs nu feala geara
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fols 92r-v
- Title (B.3.4.41): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], no. 51: 'To eallan folke'
  Rubric (initial): To eallan folke
  Incipit: (fol. 92r) Leofan menn lagiað gode ƿoroldlagan
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fol. 92v
- Title (B.3.4.24): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], no. 24 [parts]: 'To folce'
  Rubric (initial): To eallum folce
  Incipit: (fol. 92v) Leofan menn understandað ærest hu micel þearf is eallum cristenum mannum. þæt hy heora fulluhtes
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fols 92v-93r
- Title (B.3.4.24.1.EM): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], no. 24 [parts]: 'To folce' [partial and similar]
  Rubric (initial): To eallum folke
  Incipit: (fol. 92v) Leofan menn understandaþ ærest hu micel þearf is eallum cristenum mannum þæt hi cunnon
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fols 93r-v
- Title (B.3.4.42): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], no. 52: 'To mæssepreostum'To mæsseprostum
  Incipit: (fol. 93r) Sacerd scel on his scrifscire
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fol. 93v
- Title (B.3.4.43): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], no. 53: 'To mæssepreostum'To mæssepreostum
  Incipit: (fol. 93v) Eala feala is þara
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fols 94v-955
- Title (B.11.4.4.4.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [21a]
  Incipit: (fol. 94v) Ðæt sceal geþencan se þe biþ manna saƿla læce
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fol. 95r
- Title (B.12.12.1.EM): Directions for a Confessor
  Incipit: (fol. fol. 95r) Gyf sƿa hine sylfne sƿyrþe forƿurce
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fol. 95r
- Title (B.11.4.4.5.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor
  Incipit: (fol. 95r) On ƿisum scrifte biþ sƿyþe forþgelang
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fols 95r-v
- Title (B.12.12.2.EM): Directions for a Confessor
  Incipit: (fol. 95r) Se læce þe sceal sare ƿunda ƿel gehælen
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fol. 95v
- Title (B.12.12.3.EM): Directions for a Confessor
  Rubric (initial): Be læƿdra manna dædbote
  Incipit: (fol. 95v) Deaplice dædbot byþ þæt læƿede man
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fols 95v-96r
- Title (B.11.4.4.6.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [21f]Be dædbotum
  Incipit: (fol. 95v) Dædbota syn gedihte
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fol. 96v
- Title (B.11.4.4.7.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [21g]
  Incipit: (fol. 96v) He cyþ on hu seoc man mot his fæsten alysan
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fols 96v-97r
- Title (B.11.2.1): Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti: Additional sections printed by Spindler [sections a-y]: sections a-m, y
  Incipit: (fol. 96v) Þonne man to his scrifte gange
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fol. 97r
- Title (B.12.12.4.EM): Directions for a Confessor
  Incipit: (fol. 97r) Seo æreste forletnysse is synna fulƿiht
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fols 97v-101v
- Title (B.24.2): Monasteriales Indicia
  Incipit: (fol. 97v) Þis sindon þa tacne þe mon on mynstre healdan sceal
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 246
Item: fols 101v-02r
- Title (B.22.3): Other Scientific Texts: Lapidary
  Rubric (initial): Her onginð embe tƿelf derƿyrðan stanas 7 gimmas þe we leornudan in pocalipsis þære bec
  Incipit: (fol. 101v) Ðæt æreste gimcynn
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, pp. 246-247
Item: fols 102r-03r
- Title (B.3.4.16): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Kluge 1885, 472
  Incipit: (fol. 102r) Ƿarna þe ƿið þa ƿyrðmyntas þe þu butan gylte heldan ne miht
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 247
Item: fols 105r-v
- Title (B.10.3.2): Benedict, Rule: Chapter 4
  Incipit: (fol. 105r) Ærest mon sceal god lufian of ealra heortan
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 247
Item: fols 105v-06r
- Title (B.9.7): Alcuin, De Virtutibus et Vitiis: Chapter 14
  Rubric (initial): Be Þurþƿununge
  Incipit: (fol. 105v) Ne bið no þam cristenan menn sceaƿod
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 247
Item: fol. 106r
- Title (B.23.1.5): Prose Charm
  Incipit: (fol. 106r) Gyf feoh sy underfangen. Gif hit hors sy
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 247
Item: fols 106r-07v
- Title (B.1.8.3): Ælfric, Letters: Second Old English Letter for Wulfstan
  Incipit: (fol. 106r) Æla ge mæssepreostas mine gebroðra
  Explicit: (fol. 107v) ðone antiphon Uespere autem sabbati (Ends abruptly)
  Text Language: English
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 247
Item: fols 118r-63v
- Title (C.4): Gloss to the Rule of St. Benedict
  Text Language: English and Latin
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 241
Item: fols 163v-64r
- Title (C.17): Glosses: Fulgentius, Injunction
  Incipit: (fol. 163v) eft regola fædera
  Text Language: English and Latin
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 241
Item: fols 164r-68v
- Title (C.5): Gloss to Benedict of Aniane, Memoriale
  Text Language: English and Latin
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, p. 241

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Described by Owen Roberson and Orietta Da Rold with the assistance of Sanne Van Der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2012).

Surrogates

Digital surrogate: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_tiberius_a_iii_f002r (accessed 18 July 2018)

History

Provenance

Canterbury Christ Church

Bibliography

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 186

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Owen Roberson and Orietta Da Rold