London, British Library, Harley 107

Present Location
Repository
Collection
Shelfmark

107

Date
Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

227

Gnuess/Lapidge

414

Summary

Ælfric's Grammar and Glossary. Incomplete, probably due to two missing quires. Written by two hands, ximedKer notes that the manuscript is 'possibly Kentish' (1957, p. 303).

Digital Surrogate

https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=754…

Manuscript Items
  1. Item: fols 1r-69v
    • Title (B.1.9.1): Ælfric's Grammar

      Incipit: (fol. 1r) Ic ælfric ƿolde þas lytlan boc aƿendan to engliscum gereorde | of ðam stærcræfte þe is gehaten gramatica syþþan ic ða tƿa bec | aƿende on hundeahtatigumspellum. forðdan þe cræft ys || seo cæg ðe þæra boca angyt unlecð (the Old English preface is preceded by a Latin preface)

      Explicit: ( fol. 69v) on ealdum da | gum ˥ us dyrne ƿæron. SiG þeos boc þus her GEÆndod

      Text Language: English and Latin

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, p. 303

      Doane 2007

  2. Item: fol. 69v
    • Title (B.1.9.1.1.EM): Ælfric's Grammar : [coda]

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 69v) DE NUMERO

      Incipit: (fol. 69v) On læden sprece siond mænig | fealde getæl

      Explicit: ( fol. 69v) fif | penegas gemaciaþ ænne scylling ˥ þritti penega gema | ciaþ ænne mancus

      Text Language: English and Latin

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, p. 303

      Doane 2007

  3. Item: fols 69v-71v
    • Title (B.1.9.2): Ælfric's Glossary

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 69v) INCIPIUNT NOMINA MULTARUM | RERVM ANGLICE MONICA

      Incipit: (fol. 69v ) Deus omnipotens. þæt is | god aelmihtig. se ƿær æfre unbegunnen. ˥ æfre unge | ændod

      Explicit: (fol. 71v) Ƿe ne magon | sƿa þeah ealle naman aƿritan. ne furþon geþæncan.

      Text Language: English and Latin

      Note: The gramatical dialogue in Latin follows in fols 71v-72v.

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, p. 303

      Doane 2007

  4. Item: fol. 72v
    • Title (B.27.4.14.EM): Additions

      Incipit: (fol. 72v) (beginning of incipit illegible) s regnat. Crist rixað.

      Explicit: ( fol. 72v) Crist casere. Imperator. Casere.

      Text Language: English and Latin

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, p. 303

      Doane 2007

  5. Item: fol. 72v
    • Title (D.15): Latin-Old English Glossary [Birds and Fish]

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 72v) DE NO | MINA UOLUCRI

      Incipit (Latin): ( fol. 72v ) (beginning of incipit illegible) ipus. ioƿ

      Explicit (Latin): ( fol. 72v ) Sulio styria (ending imperfect)

      Text Language: English and Latin

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, p. 303

      Doane 2007


Object Description

Form

Form Codex


Hand Description


Additional Information

Administration Information

Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship.


History

Provenance

Kent

Bibliography

Doane, Alger Nicolaus, Sarah Larratt Keefer, and David Rollason, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007), vol. 14: Manuscripts of Durham, Ripon, and York

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 227