London, British Library, Royal 4. A. xiv, fols 3-106
4. A. xiv, fols 3-106
General Information
250
455
A wen charm written in a space on the verso of the final leaf. Main text of the manuscript is a Latin commentary on the Psalms of s. xmed. Ker notes that the manuscript was originally from the same scriptorium perhaps in Winchester as Royal 2 B. v, and that it was 'later at Worcester, perhaps already in s. xii, to judge from the script of the title in red rustic capitals on fol. 1' (1957, p. 320).
Digital Surrogate
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_4_a_xiv_fs001ar
Item: fol. 106v
Title (A.43.12): Metrical Charm: Against a Wen
Incipit: (fol. 106v) Ƿenne Ƿenne Ƿenchichenne he ne scealt þu timbrien
Explicit: (fol. 106v) sƿa litel | þu geƿurþe alsƿa linsetcorn ˥ miccli lesse alsƿa anes hand | ƿurmes hupeban ˥ alsƿa licel þu geƿurþe þæt þu naƿiht | geƿurþe
Text Language: English
Object Description
Form Codex
Hand Description
Additional Information
Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2012).
Digital surrogate: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_4_a_xiv_fs001ar (accessed 18 July 2018)
History
Worcester
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 250
Pulsiano, Phillip, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Binghamton, NY: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1996), vol. 4: Glossed Texts, Aldhelmiana, Psalms
Mary Swan and Owen Roberson