London, British Library, Stowe 104
104
General Information
273
Old English text of Bede’s Death Song is part of Cuthbert’s letter De obitu Bedæ, which follows the Historia ecclesiastica in this manuscript. Old English in the same hand as the main text. Place of production not known.
Digital Surrogate
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=stowe_ms_104_fs001r
Item: fol. 112v/24-27
Title (A.33.3): Bede's Death Song: West Saxon Version
Incipit: forþan nedfere næni wyrþaw
Explicit: hwet his gaste godes oþþe yfeles æfterdeþe heonon demeþ weorþe
Text Language: English
Object Description
Form Codex
Hand Description
Additional Information
Described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of George Young, with reference to published scholarship.
Digital surrogate: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=stowe_ms_104_fs001r (accessed 18 July 2018)
History
Unknown
Dobbie, Elliott van Kirk, The Manuscripts of Cædmon's Hymn and Bede's Death Song, with a Critical Text of the 'Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae', Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature, 128 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1937)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 273
Mary Swan and Owen Roberson