Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 328 (6882 and 7420)

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Repository
Collection
Shelfmark

328 (6882 and 7420)

Contents
Date
Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

288

Gnuess/Lapidge

566

Summary

Computus handbook written in Latin and Old English, and two homiletic pieces. One hand, origin unknown.

Manuscript Items
  1. Item: pp. 1-247

    • Title (B.20.20.1): Byrhtferth's Manual

      Incipit: in capite (The contents of pp. 1-54 are disarranged.)

      Text Language: English

      Note: Inscription relating to a diagram: 'byrhtferð monachus ramesiensis' on the seventh leaf of the first quire (a fragment).

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, item 288

  2. Item: pp. 247-51

    • Title (B.3.4.38): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], no. 47: 'Larspell and scriftboc'

      Incipit (Latin): (p. 247) Iohannes ait. post mille annos.

      Incipit: (p. 247) Se halga iohannes cwæð æfter þam þusende byð se deofol unbunden

      Text Language: English

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, item 288

  3. Item: pp. 251-58

    • Title (B.3.4.39): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, published]: Napier 1883 [1967], no. 48: 'Ammonitio amici'

      Rubric (initial): (p. 251) Ammonitio amici. þæt ys freodlic mynegung.

      Incipit: (p. 251) Eala þu wynsuma man. þu æðela wer

      Text Language: English

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, item 288

Object Description

Form

Codex

Hand Description

Additional Information

Administration Information

Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Hollie Morgan, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2012).

History

Provenance

Unknown

Bibliography

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 288

Catalogue Entry Authored By

Owen Roberson

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