Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 297 (2468)
297 (2468)
General Information
306
Old English text of Bede's Death Song is part of Cuthbert's letter De obitu Bedæ, which itself is part of a chronicle to the year 1131. An Old English list of boundaries is written at the same time, but in a different hand, with a Latin charter recording the grant of lands to Bury St Edmunds by King Edmund. Kernotes that 'the manuscript was at Bury St Edmunds not long after it was written' (1957, p. 360).
Item: p. 281
Item: pp. 328-29
Title (B.16.5.1): Bury: Boundaries of Land
Incipit: (p. 328) This synden tha landgemæro. the ædmund kyng gebocade into sancte ædmunde
Text Language: English
Note: According to Ker 1957, this is inserted into the lower margins of a Latin charter in which King Edmund grants lands to Bury St. Edmunds, A. D. 945.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 306
Object Description
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Hand Description
Additional Information
Description by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Hollie Morgan, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013).
History
Bury St Edmunds?
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 306
Laing, Margaret, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993), p. 125
Sawyer, P.H., Anglo-Saxon Charters. An Annotated List and Bibliography, Guides and Handbooks 8 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968), no. 507
Watson, A.G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984)
Mary Swan and Owen Roberson