Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 146 (1747)

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146 (1747)

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Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

320

Gnuess/Lapidge

613

Summary

Glosses to Aldhelm's De laude virginitatis (fols 1r-95) and a letter to Ehrfrid (fols 95v-100) with an Abingdon provenance, s. xex. About thirty glosses are contemporary with the texts; glosses on fols 8-15 are probably s. xiin; and the glosses to more than 5,4000 words in De laude virginitatis in fols 8-95 are s. ximed (Ker 1957, p. 382).

Manuscript Items
  1. Item: fols 8-95

     

    • Title (C.31.13): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

      Text Language: English

      Date: probably from s. ximed (Ker 1957)

      Hand: 'a small and neat, but uncalligraphic hand' (Ker 1957)

      Bibliography:

      Ker 1957, item 320

         

    • Item: fol. 30v

       

      • Title (C.31.13.1.EM): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

        Addition: (fol. 30v) wrangwise

        Text Language: English

        Date: probably twelfth-century (Ker 1957)

        Bibliography:

        Ker 1957, item 320

         

           

       

      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

      Abingdon

      Bibliography

      Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 320

      Catalogue Entry Authored By

      Owen Roberson

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