Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 211 (1812)
211 (1812)
General Information
321
Old English text of Bede's Death Song is part of Cuthbert's letter De obitu Bedæ, which follows a copy of the Historia ecclesiastica. OE is in the same hand as the main text. Ker notes that 'the Waltham Abbey ex-libris inscription [...] is contemporary with the text' (1957, p. 383).
Object Description
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 (2010; 2012).
History
Unknown
Dobbie, E. van Kirk, The manuscripts of Cædmon’s Hymn and Bede’s Death Song, with a Critical Text of the Epistola Cuthberti de Obitu Bedæ, 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 321
---, 'More Manuscripts from Essex Monastic Libraries: With Notes on Manuscripts Connected with Essex Parish Churches', Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, 23 (1942-45), 298-311
Laing, Margaret, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993), p. 131
Mary Swan and Owen Roberson