Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 76 (4125)

The manuscript is in two parts. Part A (fols 1-67) consists of a translation of Gregory's Dialogues and St Basil's Monita, s. xi¹. Part B (fols 68-139) is a translation of the Herbarius of Pseudo-Apuleius and Medicina de quadrupedibus, s. xi^med; and a Latin lapidary, s. xi/xii.

French annotation on fol. 74r (start of text of OE Herbarius) transcribed as 'saluz maund a frere water de breouuode cente cincquante millers', and dated to s. xii/xiii (Ker 1957, p. 390).

Both parts of the manuscript in Worcester in s. xiiiⁱⁿ, from the annotations by the Tremulous Hand.

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Codex

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Manuscript described by Takako Kato and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2012).

History

Provenance

Worcester

Bibliography

de Vriend, Hubert Jan, ed., The Old English Herbarium and Medicina de quadrupedibus, EETS, 286 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984)

Franzen, Christine, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998), vol. 6: Worcester Manuscripts

---, The Tremulous Hand of Worcester: A Study of Old English in the Thirteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 328

Laing, Margaret, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993), p. 133

Catalogue Entry Authored By

Takako Kato and Owen Roberson