Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 06/11/2018 - 14:26 Present Location: Oxford Repository: Bodleian Library Collection: Bodley Shelfmark: 297 (2468)Contents: Bede's Death Song Boundary list Date: s. xiimed Medieval Provenance: Bury St Edmunds? General InformationKer : 306 Summary: 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). Manuscript Items: Item: p. 281 Title (A.33.3): Bede's Death Song: West Saxon Version Text Language: English Note: Occurs in the course of a chronicle extending to the year 1131, next to A.D. 734. Bibliography: Ker 1957, item 306 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 DescriptionForm: Codex Additional InformationAdministration Information: Description by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Hollie Morgan, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013). HistoryProvenance: Bury St Edmunds? Bibliography: 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) Catalogue Entry Authored By : Mary Swan and Owen Roberson
