Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 146 (1747)

Glosses to Aldhelm's De laude virginitatis (fols 1r-95) and a letter to Ehrfrid (fols 95v-100) with an Abingdon provenance, s. x^ex. 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. xi^med (Ker 1957, p. 382).

Manuscript Items

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

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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