Oxford, Lincoln College, Lat. 31

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31

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Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

356

Summary

Cædmon's Hymn and Bede's Death Song, which was added, in a hand roughly contemporary with that of the main text, in Old English to ruled lines in the bottom margins of fols 83r and 112v of a s. xiimed copy of the Latin text of the Historia ecclesiastica. Place of production not known.

Object Description

Form

Codex

Hand Description

Additional Information

Administration Information

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with reference to published scholarship.

History

Provenance

Unknown

Bibliography

Brotanek, Rudolf, Texte und Untersuchungen zur altenglischen Literatur und Kirchengeschichte (Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1913)

Dobbie, Elliott van Kirk, The Manuscripts of Cædmon's Hymn and Bede's Death Song, with a Critical Text of the 'Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae', 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 356

Plummer, Charles, ed., Venerabilis Baedae Opera Historica, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896)

Catalogue Entry Authored By

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

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