Oxford, Magdalen College, Lat. 105

Present Location
Repository
Collection
Shelfmark

105

Contents
Date
Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

357

Summary

Cædmon's Hymn which is added in Old English by the main hand in a margin of a copy of the Latin text of the Historia ecclesiastica. Place of production not known. The hand has some similar characteristics to that of a scribe in Bodley 343, fols 1-170.


Object Description

Form

Codex


Hand Description


Additional Information

Administration Information

Manuscript described by Orietta Da Rold, Mary Swan and Owen Roberson, with reference to published scholarship.


History

Provenance

Unknown

Bibliography

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 357