Portal to Manuscripts Descriptions: List of Manuscripts

Portal to Manuscript Descriptions: List of Manuscripts

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We are also listing hte manuscripts reported to have contained Old English written between 1060 and 1220, but where the Old English no longer survives.

Place	Repository	Collection	Shelf Mark	Ker	Content	Place	Date
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		111	[35]	Gospels; Manumissions; Homily	Bath	s.xi2-xii
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		140	[35]	Gospels; Manumissions; Homily	Bath	s.xi2-xii
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		173	[39]	Chronicles; added annals and list English archbishops and bishops.		s.xi2-xii1
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		190	[45]	A: Notes and Glosses B: Ecclesiastical Institutes, etc	Exeter	s.xi1; Part B: s.ximed, and three quires added in s.xi2
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		191	[46]	Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang	Exeter	s.xi3/4
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		196	[47]	Martyrology	Exeter	s.xi3/4
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		198	[48]	Homilies		s.xi1-2
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		201	[49B]; [50]	Pt 1: Homilies, etc. (with 12C corrections); Pt 2: Capitula of Theodulf; Homily		Pt 1: s.ximed and corrections: s.xii Pt 2: s.xi3/4
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		302	[56]	Homilies		s.xi/xii
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		303	[57]	Homilies	Rochester	Ker: s.xii1, though probably closer to s.xiimed
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		322	[60]	Gregory's Dialogues		s.xi2
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		367	[62]; [63]	De temporibus; Homilies		s.xii2; s.xii
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		383	[65]	Laws	St Paul's	s.xi/xii
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		391	[67]	Prayers, etc	Worcester	s.xi2
Cambridge	Corpus Christi College		421	[68]; [69]	Homilies	Exeter	s.xi1-3/4
Cambridge	Trinity College		B. 14. 52		Trinity Homilies and poema morale	Middlesex?	s.xiiex
Cambridge	Trinity College		R. 9. 17	[89]	Ælfric's Grammar Ælric		s.xi/xii
Cambridge	Trinity College		R. 17. 1	[91]	Gloss to Eadwine's psalter	Christ Church, Canterbury	s.xiimed
Cambridge	University Library	Add.	3206	[11]	Ecclesiastical law (fragment)		s.xi2
Cambridge	University Library		Ff. 1. 27 + CCCC 66	[14]	Durham poem		s.xiiex
Cambridge	University Library		Hh. 1. 10	[17]	Ælfric's Grammar; Gloss to Psalter	Exeter	Ker: s.xi2; Gness: s.xi3/4
Cambridge	University Library		Ii. 1. 33	[18]	Homilies and lives of saints		s.xii2
Cambridge	University Library		Ii. 2. 4	[19]	Gregory's Pastoral Care	Exeter	s.xi3/4
Cambridge	University Library		Ii. 2. 11 + Exeter Book	[20]	Gospels	Exeter	s.xi3/4-xii1
Cambridge	University Library		Kk. 3. 18	[23]	Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica	Worcester	s.xi2
Cambridge	University Library		Kk. 4. 6		Liber pontificalis	Worcester	s.xii1
Cambridge	University Library		Ll. 1. 10	[27]	Liber precum (the book of Cerne)
Canterbury	Cathedral Library	Add.	20	[97]	Rule of Chrodegang (fragment)	Christ Church, Canterbury?	s.xi2
Clitheroe, Lancs	Stonyhurst College		69	[386]	Bede's Death Song		s.xii1
Dublin	Trinity College		174 (B. 4. 3)	[103]	A scribble to the old flyleaf of a volume of Lives of Saints		s.xi2
Dublin	Trinity College		492 (E. 2. 23)	[104]	Bede's Death Song		s.xii
Durham	Cathedral Library		B. IV. 24	[109]	Rule of St Benedict (prov. Durham)	Durham?	s.xi2
Durham		Hunter	100	[110]	Glossary of herb names	Durham	s.xiiin
Glasgow	Hunterian Library	Hunter	229		Hunterian Psalter		s.xiii
Gloucester	Cathedral Library		35	[117]	Homilies and lives of Saints (fragment)		s.xi1-2
Lawrence, Kansas	Kenneth Spencer Research Library	Pryce	C2:2	[supp 332]	Sermo in natalie unius	Worcester	s.xi2
Lincoln	Cathedral Library		298, no. 2	[125]	Hexateuch (fragment)		s.xi2
London	British Library	Add.	28188		Pontifical, etc.	Exeter	s.xi2
London	British Library	Add.	34652	[128]	Rule of Chrodegang (fragment)		s.xi2
London	British Library	Add.	46204		Worcester cartulary; originally ff. 182 and 183 of cotton Nero E.i, pt.2	Worcester	s.xi
London	British Library	Arundel	60	[134]	Gloss to psalter arts 3 and 4 written in 1099 Winchester	Winchester	s.xi2, 1099
London	British Library	Burney	277	[136]	Laws (fragment)	Kentish	s.xi2
London	British Library	Cotton	Caligula A. xv	[139A]; [139B]	Pt A: Computistica (art. R written c. 1073); Pt B: Bede, De temporibus anni	A: Christ Church, Canterbury; B: ?	A: s.xi2; B: s.xi2 - s.xi/xii
London	British Library	Cotton	Claudius B. iv	[142]	Hexateuch (text was annotated in s. xii)		Maint text in s.xi1; Annotations in s.xii
London	British Library	Cotton	Claudius D. iii	[p. xix]	Rule of Benedict	Wintney	s.xiiiin
London	British Library	Cotton	Cleopatra B. xiii	[144]	Homilies, etc.	Exeter	s.xi3/4
London	British Library	Cotton	Domitian viii	[148]	Chronicle	Christ Church, Canterbury	s.xi/xii
London	British Library	Cotton	Domitian ix	[150]	Chronicle (fragment)		s.xii1
London	British Library	Cotton	Faustina A. v + Dublin, TCB 114	[152]	Bede's Death Song		s.xii1
London	British Library	Cotton	Faustina A. ix	[153]	Homilies		s.xii1
London	British Library	Cotton	Faustina A. x	[154A]; [154B]	A: Ælfric's Grammar, etc; B: Rule of St. Benedict, etc		A: s.xi2; B: s.xii1
London	British Library	Cotton	Julius A. ii	[158]; [159]	Ælfric's Grammar; Dialogue of Adrian and Ritheus, Dicts of Cato		s.ximed; s.xiimed
London	British Library	Cotton	Nero E. i, pt 2		Oswald Cartulary	Worcester Cathedral Priory	s.xi2 (1062x1095)
London	British Library	Cotton	Otho A. xiii	[173]	Homilies (12C add.)		s.xiin-s.xii
London	British Library	Cotton	Otho C. i, vol. 2	[182]	Gregory Dialogues		s.xiin-2
London	British Library	Cotton	Tiberius A. xiii	[190]	Cartularies, etc	Worcester	s.xi1-ex
London	British Library	Cotton	Tiberius B. i	[191]	Orosius; Chronicle		s.xi1-2
London	British Library	Cotton	Tiberius B. iv	[192]	Chronicle	Worcester?	s.ximed-2
London	British Library	Cotton	Tiberius C. i + Harley 3667	[196]	Names of the Winds		s.xii1
London	British Library	Cotton	Tiberius C. i	[197]	Homilies, prayers added to pontifical	Sherborne?	c.1070
London	British Library	Cotton	Vespasian A. xxii		Homilies	Rochester	s.xii/xiii
London	British Library	Cotton	Vespasian D. xiv	[209]	Homilies	Christ Church, Canterbury?	s.xiimed
London	British Library	Cotton	Vitellius A. xii	[214]	Pater noster		s.xiiex
London	British Library	Cotton	Vitellius A. xv	[215]	Augustine, Soliloquies	Southwick?	s.xiimed
London	British Library	Cotton	Vitellius C. iii	[218]; [219]	Glosses; Herbal		s.xii; s.xi1
London	British Library	Harley	55	[226]	Laws		s.xiimed
London	British Library	Harley	863	[232]	Continuous gloss to Quincunque vult	Exeter	s.xi3/4
London	British Library	Harley	6258B		Medicina de Quadrupedibus		s.xiiiin
London	British Library	Royal	1 A. xiv	[245]	Gospels		s.xii2
London	British Library	Royal	7 C. iv	[256]	Gloss to Liber scintillarum; scribbles on the originally blank pages include OE from s. xii/xiii	Christ Church, Canterbury	s.ximed; s. xii/xiii
London	British Library	Royal	10 C. v	[262]	Marginalia on the Psalms datable to 1193/4. Old English notes on ff.18r and 74v	St Paul's	s.xiiex
London	British Library	Royal	15 B. xxii	[269]	Ælfric's Grammar		s.xi2
London	Lambeth Palace Library		173	[276]	Glosses to Bede, Historical eccl.		s.xi2
London	Lambeth Palace Library		427	[281]	Kentish Royal Saints (fragment) ff. 210-211	Exeter?	s.xi2
London	Lambeth Palace Library		487	[282]	Homilies	West England	s.xii/xiii
London	Lambeth Palace Library		489	[283]	Homilies	Exeter	s.xi3/4
London	Society of Antiquaries		60
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Ashmole	1431	[289]	Glosses to the names of berbs	Sout-Eastern?	s.xii
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Auct.	D.2.16 (2719)	[291]	Donations to Exeter by Leofric and AEthelstan; Inscription	Exeter	s.xi2
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Auct.	F. 2. 14	[295]	OE Glossary (or glosses, datable to s.xii in)	Sherborne?	s.xi2 or s.xi/xii.
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Auct.	F. 4. 32	[297]	Homily; Scribble	Glastonbury?	s.xi2
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Bodley	155	[303]	List of lands	Barking	s.xi/xii
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Bodley	180	[305]	Boethius		s.xii1
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Bodley	343	[310]	Homilies	West England	s.xii2
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Bodley	579	[315]	Additions to Leofric Missal. Sureties; manumissions	Exeter	s.xiin-ex
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Eng. Bib.	c. 2	[322]	Gospels		s.xi
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Hatton	20	[324]	Cura Pastoralis		890-7; scribbles s.xii
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Hatton	38	[325]	Gospels	Christ Church, Canterbury	s.xii/xiii
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Hatton	113	[331]	Homilies	Worcester	s.xi3/4
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Hatton	114	[331]	Homilies	Worcester	s.xi3/4
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Hatton	115	[332]	Homilies, etc.	Worcester	s.xi2
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Hatton	116	[333]	Homilies	Worcester	s.xii1
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Junius	1		Ormulum	Lincolnshire	s.xii2
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Junius	121	[338]	Ecclesiastical Institutes, etc.	Worcester	s.xi3/4 (art. 37 is c. 1070; Ker p. lxi)
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Lat. Misc	a. 3	[240]	Fragment of an alphabetical Glossary		s.x/xi
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Laud Misc.	482	[343]	Penitential (12C add.)	Worcester?	s.ximed
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Laud Misc.	509 + BL, Cotton, Vespassian D. xxi	[344]	Pentateuch, etc; Vita St. Guthlac; or Heptateuch		s.xi2
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Laud Misc.	567	[345]	Glossary of herb names		s.xii
Oxford	Bodleian Library	Laud Misc.	636	[346]	Peterborough Chronicle	Peterborough	s.xii1-med
Oxford	St John's College		17 + BL, Cotton, Nero C. vii	[360]	Miscellaneous entries	Thorney	c.1110
Paris	Bib. Nat.	Lat.	8846	[supp 419]	Glosses in English to Roman version of the Psalter		sxii2
Rochester	Rochester Cathedral			[373]	Textus Roffensis	Rochester	s.xii1
Salisbury	Cathedral Library		150	[379]	Gloss to psalter	Salisbury	s. x 2, s.xi/xii
Cologny, Geneve, Switzerland	Bibliotheca Bodmeriana	Bodmer	2	[285]; [supp 124]	Homily (fragment)		s.xi2
Taunton	Somerset County Record Office		DD/SASC/1193/77		The Taunton Fragment		s.xi2
Worcester	Cathedral Library		F. 174	[398]	Ælfric's Grammar	Worcester?	s.xiiiin
York	Minster Library		1	[402]	Documents and sermons		s.xi1-2

* The dates initially given on this page are from Ker's Catalogue. If we revise Ker's dating in any cases, our date will be given instead. The individual manuscript descriptions will give an explanation of our dating where appropriate.

s.xiin: date range 1000-1010
s.xi1: date range 1000-1050
s.ximed: date range 1040-1060
s.xi2: date range 1050-1099
s.xiex: date range 1090-1099
s.xi/xii: date range 1090-1110
s.xiiin: date range 1100-1110
s.xii1: date range 1100-1150
s.xiimed: date range 1140-1160
s.xii2: date range 1150-1199
s.xiiex: date range 1190-1199
s.xii/xiii: date range 1190-1210
s.xiiiin: date range 1200-1210
s.xiii1: date range 1200-1250
s.xiii2: date range 1250-1299
s.xiiiex: date range 1290-1299