The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Additional 40000

Inscription and entries in list of names

Date: s. xi2; s. xi/xii

Summary:

English inscription (s. xi2) describing a now-lost binding of this gospel-book, and English phrases (s. xi/xii) in a Thorney name-list. Main manuscript s. xin, written in continental minuscule. Ker (1957, p. 163) notes that the manuscript was at Thorney Abbey c. 1100.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 4

   Title (B.28.8.EM): Inscriptions

   Note: An inscription referring to a former binding, in a gospel-book.

   Date: s. xi2

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 131

2. Item: fol. 10v

   Title (B.16.20.2): Thorney: Names in Liber Vitae

   Addition: (fol. 10r) Eglaf comes ond his broðer Vlf [...] Ðorð clapes sunuondhis wif

   Note: Occasional phrases, in a gosepl-book.

   Date: s. xi/xii

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 131

3. Item: fol. 29

   Title (C.51.2.1.EM): Glosses to Gospels: Pen

   Addition: (fol. 29) hold

   Addition: (fol. 29) meru

   Note: Two glosses in ink, in a gospel-book: 'hold' glosses 'corpus' and 'meru' glosses 'tener'

   Date: s. xi

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 131

4. Item: fols 30r-48r

   Title (C.51.2.2.EM): Glosses to Gospels: Pencil/Scratch

   Addition: (fol. 30r) þætte se ahongen

   Addition: (fol. 31r) to hwon geƿilnigen ƿe[...]morgentide

   Addition: (fol. 48r) of geƿricsle[...]gongende

   Note: 42 interlinear glosses, pencilled or scratched, in a gospel-book. Only the above examples given in Ker (1957, item 131). No images available. 'þætte se ahongen' glosses 'ut crucifigatur' (Matt 26:2); 'to hwon geƿilnigen ƿe' glosses 'quid adhuc egemus' (Matt 26:65); 'morgentide' glosses 'Mane' (Matt 27:1); 'of geƿricsle' glosses 'de uice' (Luke 1:5); 'gongende' glosses 'incedentes' (Luke 1:6).

   Date: s. xi1

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 131

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Joanna Green with reference to published scholarship (2012).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 131