The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Harley 1005

Names of the winds in OE and Latin

Date: s. xiiex

Summary:

One hand draws a ‘rough diagram’ and writes eight names of the winds in OE and Latin, and a second hand repeats four of the names in OE. Ker notes that ‘the leaf on which the diagram occurs looks as if it was a flyleaf, but is actually in the middle of a manuscript of s. s.xiiiex, coming from Bury St Edmunds’ (1957, p. 307). Place of production of the text not known.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 98v

   Title (B.24.5): Names of the Winds

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 303

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 233