The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Harley 107

Ælfric's Grammar

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Ælfric's Grammar and Glossary. Incomplete, probably due to two missing quires. Written by two hands, ximed, Ker notes that the manuscript is 'possibly Kentish' (1957, p. 303).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 1r-69v

   Title (B.1.9.1): Ælfric's Grammar

   Incipit: (fol. 1r) Ic ælfric ƿolde þas lytlan boc aƿendan to engliscum gereorde | of ðam stærcræfte þe is gehaten gramatica syþþan ic ða tƿa bec | aƿende on hundeahtatigum spellum. forðdan þe cræft ys || seo cæg ðe þæra boca angyt unlecð (the Old English preface is preceded by a Latin preface)

   Explicit: ( fol. 69v) on ealdum da | gum ˥ us dyrne ƿæron. SiG þeos boc þus her GEÆndod

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 303

   Doane 2007

2. Item: fol. 69v

   Title (B.1.9.1.1.EM): Ælfric's Grammar : [coda]

   Rubric (initial): (fol. 69v) DE NUMERO

   Incipit: (fol. 69v) On læden sprece siond mænig | fealde getæl

   Explicit: ( fol. 69v) fif | penegas gemaciaþ ænne scylling ˥ þritti penega gema | ciaþ ænne mancus

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 303

   Doane 2007

3. Item: fols 69v-71v

   Title (B.1.9.2): Ælfric's Glossary

   Rubric (initial): (fol. 69v) INCIPIUNT NOMINA MULTARUM | RERVM ANGLICE MONICA

   Incipit: (fol. 69v ) Deus omnipotens. þæt is | god aelmihtig. se ƿær æfre unbegunnen. ˥ æfre unge | ændod

   Explicit: (fol. 71v) Ƿe ne magon | sƿa þeah ealle naman aƿritan. ne furþon geþæncan.

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Note: The gramatical dialogue in Latin follows in fols 71v-72v.

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 303

   Doane 2007

4. Item: fol. 72v

   Title (B.27.4.14.EM): Additions

   Incipit: (fol. 72v) (beginning of incipit illegible) s regnat. Crist rixað.

   Explicit: ( fol. 72v) Crist casere. Imperator. Casere.

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 303

   Doane 2007

5. Item: fol. 72v

   Title (D.15): Latin-Old English Glossary [Birds and Fish]

   Rubric (initial): (fol. 72v) DE NO | MINA UOLUCRI

   Incipit (Latin): ( fol. 72v ) (beginning of incipit illegible) ipus. ioƿ

   Explicit (Latin): ( fol. 72v ) Sulio styria (ending imperfect)

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 303

   Doane 2007

Administration Information:

Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship.

Bibliography:

Doane, Alger Nicolaus, Sarah Larratt Keefer, and David Rollason, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007), vol. 14: Manuscripts of Durham, Ripon, and York

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 227