The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Harley 3013

Glosses in OE and Latin to Aldhelm, prose De laude virginitatis

Date: s. xii2

Summary:

Six OE glosses of the same date as the main text and its Latin glosses. Ker transcribes the inscription on fol. 1v of s. xii/xiii 'Liber sancta marie noui monasterii', and notes ‘i.e. the Cistercian abbey of Newminster, near Morpeth in Northumberland’ (1957, p. 309).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 13v

   Title (C.31.6.1): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

   Addition: (fol. 13v) lind (glossing Latin 'tiliaę')

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Pulsiano 1996

2. Item: fol. 14r

   Title (C.31.6.2): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

   Addition: (fol. 14r) uirge . oser (glossing Latin 'uiminis')

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Pulsiano 1996

3. Item: fol. 30r

   Title (C.31.6.3): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

   Addition: (fol. 30r) scale (glossing Latin 'glumula')

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Pulsiano 1996

4. Item: fol. 33r

   Title (C.31.6.4): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

   Addition: (fol. 33r) ˥ tūdar (glossing Latin 'naptarum')

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Pulsiano 1996

5. Item: fol. 43r

   Title (C.31.6.5): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

   Addition: (fol. 43v) felg (glossing Latin 'occa')

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Pulsiano 1996

6. Item: fol. 65v

   Title (C.31.6.6): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

   Addition: (fol. 65v) tanas (glossing Latin 'antes')

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Pulsiano 1996

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2012).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 238

Pulsiano, Phillip, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Binghamton, NY: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1996), vol. 4: Glossed Texts, Aldhelmiana, Psalms