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The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

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The Production and Use of English Manuscripts: 1060 to 1220

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Laws

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

A collection of laws on fols 3-57, written in two hands, s. ximed (Ker 1957, p. 211). Origin unknown.

Manuscript Items:
  1. Item: fols 3r-41r

      Title (B.14.30): I, II Cnut

      Incipit: (fol. 3r) Đis is seo ge rædnys Þe cnut cininge ealles engla landes cininge . onddena cining . mid his ƿitena ge Þeahte ge rædde.

      Explicit: (fol. 41r) God ælmihtig us eallum ge miltsige swa his milda willa sig. ondge healde us æfre on etnesse - si hit swa .AMEN:~

      Text Language: English

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  2. Item: fols 42r-44v

      Title (B.14.16): II Eadgar

      Title (B.14.17): III Eadgar

      Incipit: (fol. 42r) Đis is seo gerædnys Þe eadgar cyng mid his ƿitenage ðeahte gerædde gode to lofe. ondhim sylfum to cynescipe . ondeallum his leodscipe to Þearfe.

      Explicit: (fol. 44v) ondga seo ƿæg ƿulle to ealsan ƿunde . ondhie nan man na droror ne sylle.

      Text Language: English

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  3. Item: fols 45r-48r

      Title (B.14.4): Alfred-Ine

      Incipit: (fol. 45r) Be Þon Þæt man nescyle oðrum deman butan sƿa he ƿille Þæt man him deme.

      Explicit: (fol. 48r) Be dan gif man oðres godsunu slea oððe his god fæder

      Text Language: English

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  4. Item: fol. 48r

      Title (B.14.53): Romscot

      Incipit: (fol. 48r) Romgescot sy agifen on sanctes petrus mæsse dæg ærundern æftermidde sumera. gif hit hƿa forgunne gylde.lx scilling. ondbetƿelf fealdan agife Þene rompeninncg.

      Text Language: English

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  5. Item: fols 48r-50v

      Title (B.14.54): Judex

      Incipit: (fol. 48r) Ælcman þeriht demeð hehæfð ƿæga onhanda ondon ægðere sceale hebyrþ riht ƿisnesse. 7mild heort nesƿe

      Explicit: (fol. 50v) ondþa ðe him god ondrædende rihtdemeð. hi onfoð æt gode ece endlean.

      Text Language: English

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  6. Item: fols 51r-57v

      Title (B.14.4.1.EM): Alfred-Ine: Part 2

      Incipit: (fol. 51r) rihten ƿæs sprecende ðas ƿord tomoyse ondþus cƿæþ Ic eom drihten þin godic þe ut gelædde of egypta lande ondof hyra þeoƿdome

      Explicit: (fol. 57v) þis ðonne ðæt geforberan ðæt ge deofol gyld neƿeordian neblod nediegan neasmorod ondframdyrnum geligerum ondþætgeƿillen þæt don nedoþ ge ðæt oð

      Text Language: English

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  7. Item: fols 70r-76v

      Title (B.13.2.2.1.EM): 'Institutes of Polity': art. 1

      Incipit: (fol. 70r) Cristenum cyninge gebyreð

      Text Language: English

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  8. Item: fols 76v-83v

      Title (B.2.2.8): Wulfstan, The Christian Faith: The Christian Life

      Incipit: (fol. 70r) Leofan men eallum cristenum mannum is micel þearf þæt hy heora cristendomes gescad ƿitan

      Text Language: English

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  9. Item: fols 86v-87v

      Title (B.2.4.1): Wulfstan, Evil Days: God's Threat to Sinning Israel

      Incipit: (fol. 70r) Leofan men ƿutan spyrian be bocan

      Text Language: English

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  10. Item: fols 86v-87v

      Title (B.14.8): I Æthelstan

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 86v) ÆĐELSTANES GERÆDNES

      Incipit: (fol. 86v) Ic æþelstan cyng mid geþelice ƿulfelmes arcebiscop ondeac minra oþerra biscopa . cy þe þam gerefan togehƿylcere byrig .

      Explicit: (fol. 87v) beorgað ægþer ge eoƿ. geðam þege mynglan seylan. ƿið godes yrre . ondƿið mine ofer yrnes se

      Text Language: English

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  11. Item: fol. 87v

      Title (B.14.13): I Eadmund

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 87v) Eadmundes gerædnes

      Incipit: (fol. 87v) Eadmund cyning. gesomnode micelne sinoð

      Text Language: English

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  12. Item: fols 87r-89r

      Title (B.14.17.2.EM): III Eadgar : second copy

      Incipit: (fol. 88r) twelftig scill to bote

      Text Language: English

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  13. Item: fols 89r-92v

      Title (B.14.23.2.EM): V Æthelred : second copy

      Incipit: (fol. 89r) Đis is seo gerædnes þe engla cyng

      Text Language: English

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  14. Item: fols 92v-95v

      Title (B.14.51): Grið

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 92v) Be griðe. ondbe munde.

      Incipit: (fol. 92v) Godes grið is ealra griða selast

      Text Language: English

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  15. Item: fols 95v-96v

      Title (B.14.26): VIII Æthelred

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 96v) Be cyricgriðe

      Incipit: (fol. 95v) In nomine domini. Đis is an ðæra gerædnessa

      Text Language: English

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  16. Item: fol. 96v

      Title (B.14.52): Norðhymbra cyricgrið

      Incipit: (fol. 96v) ond norðhymbra lage

      Text Language: English

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  17. Item: fols 97r-97v

      Title (B.13.2.2.2.EM): 'Institutes of Polity' : art. 11

      Title (manuscript): Item de episcopis

      Incipit: (fol. 97r) Biscopum gebyriað ealdlice wisan

      Text Language: English

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  18. Item: fols 97v-98v

      Title (B.13.2.2.3.EM): 'Institutes of Polity': Ecclesiastical item (Duties of Bishops), as Polity 6

      Incipit: (fol. 97v) Biscopas scylan bocum ond gebedum

      Explicit: (fol. 98v) Amen

      Text Language: English

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  19. Item: fols 98r-100r

      Title (B.13.2.2.4.EM): 'Insititutes of Polity': art. 13

      Incipit: (fol. 99r) Deus in atiutorium meum. Ter. et tunc Gloria patri. kyrie. pater noster. Et ne nos. Adiuua nos deus. Adiutorium nostrum. Benedictio et reliqua. Biscopum gebyreð on sinoðe

      Text Language: Latin

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  20. Item: fols 100v-02r

      Title (B.13.4): Duties of Bishops

      Incipit: (fol. 100v) Biscpas scoldan symle godes riht bodian

      Text Language: English

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  21. Item: fols 102r-03v

      Title (B.13.2.2.5.EM): 'Institutes of Polity': Be sacerdan, as Polity 19

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 102r) Be sacerdan

      Incipit: (fol. 102r) Sacerd sceal on his scrift scire

      Text Language: English

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  22. Item: fol. 103v

      Title (B.13.2.2.6.EM): 'Institutes of Polity': Be abbodum, as Polity 13

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 103v) Be abbodum

      Incipit: (fol. 103v) Riht is þæt abbodas

      Text Language: English

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  23. Item: fols 103v-04v

      Title (B.13.2.2.7.EM): 'Institutes of Polity': Be Munecum, as Polity 14

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 103v) Be munecum

      Incipit: (fol. 103v) Riht is þæt munecas

      Text Language: English

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  24. Item: fols 105r-05v

      Title (B.13.2.2.8.EM): 'Institutes of Polity': Be Gerefan, as Polity 12

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 105r) Be gerefan

      Incipit: (fol. 105r) Riht is þæt gerefan geornlice tilian

      Text Language: English

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  25. Item: fols 109r-09v

      Title (B.13.2.2.9.EM): 'Institutes of Polity': Be Þeodwitan, as Polity 5

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 109r) Be þeodƿitan

      Incipit: (fol. 109r) Cyningan ond biscpan. eorlan ond heretogan

      Text Language: English

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  26. Item: fols 110r-15v

      Title (B.2.4.2_c): Wulfstan, Evil Days: Sermo ad Anglos

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 110r) Sermo lupi. ad anglos quando dani. maxime. persecuti sunt eos quod fuit.anno millesimo. XIIII. ab incarnatione domini nostri iesu cristi

      Incipit: (fol. 110r) Leofan men gecnaƿað þæt soð is

      Text Language: English

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  27. Item: fols 115v-16r

      Title (B.2.4.3): Wulfstan, Evil Days: Evil Rulers

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 115v) Her is gyt rihtlic warnung. ond Soðlic myngung þeode to þearfe. Gyme se þe ƿille

      Incipit: (fol. 115v) Leofan men. utan unterstandan eal sƿa us þearf is. þæt ƿe heonan forð

      Text Language: English

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  28. Item: fols 116v-19v

      Title (B.14.23): V Æthelred

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 116v) Be angolwitena gerædnesse

      Incipit: (fol. 116v) Đis is seo gerædnes þe engla cyng

      Text Language: English

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  29. Item: fol. 120r

      Title (B.13.2.2.10.EM): 'Institutes of Polity': Be hefonlicum cyninge, as Polity 1

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 120r) Be hefonlicum cyninge

      Incipit: (fol. 120r) An is ece god

      Text Language: English

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  30. Item: fol. 120r

      Title (B.13.2.2.11.EM): 'Institutes of Polity': Duties of Bishops. Be eorðlicum cyninge, as Polity 2

      Rubric (initial): (fol. 120r) Be eorðlicum cyninge

      Incipit: (fol. 120r) Cristenum cyninge gebyreð swƿðe rihte þæt he cristenfolc

      Text Language: English

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Administration Information: Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), items 163-64