The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Cotton Otho C. i vol. 1 + Otho B. x, fol. 51

Gospels, Bull of Pope Sergius

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

A copy of a translation of the Gospels in Old English, copied in one hand s. xi1. Two other hands, s. ximed, wrote on fols 68 and 69 an OE translation of a bull of Pope Sergius in favour of Malmesbury. The bull points to a Malmesbury provenance (Ker 1957, p. 235).

The manuscript was damaged in the fire of 1731, and a leaf was bound in Otho B. x. The original order of leaves is: fols 1-7, Otho B. x, fol. 51, reversed, 8-79, 81, 80, 82-110.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 14r-68r

   Title: Gospels of Mark (beginning 7:22) and Luke

   Incipit: (fol. 14r) HER ONGINÞ | Lucas Boc Ðæs Halgan God | spellere for þam ðe ƿitodlice manega | þohton þara þinga race geendbyrdan

   Text Language: English

   Date: s. xi1

   Note: Luke ends in fol. 68r/4, the rest of the leaf and the first leaf of the next quire (fol. 69) were originally blank.

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 181

   Liuzza and Doane 1995

2. Item: fols 68r/5-69v

   Title (B.16.15): Malmesbury, Bull of Pope Sergius

   Incipit: (fol. 68r/5) + Sergius papa godes þeoƿa þeoƿ

   Text Language: English

   Date: s. ximed

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 181

   Liuzza and Doane 1995

3. Item: fols 70r-110v

   Title: Gospel of John

   Incipit: (fol. 70r) ON ANGINNE ǷÆS | ƿord

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 181

   Liuzza and Doane 1995

4. Item: fol. 110r

   Title: Colophon written immediately after the end of John

   Addition: Ƿulfi me ƿrat

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 181

   Liuzza and Doane 1995

Administration Information:

Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship; ed. by Takako Kato (2010; 2013).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 181

Liuzza, R. M., and A. N. Doane, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Binghamton, NY: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1995), vol. 3: Anglo-Saxon Gospels