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The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Royal 12. G. xii, fols 2-9

London, British Library, Royal 12. G. xii, fols 2-9

The Production and Use of English Manuscripts: 1060 to 1220

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Ælfric's Grammar (Fragment)

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

20 leaves of Ælfric's Grammar on fols 2-9 and Oxford, All Souls College, 38 fols 1-12.

Written by two hands: ASC fols 1-12 and Royal fols 7 and 8; and Royal fols 2-7, 9. Latin and Old English are carefully distinguished (Ker 1957, p. 334). Origin unknown.

Manuscript Items:
  1. Item: fols 2-3

      Title (B.1.9.1.2.EM): Ælfric's Grammar [partial]: De verbo passiuo

      Incipit: (fol. 2r) AUDIOR ic eam gehyred

      Explicit: (fol. 3v) hi synd . pre | teritoending imperfect

      Text Language: English and Latin

      Bibliography:

  2. Item: fols 4-5

      Title (B.1.9.1.3.EM): Ælfric's Grammar [partial]: Partial

      Incipit: ( fol. 4r) beginning imperfect gange . pasiuum . subeor . ineo . | ic onginne . and ineor

      Explicit: (fol. 5v) þas forbeodendlice . sumeending imperfect

      Text Language: English and Latin

      Bibliography:

  3. Item: fol. 6

      Title (B.1.9.1.4.EM): Ælfric's Grammar [partial]: Partial

      Incipit: (fol. 6r ) beginning imperfectsensus . andgyt . sensim | stundmælum

      Explicit: ( fol. 6v) illegible on microfiche, based on Zupitza supending imperfecterlati | ua geendiaþ on .e. ocis | simeending imperfect

      Text Language: English and Latin

      Bibliography:

  4. Item: fols 7-8

      Title (B.1.9.1.5.EM): Ælfric's Grammar [partial]: Partial

      Incipit: (fol. 7r) þonne macað he hic auctor þesbeginning imperfect

      Explicit: ( fol. 8v) illegible on microfiche, based on Zupitzainpos . unmihtigending imperfect

      Text Language: English and Latin

      Bibliography:

  5. Item: fol. 9r

      Title (B.1.9.1.6.EM): Ælfric's Grammar [partial]: Left-hand column on a fragment of a folio containing part of Ælfric's Grammar

      Incipit: ( fol. 9r ) beginning imperfectgeefenlæht ; Participium | hæfð þreo tida. presens | andƿerd. legens. ræden | beginning of line illegible | faciens. ƿyrcendeending imperfect

      Text Language: English and Latin

      Bibliography:

  6. Item: fol. 9r

      Title (B.1.9.1.7.EM): Ælfric's Grammar [partial]: Right-hand column on a fragment of a folio containing part of Ælfric's Grammar

      Incipit: ( fol. 9r) sƿa sƿa of dædlicum ƿordum. | sto. ic stande is neutrum ˥ | of þam participium. stans | standende and staturusending imperfect

      Text Language: English and Latin

      Bibliography:

Administration Information: 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 265

Zupitza, Julius, ed., Ælfrics Grammatik und Glossar: Text und Varianten, 2nd edn (1880; Berlin: Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung Max Niehans Verlag, 1966)