The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Royal 4. A. xiv

Charm

Date: s. xiimed

Summary:

A wen charm written in a space on the verso of the final leaf. Main text of the manuscript is a Latin commentary on the Psalms of s. xmed. Ker notes that the manuscript was originally from the same scriptorium perhaps in Winchester as Royal 2 B. v, and that it was ‘later at Worcester, perhaps already in s. xii, to judge from the script of the title in red rustic capitals on fol. 1’ (1957, p. 320).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 106v

   Title (A.43.12): Metrical Charm: Against a Wen

   Incipit: (fol. 106v) Ƿenne Ƿenne Ƿenchichenne he ne scealt þu timbrien

   Explicit: (fol. 106v) sƿa litel | þu geƿurþe alsƿa linsetcorn ˥ miccli lesse alsƿa anes hand | ƿurmes hupeban ˥ alsƿa licel þu geƿurþe þæt þu naƿiht | geƿurþe

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Pulsiano 1996

   Ker 1957, p. 320

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 250

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