The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Takako Kato

London, British Library, Royal 5. E. xi

Glosses to Aldhelm's prose treatise

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Numerous glosses are added to Aldhelm's De laude virginitatis, written in s. x/xi. Some by contemporary or near contemporary hands, some in s. xiin, and some in ximed.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 1-120

   Title (C.31.7): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Date: Eighty-two out of ca. 700 Old English interlinear and marginal glosses are from s. ximed.

   Hand: In 'rougher script' than earlier hands (Ker 1957).

   Bibliography:

   Pulsiano 1996

   Ker 1957, p. 321, i(c)

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Takako Kato with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2012).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 252

Meritt, Herbert Dean, Old English Glosses, The Modern Language Association of America, General Series, xvi (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1945)

Napier, A. S., Old English Glosses, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, xi (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900)

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