The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Takako Kato

London, British Library, Royal 6. B. vii

Glosses in OE and Latin to Aldhelm, prose De laude virginitatis

Date: s. xi2

Summary:

The main text is in English Caroline minuscule, s. xi2; Old English and Latin glosses are in the same hand as the main text. Ker reports that Old English s is regularly long. A list of relics given to Exeter by King Æthelstan at the end (fols 54-55) was possibly written by Drage's Scribe 10 (1978, p. 164), and is similar to the lists in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. D. 2. 16 and Bodley 579 .

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 4-53

   Title (C.31.10): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis [prose] and Epistola ad Ehfridum

   Incipit: (fol. 4) mid ƿraxliendumglossing Latin palestricis

   Explicit: (fol. 53) .i. ategarasglossing Latin ansatas

   Note: 502 glosses

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 322-23

   Napier 1900, item 2

Administration Information:

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

Bibliography:

Drage, E., 'Bishop Leofric and the Exeter Cathedral Chapter, 1050-1072: A Reassessment of the Manuscript Evidence' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Oxford, 1978)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 255

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