The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Stowe 57

Names of letters of the alphabet; glosses in English, French and Latin

Date: s. xii2

Summary:

The principal text in the manuscript is a Latin world history in verse and prose, written in s.xii2. At the same date, names of letters are written in English on fol. 3v, and glosses in English and French are added to a Latin list of names of animals, etc., on fols 156, 158, 159v and 160. Ker suggests that the manuscript might come from Peterborough (1957, p. 337).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 3v

   Title (B.24.6): Names of Letters

   Addition: (fol. 3v) A a B be uel bei C ce uel cei D de uel dei E e F f G ge uel gei H hah uel hake I i K ka L l el M m em N n en O o Q quu R r er S s es T te V u X x ix Y y fix Z zede & & (second & smaller) ÷ ÷ (second ÷ smaller) Wtitel. Anglicę litterę Ƿ ƿen Ð ðet Þ þorn

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 337

2. Item: fol. 3v

   Title (B.25.3): Runic Alphabets

   Title (manuscript): littere normorum quę dicuntur runstafas

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 337

3. Item: fols 156r-60r

   Title (D.62.EM): List of Old English and French glosses with Latin lemmata

   Text Language: English, French and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 337

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne Van Der Schee, with reference to published scholarship.

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 272