The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Cotton Titus A. iv

Rule of Benedict

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Bilingual Rule of St Benedict. Old English follows the Latin chapter by chapter, written by two hands. Origin unknown (Ker 1957, p. 263).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 5-8

   Title (B.10.3.1.1.EM): Benedict, Rule: Prologue: Prologue of 'Regula S. Benedicti' in Latin and Old English

   Incipit: (fol. 5v) Gehyr þy min bearn beboda þines | lareoƿes. ˥ anhyld þinre heorta | eare

   Explicit: (fol. 8v) ˥ gefean mid him agan moten

   Text Language: English and Latins

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 262-63

   Doane 2010

2. Item: fols 8-107

   Title (B.10.3.1): Benedict, Rule: 'Regula S. Benedicti' in Latin and Old English

   Incipit: (fol. 8v) feower synd munuca cynn (This is the incipit of chapter 1 and the explicit of chapter 73)

   Explicit: (fol. 107v) ˥ mid | ƿunung mid gode eallum þam þe | ðysum regule

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 262-63

   Doane 2010

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013).

Bibliography:

Doane, Alger Nicolaus, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Renaissance Studies (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010), vol. 19: Saints’ Lives, Martyrologies, and Bilingual “Rule of St. Benedict” in the British Library

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 200