The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Takako Kato

London, British Library, Cotton Titus D. xxiv

Formulas for the visitation of the sick

Date: s. xii2

Summary:

Two English passages added to the last leaf of a collection of s. xii2 Latin verses. The first passage is preceded by the text in Latin; the second by the text in Latin and in French. Different languages are written in different colours. Ker notes that the manuscript is from the Cistercian abbey of Rufford, Notts (1957, p. 264).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 156r

   Title (B.12.2.1.EM): Forms for use at the Visitation of the Sick [first part]

   Incipit: (fol. 156r) here leue broþor cristes fles and his blod þat ƿe þe to bringen troƿes tu þat it is þat ilche þing in þat is ure lif and ure hele and ure resinge of dead to liue

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 264

2. Item: fol. 156v

   Title (B.12.2.2.EM): Forms for use at the Visitation of the Sick [second part]

   Incipit: (fol. 156v) Ic haue singed on ƿord on thoct. on dede. mei culpe. tudens pectus suum

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 264

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Takako Kato with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 201