The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D. xii

Glosses to Hymnal

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Interlinear gloss to the following hymns: Nobis ece dies; Surgentes ad te; Sancte dei; Audi benigne; Summe largitor; Maria Mater (stanzas 1-4); Gabriel dei; and a few lines of Eterne rerem; also part of Sic ter quaternis

There is also a gloss to a prose paraphrase of 95 hymns, and 24 monastic canticles. The manuscript is copied by two hands, the one on fols 92v-100v is very similar to the one in Julius A. vi, and Ker notes: 'written in the same scriptorium' (1957, p. 271).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 11-117

   Title (C.18.3): Gloss to Hymns

   Incipit: (fol. 11v) forgif beorhtne æfen | þæt næfre ne fealle lif ac þonne | stande ece ƿuldor mede | haliges deades (incipit of the first texts)

   Explicit: ( fol. 117v) forgife þes dæg on ðam þe þu | behyltst gehalgod ƿeofod | þe ece gefean | us ˥ he þeo on langum | bryce tide (explicit of the final texts)

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 269-71

   Pulsiano 1996

2. Item: fols 125-55

   Title (C.12.3): Gloss to Monastic Canticles

   Incipit: ( fol. 125v) eala drihten gemiltsa ure þe ƿe | anbidedan soðlice beo þu ure | earnum on ærnemorgen ˥ ure hæl on | tide gedrefednysse

   Explicit: ( fol. 155v) swynugie eall flaesc fram ansine drihten | forthornon thorne he samoduparas of his halgan | wynununge

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 269-71

   Pulsiano 1996

Administration Information:

Described by Owen Roberson 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 208

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