The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius E. xviii

Gloss to Psalter

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Interlinear gloss to a psalter and canticles of the Gallican version. It also contains some computistical information and notes, such as a list of unlucky days for bloodletting. Written by one hand, but Ker (1957, p. 301) suggests it is not the same of the main text. The computistical material is by the same hand as the glosses. Written in Winchester.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 9r

   Title (B.20.1.5.1.EM): Computus: Rules for Finding Moveable Feasts: Rules for finding Septuagesima

   Incipit: (fol. 9r) Gif þu ƿitan mid gesceade þæt gemære termen septuagessimalis

   Explicit: (fol. 9r) and man ne singð leng þæt godes lof alleluian ær þære eastertide.

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

   Pulsiano 1994

2. Item: fol. 9r

   Title (B.20.6): Computus: Rules for Finding the Age of the Moon

   Incipit: (fol. 9r) Gif þu ƿille ƿitan hu eald se mona beo nu todæg on tƿelf monþum

   Explicit: (fol. 9r) Þus þu miht asmeagean þeah þu ƿille | to hundteontigum ƿintrum fare bisextus sƿa he fare. oððe ænig oþer getæl

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

   Pulsiano 1994

3. Item: fol. 9r

   Title (B.23.2.5.1): Tables of Lucky and Unlucky Days

   Rubric (initial): (fol. 9r) De diebus malis cuiusque mensis

   Incipit: (fol. 9r) Tƿeigen dagas syndon on æghƿilcum onginneð.

   Explicit: (fol. 9r) Butan ælcan tƿeon sƿa hit bið geƿislice. gyme seþe ƿille.

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

   Pulsiano 1994

4. Item: fol. 13r

   Title (B.20.2.6): Computus: On Epacts: Old English note on concurrents and epacts

   Incipit: (fol. 13r) Gif þu nite hƿilc concurrent beo on geare. Sec georne hƿilce dæg

   Explicit: (fol. 13r) And sƿa fela nihta | sƿa se mona bið on .xi. kalendas aprilis. and sƿa fela epacta þu scealt | haban þi geare

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

   Pulsiano 1994

5. Item: fol. 13r

   Title (B.20.1.5.2.EM): Computus: Rules for Finding Moveable Feasts: Rules for finding Septuagesima, Lent and Easter (fol. fol. 13r) Gif þu nite hƿilc concurrent beo on geare . Sec georne hƿilce dæg ii kalendas | aprilis (fol. 13r) And sƿa fela epacta þu scealt hab | ban þi geare

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

   Pulsiano 1994

6. Item: fol. 13r

   Title (B.23.4): Prohibition against Blood-letting

   Incipit: (fol. fol. 13r) Eahtatine nihtum ær hlafmæssan gangeð se styrra up

   Explicit: (fol. 13r) nihta ofer text at the bottom of the page illegible or lost probably 'and eallum cristenmannum on þa tid is blodlætincg forboden, eahtatina nihtum ær hlafmæssan and fif and þrittig nihta ofer hlafmæssan' (DOE corpus)

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

   Pulsiano 1994

7. Item: fol. 15r

   Title (B.23.2.5.2): Tables of Lucky and Unlucky Days

   Incipit: (fol. 15r) Þry dagas syndon on tƿelf monðum

   Explicit: (fol. 15r) he sceal sƿyltan ær feoƿertugum dagpresumably ends in 'dagum' but folio is damaged

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

   Pulsiano 1994

8. Item: fols 15rv

   Title (B.23.2.5.3): Tables of Lucky and Unlucky Days

   Incipit: (fol. 15r) þa ealdan læcas gesettan on ledenbocum'þa eal' illegible on microfiche because of fire damage, based on Pulsiano 1994

   Explicit: (fol. 15v) þone halganmost of the explicit is illegible on microfiche but presumably 'Nan ƿilung, ac ƿise menn hit afundon þurh þone halgan ƿisdom sƿa sƿa him dihte god' (DOE corpus)

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

   Pulsiano 1994

9. Item: fol. 15v

   Title (B.23.1.12.1.EM): Prose Charm: Means of protecting bees against theft

   Incipit: (fol. 15v) beginning imperfect e mæder cið on þinre hyfe

   Explicit: (fol. 15v) ne mæg forstelan þa hƿile þe se | cið on þære hyfe bið

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

   Pulsiano 1994

10. Item: fol. 15v

    Title (B.23.1.12.2.EM): Prose Charm: Directions for writing St. Columbkill's circle, with diagram

    Rubric (initial): (fol. 15v) Þis is sancte columcille circul

    Incipit: (fol. 15v) Ƿrit þysne circul mid þines cnifes orde on anum mealan stane ('stane' illegible, based on Pulsiano 1994)

    Explicit: (fol. 15v) ˥ lege þone stan on uppan þam stacan, þæt he beo eall under eorðan. butan þam geƿritenan'þone stan' and 'þam geƿritene' illegible on microfiche, based on Pulsiano 1994

    Text Language: English

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

    Pulsiano 1994

11. Item: fol. 15v

    Title (B.23.1.12.3.EM): Prose Charm: Directions for writing a charm to discover theft, with diagram

    Incipit: (fol. 15v) þonne þe ma hƿæt forstele | aƿrit þis

    Explicit: (fol. 15v) þonne acsaxt þu sone

    Text Language: English

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

    Pulsiano 1994

12. Item: fol. 15v

    Title (B.21.5.9.1.EM): Recipes: Wið eah wærce: A medicine for cattle with lung disease

    Incipit: (fol. 15v) beginning imperfect, presumably 'Gif' was losthryþeru beon on lungen coðon

    Explicit: (fol. 15v) ˥ sing þas þry sealmas þær ofer, Miserere nostri ˥ Exurgat dominus & Quicumque uult misere lost

    Text Language: English and Latin

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

    Pulsiano 1994

13. Item: fol. 15v

    Title (B.21.5.9.2.EM): Recipes: Wið eah wærce

    Incipit: (fol. 15v ) illegible on microfiche, based on Cockayne 1864-1866 Gif | sceap si on ylon

    Explicit: ( fol. 15v) þæt heom cymð to bote

    Text Language: English

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

    Pulsiano 1994

14. Item: fol. 15v

    Title (B.23.1.12.4.EM): Prose Charm: A charm protecting cattle

    Rubric (initial): (fol. 15v) þis is þinan yrfe to bote

    Incipit: (fol. 15v ) beginning of incipit lost ymb þin yrfe ælce æfen him to helpe

    Explicit: ( fol. 15v ) beginning of explicit lostymb þin yrfe ælce æfen him to helpe. AGIOS . AGIOS . AGIOS

    Text Language: English and Latin

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

    Pulsiano 1994

15. Item: fol. 15v

    Title (B.23.1.12.5.EM): Prose Charm: A charm for crops

    Incipit: (fol. 15v) beginning of incipit lost lange sticcan feðerecgede . ˥ ƿrit on ægðerne sticcan

    Explicit: (fol. 15v ) explicit lost

    Text Language: English and Latin

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

    Pulsiano 1994

16. Item: fol. 16r

    Title (C.37): Three lines pertaining to 'Spera Apulei', partly glossed in Old English

    Addition: (fol. 16r) to sunnandæge monandæge to tiƿersdæge to ƿodnesdæge to þunresdæge to frigedæge end of the incipit lost

    Text Language: English

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

    Pulsiano 1994

17. Item: fol. 16v

    Title (B.26.1.1): Cryptograms: Riddle

    Incipit: (fol. 16v) nys þnks frfgfn syllkc þknc to rædnfnnf | Þu þe færst on þone ƿegillegible on microfiche, based on Förster 1905

    Explicit: (fol. 16v) ˥ mine bearn syndon geƿorden mines fæder modor

    Text Language: English

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

    Pulsiano 1994

    Förster 1905

18. Item: fol. 16v

    Title (B.26.1.2): Cryptograms: Explanations of secret writing

    Incipit: (fol. 16v) Ðis is quinque uocales.

    Explicit: (fol. 16v ) Hit is lytel cræft ac þeah man mæg dƿelian manega men | mid. ægðer geƿare . geunƿare:

    Text Language: English and Latin

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

    Pulsiano 1994

19. Item: fols 18-131

    Title (C.7.8): Gallican version of the psalms with interlinear gloss in Old English

    Incipit: (fol. 18r) adig | ƿer se ðe | ne ge | ƿat | on geþeahte arleas ˥ on ƿege synfulra | ne gestod ˥ on heahsetle ƿolberendra | ne siteð

    Explicit: ( fol. 131r) explicit illegible

    Text Language: English

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

    Pulsiano 1994

20. Item: fols 131-40

    Title (C.11.7): Gloss to Canticles of the Psalter

    Incipit: (fol. 131v ) Latin begins Confitebor tibi domine ic andette se drihten

    Explicit: (fol. 140v ) Latin ends Haec est fides catholica quam nisi end of line illegible | fideliter firmiterque credid end of final line illegible Þis is geleafa cyriclicra þone nimðe hƿilc | getreorlice ˥ trumlice gely rest of explicit illegible

    Text Language: English

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 298-301

    Pulsiano 1994

Administration Information:

Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship.

Bibliography:

Förster, Max, 'Ein altengisches Prosa-Rätsel', Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 116 (1905), 367-71

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 224

Pulsiano, Phillip, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Binghamton, NY: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1994), vol. 2: Psalters I