The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 8558-63

OE annotation on blank leaf

Date: s. xii1

Summary:

English annotation written on recto of the blank first leaf of the penitential texts in this manuscript (fol. 140r) in ‘the earlier part of twelfth century’, ‘in a poor sloping hand’ (Ker 1957, p. 9). Ker transcribes the annotation as ‘Gyf mæssepreost his agen lif rihtlice fadie’. Main texts are in Latin and Old English, and were also glossed in Old English in s. x.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 80r

   Title (C.89.1): Gloss to Pentitentials and Rules: Pseudo-Theodore

   Addition: (fol. 80r) nu æfter þes senne deplice her behinneþ | þæt is. Erest ofer modnesse swa hit gewriten is

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

   Bremmer and Dekker 2006

2. Item: fols 132-33

   Title (B.11.4.1.1.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [b]

   Incipit: (fol. 132v) Ðæt sceal geþencean se þe byð monna saula | læce

   Explicit: (fol.133r) Ælce dǽde toscade man wærlice for god 7 for | worolde

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

   Bremmer and Dekker 2006

3. Item: fols 133-37

   Title (B.11.4.1.2.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [c]

   Incipit: (fol. 133r) Ðas þeawas man heladeþ begeondan sǽ

   Explicit: (fol. 137v) Swa swa him man tǽce

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

   Bremmer and Dekker 2006

4. Item: fol. 137

   Title (B.11.4.1.3.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [d]

   Incipit: (fol. 137v) BE SCRIFTUM | ON wisum scrifte swiðe byð forðgelang forsyngodes | mannes nyd help

   Explicit: (fol. 137v) 7 sumum ealle lifdagas

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

   Bremmer and Dekker 2006

5. Item: fols 137-38

   Title (B.11.4.1.4.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [e]

   Title (manuscript): Be synna lacnunge.

   Incipit: (fol. 137v) Se læce þe sceal sare wunda | wel gehælan

   Explicit: (fol. 138v) 7 his sylfes geornful | nesse

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

   Bremmer and Dekker 2006

6. Item: fol. 138v

   Title (B.11.4.1.5.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [f]

   Title (manuscript): Be læwendra manna dædbota

   Incipit: (fol. 138v) Deoplic dædbot byð þæt l æwede man his wæpne | lecge

   Explicit: (fol. 138v) Aginne he hit georne

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

   Bremmer and Dekker 2006

7. Item: fols 138-39

   Title (B.11.4.1.6.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [g]

   Title (manuscript): Be dædbota

   Incipit: (fol. 138v) Dædbota synd gedihte. On mistlice wisan

   Explicit: (fol. 139v) ænige brohte. Gebringe hine[...]

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

   Bremmer and Dekker 2006

8. Item: fol. 140r

   Title (B.13.7.EM): Laws and Institutes, Ecclesiastical: Miscellaneous

   Incipit: (fol. 140r) GYF mæsseprest his agen lif rihtlice fadie ðonne is | riht þæt his wurðscipe wexe

   Explicit: (fol. 140r) Þæt he næfre on | wimmannes bedde forð ne gewite

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

   Bremmer and Dekker 2006

9. Item: fols 140-45

   Title (B.11.3.1.4.EM): Poenitentiale Pseudo-Egberti: Book 4

   Incipit: (fol. 140v) HIT IS ÐEAH TO WITANNE HWI ÐEOS FEOR | ÐE BOC SY UNCAPITULOD. Þæt is forþon ðeos feorðe | boc is genumen of þam þrym bocum

   Explicit: (fol. 145r) Gif he wile mid | soðre godes lufan him sylfum þingian

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

   Bremmer and Dekker 2006

10. Item: fols 145-46

    Title (B.11.2.2): Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti: Additional sections printed by Spindler [section z]

    Incipit: (fol. 145r) ALIA. And on halgum gewritum is geræd

    Explicit: (fol. 146r) nu to dæg þu bist mid | me on mines fæder rice

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

    Bremmer and Dekker 2006

11. Item: fol. 146

    Title (B.11.2.1): Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti: Additional sections printed by Spindler [sections a-y]

    Incipit: (fol. 146r) ALIA | And þæt nis na to forlætenne

    Explicit: (fol. 146r) 7 | mid teara agotennesse

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

    Bremmer and Dekker 2006

12. Item: fols 146rv

    Title (B.11.3.2): Poenitentiale Pseudo-Egberti: Sanctus Gregorius

    Incipit: (fol. 146r) SANCTUS GREGORIUS SE HALGA PAPA GEGADERODE SINOð | on rome

    Explicit: (fol. 146v) forgifnesse geearnian mid soðum | geleafan untweogendum

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

    Bremmer and Dekker 2006

13. Item: fol. 146

    Title (B.11.2.1.1.EM): Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti: Additional sections printed by Spindler [sections a-y] Part 2

    Incipit: (fol. 146r) ALIA. | Ne sceal se bisceop him sylf næ[.]nie abbod geceosan

    Explicit: (fol. 146r) Swa hwylc man swa ðas scriftboc tilige to abrecanne | ecre fordemednysse he sy fordemed. AMEN

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

    Bremmer and Dekker 2006

14. Item: fols 146v-53v

    Title (B.11.5): Poenitentiale Theodori and Capitula d'Acheriana

    Incipit: (fol. 146v) ALIA | Ne sceal se bisceop him sylf

    Explicit: (fol. 153v) Ker does not supply the explicit

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

15. Item: fol. 153v

    Title (B.20.10): Computus: On the Four Ember-fasts

    Incipit: (fol. 153v) Ðis synt þa riht ymbrendagas

    Explicit: (fol. 153v) On þa nyhstan | wucan CRISTES MÆSSAN

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1957, pp. 8-10

    Bremmer and Dekker 2006

Administration Information:

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

Bibliography:

Bremmer, Jr., Rolf H., and Kees Dekker, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006), vol. 13: Manuscripts in the Low Countries

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 10