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The Production and Use of English Manuscripts: 1060 to 1220

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Directions for a confessor; Law; Glosses

Date: s. xi2

Summary:

A collection of texts relating to canon law. The Old English items comprise:

From the script Ker 1957 suggests that the manuscript was copied in Worcester. A s. xi2 hand writes 'domno presule uulstano presente'. Ker 1957 notes: ' the reference must be to Bishop Wulfstan II (1062-95)'.

Manuscript Items:
  1. Item: pp. 72-73

      Title (B.11.4.3.1.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [Ordo Confessionis. Latin and Anglo-Saxon]

      Incipit: (p. 72) Ðæt sceal geþencan se þe bið manna saƿle læce

      Explicit: (p. 73) Ælc dæde to sceade man ƿærlice for godeondfor ƿorulde

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  2. Item: pp. 73-79

      Title (B.11.4.3.2.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor

      Incipit: (p. 73) Ðas þeaƿas man hældeð begeondan sæ.

      Explicit: (p. 79) oððehuru on earde be þam deoppestan bete þe he æfre acuman mæge sƿa sƿa him man tæce.

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  3. Item: p. 79

      Title (B.11.4.3.3.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor

      Incipit: (p. 79) On ƿisum scrifte bið sƿiðe forðgelang

      Explicit: (p. 79) ondsumum ealle lif dagas

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  4. Item: p. 80

      Title (B.11.4.3.4.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor

      Incipit: (p. 80) Se læca þe sceal sare ƿunda ƿel gehælab

      Explicit: (p. 80) ondhis sylfes geornfulnesse

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  5. Item: pp. 80-81

      Title (B.11.4.3.5.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor

      Incipit: (p. 80) Deoplic dædbot biðþætlæƿde man

      Explicit: (p. 81) þæt he ƿið god gebetanne mæge aginne he hit georne

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  6. Item: pp. 81-82

      Title (B.11.4.3.6.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor

      Incipit: (p. 81) Dædbota syndgedihteon mistlice ƿisan

      Explicit: (p. 82) þænne bioð his synna sona þe leohtran

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  7. Item: pp. 82-83

      Title (B.11.4.3.7.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor

      Incipit: (p. 82) Ænne dom mid scrifte geþeahte

      Explicit: (p. 83) þæthe tihte to eacan himsylfumælcne man to rihte sƿa he geornost mæge

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  8. Item: p. 83

      Title (B.11.4.8.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor

      Incipit: (p. 83) Her cyðon hu seoc man mot his fæstan alysan.

      Explicit: (p. 83) ondæfre georne gesƿican

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  9. Item: pp. 222-27

      Title (B.14.18): IV Eadgar: Prol. Anglo-Saxon

      Rubric (initial): (p. 222) Ualete feliciter in cristo

      Incipit: (p. 222) Her is gesƿutelod onþisumgeƿrite hu eadgar cyncg ƿæs smeagende

      Explicit: (p. 227) ondeoƿeallumsƿyðe bliðe eom forði þe ge sƿa georne ymbe frið syndon

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  10. Item: p. 30

      Title: Excerptiones ue libris canonicis

      Addition: (p. 30) þeh he beo sƿiðesgebeden

      Note: OE gloss to the words 'maxime cum petatur'

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  11. Item: p. 39
  12. Item: p. 41

      Title (C.62.1.EM): Gloss to Ecgberht, Poenitentiale

      Addition: (p. 41) Be mæislæhte ond broðerslælte

      Note: OE gloss to the words 'De paricidiis et fratricidiis. Gloss written in rustic capitals, possibly by Coleman. For information on the hand, see Ker 1949, p. 29.

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  13. Item: p. 54

      Title (C.89.3.1.EM): Gloss to Theodore, Egbert, Theodulf of Orleans

      Addition: (p. 54) Tƿihæmed. þætis se þe tuƿa ƿifað; þryhæmed se þe þriƿa ƿifað

      Note: OE gloss to the words 'Bigamus' and 'Trigamus'

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  14. Item: p. 60

      Title (C.89.3.2.EM): Gloss to Theodore, Egbert, Theodulf of Orleans: Part of the tenth canon of the first Synod of Arles

      Addition: (p. 60) ortryƿða

      Note: OE gloss to the word 'desperatio'

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  15. Item: p. 61

      Title (C.89.3.3.EM): Gloss to Theodore, Egbert, Theodulf of Orleans: Quotations from the Shepherd of Hermas

      Addition: (p. 61) se ceorl

      Note: OE gloss to the word 'maritus'

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  16. Item: p. 63

      Title: Item sermo de coniugio

      Addition: (p. 63) untymende; unfægr; stincende; ƿac; ƿeamod; unƿis; gifre; teonful; yfelƿyrde

      Note: OE glosses to the words: 'sterilis', 'deformis', 'fetida', 'temulenta', 'iracunda', 'fatua', 'gulosa', 'iurgatrix', 'maledicta'

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  17. Item: p. 112

      Title: Exempla Saxonica accastigationis hominum

      Addition: (p. 112) fæder; ealda fæder; þridda fæder; Feorða fæder; Fifta fæder; Sixta fæder

      Note: OE glosses to the words: 'Pater', 'Auus', 'Proauus', 'Abauus', 'Attauus', Tritauus'. These are marginalia unrelated to the text.

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  18. Item: p. 122

      Title (C.89.3.4.EM): Gloss to Theodore, Egbert, Theodulf of Orleans

      Addition: (p. 122) sylting ƚ werednys ƚ lucrum

      Note: OE gloss to the word: 'condimentum'.

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  19. Item: p. 136

      Title (C.89.3.5.EM): Gloss to Theodore, Egbert, Theodulf of Orleans

      Addition: (p. 136) profectionibus þeonde; circumdatus of þryht

      Note: OE glosses to the words: 'exhibitionibus' and 'obsitus'.

      Bibliography:

Administration Information: Bibliography:

Haddan, Arthur West, and William Stubbs, Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, 3 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1869)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 53

---, 'Old English Notes Signed "Coleman"', Medium Ævum, 18 (1949), 27-30

Liebermann, F., ed., Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, 3 vols (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1903), vol. I: Text und Übersetzung

Napier, Arthur S., ed., The Old English Version of the Enlarged Rule of Chrodegang together with the Latin Original; and An Old English Version of the Capitula of Theodulf together with the Latin Original; An Interlinear Old English Rendering of the Epitome of Benedict of Aniane, EETS, 150 (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1916)

Thorpe, B., ed., Ancient Laws and Institutes of England (London: George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1840)