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The Production and Use of English Manuscripts: 1060 to 1220

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Notes on computus and headings in a missal

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

A fragment of Solomon and Saturn , pp. 1-6, 13-26, Part A. Part B, pp. 27-504, Notes computus for Lent, Easter etc. as well as headings in a missal. The two parts are copied by two hands. Unknown origins, but the 'calendar of part B (pp. 29-40) is of Sherborne use' (Ker 1957, p. 121).

Manuscript Items:
  1. Item: pp. 1-26

      Title (A.13): Solomon and Saturn

      Incipit: (p. 2) leofre ðon eall ðeos (text in p. 1 is very unclear as it was once pasted to the front cover)

      Explicit: (p. 26) to him middes

      Note: Ker notes: 'The text on p. 14 has been erased and replaced with a Latin form of excommunication s. xiii. Three leaves are missing in total: after pp. 12, 18 and 22.

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  2. Item: p. 27

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

      Incipit: (p. 27) Luna. gimeneu[...] on aest her hit [...]

      Explicit: (p. 27) Luna. N. onest bona his hit her god tima

      Note: top right corner of p. 27 has been cut away and blank parchment sown back into place; text is therefore lost.

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  3. Item: p. 28

      Title (B.20.2.6): Computus: On Epacts

      Incipit: (p. 28) Gif ðu ƿille ƿitan hu fela epacta

      Explicit: (p. 28) Gif ðu ƿile giman ðises trametes þonne byst þu ðe cleawra on gerimcræfte

      Note: Repeated on p. 47 of the manuscript

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  4. Item: pp. 29-40

      Title (B.20.14): Computus: On the Number of Days in the MonthNotes on the calendar of the solar and lunar length of each month etc.

      Rubric (initial): (p. 29) Ianuariushabet dies .XXXI. luna

      Incipit: (p. 29) Ðes monoð hæfð anond.XXX. da[ga]

      Explicit: (p. 40) Seo niht hæfð .XVIII.eahtatidaondse dæg .VI. To underneondto none .XVII. fotgemetuondto middæge . XI. fotgemetu

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  5. Item: pp. 42-43

      Title (B.20.1.6): Computus: Rules for Finding Moveable FeastsRules for finding Septuagesima, Lent, Easter

      Incipit: (p. 42) Gif ðu ƿille ƿitan hƿænne septuagessima beon sceole

      Explicit: (p. 43) Se byð easterdæg geƿirlice

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  6. Item: pp. 46-47

      Title (B.20.1.1): Computus: Rules for Finding Moveable Feastsember days, epacts, concurrents and the age of the moon

      Incipit: (p. 46) Gif ðu ne cunne understandan on ðis ledene þe her beforan aƿriten is þonne loca ðu her hu þu scealt þin gear rihtlice gefadian

      Explicit: (p. 47) sƿa þu miht ƿitan þeah þu ƿille bundred geara ðæs monan ryne

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  7. Item: p. 47

      Title (B.20.11.1): Computus: On the Three Fridays for Fasting: Ðis synd þa þry frigedægas þe man sceal fæstan

      Addition: (p. 47) Ðis synd þa þry frigedægas þe man sceal fæstan on tƿelf monðum ðonne ne cymð næfre his saul on helle þæt is se æresta fridæg on kalendarismaius ond se oþer æfter PENTECOSTENondse þridda onkalendrisiulius þæt is se fyrmesta friedæg

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  8. Item: p. 48

      Title (B.20.18.2): Computus: De diebus festis

      Incipit: (p. 48) Fram middanƿintra byð to sancta MARIAN mæssan

      Explicit: (p. 48) ondþæs ymbe .IIII. niht byð middesƿintres mæssedæg

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  9. Item: p. 49

      Title (B.20.12.1): Computus: On the Length of a Shadow

      Addition: (p. 49) On tƿelf monðum byð þreo hund dagaond.V.ondsyxtig dagaondþæra ƿucena synt tƿaondfiftigondþæra tida eahta þusendaondeahta hund syxtig tida

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  10. Item: p. 133

      Title: Missa pro temptatione carnis (gloss)

      Incipit: (p. 133) for flæsccostunge þæt is idellust

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  11. Item: p. 171

      Title: Missa speciale pro rege (gloss)

      Incipit: (p. 171) for þone kyning

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  12. Item: p. 280

      Title (B.24.27.EM): Miscellaneous Additional Notes: Bletsung

      Rubric (initial): (p. 280) Bletsung Benedictio

      Note: Rubric is the only Old English in this text

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  13. Item: p. 330

      Title (B.14.41.1.EM): Judicia Dei IV-VIIIHalsige man ðonne man her

      Incipit: (p. 330) Ic eoƿ halsie þurh ðonne fæder

      Explicit: (p. 330) ondto ðisson ƿe ofode negan gif ge þis dydon þe ge beogenne syndon oððe ƿison hƿa hit dide

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  14. Item: pp. 330-32

      Title (B.14.41.2.EM): Judicia Dei IV-VIIIÞis is oþer halsung

      Incipit: (p. 330) Ic halsie ðe man

      Explicit: (p. 332) ondrixast mid fæderondmid halgam gaste on ƿoruld a ƿoruld a butan ende. Amen.

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  15. Item: pp. 367-412

      Title (B.12.5.3.2.4): Rubrics and Directions for the use of Prayers: Baptismal office and Blessing of the Font

      Incipit: (p. 400) Æfterþisumcollectan bige se preost

      Explicit: (p. 412) Uton ƿe nu gemænelice biddan mideallummode urne drihten hælend cristþæthe þysne his mettruman geneosnige to ðearflicere andetnisse

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  16. Item: pp. 429-35

      Title (C.82.3.1): Gloss to Liturgical Pieces [In agenda mortuorum]

      Incipit: (p. 429) Her ongingð seo endebyrdnyss hu man sceal embe þonne untruman don þanne man gesyhþþæthu ge endung genealæceð. Þonne onginnon þa geleaffullanondþa gastlican gebroðru tosynganne hyra seofon sealmas.ondletaniaondrædeman syððan cristes þroƿunge ofer hineondoþre halie geƿritu oð þonne fyrst þe seo saul fram þam lichaman acirred beo. Þonne on ginne se mæssepreost þysne antifen þe her æfter geƿriten is.

      Explicit: ( p. 435) ondþonne hit man ferian ƿilleþonnesingeman þisne repsondoþre sƿilce þu ƿille.þonneman cume neah cirican duru þær hit to sceal þonne singe man þisne dritifen ðe her is gemearcod.

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  17. Item: p. 444

      Title (B.12.5.3.3): Rubrics and Directions for the use of Prayers: Burial Service, heading

      Rubric (initial): (p. 444) Bletsung ofer þære byrgene syððan þæt lic bið on eorþan

      Note: Heading at the conclusion of the burial service. Rubric constitutes the entire Old English text.

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  18. Item: pp. 508-38

      Title (B.12.5.3): Rubrics and Directions for the use of Prayers: For Common of Saints, headings

      Addition:

      • p. 512: Ræd
      • p. 513: Rædinc
      • p. 518: Ræd
      • p. 519: Ræd
      • p. 521: Rædinc
      • p. 521: Ræd
      • p. 524: Rædinc
      • p. 525: Ræd
      • p. 534: Ræd
      • p. 537: Ræd

      Note: Headings of 'Ræd' or 'Rædinc' to the lectons of the common of Saints.

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Administration Information: Bibliography:

Dobbie, Elliott van Kirk, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 6 (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1942)

Fehr, Bernhard, 'Altenglische Ritualtexte für Krankenbesuch, heilige Ölung und Begräbnis', in Texte und Forschungen zur englischen Kulturgeschichte, Festgabe für Felix Liebermann (Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1921), pp. 20-67

Henel, Heinrich, Studien zum altenglischen Computus , Beitrage zur englischen Philologie (leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1934)

---, 'Altenglische Mönchsaberglaube', Englische Studien, 69 (1934-35), 329-49

Kemble, John M., Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, 6 vols (London: Sumptibus Societatis, 1839-48)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 70B

Liebermann, F., ed., Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, 3 vols (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1903), vol. 1: Text und Übersetzung

Menner, R. J., ed., The Poetical Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, Monograph Series, xiii (New York and London: Modern Languages Association of America, 1941)

Meritt, Herbert Dean, Old English Glosses, The Modern Language Association of America, General Series, xvi (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1945)

Warren, F. E., The Leofric Missal as used in the Cathedral of Exeter During the Episcopate of its First Bishop, A.D. 1050-1072. Together with some account of the Red Book of Derby, the Missal of Robert of Jumièges, and a few other Early Manuscript Service Books of the English Church (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1883)

Wormald, Francis, ed., English Kalendars before A. D. 1100, Henry Bradshaw Society, 72 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1934)