The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Cambridge, Pembroke College, 302

Boundaries of the see of Hereford

Date: s. xi2

Summary:

16 lines of text in English on the recto of a formerly blank leaf (fol. 8) of a Latin evangeliary written in England probably in s. ximed (Ker 1957, p. 125). Manuscript at Hereford Cathedral in s. xi.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 8r

   Title (B.16.11.1): Hereford: Boundaries of See

   Title (manuscript): Hanc discretionem fecit æthestanus episcopus

   Incipit: (fol. 8r) Ðus ligð þæt bisceoprice into hereforda

   Text Language: English

   Note: Old English text is sixteen lines.

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 125-26

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson, with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee; ed. by Takako Kato (2010; 2013).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 78