The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Cambridge, Pembroke College, 83

List of Payments

Date: s. xi/xii

Summary:

A list of payments relating to an Anglo-Scandinavian burial and funeral feasts, at the top of a flyleaf of a copy of Bede's Latin commentary of St. Luke. Bury St Edmunds by the time of the s. xiv ex-libris inscription.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 1r

   Title (B.16.5.3): Bury: Payments at a Burial

   Addition: (fol. 1r)

   • 7 twælf oræn. Under prestæs [...] (Paragraph 1 of list of payments)
   • 7 fyf oræ ate fyrræ ærflæ [...] (Paragraph 2 of list of payments)
   • 7 half twælf ere ate hoþær hærflæ (Paragraph 3 of list of payments)

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 124-25

Administration Information:

Described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne Van Der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 76