The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Cambridge, Trinity College, B. 11. 2

Note of a gift, in Latin and English

Date: s. xi2

Summary:

A note which is written on verso of the blank final leaf of a Latin text: Amalarius’ Liber officialis. The note records, in Latin and then in English, that the manuscript was given by Leofric to Exeter Cathedral. Ker 1957 judges that the note, like the rest of the manuscript, was written in Exeter.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 47v

   Title (C.34): Gloss to Amalarius, Liber Officialis

   Addition: (fol. 47v) untodælendlice (glossing Latin 'indifferenter')

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 129

2. Item: fol. 62

   Title (C.34.1.EM): Gloss to Amalarius, Liber Officialis

   Addition: (fol. 62) gesibb (end of word unclear; glossing Latin 'pacata')

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 129

3. Item: fol. 121v

   Title (B.16.10.5): Exeter: Leofric Inscriptions

   Note: Inscription recording that the manuscript was a gift of Bishop Leofric to his cathedral of Exeter

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 129

Administration Information:

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

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 84