The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Cambridge, Trinity College, O. 2. 1

Writ

Date: s. xii2

Summary:

Two passages in Old English in Book 2 of the Historia Eliensis Insulae; the same Old English passages are in the Ely Cathedral writ of s. xii/xiii (Ker 1957, item 113). Manuscript not localised.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 73-74

   Title (A.45): Cnut's Song

   Addition: (fols 73v-74r) Merie sungen ðe muneches binnen ely. ða chut ching reu ðer | by. Roƿeþ chites noer the land. and here ƿve þes muneches sæng

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 137

   Wright and Hollis 1998

2. Item: fol. 79r

   Title (B.15.1.106): Charters: Royal Charters: Writ of King Edward, Christ Church, Canterbury Sawyer 1088: Old English writ of king Edward announcing that he has appointed Wulfric to the office of abbot of Ely

   Rubric (initial): stabilitas locia rege roborata

   Incipit: (fol. 79r) ÆDǷærdus cyning gret ælle mine biscopes ˥ mine eorlas

   Explicit: (fol. 79r) god eoƿ gehealde ('item de eodem' follows the Old English)

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 137

   Wright and Hollis 1998

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 93

Wright, Michael, and Stephanie Hollis, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1998), vol. 12: Manuscripts of Trinity College, Cambridge