The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Cambridge, University Library, Mm. 4. 28

Godric’s prayer

Date: s. xii/xiii

Summary:

Annotation in Latin and Old English on a blank space on the recto of final leaf of an s. xii2 manuscript of Latin Vitas patrum, after a note in Latin about Godric’s hymn which Ker judges to be ‘in a different, but contemporary hand’. Ker also notes an inscription on fol. 1, possibly of s. xiiex, from Biddlesden Priory, Bucks (1957, p. 40).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 149

   Title (A.46): Godric's Prayer

   Addition: (fol. 149) Sancte marie uirgine moder iesu cristes nazarene onfo scild help þin godric onfang bring hehtlic þið þe i godes Riche

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 28

   Zupitza 1888, p. 415

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Johanna Green, 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 28

Zupitza, Julius, 'Cantus Beati Godrici', Englische Studien, 11 (1888), 401