The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Takako Kato

Durham, University Library, Cosin V. ii. 6

Bede's Death Song

Date: s. xiiin

Summary:

Old English text of Bede’s Death Song is part of Cuthbert’s letter De obitu Bedæ, icorporated into Symeon of Duharam's history of the church of Durham. Written in Durham.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: p. 57

   Title (A.33.3): Bede's Death Song: West Saxon Version

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Arnold 1882-85, i, p. 44

   Dobbie 1937, p. 86

   Ker 1957, item 110*

Administration Information:

Described by Takako Kato, with reference to published scholarship (2013).

Bibliography:

Arnold, Thomas, Symeonis Monachi Opera Omnia, Rolls Series, 75, 2 vols (London: Longman, 1882-5)

Dobbie, Elliott van Kirk, The Manuscripts of Cædmon's Hymn and Bede's Death Song, with a Critical Text of the 'Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae', Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature, 128 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1937)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 110*