The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Ely, Cathedral, C (or G) 60

Writ

Date: s. xii/xiii

Summary:

Two passages in Old English in Book 2 of the Historia Eliensis Insulae; the same Old English passages are in CTC O. 2. 1 (1105) of s. xii2 (Ker 1957, item 93). Manuscript not localised.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 72r

   Title (A.45): Cnut's Song

   Incipit: (fol. 72r) Merie sungen ðe muneches binnen ely. ða chut. ching reu ðer by. Roweþ chites noer the lant.ond here we þes muneches sæng

   Explicit: (fol. 72r) ondhere we þes muneches sæng

   Note: Writ etc. in bk.2 of the Historia Eliensis Insulae

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 113

   Stewart 1848, p. 202

2. Item: fol. 77r

   Title (B.15.1.94): Charters: Royal Charters: Writ of King Edward, Christ Church, Canterbury Sawyer 1088

   Incipit: (fol. 77r) Ædward cyninc gret ealle mine biscopas

   Explicit: (fol. 77r) þæs ic him geunnon habbe god eow healde

   Note: Writ etc. in bk.2 of the Historia Eliensis Insulae

   Bibliography:

   Harmer 1952, no.49

   Ker 1957, item 113

   Stewart 1848, p. 202

   Sawyer 1968, no.1100

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Johanna Green, with reference to published scholarship (2012).

Bibliography:

Harmer, F. E., Anglo-Saxon Writs (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1952)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 113

Sawyer, P. H., Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968)

Stewart, D. J., Liber Eliensis, Anglia Christiana Society, 3 (1848)