The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Hereford, Cathedral Library, P. i. 17

Glosses

Date: s. xii/xiii

Summary:

57 English glosses to Aldhelm’s prose De laude virginitatis, of the same date as the main text, and added after Latin glosses to it. Flyleaf inscription localises manuscript to Cirencester (Ker 1957, p. 157).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 2v-94v

   Title (C.31.4): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

   Addition: (fol. 2v) ad pontificale, episcopale, biscoplicum / conciliabulum colloquium synoðe

   Addition: (fol. 94v) indicium, dom

   Note: Fifty-seven glosses to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis, in the prose version

   Bibliography:

   Napier 1900, no.3, pp. 149-50

Administration Information:

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

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 120

Napier, A. S., Old English Glosses, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, xi (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900)