The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Hereford, Cathedral Library, P. v. 1 + Bodleian, E Mus. 93 (3632)

Cædmon’s Hymn

Date: s. xii1

Summary:

Contemporary addition in English to the margin of the Latin text of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica. Place of production not known.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 116v

   Title (A.32.2): Cædmon's Hymn: West Saxon Version

   Addition: (fol. 116v) Nu ƿe sceolan herian hel[o]fon rices ƿeardmetudesmihteondhis mod[g]e þanc ƿeorc ƿulder fæder sƿa he ærest sceop eorðebearnumheofon to hrofe þa middab geard moncynnes ƿeard ece drihtent efter teodefyrumonfolden frea ælmihtig halig scyppeod

   Bibliography:

   Dobbie 1937, p. 41

   Ker 1957, item 121

   O'Donnell 2005, p. 220

Administration Information:

Described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Hollie Morgan and Johanna Green, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013).

Bibliography:

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 121

O'Donnell, Daniel Paul, ed., Cædmon's Hymn: A Multimedia Study, Edition and Archive (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2005)