The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan

London, Lambeth Palace, 173

Glosses

Date: s. xi2

Summary:

Fols 157-221 of the manuscript contain Latin saints’ lives and vision narratives in a single hand of s. xi2, described by Ker as ‘large’ and ‘round’ (1957, p. 341). On fol. 212v 'contra ortum solis solstitalem' is glossed 'ongean norðęst roder sƿa sunnan upgang bið to middan sumera', and on fol. 214 'contra ortum solis brumalem' is glossed 'Suðeast sƿa sunne on ƿintra upgæð'. The main text is from the Vision of Drihthelm in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, on fols 211v-16v. The Old English glosses are similar to the Old English translation of Bede, History of the English Church and Nation (Miller 1890-98, pp. 424/20, 428/24).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 212v

   Title (C.45.2.1.EM): Gloss to Bede Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum

   Addition: ongean norðęst roder sƿa sunnan upgang bið to middan sumera

   Text Language: English

   Note: Glossing Latin 'contra ortum solis solstitialem'.

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 340

2. Item: fol. 214r

   Title (C.45.2.2.EM): Gloss to Bede Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum

   Addition: Suðeast sƿa sunne on ƿintra upgæð

   Text Language: English

   Note: Glossing Latin 'contra ortum solis brumalemhe'.

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 340

Physical Description:

Object Description:

Form: codex

Hand description:

Number of hands: 1 in Old English

Hand: glosses
• Scope: sole
• Scribe: Ker 173
• Script: Caroline Minuscule
• Description: Fols 212v, 214v.
• Summary of the characteristics of the hand: Contemporary with the Latin text. Caroline script with occasional insular features.
• a Caroline.
• r insular and Caroline.
• s Caroline.
• Date: s. xi2

Binding Description:

Fols 1-156 and fols 157-221 were originally separate volumes. Ker reports that they were probably joined in the Middle Ages (Ker 1957, p. 341).

History:

Origin:

Origin is unknown.

Provenance:

On fol. 1r, 'Euerard' is written in large letters. The same name is written in London, Lambeth Palace 351 (s. xiv). Belonged to Richard Bancroft and recorded in the catalogue of his manuscripts at Lambeth Palace, 1612 (fol. 85) (Ker 1957, p. 341).

Additional Information:

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan with the assistance of Hollie Morgan and Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship.

Bibliography:

Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), item 508

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 276

Miller, T., ed., The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of The English People, EETS, OS 95, 96, 110, 111, 4 pts, 2 vols (1890-98; London: Oxford University Press, 1959-63)

Meritt, Herbert Dean, Old English Glosses, The Modern Language Association of America, General Series, xvi (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1945)