The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, G. 63

Heptateuch: Exodus

Date: s. xi2

Summary:

Two fragmentary and two complete leaves which contain part of the Old English Heptateuch. Place of production not known.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 1-3

   Title (B.8.1.9): Heptateuch: Fragment of Exodus

   Incipit: (fol. 1) fæt ful. þe

   Explicit: (fol. 4v) þa cwˉ ic to

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1976, pp. 128-29

   Marsden 2008

Administration Information:

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

Bibliography:

Crawford, S. J., ed., The Old English Version of the Heptateuch, Ælfric's Treatise on the Old and New Testament, and his Preface to Genesis, EETS, OS 160 (London: Oxford University Press, 1922; repr. with an addition by N. R. Ker, 1969)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item supp. 418

---, 'A Supplementary Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon', Anglo-Saxon England, 5 (1976), 121-31

Marsden, Richard, ed., The Old English Heptateuch and Ælfric's Libellus de Veteri Testamento et Novo, EETS, 330 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)