The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

Oxford, All Souls College, 38, fols 1-12

Ælfric's Grammar

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Ælfric's Grammar on fols 1-12 and part of Royal 12. G. xii, fols 2-9. The scribe who copied the text on fols 1-12 of the current manuscript also copied fols 7 and 8 of Royal 12. G. xii (Ker 1957, p. 334). Origin unknown.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 1-12

   Title (B.1.9.1): Ælfric's Grammar

   Incipit: (fol. 9) ab

   Explicit: (fol. 12) ðam

   Text Language: English

   Note: According to Ker, the correct order of leaves should be fols 9, 10, 7, 8, 1-6, 11, 12, hence the incipit on fol. 9 (1957, p. 333).

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 265

Administration Information:

Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Hollie Morgan, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2012)

Bibliography:

Doane, Alger Nicolaus, Sarah Larratt Keefer, and David Rollason, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007), vol. 14: Manuscripts of Durham, Ripon, and York

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 265

Zupitza, Julius, ed., Ælfrics Grammatik und Glossar: Text und Varianten, 2nd edn (1880; Berlin: Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung Max Niehans Verlag, 1966)