The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian, Auct. F. 1. 15 (2455)

Inscriptions in Latin and OE

Date: s. xi2

Summary:

Main text of the manuscript is a s. x2 copy of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. Inscriptions on fols 77 and 78 each record the gift of this manuscript to Exeter by Leofric. Ker (1957, p. 353) demonstrates that the two inscriptions, which are each in a different hand, were originally in separate volumes. Presumably from Exeter. According to Drage 1978, these are her Scribe 2 and 10.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 7v, 8v, 9

   Title (C.53.4): Gloss to Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 294

2. Item: fol. 77

   Title (B.16.10.5.1.EM): Exeter: Leofric Inscriptions

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 294

3. Item: fol. 78

   Title (B.16.10.5.2.EM): Exeter: Leofric Inscriptions

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 294

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance by Hollie Morgan, with reference to published scholarship.

Bibliography:

Drage, E., 'Bishop Leofric and the Exeter Cathedral Chapter, 1050-1072: A Reassessment of the Manuscript Evidence' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Oxford, 1978)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 294