The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Orietta Da Rold and Takako Kato

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F. 2. 14 (2657)

Wordlist and glosses

Date: s. xi2, xi/xii

Summary:

The manuscript is a collection of Latin poetry written in England in s. xi2. On fols 11-19, a Latin-Old English glossary of 96 words are written in the margin by a s. xi2, xi/xii hand. These words draw from Aldhelm's De laude virginitatis (see Derolez 1959). Lemmata are included in alphabetical order from A to V. As Ker notes, the 'A section is headed 'glosę''. On fols 11, 12, the A and C lists are followed by slightly later A and C lists, written in a different hand and ink and not deriving from Aldhelm. The only Old English glosses here are 'swert' and 'blac' (Ker 1957, pp. 353-54, Napier 1888, p. 64, Napier 1900, n. 18B).

Fols 39r and 40v contain four glosses to Wulfstan, Cantor of Winchester's Miracula Sancti Swithuni (See, also the same glosses in London, BL, Royal 15 C. vii, see Ker 1957, p. 354, Napier 1900, n. 52, Campbell 1950)

Fol. 80v includes four glosses to the Ars grammatici of Phocas (Ker 1957, p. 354, Napier 1900, n. 45).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 11-19v

   Title (D.21.1.EM): Latin-Old English Glossary

   Addition: (fol. 11) GLOSȨ

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 295

2. Item: fols 11-12

   Title (D.21.2.EM): Latin-Old English Glossary

   Addition: (fol. 11) swert

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 295

3. Item: fols 39, 40v

   Title (C.98.2): Gloss to Wulfstan of Winchester, Miracula S. Swithuni

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 295

4. Item: fol. 80v

   Title (C.90): Gloss to Phocas, Ars grammatici

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 295

Physical Description:

Object Description:

Form: Codex

Support: Parchment

Extent:

262 mm x 168 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)

102 mm x 202 mm (dimensions of all - size of written space)

Foliation and/or Pagination: Fols i-iiii, 1-128, 129-30. Fols i-iii and 129-30 are from old binding.

Collation:

Quires: 12, 28; 38; 46; 510; 68; 72.

Condition: Letters or parts of letters of glosses 2, 5, 12 and 16 have been cut away by the binder.

Layout description:

Single column, 35 lines. Ruling and pricking are visible. Ruled with double bounding lines at both sides. Coloured initial letters are placed between the left bounding lines.

Hand description:

Number of hands: 3 in Old English

Summary: The Latin poetry is by one hand in a round and neat Caroline minuscule. The glosses to the Miracula Sancti Swithuni are contemporary with the text and in the same hand and ink as some Latin glosses; the word list and Latin and Old English glosses to the Ars grammatici are in one hand, and the second set of A and C lists (fols 11, 12) are in a slightly later hand.

Hand: Interlinear glosses
• Scope: Minor
• Scribe: Ker 295 Art b
• Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
• Description: Fols 39, 40v.
• Summary of the characteristics of the hand: Four glosses to Wulfstan. In the same hand and brown ink as the Latin interlinear glosses. In very small writing.
• g is insular, its loop is angular, and closes.
• r insular r used once ('hearpslege') and Caroline r used twice.
• s insular high s is angular.
• Date: s. xi2

Hand: Word list and glosses
• Scope: Minor
• Scribe: Ker 295 Arts a, c
• Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
• Description: Fols 11-19v, 80v.
• Summary of the characteristics of the hand: A 'neat hand' (Ker 1957, p. 354).
• a insular used for Old English.
• æ, a and e are the same height.
• d is insular with a round back.
• f insular used for Old English.
• g insular used for Old English. Its round loop is closed.
• r insular used for Old English.
• s insular (high) form used for Old English.
• ƿ is used.
• Date: s. xi2

Hand: Word list
• Scope: Minor
• Scribe: Ker 295 Arts a
• Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
• Description: Fols 11r, 12r. The second set of A and C lists: the only English words are 'sƿert' and 'blac'.
• Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
• a insular used for Old English.
• Caroline r is used for Old English.
• Caroline short s
• ƿ is used.
• Date: s. xi2

Decoration Description:

Initial capital letters are in black, red, purple, and green.

Additions:

Annotated by Leland.

Binding Description:

Binding is English, s. xv. The flyleaves are from s. xiii1 Antiphoner (see Madan and others 1953, no. 2657).

History:

Origin:

The origin is unknown.

Provenance:

According to Ker (1957, p. 354), the manuscript is 'no doubt the "Vita Swithuni carmine heroico"' which Leland consulted at Sherborne (see De script. Britt., p. 164) and used in his Collectanea, i, pp. 151-56.

Acquisition:

The manuscript was acquired by the Bodleian library c. 1618-20.

Additional Information:

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Orietta Da Rold and Takako Kato with the assistance of Hollie Morgan (2010; 2012).

Surrogates:

EM Project facsimile

Ellis, R., Specimens of Latin Palaeography from MSS. in the Bodleian Library (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1903), pl. 12, fol. 106r, but no Old English.

Images of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F. 2. 14 are available on LUNA, images of fols 51r and 77v, but no Old English.

Bibliography:

Campbell, A., ed., Frithegodi Monachi Breviloquium Vitæ Beati Wilfredi et Wulfstani Cantoris Narratio Metrica de Sancto Swithuno, Thesaurus Mundi; bibliotheca scriptorum Latinorum mediae et recentioris aetatis (Turici: in aedibus Thesauri mundi, 1950)

Derolez, Albert, 'Aldhelhelmus Glosatus III', English Studies, 40.1-6 (1959), 129-34

Ellis, R., Specimens of Latin Palaeography from MSS. in the Bodleian Library (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1903)

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 535

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 295

Leland, John, Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis, auctore Joanne Lelando, ed. by A. Hall, 2 vols (1709)

---, Joannis Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis collectanea, ed. by T. Hearne, 6 vols (1715)

LUNA (http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet; accessed August 2010)

Madan, Falconer, and others, A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953)

Napier, A. S., 'Altenglische Glossen', Englische Studien, 11, no. 62 (1888)

---, Old English Glosses, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, xi (1900)