The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian, Auct. F. 3. 6 (2666)

Inscription in Latin and OE

Date: s. xi2

Summary:

Main text of the manuscript is a s. xi1 copy of Prudentius. Old English charms added at the same date. An inscription of s. xi2 records the gift of this manuscript to Exeter by Leofric. Ker identifies the hand of the inscription as ‘of Exeter type’ (1957, p. 355).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 92v-98v, 124-25v

   Title (C.94.8): Gloss to Prudentius, Psychomachia

   Incipit: (fol. 92v) gewis

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 296

2. Item: fol. iiv

   Title (B.27.3.29): Scribbles

   Incipit: (fol. iiv) scurfede hors

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 296

3. Item: fol. ii

   Title (B.23.1.13.1.EM): Prose Charm : Heading

   Rubric (initial): (fol. ii) wið þone dworh

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 296

4. Item: fol. iiiv

   Title (B.23.1.13.2.EM): Prose Charm: Heading

   Rubric (initial): (fol. iiiv) Gif men ierne blod of nebbe to swiðe

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 296

5. Item: fol. iiiv

   Title (B.16.10.5): Exeter: Leofric Inscriptions

   Incipit: (fol. iiiv) Ɖas boc gef leofric biscop

   Explicit: (fol. iiiv) mid eallum deoflum

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 296

Administration Information:

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

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 296

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