The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 163

Cædmon's Hymn, and Latin-Old English glossary

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Cædmon's Hymn appears as an addition in the margin of a copy of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastia, which contains also four glosses in Old English. A Latin-Old English glossary on fols 250-51. Ker (1957, p. 358) observes that the 'manuscript appears to have been at Peterborough by s. xiiin'.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 152v

   Title (A.32.2): Cædmon's Hymn: West Saxon Version

   Incipit: ( fol. 152v) (beginning of line illegible) ƿe sc (part illegible) an | (second line illegible) | (most of line illegible) his | (most of line illegible) c | (entire line illegible) | (most of line illegible) lc | (most of line illegible) d | (end of inicipit illegible)

   Explicit: (fol. 152v) (beginning of explicit illegible) st | (beginning of line illegible) bearnum | (beginning of line illegible) rofe | (line illegible) | (line illegible) | (most of line illegible) e | (most of line illegible) r tida | (beginning of line illegible) m on f (one graph illegible, probably 'o') ldum | (beginning of line lost due to trimming) a ælmihtig.

   Note: An attempt was made to erase it and it was further damaged by a binder. Partly illegible.

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 358

   O'Brien O'Keeffe 2003

   O'Donnell 2005

2. Item: fol. 66r

   Title (C.45.3.2.EM): Gloss to 'Historia Ecclesiastica'

   Addition: (fol. 66r) stede (the gloss is visible but illegible on microfiche, based on Napier 1900, 'stede' glossing Latin 'ammissarium')

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 358

   Napier 1900

   O'Brien O'Keeffe 2003

3. Item: fol. 111

   Title (C.45.3.3.EM): Gloss to 'Historia Ecclesiastica'

   Addition: (fol. 111v) greðe (glossing Latin 'dosalem')

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 358

   O'Brien O'Keeffe 2003

4. Item: fol. 112r

   Title (C.45.3.4.EM): Gloss to 'Historia Ecclesiastica'

   Addition: (fol. 112r) credic (the gloss is visible but illegible on microfiche, based on Napier 1900, 'credic' glossing Latin 'fiala')

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 358

   Napier 1900

   O'Brien O'Keeffe 2003

5. Item: fol. 154

   Title (C.45.3.1.EM): Gloss to 'Historia Ecclesiastica'

   Addition: (fol. 154r) pylu (glossing Latin 'ceruical')

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 358

   O'Brien O'Keeffe 2003

6. Item: fol. 250r

   Title (D.23): Latin-Old English Glossary: [lemmata mostly from Aldhelm, De laude virginitate]

   Incipit: (fol. 250r) smeagende (glossing Latin 'disputantes')

   Explicit: ( fol. 250r) (the explicit is illegible)

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 358

   O'Brien O'Keeffe 2003

Administration Information:

Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 304

Napier, A. S., Old English Glosses, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, xi (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900)

O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003), vol. 10

O'Donnell, Daniel Paul, ed., Cædmon's Hymn: A Multimedia Study, Edition and Archive (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2005)