The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 708 (2609)

Inscription in Latin and OE

Date: s. xi2

Summary:

Main text of manuscript is a s. xiin Latin copy of Gregory’s Pastoral Care written in England. At the top of the recto of the final leaf, an inscription in Latin records the donation of the manuscript to Exeter by Leofric. The same inscription is repeated in Old English.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 113

   Title (B.16.10.5): Exeter: Leofric Inscriptions

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 316

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Hollie Morgan, with reference to published scholarship (2012).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 316