The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 730 (2709)

Glossaries in Latin, French and English.

Date: s. xii/xiii

Summary:

Main text of manuscript is s. xii copy of Cassian’s Collations, written in England. On the last three leaves of the final quire, glossaries are added with the lemmata in Latin. Some of the glosses in Latin, some in French and some in English. Ker judges the English glosses to be in two hands, and argues that the manuscript is from Buildwas Abbey (1957, p. 380).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 144-45

   Title (D.25.1): Latin-Old English Glossary: [found on the last three leaves of the last quire of a copy of Cassian's Collation]

   Incipit: (fol. 144v) Cor horte

   Explicit: (fol. 145r) Malua hoclef

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 379-80

2. Item: fol. 145

   Title (D.25.2): Latin-Old English Glossary: [found on the last three leaves of the last quire of a copy of Cassian's Collation]

   Addition: (fol. 145) Scarioballum .i. mulne cleper. Fulgio .i. sot

   Text Language: Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 379-80

3. Item: fols 146-64

   Title (D.25.3): Latin-Old English Glossary: [found on the last three leaves of the last quire of a copy of Cassian's Collation, second block]

   Incipit: (fol. 146v) Menbrum an lime

   Explicit: (fol. 164v) Altrix uel nutrix. fostermodor

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 379-80

4. Item: fol. 164v

   Title (D.25.4): Latin-Old English Glossary: [list of parts of the body appended to the list of parts of the body found on the last three leaves of the last quire of a copy of Cassian's Collation]

   Incipit: (fol. 164v) Ascellum. hoxu

   Explicit: (fol. 164v) Femoralia. þeohgeleune uel brec

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, p. 379-80

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2012).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 317