The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 146

Glosses

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Glosses to Aldhelm's De laude virginitatis (fols 1r-95) and a letter to Ehrfrid (fols 95v-100) with an Abingdon provenance, s. xex. About thirty glosses are contemporary with the texts; glosses on fols 8-15 are probably s. xiin; and the glosses to more than 5,4000 words in De laude virginitatis in fols 8-95 are s. ximed (Ker 1957, p. 382).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 8-95

   Title (C.31.13): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

   Text Language: English

   Date: probably from s. ximed (Ker 1957)

   Hand: 'a small and neat, but uncalligraphic hand' (Ker 1957)

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 320

2. Item: fol. 30v

   Title (C.31.13.1.EM): Gloss to Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis

   Addition: (fol. 30v) wrangwise

   Text Language: English

   Date: probably twelfth-century (Ker 1957)

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 320

Administration Information:

Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Hollie Morgan, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2012).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 320