The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Helen Foxhall Forbes

Oxford, Bodleian, Hatton 114

MS Items

fols 1r-4v, fol. 4v, fols 5r-8v, fol. 9r, fols 9r-15r, fols 9v-10r, margins, fols 15r-22v, fols 22v-30r, fols 30r-36v, fols 36v-42v, fols 42v-49r, fols 49r-54r, fols 54r-57r, fols 57r-63v, fols 63v-68r, fols 68r-75v, fols 75v-85v, fols 85v-86r, fol. 86r, fols 86r-92r, fols 92r-97v, fols 97v-102v, fols 102v-05v, fols 105v-11r, fols 111r-14v, fols 115r-23v, fols 123v-31v, fols 131v-40r, fols 140r-47v, fols 147r-49r, fols 149r-51r, fols 151r-53r, fols 153r-55v, fols 156v-63r, fols 163r-66r, fols 166r-72v, fols 172v-81r, fols 181r-90r, fols 190r-200r, fols 200r-v, fols 200v-01r, fols 201r-12r, fols 212r-21r, fols 221r-30r, fols 230r-35v, fols 236r-42v, fols 242v-46v, fol. 247r-v, fols 11v, 13v, 25r and 27v and throughout.

Physical Description

Object Description

Hand Description

Decoration Description

Binding Description

Accompanying Material

History

Additional Information

Administration Information

Surrogates

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'St. Wulstan's Homiliary', part 2

Date: s. xi3/4-xiii1

Summary:

The second of two volumes of homilies that were probably copied for and used by Wulfstan II, bishop of Worcester 1062-95. The first volume is Hatton 113. The dividion into two volumes occurred earlier than in the early thirteenth century, when Item xx was added. The continuation begins at Quire 2 (fol. 9r). Quire 1 (fols 1-8) contains contemporary additions. Ker argues that the two volumes were written to accompany Junius 121 (1957, p. 399). The majority of the contents of Hatton 114 are homilies by Ælfric.

English and Latin annotations in several hands, ranging from s. xi3/4 to s. xiii1.

Manuscript Items:

Item: fols 1r-4v
Item: fol. 4v
Item: fols 5r-8v
Item: fol. 9r
Item: fols 9r-15r
Item: fols 9v-10r, margins
Item: fols 15r-22v
Item: fols 22v-30r
Item: fols 30r-36v
Item: fols 36v-42v
Item: fols 42v-49r
Item: fols 49r-54r
Item: fols 54r-57r
Item: fols 57r-63v
Item: fols 63v-68r
Item: fols 68r-75v
Item: fols 75v-85v
Item: fols 85v-86r
Item: fol. 86r
Item: fols 86r-92r
Item: fols 92r-97v
Item: fols 97v-102v
Item: fols 102v-05v
Item: fols 105v-11r
Item: fols 111r-14v
Item: fols 115r-23v
Item: fols 123v-31v
Item: fols 131v-40r
Item: fols 140r-47v
Item: fols 147r-49r
Item: fols 149r-51r
Item: fols 151r-53r
Item: fols 153r-55v
Item: fols 156v-63r
Item: fols 163r-66r
Item: fols 166r-72v
Item: fols 172v-81r
Item: fols 181r-90r
Item: fols 190r-200r
Item: fols 200r-v
Item: fols 200v-01r
Item: fols 201r-12r
Item: fols 212r-21r
Item: fols 221r-30r
Item: fols 230r-35v
Item: fols 236r-42v
Item: fols 242v-46v
Item: fol. 247r-v
Item: fols 11v, 13v, 25r and 27v
Item: throughout

Physical Description:

Object Description:

Form: Codex

Support: Parchment. Fols i, 250 and 251 are modern paper flyleaves. Fols 248-49 are added by Dugdale (see Accompanying Material below).

Extent:

267 mm x 160 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)

200 mm x 94 mm (dimensions of all - size of written space)

Foliation and/or Pagination: Fols i + 248 + iv, foliated (i) + 1-97, 97*, 98-250, (251)

Collation:

Quires:

Catchwords:

Franzen

Layout description:

Leaves are arranged HFFH. Ruled for 23 long lines. Double bounding lines, right and left. Prickings are usually visible in the side margins and at the top and bottom.

Note:

Hand description:

Number of hands:

Summary:

Hemming

Coleman

Tremulous Hand

Hand:

Scope: Main text
Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
Ker reference: Ker, item 331, SC1
Description: Fols 9r-201r/6. Worcester type.
Summary of the characteristics of the hand: Items 4-41.
The shape of the second element of æ is influenced by the letter which succeeds it.
e is round-backed or horned depending on its place in the word and the following letter.
The descender of þ is notched.
Most ascenders except that of þ are clubbed, but some ascenders have wedged clubs and some are wedged; for example, on h and b, in English and Latin.
Other manuscripts: The same hand as in Hatton 113 and probably Junius 121.

Hand:

Scope: Major; early additions
Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
Ker reference: Ker, item 331, SC2
Description: fols 1r/1-4v/9, 201r/9-30r/17 and 236r/1-42v/6 .
Summary of the characteristics of the hand: According to Ker, there is 'perhaps a change of hand' at the beginning of Item 42 (1957, p. 399). This hand then copied Items 43 and 44. Other early additions (Item 1, Item 46 and an Latin item in Hatton 113, fol. iir/1-20) are also by the same hand.

Hand:

Scope: Early additions
Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
Ker reference: Ker, item 331, SC (2)
Description: fols 230r/18-235v/23 and 242v/7-246v/1.
Summary of the characteristics of the hand: 'An attractive and unusual hand' (Ker 1957, p. 399). Item 45 and part of Item 47.
Caroline a, sometimes with high bow.
e is almost round-backed.
g is wide and open with long descender.
Ligatures:
or ligature, is not very straight on the line.
Other manuscripts:
- Additions to Hatton 113
- The margins of Junius 121
- Latin texts in CCCC 9
- Latin texts in Nero E. i
- Latin texts in CCCC 146

Hand:

Scope: Additions
Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
Ker reference: Ker, item 331, SC (3)
Description: fol. 4v. Item 2. s. xi2.

Hand:

Scope: Additions
Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
Ker reference: Ker, item 331, SC (4)
Description: fol. 5r-8v. Item 3. s. xi2.

Hand:

Scope: Additions
Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
Ker reference: Ker, item 331, SC (6)
Description: fols 247r-v. Item 48. s. xi2.

Hand:

Scope: Additions
Scribe: Hemming
Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
Ker reference: Ker, item 331, SC (5)
Description: fols 246v/2-23. Part of Item 47.
Summary of the characteristics of the hand: Possibly the hand of Hemming (Ker 1948, pp. 57, 72). Thickly-written and very upright. The left-hand side of the written area is not parallel to the edge of the membrane (C11 Project).
The feet of h are vestigial.
The ascender of þ is wedged.
All ascenders except that of þ are clubbed.
Abbreviations: Nota
The angle of the tironian nota is almost 90˚.
Other manuscripts:
- CUL Kk. 3. 18 (Gameson 2005, p. 103)
- CCCC 146, additions (Gameson 2005, p. 101)
- CCCC 391 (Gameson 2005, p. 101)
- Tiberius A. xiii (Gameson 2005, p. 101)
- Hatton 113 (Gameson 2005, p. 101)
- Junius 121 (Gameson 2005, p. 101)
- Harley Ch. 83. A.3 (Gameson 2005, p. 101)

Hand:

Scope: Marginal notes
Scribe: Coleman
Script: Rustic
Ker reference: Ker, item 331, p. 391
Description: fols 11v, 13v, 25r and 27v. Item 49.
Summary of the characteristics of the hand: Unsigned, rustic capitals. A signature '[c]plfman' appears in Hatton 113.

Hand:

Scope: minor
Scribe: Tremulous Hand
Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
Description: There are several layers of glosses by the Tremulous Hand throughout (Item 50): one in pencil, usually in the margin; one in ink with very small, tidy glosses repeating the pencil glosses over the correct lemmata; one in crayon, usually in the margin but less clear than the pencil layer, and a second ink layer with larger but still reasonably tidy glosses.
Date: xiii1

Decoration Description:

Headings are in red metallic rustic capitals. Franzen reports that 'the first line of a text is also in metallic red; sometimes [...] in rustic capitals filled with green. Initials are metallic red, blue and green, except in the first quire (fols 1-8) where they are red or metallic red' (Franzen 1998, p. 35).

Binding Description:

Rebound in the nineteenth century. Binding leather and very fragile.

Accompanying Material:

Joscelyn wrote a gloss on fol. 18v and marginalia on fols 36v, 42v and 49r, but he did not draw on Hatton 114 for his Anglo-Saxon word lists. Dugdale wrote a table of contents on fol. 248 in 1644. 'Saxon | Homilies tom: 1' is written in the upper margin of fol. 1r in the same hand as one which adds titles to other Hatton manuscripts. In the lower margin a different hand has writeen 'MS. Junius | 22'. This is now crossed out, and 'Hatton 114' is written in pencil alongside it in a modern hand.

History:

Origin:

Written in Worcester.

Provenance:

Likely to have been in Worcester in the early thirteenth century, when the Tremulous Hand annotated it, and still in Worcester in 1638, as it was referred to as a Worcester manuscript in a letter from Ussher to Spelman dated 6th November 1638 (Oxford, Bodleian, Additional C. 301, fol. 48) (Ker 1957, p. 399).

Acquisition:

Belonged to Christopher, Lord Hatton in 1644. Given to the Bodleian Library in 1675. It was then lent to Dr Thomas Marshall and by him to Junius and returned to the Bodleian as part of the Junius collection after his death in 1678. Formerly Junius 22.

Additional Information:

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Helen Foxhall Forbes with the assistance of Hollie Morgan and Owen Roberson. (2010; 2013).

Surrogates:

Franzen, Christine, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998), vol. 6: Worcester Manuscripts

Images of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 113 are available on Luna at the Bodleian Library.

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