The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Orietta Da Rold

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 20

Annotations to Gregory's Regula Pastoralis

Date: s. xii

Summary:

Twelfth-century Scribbles in a ninth-century translation of Gregory's Regula Pastoralis. It also includes s. xiin alterations and Latin glosses by the Tremulous Hand, s. xiii1 (Ker 1957, p. 385 and Franzen 1998, pp. 12-13)

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 1r-2v

   Title (B.9.1.2.1.EM): Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care [prose preface]: Prose preface

   Incipit: (fol. 1r ) + ÐEOS BOC SCEAL TOǷOGORA CEASTRE Ælfred kyning hateð gretan ƿærferð biscep

   Explicit: (fol. 2v) forðy ic ƿolde | ðætt hier ealneg æt ðære stoƿe ƿæren. buton se biscep hie mid him | habban ƿille. oððe hio hƿær to læne sie. oððe hƿa oðre biƿrite:

   Text Language: English

   Date: 890-97

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 384-86

2. Item: fol. 2v

   Title (A.36): The Metrical Preface to The Pastoral Care

   Incipit: (fol. 2v) Þis ærendgeƿrit agustinus. ofer sealtne sæ suðan gebrohte | iegbuendum sƿa hit ær fore Adihtode dryhtnes cempa rome | papa

   Explicit: (fol. 2v) Siððan min on englisc ælfred kyning aƿende | ƿorda gehƿelc ˥ me his ƿriterum sende suð ˥ norð heht him | (beginning of line illegible on microfiche, probably 'sƿelcra') ma brengan bi ðære bisene ðæt he his biscepum sen | (beginning of line illegible on microfiche, probably 'dan meahte') forðæm he his sume ðorfton ða ðe lædenspræ | ce læste cuðon

   Text Language: English

   Date: 890-97

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 384-86

3. Item: fols 3r-5v

   Title (B.9.1.2.2.EM): Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care [table of contents]: Table of contents

   Incipit: ( fol. 3r) i Ðætte unlærede ne dyrren underfon larioƿdom

   Explicit: (fol. 5v) lxii rest of number illegible Ðonne hƿa ðis eall gefylled hæbbe hu he ðonne sceal hine selfne ge | ðencean ˥ ongætan ðylæs hine auðer oððe his lif oððe his lar to upa | hebbe.

   Text Language: English

   Date: 890-97

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 384-86

4. Item: fols 6r-98r

   Title (B.9.1): Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care

   Incipit: (fol. 6r) ÞV leofustra broður suiðe freondlice ˥ suiðe fremsumlice ðu me tæl | desð

   Explicit: (fol. 98r) Ac ic ðe bidde ðæt ðu | me on ðæm scipgebroce ðisses andƿeardan lifes sum bred geræce ðin | ra gebeda ðæt ic mæge on sittan oð ic to londe cume ˥ arær me mið ðære | honda ðinra geearnunga forðæm me hæf gehefegad sio byrðen min | ra agenra scylda.

   Text Language: English

   Date: 890-97

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 384-86

5. Item: fols 53v and 55r, margins

   Title (B.27.3.33): Scribbles

   Addition: (fol. 53v) ƿillimot writ þus oððe bet

   Addition: (fol. 55r) ƿrit þus oððe bet oððe þine hyde forlet

   Text Language: English

   Date: s. xii

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 384-86

6. Item: fol. 98r

   Title (A.37): The Metrical Epilogue to the Pastoral Care

   Incipit: (fol. 98r) beginning of incipit illegible on microfiche, Franzen reads 'Ðis is nu se' ƿæterscipe ðe us ƿereda god to frofre gehet foldbuendum.

   Explicit: (fol. 98r) explicit illegible

   Text Language: English

   Date: 890-97

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 384-86

Physical Description:

Object Description:

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent:

c. 274 mm x 215 mm (dimensions of most - size of leaves)

225-205 mm x 175-157 mm (dimensions of all - size of written space)

Foliation and/or Pagination: Fols ii + 41 + i + 56 + i, foliated i, ii, 1-99

Collation:

Quires: 12, 2-58, 68 wants 8 after fol. 41, 7-138. All folios in Quires 7 and 9 are singletons, and also folios 2 and 7 in Quire 6, and 3 and 6 in Quire 4 (Franzen 1998, p. 12).

Layout description:

Ruled on hair side for 21-29 lines up to 30-31 lines. Single bounding lines, but Quires 5-7 have double inner binding lines (Franzen 1998, p. 11).

Hand description:

Number of hands: 1

Summary: Ker distinguishes one main hand, datable 890-97, the hand of an annotator, probably Wulfstan's hand, s. xiin, the Tremulous Hand glossing in Latin and another hand annotating fols 53v and 55r, s. xii (Ker 1957, p. 285).

Hand: annotations
• Scope: minor
• Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
• Ker reference: not in Ker
• Description: Fols 53v and 55r. An English Vernacular Minuscule using insular forms.
• Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
• a: insular
• ð: long ascender curving to the right and a round bowl
• ƿ: with long tapered descender.
• Date: s. xii

Hand: annotations
• Scope: minor
• Scribe: Tremulous Scribe
• Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
• Description: Latin annotations by Tremulous Hand (Franzen 1998).

Decoration Description:

Titles of chapters are in red, often metallic. Initials are black filled with yellow, red and green on their own or in combination and have zoomorphic, interlace or other decoration. Sometimes colours are used to fill letters or ˥ which follows a mark of punctuation or other letters 'chosen for no apparent reason' (Franzen 1998, p. 11). There is a hardpoint drawing on fol. 5v.

Additions:

Annotations by Archibishop Wulfstan, s. xi1, and other readers, s. x. Joscelyn's notes appear on fols 1r and 69v and Dugdale's on fol. ii (Ker 1957, p. 385).

Binding Description:

Rebound, s. xvii/ xviii, along with Hatton 76, Hatton 115 and Hatton 116 (Franzen 1998, p. 11).

History:

Origin:

On fol. 1, there is a note 'Ƿiogora ceastre'. According to Franzen this validates the suggestion that this manuscript was sent to Wærferð, Bishop of Worcester as referred to in London, BL, Cotton Tiberius B. xi, same copy as the ones (now lost) sent to Archbishop Plegmund and Bishop Swithulf (Franzen 1998, pp. 11-12). Hatton 20 must have been copied between 890 and 897, possibly in Winchester (Ker 1957, pp. 384-86 and Franzen 1998, p. 10).

Provenance:

The manuscript was in Worcester by the first half of the thirteenth-century as it was annotated by the Tremulous Hand.

Acquisition:

Archbishop Parker's secretary Joscelyn must have used it, it was then borrowed by Christopher, Lord Hatton before August 1644 and was used by Dugdale, for his Old English-English dictionary, and Junius, who supplied the missing text on fol. 42 (now lost). After Hatton's death it was sold to the London bookseller Robert Scot, who sold it to the Bodleian Library in 1671 (Franzen 1998, p. 10).

Additional Information:

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Orietta Da Rold with the assistance of Hollie Morgan and Sanne van der Schee with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2012).

Surrogates:

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

Roberts, Jane, Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 (London: British Library, 2005), p. 43, reproduction of fol. 6r.

Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press, 1984), n. 517, pl. 13.

Bibliography:

Atkins, Ivor, and Neil R. Ker, eds, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Made in 1622-1623 by Patrick Young Librarian to King James I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944)

Clement, Richard W., 'The Production of the Pastoral Care: King Alfred and His Helpers', in Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, ed. by Paul E. Szarmach (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986), pp. 129-52

Dobbie, Elliott van Kirk, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 6 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1942)

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

---, The Tremulous Hand of Worcester: A Study of Old English in the Thirteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)

Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), item 626

Horgan, Dorothy M., 'The Old English Pastoral Care: The Scribal Contribution', in Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, ed. by Paul E. Szarmach (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986), pp. 109-27

---, 'The Relationship between the O.E. MSS. of King Alfred's Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care', Anglia, 91 (1973), 153-69

Kendrick, T. D., Anglo-Saxon Art (London: Methuen, 1938)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 324

---, ed., The Pastoral Care, Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile (Copenhagen: Rosenhilde and Bagger 1956), vol. 6

Laing, Margaret, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1993), pp. 132-33.

LUNA (http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet; accessed August 2010)

Roberts, Jane, Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 (London: British Library, 2005)

Sisam, Kenneth, 'The Publication of Alfred's Pastoral Care', in Studies in the History of Old English Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953), pp. 140-47

Tinti, Francesca, Sustaining Belief: The Church of Worcester from c. 870 to c. 1100 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)

Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press, 1984)