The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 43

Cædmon’s Hymn

Date: s. xi2

Summary:

Main text is an s. xiin copy of the Latin version of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica, written in English Caroline minuscule. Cædmon’s Hymn is added on the bottom margin of fol. 129. Place of production not known.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 129

   Title (A.32.2): Cædmon's Hymn: West Saxon Version

   Incipit: (fol. 129) Nu we sculon herian heofonrices weard

   Explicit: (fol. 129) Æfter tida firum on foldum frea ælmyhtig

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 326

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 326