The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Takako Kato and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 76

Fragments of a translation of Gregory's Dialogues; Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius and Medicina de quadrupedibus; and Old English glosses

Date: s. ximed; xiii1

Summary:

The manuscript is in two parts. Part A (fols 1-67) consists of a translation of Gregory's Dialogues and St. Basil's Monita, s. xi1. Part B (fols 68-139) is a translation of Herbarius of Pseudo-Apuleius and Medicina de quadrupedibus, s. ximed; and a Latin lapidary, s. xi/xii.

French annotation on fol. 74r (start of text of OE Herbarius) transcribed as ‘saluz maund a frere water de breouuode cente cincquante millers’, and dated to s. xii/xiii (Ker 1957, p. 390).

Both parts of the manuscript in Worcester in s. xiiiin, from the annotations by the Tremulous Hand.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 1-3

   Title (B.9.5): Gregory the Great, Dialogues: Fragment of translation of preface to Gregory's Dialogi

   Incipit: (fol. 1r) IC ÆLFRED. GIFENDVM | CRISTE mid cynehades mærnesse geƿeorðad hæbbe | cuð (part of line illegible) ˥ þurh gehaligra boca rædinge oft gehyred þæt us | (beginning of line illegible) healicnysse ƿoruld geþing ða fogifen | hæfð is se (part of the line illegible) þæt ƿe hƿilon ure mod geliðian (end of line illegible) | to þam godcundum ˥ gast (rest of line illegible)

   Explicit: (fol. 3r) Ic geleornode æt gesægene sƿiðe arƿurðra ƿitena | þæt þæt ic sege. Explicit prefatio

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 388-90

2. Item: fols 3-4

   Title (B.9.5.1.1.EM): Gregory the Great, Dialogues: Headings: Headings to Book I

   Incipit: (fol. 3r) Her onginð þa capi | tulas þære forman boce dialogorum be haligra ƿundrum

   Explicit: (fol. 4v ) Be honorate þam cnihte hu him ƿæs ge (end of line ilegible)

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 388-90

3. Item: fols 5-29

   Title (B.9.5.1.2.EM): Gregory the Great, Dialogues: Book 1: Translation of book I

   Incipit: (fol. 5r) com to sumre ea þære nama is uulturnus. (beginning imperfect)

   Explicit: (fol. 29v) Gregorius him ansƿarode

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 388-90

4. Item: fols 29-30

   Title (B.9.5.1.3.EM): Gregory the Great, Dialogues: Headings: Headings to Book II

   Incipit: ( fol. 29v) Her endiað þa capitulas þære æftran boce

   Explicit: (fol. 30r) Hu adƿæscte þæt gedƿimorlice fyr.

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 388-90

5. Item: fols 30-52

   Title (B.9.5.1.4.EM): Gregory the Great, Dialogues: Book 2: Translation of book II

   Incipit: ( fol. 30r) Her onginneð seo æftre boc dialogorum be | life ˥ ƿundrum sanctus benedictes abbodes

   Explicit: ( fol. 52v) Petrus cƿæð. Me þinceð þæt ic full nyttlice ne under | gite na þa þing þe þu sædest. þonne of minre læt (ends imperfectly near the end of book 2, chapter 35; fols 53 and 54 belong before fol. 51; end of final word illegible, probably 'nyse')

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 388-90

6. Item: fols 55-67

   Title (B.1.9.3): Ælfric: Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem

   Incipit: (fol. 55r) BASILVS SE EADIGA BE ÐAM ǷE ÆR | aƿriton. ƿæs sƿiðe halig bisceop. on ces | sarean byrig on greciscre þeode god | lufigende sƿiðe on clænesse ƿunigende | on cristes þ (part of line illegible) manegra mune |ca f (part of line illegible) chades him sylf.

   Explicit: (fol. 67v ) Do þe ælfremedne | fram þysum leahtre a. ˥ hafa þe gemet (ends imperfectly)

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 388-90

7. Item: fols 68-73

   Title (B.21.1.1.4.EM): Pseudo-Apuleius: Herbarius, Medicina de Quadrupedibus: : Table of Contents

   Incipit: (fol. 68r) Ƿið unhyrum nihtgængum ˥ ƿið egslicum | gesihðum ˥ sƿefnum (de Vriend 1984 gives the incipit as 'I. Nomen herbe betonica | þæt is biscopƿyrt' but this is not visible on the microfiche; only the second line is transcribed here.)

   Explicit: (fol. 73v) Ƿið innoðes sare (ends imperfectly)

   Text Language: English and Latin

   Bibliography:

   de Vriend 1984

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 388-90

8. Item: fols 74-124
   Pseudo-Apuleius: Herbarius, Medicina de Quadrupedibus: : Herbarius

   Incipit: (fol. 74r) ÐEOS ǷYRT ÐE MAN | bettonican nemneð . | heo bið cænneð on mædum ˥ on | clænum dunlandum ˥ on gefry | þedum stoƿum

   Explicit: (fol. 124r) hit astirað þone innoð.

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 388-90

9. Item: fols 124-130a

   Title (B.21.1.1.6.EM): Pseudo-Apuleius: Herbarius, Medicina de Quadrupedibus: : Medicina de Quadrupedibus

   Incipit: (fol. 124v) SAGAÐ ÐÆT ÆGYPTA | cyninc idpartus ƿæs haten

   Explicit: (fol. 130ar) rednysse. ˥ ƿiðer | rædnysse. se þe hafað | hundes heortan mid him. ne beoð | ongean hine hundas cene. (this folio is now a small fragment; beginning illegible)

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Franzen 1998

   Ker 1957, pp. 388-90

10. Item: passim, fols 4r-49r

    Title (C.86.EM): Occasional glosses and annotations to Medicina de quadrupedibus

    Text Language: English

    Hand: Tremulous Hand

    Bibliography:

    Franzen 1998

    Franzen 1991

    Ker 1957, pp. 388-90

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Takako Kato and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2012).

Bibliography:

de Vriend, Hubert Jan, ed., The Old English Herbarium and Medicina de quadrupedibus, EETS, 286 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984)

Franzen, Christine, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Tempe: 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)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 328