The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Jesus College, 26

Names of familial relationships in English and French

Date: s. xiimed

Summary:

Main text is a s. xiimed copy of Ivo of Chartres’ Panormia. A contemporary hand adds, above the main text, the English and French equivalents of the names of relationships in a table of the degrees of consanguinity, within which marriage is prohibited in the main text. Ker suggests that the manuscript may be from Cirencester (1957, p. 433) .

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 170v

   Title (B.24.8): Names of Relationship

   Incipit: (170v) Pere. ˥ mere. Vader and moder

   Explicit: (170v) Cusins parenz. Isibba child. Maglingas. Siblingas.

   Text Language: Latin and English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 355

Administration Information:

Described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Hollie Morgan and George Younge, with reference to published scholarship; ed. by Takako Kato (2010; 2013).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 355