The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Lincoln College, Lat. 31

Cædmon’s Hymn and Bede’s Death Song

Date: s. xiimed

Summary:

Cædmon’s Hymn and Bede’s Death Song, which was added, in a hand roughly contemporary with that of the main text, in Old English to ruled lines in the bottom margins of fols 83r and 112v of a s. xiimed copy of the Latin text of the Historia ecclesiastica. Place of production not known.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 83r

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

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, 433-34

   Dobbie 1937, 39 (Ln)

   Plummer 1896, ii.252 (O)

2. Item: fol. 112v

   Title (A.33.3): Bede's Death Song: West Saxon Version

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, 433-34

   Dobbie 1937, 89

   Brotanek 1913, 185

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with reference to published scholarship.

Bibliography:

Brotanek, Rudolf, Texte und Untersuchungen zur altenglischen Literatur und Kirchengeschichte (Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1913)

Dobbie, Elliott van Kirk, The Manuscripts of Cædmon's Hymn and Bede's Death Song, with a Critical Text of the 'Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae', Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature, 128 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1937)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 356

Plummer, Charles, ed., Venerabilis Baedae Opera Historica, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896)