The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian, Laud Misc. 243

Cædmon’s Hymn

Date: s. xii2

Summary:

Main text is a copy of the Latin version of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica. Cædmon’s Hymn is on a tab, attached to the margin later, probably in the main text hand. Place of production not known.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 82v, a tab, attached to the outer margin

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

   Incipit: (fol. 82v a tab, attached to the outer margin) Ny ƿe sceolan herian heo | fonrices ƿeard. metudes mihte | beginning of line missing, probably ' ˥ / and' his modgeþanc. ƿeorc ƿulder fæ | der. Sƿa he ƿundra gepart illegible, probably 'hƿæs ece | drihten

   Explicit: (fol. 82v a tab, attached to the outer margin) þa he ærest sceop eorðe | bearnum heofon to hrofe. þa mid | dangeard moncynnes ƿeard ece | drihten æfter teide fyrum on | folden frea ælmihtig halig scyp | peod

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 418-19

   O'Donnell 2005

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship.

Bibliography:

Surrogate of fol. 82v is available at LUNA.

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 341

O'Donnell, Daniel Paul, ed., Cædmon's Hymn: A Mltimedia Study, Edition and Archive (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2005)