The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 413

Verses of St Godric

Date: s. xii2

Summary:

Some of the verses, in Latin and English, are part of the text of Reginald’s Vita Sancti Godrici. Others are added by a roughly contemporary hand which also added, in a margin, a note transcribed by Ker (1957, p. 419) as follows: 'Caracalla est uestis uillosa. Que anglice dicitur. Bratt uel hakel'. Manuscript from Durham.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 39v

   Title (A.46): Godric's Prayer

   Incipit (Latin): (fol. 39v) Sainte marie uirgine

   Explicit: (fol. 39v) in godes riche

   Text Language: English

   Note: According to Ker 1957, the verses on this folio are 'incorporated into the text by a nearly contemporary hand', which also added some Latin passages. [HM]

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 413

2. Item: fol. 47

   Title (A.46.2): Godric's Prayer II

   Incipit: (fol. 47) Crist and Seinte Marie

   Explicit: (fol. 47) bare fot itreide

   Text Language: English

   Note: According to Ker 1957, these verses are an original part of the text of Reginald's "Vita Sancti Godrici". [HM]

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 413

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson with the assistant of Hollie Morgan, with reference to published scholarship.

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 342