The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Orietta Da Rold, Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Magdalen College, Lat. 105

Cædmon’s Hymn

Date: s. xiimed

Summary:

Cædmon’s Hymn which is added in Old English by the main hand in a margin of a copy of the Latin text of the Historia ecclesiastica. Place of production not known. The hand has some similar characteristics to that of a scribe in Bodley 343, fols 1-170.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 99r

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

   Bibliography:

   Dobbie 1937, 39 (Mg)

   Ker 1957, p. 434

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Orietta Da Rold, Mary Swan and Owen Roberson, with reference to published scholarship.

Bibliography:

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 357