The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson C. 641

Glosses, and proverbs in Latin, French and English

Date: s. xii2, xii/xiii

Summary:

Six OE interlinear glosses, added s. xii2 by the main hand to a text which Liebermann calls Instituta Cnuti. Proverbs, mostly in French and Latin, with two in French, Latin and English, added s. xii/xiii as part of an anonymous collection. Ker (1957, p. 427) suggests a Kentish place of production, and argues against Liebermann who makes a case for the hands being French.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 32-40v

   Title (C.59): Gloss to Instituta Cnuti

   Addition: (fol. 32) suling

   Addition: (fol. 33) ordel

   Addition: (fol. 40v) tuxel

   Addition: (fol. 40v) cinban

   Addition: (fol. 40v) meri

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 348

2. Item: fol. 13v

   Title (B.7.4): Proverbs

   Addition: Si stille suge fret þere grunninde mete

   Addition: On dai bringd þet al ier ne mai

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 348

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson, manuscript items added by Hollie Morgan, with reference to published scholarship.

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 348

Liebermann, F., ed., Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, 3 vols (Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1903 )