The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

Wells, Cathedral Library, 7

Rule of St. Benedict

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Fragment of Rule of St. Benedict with the Old English following the Latin chapter by chapter. One hand, origin unknown (Ker 1957, item 395).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 1-23

   Title (B.10.3.3): Benedict, Rule

   Incipit: (fol.1) his bigleofan godes

   Text Language: English

   Note: Fol. 8 is missing. [HM]

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 395

Administration Information:

Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Hollie Morgan, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2012).

Bibliography:

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 395