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Bede, Aethelwulf — Multiple dates; English,

MS. Bodl. 163

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Title

Bede, Aethelwulf — Multiple dates; English,

Nennius, Ps.-Methodius, Caesarius of Arles — 12th century, first half; English

Sermons — 15th century, early

Ralph de Hengham — 13th century, late

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 163

Associated place

Flanders

France

Place of origin

English

English,

Date

15th century, early

additions, 12th century, beginning

13th century, late

11th century

12th century, first half

Language

Old English (ca. 450-1100)

Latin

Contents

MS. Bodl. 163 – Part 1 (fols. 1–227)
1. (fol. 1)
Bede Ecclesiastical history
On the margin of fol. 152v, half-erased, is Caedmon's hymn
There are four Old English glosses, published by A. S. Napier (Old English Glosses, 1900, p. 198), and 15th cent. marginal notes in ink and in lead.
At fol. 209 follows a 12th cent. note on Ethelred II and Edmund Ironside.
2. (fol. 209v) Aethelwulf De abbatibus
At fol. 226v follows an extract from Jerome and from Orosius 'de situ Babylonis'
Incipit: 'Tigaoð. Tigaoð. Tigaoð. calicet
MS. Bodl. 163 – Part 2 (fols. 228–251)
1. (fol. 228) Nennius Historia Britonum
Incipit: Quinquagesimo ergo quarto anno
2. (fol. 245) Ps.-Methodius De initio et fine saeculi
After this follow
(fol. 248v) pedigree of the counts of Flanders to Baldwin VII (1111–19) and list of the kings of France to Louis VI (1108–37)
(fol. 249v) three lections for st. Oswald
(fol. 250) Old English and Latin glosses in the same hand as the charm on fol. 227; see Lendinara, op. cit.
(fol. 250v) Caesarius of Arles Sermo 216
(fol. 251) Book-list of about seventy works, probably of Peterborough Abbey: 'the hypothesis of a Peterborough origin for the inventory is confirmed by the fact that some of the books can be identified in the earlier inventory of books given to Peterborough by Bishop Æthelwold...and others with items in the abbey's fifteenth-century Matricularium' (M. Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (1999), 143).
MS. Bodl. 163 - endleaf (fol. i)
Sermons
MS. Bodl. 163 - endleaf (fol. 252)
Ralph de Hengham Summa magna, Summa parua

Physical extent

ii + 252 leaves

Binding

Oxford; stamped leather on older boards, about 1605.

Acquisition

Presented by John Barneston in 1605.

Provenance

Peterborough Abbey, probably by the early 12th century: evidence of the booklist, fol. 251 (BP2.8).

Peterborough Abbey, 1357: fol. 250v (half rubbed out) is 'Anno Domini Mº CCCº 1º ixº obiit frater Ricardus [?] de burgo Petri'; identifiable in the late-fourteenth-century catalogue (BP21.56)

'Henricus Stowkes' is on fol. 250, 15th cent.

Fol. 249v, 'Humffridus Natures', 16th cent.: Humphrey Natures, monk of Peterborough abbey, hostiller in 1533–5, afterwards pensioner of the house (MLGB)

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