Aldhelm — Multiple dates; English, perhaps Worcester or Canterbury (?)
Arch. A f. 131, wrapper
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Aldhelm — Multiple dates; English, perhaps Worcester or Canterbury (?)
Shelfmark
Arch. A f. 131, wrapper
Place of origin
English, perhaps Worcester or Canterbury (?)
Date
8th century, late, or 9th century, early
glosses, 11th century, first half (?)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
bifolium, cropped severely with some loss of text
Hands
Insular minuscule.
Gloss in Anglo-Caroline.
Decoration
Minor decorated initial.
Acquisition
The present leaf acquired as the wrapper of W. Perkins, Satans sophistrie answered (1604) from Blackwells in 1965 (N. Ker, ‘Supplement to Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon’, Anglo-Saxon England 5 (1976), 122).
Provenance
For the date and origin see the conspectus of earlier scholarship in Dieter Studer-Joho, A catalogue of manuscripts known to contain Old English dry-point glosses (2017), no. 24.
In the area of Kent by the second half of the tenth century, as shown by added Old English glosses in Kentish dialect on other leaves of the manuscript (Ker, Catalogue, no. 12).
Apparently broken up in Brighton in the early nineteenth century: see Gwara, op. cit., pp. 86–7, with details of the history of other leaves.
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