Collection of Old English items
MS. Ballard 58
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Collection of Old English items
Shelfmark
MS. Ballard 58
Summary
1. P. 1. 'Flores ex D. Augustini Soliloquiorum libro ... Saxonicè redditi a ... rege Aluredo': beg. 'Gaderode me j: onne rigelas [sic] & stucan sceaftas', a copy from MS. Junius 70, itself a copy of Brit. Mus. MS. Cotton Vitellius A. 15.
2. P. 67. Several smaller pieces in Old English:
A homily, beg. 'Basilius se eadiga be ðam we ær awriton
P. 95, 'Dominicæ orationis brevis expositio', beg. 'Ƿe firrste bede Þæt mann bitt', an extract from the Ormulum
P. 99, Extracts from a martyrology, xii Kal. Dec. Passio S. Edmundi beg. 'Sum swyðe gelæred munuc'), and Non. Aug. Natale S. Oswaldi beg. 'Eftær ðan ðe Augustinus')
P. 121, 'De Infantibus', beg. 'We biddað eow men', one of Ælfric's Homilies in MS. Junius 24
P. 123, 'In dedicatione aecclesiae', beg. 'Men ða leofestan', one of Ælfric's Homilies, as above
P. 147, 'Hu Bonefatius Sam Gotan gefillde ða flaxan', and other miracles of the saint, with an English translation (an extract from the Old English translation of the Dialogues of Gregory)
Date
Written about 1730 (?) by G. Ballard
Language
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
158 pages
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Collection of Old English items
