MS. Bodl. 163
Summary Catalogue no.: 2016
Physical Description
Binding
Oxford; stamped leather on older boards, about 1605.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
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)
Presented by John Barneston in 1605.
MS. Bodl. 163 – Part 1 (fols. 1–227)
Contents
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.
Fol. 227, a charm
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Several hands.
Decoration
Good initial, fol. I, the whole page added to a MS. of 11th century. Cf. MS. Laud Misc. 636. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 71, pl. VII)
History
MS. Bodl. 163 – Part 2 (fols. 228–251)
Contents
Without the Saxon genealogies. It contains Mommsen's parts i-iv, vi, vii, ending 'in extremis finibus cosmi'.
At fol. 243 follows a chronological computation made in 1105
After this follow
Fols. 250–251 form a separate codicological unit according to P. Lendinara, Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries, 1999, pp. 329–355.
(fol. 250) Old English and Latin glosses in the same hand as the charm on fol. 227; see Lendinara, op. cit.
Beginning only (Migne, Patrol. Lat. xxxix. 2113)
(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).
Physical Description
History
MS. Bodl. 163 - endleaf (fol. i)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
History
MS. Bodl. 163 - endleaf (fol. 252)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Ed. Selden, 1616, pp. 66.14–72.8; 84.23–92.13
Physical Description
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (6 images from 35mm slides)
Surrogates
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2003), vol. 10: Manuscripts Containing Works by Bede, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Other Texts
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-15: Description revised to incorporate all information from SC.