MS. Bodl. 49
Summary Catalogue no.: 1946
Contents
1. (fol. 31)
Rubric: Incipit Liber Aldhelmi episcopi de Virginitate seu laude sanctorum
Carmen de virginitate
, Incipit: Metrica tyrones nunc promant carmina casto
Final rubric: De laude sanctorum patrum atque virginum
Language(s): Latin
Glosses
Language(s): Latin and Old English
2. (fol. 64)
Rubric: Eiusdem de octo vitiis principalibus
, Glosses
Language(s): Latin and Old English
The English glosses are edited in Napier's O. E. Glosses (1900), pp. 181, 189. A leaf appears to have been cut out before fol. 1.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 77 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 7.75 × 6 in.
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 23)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
For date see Gneuss-Lapidge.
Winchester Cathedral: 'Liber sancti Swithini Wintoniensis ecclesie', 13th cent.: 'Hic est liber de Ecclesia [?] sancti ... [Swithini Wintoniensis?] ecclesie', 14th cent.: possibly it was 'S. 10' or 'S. 1. 10' in that library.
'THo. Allen. D.[ono] D.[edit],' in 1601.
Record Sources
Description adapted (April 2020) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 23 [decoration, origin, date]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance and acquisition]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
H. Gneuss and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts : A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (2014), no. 542
Online resources:
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-15: Date revised with reference to GL.