MS. Hatton 42

This is the longer, 69-book version of the Hibernensis. The first quire of this part of the codex (fols 1r–7v) is by a later, English hand (s. x or x/xi) and 'looks like the beginning of an attempt to replace the old and bad text‟ (Ker, 'Handwriting', 328 n. 1).

Glosses to item 1 in Latin and Breton (six glosses), the latter printed by Whitley Stokes in Old Breton Glosses (Calcutta, 1879), pp. 2, 16, and Revue Celtique, iv (1879), pp. 328, 341; there is an Old English word on fol. 49 according to the Summary Catalogue.

This text, which has been dated roughly to between 550 and 650, was formely known as the 'Canones Wallici'. It has been shown by Ludwig Bieler, however, that these 'excerpta' are neither canons in any strict sense, nor are they particularly Welsh in character (they are only later taken up into the Leges Wallici). Rather, they share a great deal in common with Frankish law, especially the Lex Salica from which they seem to borrow. See L. Bieler, 'Towards an interpretation of the co-called "Canones Wallici"', in Medieval studies presented to Aubrey Gwynn, S. J., eds J. A. Watt, J. B. Morrall and F. X. Martin (Dublin, 1961), 387–92.

The final sentence of 66.3―here taken from Gregory's Homiliae in evangelia (ed. Étaix, I, 6, p. 44), not his Regula pastoralis as in Wasserschleben's edition―finishes incompletely (at 'aut recte iuste') and, without break, picks up in 66.6 (at 'qui contempsit pręcepta dei'). Further, 66.6 does not end with a comment on the Egyptians―as in Wasserchleben―but with an account of Jeremiah‟s testing of the fidelity of the Rechabites (Jer. 35:1–19). Neither change is shared by the corresponding canons found elsewhere in this codex (fols 65r and 128v–129r) as integral parts of the Hibernensis B, with which there are many further small, but significant, differences in readings.

Bede mentions these names, among others, in his De temporum ratione (ed. C. W. Jones, c. 14). The final sentence is an explanation of the Hebrew etymology of „Israhel‟. The etymology given („uir uidens deum‟) is common in the works of Jerome, and can be found, for example, in his Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum (ed. P. de Lagarde).

Six columns: auctor; mei generis; mihi pater; ego illi; filius; aut filia. Twenty-one entries, grouped into five rows: ⟨de patribus⟩; de patruis; de amitis; de aunculis; de materteris.

Followed by text:

The text has been written out by a very sloppy later hand (s. x or xi), and fills the remainder of 138v, most of which was left blank by the main scribe. The chapter from Alaric‟s Breviarium is from an abbreviated version (Epitome Aegidii) of an interpretatio to a Valentinian novel (cf. Codex Theodosianus, Novellae, 19.1.4, interpretatio). This novel is in fact referenced by one of the Lex romana Burgundionum excerpts (Title 2.2) in this item; this probably explains why the Breviarium chapter was added at the end.

The tree has been drawn on its side, the text within it written vertically, and fills the whole page. The diagram reckons up to seven degrees (counting 'canonically').

A compendious 'opusculum' concerning miscellaneous topics, including rhetoric, legal history and philosophy, scripture, measurement, and various matters concerning the church. Chapters are excerpted from Cassiodorus' Expositio psalmorum, Isidore's Etymologiae, Sententiae and De ecclesiasticis officiis, Jerome's Commentarii in IV epistulas Paulinas, Gregory I's Homiliae in evangelia, as well as other works. I have not been able to identify the sources for some chapters. The last complete chapter is the Apostles‟ Creed (old Roman type, with each phrase attributed to an apostle). This is followed by a rubricated initial (used to introduce chapters) and the words 'Hanc itaque credentibus tenendam statuunt regulam de clericorum tunsura aecclesiastica', followed by the colophon. Since no where else has the 'opsuculum' touched on the subject of tonusre, it seems that this last is an incomplete chapter. An erased line (beginning 'si quis') follows the colophon.

A quotation of Jer. 3:1, followed by five canon‟s from PTHD.700; see R. Flechner, 'The Making of the Canons of Theodore', Peritia 17 (2003), 121–43, at pp. 131–32.

Materiae:

Only canons from Greek councils are given; the African and Sardican canons are wanting. No decretals are included.

Book 1, with additions from Book 2.21, 33, 41, 45 (and 34: see below)

This text has been heavily annotated by Archbishop Wulfstan; the substance of his notes shows that he was comparing Ansegis‟s collection against a copy of Admonitio generalis (789). Ansegis's Coll.cap. 1.157 has been lengthened with material from Coll.cap. 2.21, and Coll.cap. 1.158 has been replaced by Coll.cap. 2.33. The final chapter of Book 1 (c. 162) is lacking. To the end of Book 1, on fol. 204v, have been added two more canons from Book 2, namely Coll.cap. 2. 41 and 45, concerning the obstinately criminous, and the privileges of ancient churches. A later hand (not Wulfstan's, but rather one that is found making many corrections elsewhere in this codex, especially to items 2 and 13) added 'ita ut nouis oratorii tribua\n/tur' to the last of these, thinking it to be from Coll.cap. 2.34 (identical to 2.45, but for the fact that it lacks these final five words). Another, non-professional hand (the same that wrote item 9) has added an additional chapter after this: 'Vt spontanea profesione reus r\e/um non fatiat, neque illi de atero [sic] credatur, qui se criminosum esse confesus est', the source of which is the interpretatio to Book 9, Title 1.11 of Lex romana Visigothorum, ed. G. Hänel, (Leipzig, 1849; repr. Aalen, 1962), 172, but (as in item 9.2) from the Epitome Aegidii version.