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Amongst the archives at Winchester College are 4 Anglo-Saxon charters which conveyed lands to the monastery in Winchester known as New Minster. These charters are the only pre-conquest documents from the New Minster (later known as Hyde Abbey) to…

These pamphlets formed part of the collection of Professor Arthur Napier, which was acquired by the University after his death. They are reproduced by kind permission of the Oxford University English Faculty Library. Please note that these are…

Additions to the Leofric Missal, described by Ker (1957), pp. 378-379. All these images are © Bodleian Library. The full image collection is available at: http://image.ox.ac.uk/.

Described by Ker (1957), p. 355 as 'Homily; Scribble' this is listed by Bodley as 'St. Dunstan's Classbook'. Contains Eutyches, with Old Breton glosses, 9th century; Homily on the Invention of the Cross in Old English, 11th century (ff. 10-18v);…

Described by Ker (1957) p. 351 as 'Donations to Exeter by Leofric and Athelstan' the manuscript contains Latin Gospels with beast-headed evangelist portraits made at Landévennec, Brittany, late 9th or early 10th century, supplemented in the 11th…

Ælfric's Grammar etc. Only complete copy, possibly the earliest. Contains Ælfric's Grammar and Glossary, Ælfric Bata's colloquy in Latin with occasional Old English glosses and marginalia in ink and drypoint, three further Latin colloquies and…

Glosses of a copy of Gregory the Great's 'Regula Pastoralis'. Described by Ker (1957, pp. 435-36, #361) and dated to the late 10th or early 11th century.

Miscellaneous entries: names written against runes, name glosses, a table of consanguinity, names of the months, names of the days of the week opposite chapter 8 of Bede's 'De temporibus ratione', names of fishes, and a charm 'Wid blodrine of nosu…