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Anglo-Saxon land charters at Winchester College
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…
Article: 'Making Sense of Ker's Dates: The Origins of Beowulf and Palaeographers'
Article by Francis Leneghan (was Trinity College Dublin, now St Peter's College, Oxford). Originally published in the Proceedings of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies Postgraduate Conference (March 2005).
Bodleian, Junius 11 Manuscript
Low resolution images of Bodleian, MS Junius 11 - also known as the Cædmon Manuscript. Decsribed by Ker (1957) pp. 406-408 and dated as s. x/xi. Paginated with contents as follows: pp. 1-212 Old English poems 'Genesis', 'Exodus', and 'Daniel'. Pp.…
Bodleian, MS Auct. D 2. 16
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…
Bodleian, MS Auct. F. 4. 32 - St. Dunstan's Classbook'
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);…
Bodleian, MS Bodley 579 - Additions to the Leofric Missal
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/.
Bodleian, MS Rawl. Q. e. 20
Life of St. Basil, in Old English, first half of the 11th century: one blackened fragment retrieved from the fire of the Cotton Library in 1731 and given by Browne Willis to Thomas Hearne, from a volume of Saints' Lives of which over fifty other…
CCCC MS 419 - Sermo Lupi
The first four pages of Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, CCCC MS 419, pp. 95-8. This manuscript contains fifteen Old English Homilies by Wulfstan and others. Described by Ker (1957) pp. 115-6, and dated to the first half of the eleventh century.…
Oxford, MS St John's College 154
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…
Oxford, MS St John's College 28
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.