Manuscript: BL Cotton Claudius A.iii, fols. 31–86 and 106–50

Description (from Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts)

Metrical inscription* ; Laws : Æthelred VI+* (s. xi1/4); Pontifical ; Benedictional : s. x/xi, Worcester or York. FC : Turner (1971), pp. 1--88.

Current location

Repository
British Library
Town or City
London
Shelfmark
Cotton Claudius A.iii

Other information

Catalogue Numbers
G. 314
K. 141
Format
Unspecified
Date
Unspecified
Origin
Worcester or York , Wulfstan annotations

Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (G. 314)

Metrical inscription* ; Laws : Æthelred VI+* (s. xi1/4); Pontifical ; Benedictional : s. x/xi, Worcester or York. FC : Turner (1971), pp. 1--88.

DigiPal Project

Ker 1948, p. 54-5: Assoc'd with Wulfstan. Has annotations by Wulfstan.

Ker: 'A metrical inscription on the verso of a blank leaf [31v] records that the benedictional ... was bound sumptuously at the expense of one Þureð' (s. x/xi); 'the Þureð for whom the book was bound may be the earl of that name who owned Yorkshire lands and signed charters of King Æðelred, s. x2' [but no, it's not!]

Printed by Napier, 1906, Trans. Phil. Soc. 1903–6, p. 299.

Ic eom halgungboc healde hine dryhten
þe me fægere þus frætewum be
legde. þureð to þance þus het me wyr
cean. to love 7 to wurðe þam þe leoht
gesceap. gemyndi is he mihta gehwylc
re þæs þe an foldan gefremian mæg.
7 him geþancie þeoda waldend þæs þe he
on gemynde madma manega wyle ge
mearcian metode to lace.
7 he sceal ece lean ealle findan
þæs þe he
on foldan
fremaþ
to
ryh
te :-