MANUSCRIPTS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
Summary
1. R. British Museum, Royal 4 A xiv. 11×7 in. (277 × 180 mm.), the present size of the page, which has been cut down. 2 fos. 27–28 lines to the page. Double column. Late eighth or early ninth century. This fragment consists of a bifolium used as two fly-leaves at the end of the book. The fly-leaves are now numbered fos. 107–8. They are written in what Lowe describes as ‘an expert, rather fluent’ Anglo–Saxon minuscule. The folios contain the prologue and the chapter headings of the first thirty–five chapters and part of the thirty–sixth. The first page of the prologue is only partly decipherable. Some of the prickings survive in the inner margin. The leaves have been bound into the MS. upside down. The rest of the book consists of 108 fos. containing a commentary on the Psalms, usually, though without authority, assigned to St Jerome. The hand is Anglo–Saxon of the late tenth century. Lowe considers that the Guthlac portion was written in south England and presumably at Winchester, for there is some evidence that the rest of the book is palaeographically connected with Winchester. In the early seventeenth century the MS. was at Worcester. It came into the possession of John Theyer of Cooper's Hill, Brockworth, Gloucester, probably between 1644 and 1646.
2. C1. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 307. 9¾ × 6½ in. (248 × 167 mm.). 52 fos. 24 lines to the page. Single column. Written in a good clear insular minuscule hand of the ninth century.
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- Felix's Life of Saint GuthlacTexts, Translation and Notes, pp. 26 - 54Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985