Cambridge, University Library, MS Hh.1.10
Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary
Contents
Text ends imperfectly.
Physical Description
20th-century foliation
a + i-vi + 1-93 + vii-viii + b
Written in pencil in the top right-hand corner of the recto side of each leaf, largely replacing an earlier sequence written in ink (and now largely cropped).
Collation
- Quire 18-1 (ff. 1-7: 1st leaf excised, probably blank)
- Quires 2-118 (ff. 8-87)
- Quire 128-1 (ff. 88-93: 7th-8th leaves missing)
Condition
The manuscript contained 290 pages (145 leaves) in 1574, i.e., 52 leaves more than at present; and Ælfric's Glossary was followed by 'Historia Angliæ Saxon'. See the printed list of Parker's donation to the University, found in some copies of his De antiquitate Britannicæ Ecclesiæ Cantuariensis (1572).
The last two leaves of Quire 12, now wanting, were present in the 16th century when John Joscelyn (1529-1603) included words excerpted from them in London, Lambeth Palace 692, fols 9v-10r.
A piece of parchment (5 cm x 1.5 cm) has been cut from the outer top corner of fol. 1.
Moderate cropping presumably occurred on the occasion of the earlier binding, as ink foliation numbers and the 17th-century annotations have suffered.
Layout
155 × 100 mm. Ruled in hardpoint, frame and line. Single columns, 26 (Quires 7-12) or 27 lines (Quires 1-6) to the page, written above top line. The ruling varies in Quire 6: 23 lines on leaves 3-6 (ff. 42-45), 25 lines on leaves 2 and 7 (ff. 41 and 46) and 27 lines on leaves 1 and 8 (ff.. 40 and 47). As prickings exist only in the outer margins of the manuscript, the leaves were pricked before folding.
Hand(s)
The main text of the book is written in five hands, 'carefully differentiating Latin and Old English by their use of Caroline [minuscule] or Insular minuscule respectively' (see Drage (1978), p. 337). For further details, see the description available at The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220 project.
Rubrics written in rustic capitals.
Additions
Marginalia throughout in the hand of Robert Talbot (c. 1505-1558) , prebendary of Norwich Cathedral (from 1547) and treasurer there until his death. These show a particular interest in place-names. His note on f. 93v, ‘Vide librum de legibus anglorum et danorum’, probably refers to Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 383, which he owned or used.
Other marginalia by John Joscelyn (1529-1603) (see, for example, f. 11r, where the larger hand is Talbot and the smaller one Joscelyn).
Marginal annotation by Matthew Parker (1504-1575) , archbishop of Canterbury (f. 41v).
Catchwords added in pencil by an early modern hand.
Notes towards an alphabetical index, in ink (ff. iii recto-vi verso: A-Q only; rest lost), by the hand of Abraham Wheelocke (c. 1593-1653) , University Librarian 1629-53.
Notes on the collation and textual contents by Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886), University Librarian 1867-1886 (f. vii recto).
Collation formula by the hand of H.L. Pink (f. b recto).
Binding
Plain light brown leather binding by Douglas Cockerell and Son (1969) with gold lettering on spine. Sewing guards around each quire and ff. 7 and 88 mounted on guards.
Pastedowns and a University Library bookplate are preserved from an earlier, 18th-century binding, noted by N.R. Ker. The pastedowns are a page from Paulus de Sancta Maria, bishop of Burgos, Scrutinum Scripturarum (Paris: Anthonius Bonne Mere, colophon dated 1472 but printed c. 1515).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
N.R. Ker ascribes a Christ Church, Canterbury provenance based on the suggestion that it was bound with London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.viii, an assertion that has been refuted by Dumville. Drage suggests that although the manuscript is not identifiable in the inventories of 1327 or 1506, it remained at Exeter Cathedral Priory until the sixteenth century (p. 338).
Presented to the University Library in 1574 by Matthew Parker (1504-1575) , archbishop of Canterbury. No. 23 in the list of 25 'Libri Scripti in pergameno' published to commemorate Parker's gift (see Early catalogues of manuscripts, up to c. 1600.
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Bibliography
Editions
Aelfric's Grammatik und Glossar Sammlung englischer Denkmäler in kritischen Ausgaben, (Berlin, Weidmann, 1880) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a collaborative edition, (Cambridge, 1: Facsimile of MS F: the Domitian Bilingual, D.S. Brewer, 1995) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a collaborative edition, (Woodbridge, 8: MS F: a semi-diplomatic edition with introduction and indices, D.S. Brewer, 2000) Multilingual glosses, bilingual text: English, French and Latin in three manuscripts of Ælfric's Grammar Old English literature in its manuscript context ACLS Humanities E-Book, Menzer, M. (Morgantown, Va., 95-119, West Virginia University Press, 2004, https://www-fulcrum-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/concern/monographs/5t34sk315)Bibliography
Manuscript descriptions
A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge, (Cambridge, 3: Gg-Kk, Cambridge University Press, 1858) Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts, Part II and Part III: MSS connected with Exeter Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Bishop, T.A.M. (2, 2, 185-199, 1955, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41154356) Catalogue of manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon, Ker, N.R. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1957) English Caroline minuscule Oxford palaeographical handbooks, Bishop, T.A.M. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971) Bishop Leofric and the Exeter Cathedral Chapter, 1050-1072: A reassessment of the manuscript evidence, Drage, E. (1978, PhD) Theodulfi Capitula in England: die altenglischen Übersetzungen, zusammen mit dem lateinischen Text Texte und Untersuchungen zur englischen Philologie, (München, Fink, 1978) Manuscripts from Anglo-Saxon England: an exhibition in the University Library Cambridge to mark the conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, August 1985, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, 1985) Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 737-1600 in Cambridge Libraries, Robinson, P.R. (Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 1988) Anglo-Saxon Exeter: a tenth-century cultural history Studies in Anglo-Saxon history, Conner, Patrick W. (Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 1993) Matthew Parker and his books: Sandars lectures in bibliography delivered on 14, 16, and 18 May 1990 at the University of Cambridge Sandars lectures, Page, R.I. (Kalamazoo, Mich.; Cambridge, Medieval Institute Publications; Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, 1993) The origin of the Exeter Book of Old English poetry Anglo-Saxon England, Gameson, Richard (25, 135-85, 1996) Producing a Library in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Exeter, 1050-1072 Review of English Studies, Treharne, Elaine M. (54, 214, 155-172, 2003, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3661330) Multilingual glosses, bilingual text: English, French and Latin in three manuscripts of Ælfric's Grammar Old English literature in its manuscript context ACLS Humanities E-Book, Menzer, M. (Morgantown, Va., 95-119, West Virginia University Press, 2004, https://www-fulcrum-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/concern/monographs/5t34sk315) Leofric of Exeter and the practical politics of book collecting Imagining the book Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe, Hill, Joyce (Turnhout, 77-98, Brepols, 2005) Bishops and their texts in the later eleventh century: Worcester and Exeter Essays in manuscript geography: vernacular manuscripts of the English West Midlands from the Conquest to the sixteenth century Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe, Treharne, Elaine M. (Turnhout, 13-28, Brepols, 2007) Anglo-saxon manuscripts in microfiche facsimile Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Lucas, Peter J.Wilcox, Jonathan (Tempe (AZ), 16: Manuscripts relating to Dunstan, Ælfric, and Wulfstan; the "Eadwine Psalter" Group, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008) Their hands before our eyes: a closer look at scribes : the Lyell lectures delivered in the University of Oxford, 1999, Parkes, M.B. (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008) Glosses and notes in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts Working with Anglo-Saxon manuscripts Exeter medieval texts and studies, Graham, T. (Exeter, 159-203, University of Exeter Press, 2009) Cambridge, University Library, Hh. 1. 10 - The Production and Use of English Manuscripts: 1060 to 1220, Kato, Takako (2012, http://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.CUL.Hh.1.10.htm) A conspectus of scribal hands writing English, 960-1100 Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon studies, Scragg, D.G. (Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2012)Bibliography
Secondary studies
Leland's transcript of Ælfric's <hi rend="italics">Glossary</hi> Anglo-Saxon England, Buckalew, Ronald E. (7, 149-64, 1978) Nowell, Lambarde, and Leland: The Significance of Laurence Nowell's Transcript of Ælfric's Grammar and Glossary Anglo-Saxon Scholarship: The First Three Centuries, Buckalew, Ronald E. (Boston, MA, 19-50, G. K. Hall, 1982) The tremulous hand of Worcester: a study of Old English in the thirteenth century, Franzen, Christine (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991) Teaching and learning Latin in thirteenth-century England, Hunt, Tony (Cambridge, 1, D.S. Brewer, 1991) John Joscelyn and the laws of the Anglo-Saxon kings Words, Texts and Manuscripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Helmut Gneuss on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, Bately, Janet M. (Cambridge, 435-66, D.S. Brewer, 1992) A testimonye of verye ancient tyme? Some manuscript models for the Parkerian Anglo-Saxon type-designs Of the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, their Scribes and Readers. Essays presented to M.B. Parkes, Lucas, Peter J. (Aldershot, 147-88, Scolar Press, 1997) Abraham Wheelock and the Presentation of Anglo-Saxon: From Manuscript to Print Beatus vir: studies in early English and Norse manuscripts: in memory of Phillip Pulsiano Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies, Lucas, P.J. (Tempe, 383-439, ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), 2006) Ælfric's grammatical triad Form and content of instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the light of contemporary manuscript evidence: papers presented at the international conference, Udine, 6-8 April 2006 Textes et études du moyen âge, Hill, Joyce (Turnhout, 285-307, Brepols, 2007) Instructional manuscripts in England: the tenth- and eleventh-century codices and the early Norman ones Form and content of instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the light of contemporary manuscript evidence: papers presented at the international conference, Udine, 6-8 April 2006 Textes et études du moyen âge, Lendinara, Patrizia (Turnhout, 59-113, Brepols, 2007) Leofric of Exeter and his Lotharingian connections: A bishop's books, c. 1050-72, Corradini, Erika (Leicester, 2008, PhD) The objects of knowledge: reconstructing medieval communities through a material analysis of manuscripts New Medieval Literatures, Corradini, Erika (13, 199-220, 2011) Multilingualism and the <hi rend="italics">Vocabularium Cornicum</hi> Multilingualism in medieval Britain (c. 1066-1520): sources and analysis Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe, Blom, Alderik H. (Turnhout, 59-71, Brepols, 2013)Digital Images
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