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Producing a library in late Anglo-Saxon England: Exeter, 1050-1072

Title:

Producing a library in late Anglo-Saxon England: Exeter, 1050-1072

Author:

Treharne, E. M.

Notes:

• CCCC MS 190 Notes that CCCC MS 190 originated in Worcester but was part of the Exeter library during Leofric’s episcopacy, p. 157 n. 8
• CCCC MS 191 & CCCC MS 196 & CCCC MS 201 Notes that CCCC MS 196, CCCC MS 191, and CCCC MS 201 were produced in Exeter during Leofric’s episcopacy and contain Old English. Notes that the material was written by numerous scribes and assembled ’piecemeal’, pp. 157 n. 8, 158 n. 12, 161, 162
• CCCC MS 265 & CCCC MS 557 Notes that CCCC MS 265 and CCCC MS 557 contain works in Old English useful to a monastic institution (a fragment of a homily in the case of 557) which were produced in Worcester during Wulfstan’s episcopacy, p. 160 n. 26
• CCCC MS 419 & CCCC MS 421 Notes that CCCC MS 419 and CCCC MS 421 originated in Canterbury but contain Old English added in Exeter probably during Leofric’s episcopacy. Some of these additions were by scribes involved in the writing of Lambeth 489, pp. 157 n. 8, 165 CCCC MS 421 also contains the work of scribes who also worked on the volume now split between Lambeth 489 and BL Cotton Cleopatra B. xiii, pp. 157 n. 8, 159, 165

Volume:

n.s., 54

Pages:

155–72

DOI:

10.1093/res/54.214.155

Reference Type:

Journal article

Manuscript:

cr485km1781