Description
Alternative title
Gregorii Dialogi Saxonice
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 2 + 157 + 2
Date created
[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Language
English, Old (ca. 450-1100), Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
30 lines to a page
Height (mm)
230
Width (mm)
145
Collation
2 flyleaves, 1(8)-18(8) (7 canc.) 19(8) 20(8) (wants 7, 8), 2 flyleaves.
Writing
in a very fine clear hand
Foliation
ff. a-b + i-iii + 1-159 + c-d
Provenance
At top of f. 1r is :G · I : which is not in the usual hand of the Bury St Edmunds press-mark, but would otherwise suit that provenance.
Research
Specimens of the text of this MS. are given by Krebs in Anglia II 65 sqq. The last edition is that in Grein-Wülcker's Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Prosa, 1907, by H. Hecht
Additions
On f. iv a note in neat black letter (xvi): Werefrithus Episcopus Wigornensis iussu Æluredi regis libros dialogorum beati Gregorii de latinitate in saxonicam linguam transtulit. Roger: Houeden.
On f. iiv an effaced name written by Parker in red chalk.
2 fo.
to streigdeð
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 322 contains the translation of Gregory the Great's Dialogues made by Wærferth, Bishop of Worcester in the late ninth and early tenth centuries, at the request of King Alfred the Great. It is the only surviving witness to large parts of the text. It was written in the second half of the eleventh century probably at Worcester, where it has later provenance. James's suggestion of provenance at Bury St Edmunds, provoked by the form of the manuscript's classmark and the inclusion of a similar manuscript in a Bury booklist, has been rejected by Ker.
- Contents
- Dialogi, in Old English translation by Wærferth of Worcester
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