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Alternative title

Bedae Vita Cuthberti. Genealogiae etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 96

Date created

[ca. 800 CE - 899 CE]

Language

Latin, English, Old (ca. 450-1100)

Material

Vellum

Layout

mostly with 26 lines to a page

Height (mm)

295

Width (mm)

195

Collation

A(8)-I(8) (wants 6) K(8) L(8) (4, 5 are singles) M(8) (+ 1).

Writing

in a very beautiful Anglo-Celtic hand: two scribes are distinguishable

Foliation

ff. i-ii + 1-97 + iii-iv

Provenance

f. 1r is blank but for the letter W at top (xvi), possibly indicating that Nicholas Wotton was the donor. It can hardly be doubted that the book is from Durham Priory, but I cannot identify it with anything in the Catalogi Veteres. See further below.

Plummer (Bede, I cxlvii, note) refers to Symeon of Durham (I 211) as saying that in 931 Æthelstan gave a copy of Bede's lives of Cuthbert to the see, which was then at Chester-le-Street, and adds : This copy is now in the Library of C. C. C. Cambridge, no. 183. The words in the charter quoted by Symeon are unam sancti Cuthberti uitam metrice et prosaice scriptam. If this interesting identification is correct (as I believe it to be), we must suppose that the picture at the beginning of the book represents Æthelstan offering the volume to St Cuthbert.

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Incipit prefatio

Scripta erant

Summary

CCCC MS 183 is one of several manuscripts associated with Æthelstan, King of the English (924/5-39), but the only one of these written in England in his reign. He seems to have commissioned it for presentation to the community of St Cuthbert, which at this point was at Chester-le-Street in Country Durham, having fled Lindisfarne to escape Viking attacks but not yet settled in its eventual home at Durham. The famous presentation picture shows Æthelstan, with bowed head, presenting the book to St Cuthbert himself, and is a very important example of the revival of figure art in manuscript painting during Æthelstan's reign. It was written between 934 and 939, the year of Æthelstan's death, by a scribe who also appears in London, BL MS Royal 7. D. XXIV, perhaps at Glastonbury, but certainly somewhere in the south of England. It contains Bede's two Lives of St Cuthbert, the first in prose and the second metrical, and a mass and office for Cuthbert's feast day, as well as lists of popes, bishops, and kings, and a record of Æthelstan's other gifts to the community. Its production can be linked to Æthelstan's political activities in the North.

Contents

Vita Sancti Cuthberti -- List of Popes -- The Seventy-Two Disciples of Christ -- Archbishops of Canterbury -- Bishops of Rochester -- Bishops of the East Saxons -- Bishops of the South Saxons -- Bishops of the West Saxons and Winchester -- Bishops of Sherborne -- Bishops of Wells -- Bishops of Crediton -- Bishops of the Hwicce after Seaxƿulf -- Bishops of the Mercians -- Bishops of Hereford -- Bishops of Lindsey -- Bishops of the East Anglians -- Bishops of Dunwich -- Archbishops of York -- Bishops of Hexham -- Bishops of Lindisfarne -- Bishops of Whithorn -- Genealogies of Northumbrian kings -- Lengths of reigns of Northumbrian kings -- Lengths of reigns of Mercian kings -- Genealogy of Mercian kings -- Genealogy of Mercian kings -- Kings of Lindsey -- Kings of Kent -- Kings of the East Angles -- Kings of the West Saxons -- Notes on the Ages of the World and other subjects -- Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica, with glossary -- Mass and Office of St Cuthbert

M.R. James Date

ix

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mj063yd9391/MS_183.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jy389tz7099/183.pdf

Contains

• Bede the Venerable, Vita Sancti Cuthberti. 1v-58r

  Nasmith

  Liber Bedae presbiteri de vita et miraculis S. Cuthberti. 1v-58r

  Author

  Bede the Venerable

  Note

  On f. 1v is a fine full-page picture. The frame is of yellow, enclosing panels of conventional foliage with birds and a lion, in white on deep-red ground, exceedingly sharp and good. The ground of the picture is plain. On L. a king in short dark (purple) mantle over lighter tunic, red hose, crown, yellow hair and beard, stands under an arch with tiled dome: he bends over to R. and holds an open book. On R. a church with tiled roof, clerestory and aisles (tiled): rectangular window in W. gable: ornament at the summit of each gable. In front of it (at W. end) stands a nimbed beardless saint, tonsured, in chasuble (red) over alb, holding up his R. hand, a book in L. On the identification of the figures see below.

  Rubric

  (2r) Incipit prefatio bede presbiteri de uita sancti cuðberhti lindisfarnensis episcopi ad eadfridum episcopum

  Note

  (P. L. XCIV 575)

  Incipit

  (2r) Domino sancto ac beatissimo

  Note

  (capitals, filled in with red and yellow: large initial, principally in red and yellow, with bird's head)

  Explicit

  (3v) dilectissimi fratres et domini mei. Amen

  Rubric

  (3v) Explicit prologus libri sequentis deo gratias. fiat
  (3v) Incipiunt capitule (corr. to a) libri sequentis

  Note

  (xlvi)

  Rubric

  (5v) Incipit liber de vita et miraculis sancti cuthberhti lindisfarnensi episcopi

  Note

  in fine red capitals

  Incipit

  (6r) Principium nobis scribendi de uita beati cuðberhti

  Note

  Fine initial: framework in red: panels of acanthus and other patterns in white on yellow
  Numerals of chapters are in red, usually placed central, in a line by themselves. Initials of chapters are very prettily done in red, green, and blue, sometimes in single colours: sometimes with heads of beasts. The number xviii is written xiiiiiiii
  Cap. xlv ends

  Explicit

  (56r) misericordia et miseratione coronat. Amen

  Rubric

  (56r) xlvi. Explicit liber de uita et miraculis sancti cuðberhti lindisfarnensis aecclesie episcopi feliciter. Amen
  (56r) Item ex libro historiae aecclesiastice gentis anglorum quarto kapitulo uicesimo nono

  Note

  (Historia Ecclesiastica IV 31 edd.)

  Incipit

  (56r) Erat in eodem monasterio frater quidam

  Note

  (57r) xlvii (Historia Ecclesiastica IV 32)

  Incipit

  (57r) Nec silentio praetereundum quod ante triennium

  Explicit

  (58r) tumoris apparuisset. deo gratias

  Note

  (58v) blank

• List of Popes. 59r-60r

  Nasmith

  Pontificum sedis apostolicae. 59r-60r

  Note

  After Item 1 follow lists of the Popes, of the 70 disciples, and of English Bishops and Kings. I give the text of these in full (excepting that of the Popes) and also a collation with the earliest MS. of the lists, Vespasian B. 6 (V). This, though often differing in spelling, agrees with 183 in some of its most curious errors. Note: James' lists appear here. For his comparison with the Vespasian manuscript see the following figures:

  Rubric

  (59r) Nomina pontificum sedis (apostolice erased)

  Note

  Column 1
  i. Petrus ii. Linus to xxv. Xistus
  Column 2
  xxvi. Dionisius to l. Felix
  (59v) Column 1
  li. Gelasius to lxxvi. Martinus
  (59v) Column 2
  lxxvii. Eugenius ... xcviii. Hadrianus xcviiii. Leo c. Stephanus ci. Pascual cii. Eugenius
  (60r) Column 1
  ciii. Ualentinus ciiii. Gregorius cv. Sergius cvi. Leo cvii. Benedictus cviii. Nicolaus cviiii. Adrianus cx. Iohannis cxi. Marinus cxii. Adrianus
  The numbering is continued, without names, to cxviii.

• The Seventy-Two Disciples of Christ. 60r-60v

  Nasmith

  Septuaginta duorum discipulorum Christi. 60r-60v

  Note

  (60r) Column 2

  Rubric

  (60r) Nomina septuaginta duorum discipulorum Christi

  Note

  i. Iacobus Iustus ii. Mathias iii. Ioseph iiii. alius Ioseph v. Marcus euuangelista vi. barnabas vii. lucas euuangelista viii. cleophas viiii. seneca x. symeon xi. lucius xii. manain xiii. sostenes xiiii. caefas xv. thaddeus xvi. ermen (qui) et pastor xvii. andronicus xviii. Iohannas xviiii. Amplias xx. Urbanus xxi. erodiones xxii. asyncritis xxiii. Iasonem xxiiii. Stephanus prius martir
  (60v) Column 1
  xxv. Philippus xxvi. Prochorus xxvii. Nicanor xxviii. Timon xxviiii. Parmena xxx. Aquilas xxxi. Iudas qui uocabatur barnabas xxxii. Silas xxxiii. Siluanus xxxiiii. Symon cleophe xxxv. Nason xxxvi. Agabas xxxvii. Ananias xxxviii. Ignatius xxxviiii. Symon xl. quirenense xli. Alexander xlii. Rufus xliii. Nathanael xliiii. Nichodemus xlv. Cleophas xlvi. Symon xlvii. Iudas xlviii. Iacobus xlviiii. Symon Coriarius l. Lucas
  (60v) Column 2
  li. barnabas lii. Iohannes liii. barnabas liiii. Stephanus lv. chorisius lvi. milichus lvii. gaius lviii. Flegonta lviiii. Ermen Hi sunt qui electi fuerunt ab apostolis in ordinem pro quibus(dam) qui recesserunt lx. appellen probabilis lxi. dyonisius ariopagita lxii. æpenetus lxiii. Iesus qui dicitur Iustus lxiiii. Stachin lxv. Ponplius lxvi. Aristobolus lxvii. Stephanus Corinthiensis lxviii. Erodius lxviiii. Rufus lxx. Olymphus lxxi. Titus lxxii. Filimonem

• Archbishops of Canterbury. 61r-61r

  Nasmith

  Archiepiscoporum Dorobernensis ecclesiae. 61r-61r

  Rubric

  (61r) Nomina archiepiscoporum dorobernensis ecclesie

  Note

  (61r) i. Agustinus ii. Laurentius iii. Mellitus iiii. Iustus v. Honorius vi. Deusdedit vii. Theodorus viii. berhtuualdus viiii. Tatuuinus x. Noðhelmus xi. Cuðberhtus xii. Iaenberhtus xiii. breguuinus xiiii. æðelheardus xv. uulfredus xvi. feologeldus xvii. ceolnoðus xviii. æðelredus xviiii. plegmundus xx. æðelhelmus xxi. Uulfhelmus
  xxii. (The number original: the name Odo added in cent. xvi) xxiii. (The number original: the name Dunstanus added in cent. xvi) xxiiii. (The number original: the name Athelgarus added in cent. xvi)
  xxv. The last original number. The series is continued to no. 70 (Matthew Parker). Dates are added for all the Archbishops in the same hand of cent. xvi

• Bishops of Rochester. 61v-61v

  Nasmith

  Episcoporum Hrofensis ecclesiae. 61v-61v

  Rubric

  (61v) Nomina episcoporum hrofens ecclesie

  Note

  (61v) i. Paulinus ii. Ithamar iii. Putta iiii. Cuuichelm v. Gebmund vi. Tobias vii. Alduulf viii. Dunn viiii. Earduulf x. Deora xi. Uuærmund xii. beornmod
  The numbering is continued to xviii

• Bishops of the East Saxons. 61v-61v

  Nasmith

  Episcoporum Horientalium Saxonum. 61v-61v

  Rubric

  (61v) Nomina episcoporum horientalium saxonum

  Note

  (61v) i. Mellitus ii. Cedd iii. Ercnuuald iiii. Uualdhere v. Inguuald vi. Ecguulf vii. Sighæh viii. Eadberht viiii. Eadgar x. Coenuualh xi. Eadbald xii. Haðoberht xiii. Osmund xiiii. Æþelnoð xv. Ceolberht
  The numbering is continued to xviii

• Bishops of the South Saxons. 62r-62r

  Nasmith

  Episcoporum Australium Saxonum. 62r-62r

  Rubric

  (62r) Nomina episcoporum australium saxonum

  Note

  (62r) i. Eadberht ii. Eolla iii. Sicgga iiii. Aluberht v. Osa vi. Gislhere vii. Tota viii. Ƿiohthun viiii. æþeluulf x. Cynred xi. Guðheard
  The numbering is continued to xviii

• Bishops of the West Saxons and Winchester. 62r-62v

  Nasmith

  Episcoporum Occidentalium Saxonum et Wentanae civitatis. 62r-62v

  Rubric

  (62r) Nomina episcoporum occidentalium saxonum

  Note

  (62r) i. birinus fuit episcopus qui cum consilio honorii pape venerat brittaniam ii. Agilberht iii. Ƿine iiii. leutherius v. hædde deinde in duas parrochias diuisus est. altera uuenta cenorum ecclesie altera scireburnensis ecclesie

  Rubric

  (62r) uuentane ciuitatis episcopi

  Note

  (62r) vi. Danihel vii. Hunfrið viii. Cynheard viiii. Æþelheard x. Ecgbald xi. dudd xii. Cynebryht xiii. Alhmund xiiii. Ƿigþegn xv. Hereferð xvi. Eadhun xvii. Helmstan
  (62v) xviii. Sƿiðhun xviiii. xx. Deneƿulf xxi. Friþestan xxii. Ælfheah xxiii. xxiiii. Deinde uuintoni xxv. ensis ecclesia in duas xxvi. parrochias xxvii. diuisa est tempore xxviii. Friþestani. unam tenu xxviiii. it Friðestan. et alteram xxx. Æþelstan. postea. Oda

• Bishops of Sherborne. 62v-62v

  Nasmith

  Episcoporum Scireburnensis ecclesiae. 62v-62v

  Rubric

  (62v) Scireburnensis ecclesie episcopi

  Note

  (62v) i. Adhelm ii. Forðhere iii. Hereuuald iiii. Æðelmod v. Denefrið vi. Ƿigbriht vii. [E]alhstanE added viii. heahmund viiii. æþelheah x. Ƿulfsige xi. asser xii. æðelƿeard
  deinde in tres parrochias diuisa est. ƿillensis ecclesie et cridiensi(s) ecclesie

  Rubric

  (62v) Scireburnensis ecclesie

  Note

  (62v) xiii. ƿærstan xiiii. æþelbald xv. Sigelm xvi. ælfred

• Bishops of Wells. 62v-62v

  Nasmith

  Episcoporum Wellensis ecclesiae. 62v-62v

  Rubric

  (62v) Uuillensis ecclesie

  Note

  (62v) i. æƿelmus ii. uulfhelmus iii. ælfheah

• Bishops of Crediton. 62v-62v

  Nasmith

  Episcoporum Cridiensis ecclesiae. 62v-62v

  Rubric

  (62v) Cridiensis aecclesie

  Note

  (62v) i. Eaduulf (ii). æþelgar

• Bishops of the Hwicce after Seaxƿulf. 62v-63r

  Nasmith

  Hwicciorum post Seaxwulfum. 62v-63r

  Rubric

  (62v) Nomina episcoporum huuicciorum post seaxƿulfum

  Note

  (62v) i. bosel ii. oftfor iii. Ecgƿine iiii. ƿilfrid v. milred vi. ƿærmund
  (63r) vii. tilhere viii. heaðored viiii. denebriht x. heaberht
  The numbering goes on to xv

• Bishops of the Mercians. 63r-63v

  Nasmith

  Episcoporum provinciae Merciorum. 63r-63v

  Rubric

  (63r) Nomina episcoporum prouinciae merciorum

  Incipit

  (63r) Primus in prouintia merciorum et lindisfarorum ac mediterraneorum anglorum episcopus

  Note

  (63r) i. Diuina ii. Cella hambo de scotia iii. Trumhere de natione anglorum iiii. Gearomon v. Ceadda vi. Vuynfrið vii. Seaxuulf Postea uero in .v. parrochias diuiditur. post seaxuulfum prouinciae merciorum duos episcopos habuit. headdan et uuilfriðum. postea uuilfriðus eiectus. et headda prefatus regebat ambas parrochias. deinde alduuine quiet uuor nominabatur. Iterum diuisa est in duas parrochias i. Torhthelm ii. Eadberht
  (63v) iii. unƿona iiii. Ƿerenberht v. ræðhún vi. aldred vii. ciolred i. hƿita ii. hæmele iii. cuðfrið iiii. berhthun v. hygeberht vi. alduulf vii. hereƿine viii. æþeluuald viiii. humberht x. cyneferð

• Bishops of Hereford. 63v-63v

  Rubric

  (63v) Nomina episcoporum uuestor elih' post seaxuulfum

  Note

  (63v) i. Putta ii. Tyrhthelm iii. Torhthere iiii. Ƿalhstod v. Cuðberht vi. Podda vii. Acca viii. headda viiii. Aldberht x. esne xi. Ceolmund xiii. Utel xiii. Uulfheard xiiii. beonna xv. eadƿulf xvi. cuðƿulf xvii.

• Bishops of Lindsey. 63v-63v

  Rubric

  (63v) Nomina episcoporum lindisfarorum post seaxulfum

  Note

  (63v) i. eadhæð ii. æþelƿine iii. eadgar iiii. cynebert v. aloƿioh vi. aldƿulf vii. ceolƿulf viii. eadƿulf viiii. beorhtred
  The numbering is continued to xvii, ending in col. 3

• Bishops of the East Anglians. 63v-63v

  Rubric

  (63v) Nomina episcoporum orientalium Anglorum

  Note

  (63v) i. Felix ii. Thomas iii. berhtgisl iiii. bisi Postea in duas parrochias diuiditur i. beadeƿine ii. noðberht iii. heaðolác iiii. æþelfrið v. eanfrið vi. æþelƿulf vii. alhheard viii. Sibba viiii. Húnferð x. Húnberht xi. xii.

• Bishops of Dunwich. 64r-64r

  Note

  (64r) i. Aecce ii. Aescuulf iii. eardred iiii. cuðƿine v. aldberht vi. ecglaf vii. heardred viii. ælfhún viiii. Tidfrið x. Ƿærmund xi. Ƿillred

• Archbishops of York. 64r-64r

  Nasmith

  Archiepiscoporum Eboracensium. 64r-64r

  Rubric

  (64r) Nomina episcoporum gentis norþanhymbrorum

  Incipit

  (64r) Primus paulinus a iusto archiepiscopus ordinatus ii æþan iii Fines iiii colman v. tuda. Post ea in duas parrochias diuiditur. Cædda eboracensi ecclesie ordinatum. uuilfrið hagstaldensie ordinatur depositoque uuilfriðo a rege Ecgfriðo eata pro eo ordinatur episcopum hagstaldensie pro ceddan bosa eboraci defuncto eatan iohannis pro eo ordinatur post longum uero exilium uuilfrið iterum in episcopatu hagstaldensie. receptus est et idem iohan defuncto bosan eboraci substitutus

  Rubric

  (64r) Eboracens ecclesiae

  Note

  (64r) i. Uuilfrið ii. Ecgberht iii. Coena iiii. Eanbald v. Eanbald vi. Uulfsige vii. Ƿigmund

• Bishops of Hexham. 64v-64v

  Rubric

  (64v) Nomina episcoporum hagustaldensis ecclesiae

  Note

  (64v) i. Acca ii. Frioþeberht iii. Alhmund iiii. Tilberht v. æþilberht vi. heardred vii. eanberht viii. viiii. x. xi.

• Bishops of Lindisfarne. 64v-64v

  Rubric

  (64v) Nomina episcoporum lindesfarnensis insule

  Note

  (64v) i. æðan ii. Fines iii. Colman iiii. Eata v. Cuðberht vi. Eadberht vii. Eadfrið viii. Oiðilƿald viiii. Cyneƿulf x. hygebald xi. Ecgberht

• Bishops of Whithorn. 64v-64v

  Rubric

  (64v) Nomina episcoporum ecclesie, quae dicitur casa Candida

  Note

  (64v) i. Pehthelm ii. Frioþouuald iii. Pehtƿine iiii. Æþelberht v. beadƿulf

• Genealogies of Northumbrian kings. 65r-65v

  Nasmith

  Genealogiae regum Brittanniae regnantium in diversis locis. 65r-65v

  Rubric

  (65r) Haec sunt genelogie per partes brittanie regum regnantium per diversa loca
  (65r) Norðhymbrorum

  Note

  (65r) Eadƿine ællingælle yffingyffe uuscfreainguuscfrea uuilgislinguuilgils uuestorƿalinguuestorualcna soemlingsoemel sæfugulingsæfugel sæbaldingsæbald siggeotingsiggeot suebdægingsuebdæg siggaringsiggar uuægdæginguuegdæg uuodeninguuoden frealafing

  Rubric

  (65r) Item norþahymbrorum

  Note

  (65r) ecgfrið osƿeoingosƿio æðelfriðingaeþelfrið aeþelricingaeðelric idingida eoppingeoppa oesingoesa æþelberhtingaeðelberht angengeotingangengiot alusingalusa ingebrandingingebrand ƿægbrandingƿgbrand beornicingbeornic bældægingbældæg ƿodningƿoden frealafing

  Rubric

  (65v) Item norþanhymbrorum

  Note

  (65v) Ceolƿulf CuþƿiningCuþƿine Leodƿaldingleodƿald eadhelmingecgƿald ocgtingeadhelm idingocg eatingeadberht leodƿaldingeata

  Rubric

  (65v) Item norðanhymbrorum

  Note

  (65v) Alhred EanƿiningEanƿine byrnhomingbyrnhom bofingbofa blæcmoningblæcmon eadricingeadric iding

• Lengths of reigns of Northumbrian kings. 65v-65v

  Note

  (65v) Ida regnauit xi. annos Glappa i. Addaviii. æþelric vii. ðeodric vii. Frioþoƿald vii. hussa vii. æþelfrið xxvii. eadƿine xvii. x paganus 7 vii christianus ósƿald viiii. ósƿio xxviii. ecgfrið xv. aldfrið xx. ósred xi. coenred ii. ósric xi. ceolƿulf viii. Eadberht xxi. ósƿulf i. æþilƿald vi. alhred viiii. æþilred iiii. ælfƿald x. ósred .i. Item æþilred vii

• Lengths of reigns of Mercian kings. 66r-66r

  Note

  (66r) Penda regnavit annos xxi. Peada i. ƿulfhere xvii. æþelred xxviiii. Coenred v. Ceolred vii. æþelbald xli. offa xxxviiii. ecgfrið cxli. dies. coenƿulf ceolƿulf beornƿulf ludeca ƿiglaf beorhtƿulf

• Genealogy of Mercian kings. 66r-66r

  Rubric

  (66r) Item merciorum

  Note

  (66r) æðelbald alƿingalhƿih eoƿingeoƿa Pybbing

• Genealogy of Mercian kings. 66r-66v

  Rubric

  (66r) Merciorum

  Note

  (66r) æðelred PendingPenda PybbingPybba CreodingCreoda CyneƿaldingCyneƿald CnebbingCnebba IclingIcel eomæringeomær angengeotingangengiot offingoffa ƿærmundingƿærmund ƿihtlægingƿihtlæg ƿioþolgeotingƿeoþolgiot ƿodningƿoden frealafing

  Rubric

  (66r) Item merciorum

  Note

  (66r) ecgfriþ offingoffa þingferþingþingferþ eanƿulfingeanƿulf ósmodingósmod eoƿingeoƿa Pybbing

  Rubric

  (66r) Item merciorum

  Note

  (66r) Coenƿulf cuþbrihtingCuðbriht bassingbassa ceonreoƿing
  (66v) Cynreoƿ CentƿiningCentƿine CuþƿalingCuþƿalh CenƿalingCenƿalh Pybbing

• Kings of Lindsey. 66v-66v

  Rubric

  (66v) lindisfearna

  Note

  (66v) Aldfriþ eatingeata eanferþingEanferþ bisceopingbeoscep bedingbeda bubbingbubba cædbædingcædbed cƿedgilsingcƿedgils crettingcretta ƿintingƿinta ƿodningƿoden frealafingfrealaf frioþoƿulsing (so)freoþoƿulf finningfinn godƿulfinggodƿulf geating

• Kings of Kent. 66v-66v

  Rubric

  (66v) Cantƿariorum

  Note

  (66v) æþelbriht ƿihtredingƿihtred ecgberhtingecgberht erconberhtingerconberht eadbaldingeadbald æþelberhting
  (66v) (col. 2)
  (66v) æþelberht eormenricingeormenric oesingoese ocgingocga hengestinghengest ƿittingƿitta ƿihtgislingƿihtgisl ƿægdægingƿægdæg ƿodningƿoden frealafing

• Kings of the East Angles. 66v-66v

  Rubric

  (66v) easter engla

  Note

  (66v) ælfƿald aldƿulfingaldƿulf æþelricingæþelric eningeni Tyttlingtyttla ƿuffingƿuffa ƿehhingƿehh ƿilhelmingƿilfhelm hryppinghryp hroðmundinghroðmund TryglingTrygil TytmaningTytman caseringcaser ƿodningƿoden frealafing

• Kings of the West Saxons. 67r-67r

  Rubric

  (67r) Occidentalium Saxonum

  Note

  Ine CenredingCenred CeolƿaldingCeolƿald CuþƿulfingCuþƿulf CuþƿiningCuþƿine CelingCelin CynricingCynric CreodingCreoda CerdicingCerdic AlucingAluca GiƿisingGiƿis brandingbrand bældægingbældæg ƿodning ƿoden frealafing
  This ends the genealogies

• Notes on the Ages of the World and other subjects. 67r-70r

  Note

  Immediately upon the last of the genealogies follows a paragraph, partly perhaps taken from the Historia BritonumThe attribution of any part of this paragraph to the Historia Britonum is contested by Mr H. Munro Chadwick, who says in a note to me: I doubt the borrowing of the note Quando Gratianus etc. from the H. Br., partly on account of the form Wyrtgeorno, and still more because of quarta, which apparently does not occur in any text of the H. Br. As H. Br. in §§ 57-65 has clearly used a text related to 183 (containing (1) genealogies (2) lists of kings) there is some reason for thinking that the borrowing may have been the other way. Again, the gist of the whole passage Britannia-sexcenti is in Bede H. E. 11, whereas the latter part (circuitus) does not occur in H. Br., or (so far as I know) in any Celtic writer. (see Mommsen in MGH. pp. 132, 172), partly from Pliny (N. H. IV 16. 102) or Solinus (22. 10)
  (67r) Quando gratianus consul fuit secundo et equitiusquarta. tunc his consulibus saxones a ƿyrtgeorno inbrittannia suscepti sunt. anno ccco xlviiii a passione christi. Britannia insula habet in longitudine dccc milia et in latitudine cc milia et in circuitu habet tria miliamilium et sexcenti
  This is followed by a group of paragraphs of a different kind

  Rubric

  (67r) de trina Incarnatione Christi

  Note

  (67r) Dominus noster Iesus Christus ter carnaliter huic mundo ortus est. Prima incarnatio quando in utero sancte marie uirginis conceptus est. viii. kl. Ap. vi. fer. luna uidelicet illo tempore xxvii
  (67v) Secunda quando natus est viii. kl. Jan. iii fer. luna eo tempore xvii. regnante cesare augusto. no. octauianus ut sacra testatur ueritas euangelica. Tertia resurrectio quando excitatus catulus surrexit vi. kl. Apr. die dominico. luna ipso tempore xvi. secundum legem moysi .xiiii. die lune passus. regnante tiberio cesare

  Rubric

  de annis domini

  Note

  Sunt ergo anni domini nostri Iesu Christi in corpore conuersantes .xxxii. et menses .iii. hoc est dierum .xi. milia. dcclxx. ex qua autem die baptizatus est dominus usque in diem passionis sue, recepti sunt dies iuxta seriem mensium .dcccxx
  Prima aetas ab adam usque ad noe ann .ii. ccxlii etc.
  (68v) Ending

  Explicit

  (68v) ab origine mundi usque in aduentum domini anni .v. milia cxcviiii

  Note

  After this point a good deal of the matter is found, in a different order, in Vesp. B. VI (V)

  Incipit

  (68v) Prima aetas infantia vii annis. Secunda pueritia xiiii

  Explicit

  senium nullo certo annorum numero finitur

  Note

  (V, f. 107r)
  Ossa hominis sunt numero .cc.xviiii. Numerus uenarum .ccclxv.
  Dentium numerus in perfecta aetate .xxxii.
  (V, f. 106v, line 1)
  Christianus historicus dicit longitudinem mundi esse .xii. milium (milia V) latitudo (+ uero V) vi. miliarum
  (V, f. 106v)
  Longitudo templi (+ habens V) .lx. cubitos in longitudine et .xxx. cubitos in latitudine et .xxx. cubitos in altitudine
  Tabernaculum habens longitudinis cubitos .xxx. latitudinis .x. altitudinis aeque .x.
  Longitudo ecclesie sancti petri .lx. passus. latitudo xl passus (latitudine (o) cubitos .xl. passus V). passus .v. pedes sunt .ccxx. columnis sustentatur. scala sancti petri gressibus .xlii.bus ascen/69r/dens. Altitudo turris v. milia .clxxiiii. passus .i. xl. v. dccc. lxxx. pedum
  De arca noe .ccc. cubitorum in longitudine in latitudine l. cubitorum in altitudine xxx cubitorum
  De nouo et uetere canone libri sunt .lxxii. sicque et linguarum numero aeque et discipulorum christi sine numero (numerus V) .xii. apostolorum (V, f. 106v-107r, l. 1)
  Hic est numerus in psalterio uersu. In prima quinquaginta dccxc. In secundo dcclxxui. In tertio dccclii. Id est duo milia. cccclii
  In .i. miliario perticarum .cccclxxx. pedum .v. milia .dcclx. pedum on furlonge .cccclxxx
  (V, f. 106v, ll. 4-6)
  Duo grana ordei. digiti unius transuersio est. sedecim digiti transuersi pedem efficiunt. duo uero pedes et dimidium faciunt gressum. duo autem (the sign for autem is used both here and in V) gressus passum implent. Passus quoque .cxx. stadium est. Et viii stadia mille passus efficiunt. xii pedes perticam faciunt. xii pertice arripinam faciunt. xii arripine (-ae V) uigem (sic, and in V) faciunt
  (V, f. 107r)
  In principio creauit deus caelum et terram mare et omnia. que in eis sunt simul. Prima die lucem .ii. firmamentum .iii. herbas et ligna pomifera .iiii. solem et lunam et stellas et omnia sidera
  (69v) Ending

  Explicit

  (69v) et sanctificauit ilium, quia in ipso requieuit ab omni opere suo quod creauit

  Note

  (Not in V)
  This group of paragraphs, from De trina incarnatione, occurs again in MS 320, ff. 95-100. Some of the matter is also found in Julius A. 2 in Anglo-Saxon, printed by Napier, Anglia, XI, 1. Christianus Historicus I believe to be Cosmas Indicopleustes. The dimensions of the earth according to him agree with those given above. He conceives of it as oblong in form, and compares it with the tabernacle and the ark. I connect the citation of him here with a letter of Koaena archbishop of York to Lullus of Mainz, in which certain libri cosmografiorum are mentioned. (Jaffe, Monumenta Moguntina, p. 291.) See Mr E. O. Winstedt's Cosmas Indicopleustes, Cambridge, 1909, p. ix

• Bede the Venerable, Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica, with glossary. 70r-92v

  Nasmith

  Liber de miraculis sancti Cuthberti episcopi, versu. 70r-92v

  Author

  Bede the Venerable

  Note

  Next follows a list of the difficult words that occur in the metrical Life of St Cuthbert, with their interpretations. About one-third are in Anglo-Saxon

  Rubric

  (70r) Haec sunt quae in libello sequenti caraxata sunt atque archana

  Note

  Tetricas obscuritates ... Chalubum est de qua optimum ferrum uenit
  Cameron D5

  Rubric

  (71r) Incipit epistola bede presbiter ad iohannem presbiterum

  Note

  (XCIV 575)

  Incipit

  (71r) Domino in domino dominorum dilectissimo

  Explicit

  intercedere memineris

  Rubric

  (72r) Incipit liber de miraculis Sancti Cudberhti episcopi

  Incipit

  (72r) Multa suis dominus fulgescere lumina saeclis

  Note

  Initials after the first are plain capitals filled with colour
  Ends

  Explicit

  (92v) Vita manens castis lumenque salusque per aeuum

  Rubric

  (92v) baede famuli Christi et presbiteri. Explicit liber de uirtutibus Sancti Cudberhti lindisfarnensis aecclesie episcopi deo gratias. Amen

• Mass and Office of St Cuthbert. 92v-96v

  Nasmith

  Missa et officium S. Cuthberti. 92v-96v

  Rubric

  (92v) Incipit hymnus Sancti Cudberhti episcopi

  Incipit

  (92v) Magnus miles mirabilis...Gloria patri ingenito. gloria unigenito

  Rubric

  (93r) Missa Sancti Cudberhti xiii kal. Aprilis siue II. non. septembris quod est translatio eius

  Note

  With marginal additions, noted (of cent. xi ?), to the Preface

  Rubric

  (94r) In uigilia Sancti Cudberhti ad uesperos

  Note

  (95v) Ending with Antiphons in matutinis laudibus
  (96r) blank
  (96v) in three hands
  (a)
  with neumes: sequence for St Cuthbert: in a fine hand (x?)

  Incipit

  Hodiernus sacratior uenerandus in orbe dies preclarus ubique

  Explicit

  Hoc nobis cunctipotens tribuat clementiam domine

  Note

  (b)
  a list of vessels etc. in Anglo-Saxon (x-xi?)
  Tea . calices 7 sex . disces . 7 . tƿoegentig bleod. 7 . feoƿer steapas . 7 . an bælt. 7 an hana 7ðrea . condel. stafas . 7 . fif. tene . cuppa . 7 . fiftene bleda 7 nion leoda 7 an cetel . 7 fifcalices . 7 feaƿer . discas . 7 sex tene . hornas . gerinade . 7 ðrea . un . rinade
  Cameron B16.8.4
  This list coincides to a slight extent only with the list of presents made to St Cuthbert's church by Aethelstan in 931: see above
  (c)
  One line erased, beginning with a W
  (d)
  Walchear b. 7 eal sce cuðberhtes hyred sealdan ealdgyðe þat land æt ðornhlaƿato þyse male þat is þus þat gyf heo hit forlæteð beo hit æt deadum oððe æt cƿicum sƿa sƿa hyre þearfe sy . þat mala is viii exen 7 xii cyg. 7 iiii menn. 7 eac hélænde hyre þat land æt ƿinde gatum ealle ða hƿile þe hyre þearf byð
  Cameron B16.8.2

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