Manuscript: BL Cotton Claudius A.iii, fols. 31–86 and 106–50

Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (G. 314)

Metrical inscription* ; Laws : Æthelred VI+* (s. xi1/4); Pontifical ; Benedictional : s. x/xi, Worcester or York. FC : Turner (1971), pp. 1--88.

DigiPal Project

Ker 1948, p. 54-5: Assoc'd with Wulfstan. Has annotations by Wulfstan.

Ker: 'A metrical inscription on the verso of a blank leaf [31v] records that the benedictional ... was bound sumptuously at the expense of one Þureð' (s. x/xi); 'the Þureð for whom the book was bound may be the earl of that name who owned Yorkshire lands and signed charters of King Æðelred, s. x2' [but no, it's not!]

Printed by Napier, 1906, Trans. Phil. Soc. 1903–6, p. 299.

Ic eom halgungboc healde hine dryhten
þe me fægere þus frætewum be
legde. þureð to þance þus het me wyr
cean. to love 7 to wurðe þam þe leoht
gesceap. gemyndi is he mihta gehwylc
re þæs þe an foldan gefremian mæg.
7 him geþancie þeoda waldend þæs þe he
on gemynde madma manega wyle ge
mearcian metode to lace.
7 he sceal ece lean ealle findan
þæs þe he
on foldan
fremaþ
to
ryh
te :-

• Metrical Inscription (31v)
• Interlineations (35r–38v) (Wulfstan. 1002–1023))
• Sinodalia Decreta (OE: 35v–38v) (DigiPal Scribe 2. Saec. xi1/4))
• Latin Hand(s)