Manuscript: BL Cotton Galba A.xiv
Description (from Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts)
Prayerbook : Computus tables ; Prayers(*) ; Three hymns (including SK 685, 1013) ; Apocryphal letter of Christ to Abgar ; Charm* ; Seven psalter collects ; Mass collects and other liturgical pieces ; Two litanies; 'Celtic capitella' ; Medical recipes* ; Canticle (Benedicite) ; Athanasian Creed : s. xi2/4, Winchester?, prov. WiNun or Shaftesbury? [one vol. with Nero A.ii, fols. 3--13?]. FC : A Pre-Conquest English Prayer-Book, ed. B. J. Muir, HBS 103 (1988).
Current location
- Repository
- British Library
- Town or City
- London
- Shelfmark
- Cotton Galba A.xiv
Other information
- Catalogue Numbers
- G. 333
- K. 157
- Format
- Unspecified
- Date
- Unspecified
- Origin
- Winchester (dubitable) , cl ?
Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (G. 333)
Prayerbook : Computus tables ; Prayers(*) ; Three hymns (including SK 685, 1013) ; Apocryphal letter of Christ to Abgar ; Charm* ; Seven psalter collects ; Mass collects and other liturgical pieces ; Two litanies; 'Celtic capitella' ; Medical recipes* ; Canticle (Benedicite) ; Athanasian Creed : s. xi2/4, Winchester?, prov. WiNun or Shaftesbury? [one vol. with Nero A.ii, fols. 3--13?]. FC : A Pre-Conquest English Prayer-Book, ed. B. J. Muir, HBS 103 (1988).
DigiPal Project
Ker, 1957: 'The oldest parts of it [the MS] are probably of s. xi in. ... But the manuscript was extensively added to in s. xi1'. He then dates everything 's. xi1' without distinction.
Ker: Glosses on 27r and 34r.
- Hand 1 (37–38v, 45–49v, 64v, 71rv, 76–102, 104–71v, 120–5, 125v–6, 133, 137, 140
- Hand 2 (4v–6r)
- OE Rubric (6r)
- OE Recipe (118rv)
- Charm (wið fotcoþe, 72r)
- Medical texts (139rv, 136r1–6)
- Four Glosses (ic halsige, 27r; geclænsa, gehæf, gescyld, 36r [formerly 34r])
- Hand 4 (125r; Nero 10v–12v) (WiNun 1. saec. xi1))
- Hand 5 (2r; Nero 1–10) (WiNun 2. saec. xi1))
- Marginal addition (7rv)