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.