Manuscript: BL Cotton Titus D.xxvi and D.xxvii
Description (from Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts)
Lunaria; Prognostics ; Calendar with necrology ; Computus material ('Winchester Computus'); Ælfric, De temporibus anni* ; Alphabet with OE sentences* ; The Passion according to St. John chs, xviii-xix ; Devotions to the Holy Cross ; Offices of the Trinity, the Holy Cross, the Virgin ; Private prayers ; Directions for private devotions* ; Note in cryptography ; Notes on the names of the Seven Sleepers, on the age of the Virgin*, the Ages of the World, the length of Christ's body, on the rainbow ; Somniale Danielis ; Medical recipe* ; Rules of confraternity* ; Collectar ; Litany ; Gospel of St. John i.1-14 : 1023x1031, WiNM.
Current location
- Repository
- British Library
- Town or City
- London
- Shelfmark
- Cotton Titus D.xxvi and D.xxvii
Other information
- Name
- Ælfwine’s Prayerbook
- Catalogue Numbers
- G. 380
- K. 202
- Format
- Unspecified
- Date
- 1023x1031
- Origin
- WiNM , sl. Personal property of Ælfwine (deacon of WiNM before 1035), as shown by obits (D. xxvii, 3r-8v) and entry on D. xxvii, 13r [Ker 1957]
Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (G. 380)
Lunaria; Prognostics ; Calendar with necrology ; Computus material ('Winchester Computus'); Ælfric, De temporibus anni* ; Alphabet with OE sentences* ; The Passion according to St. John chs, xviii-xix ; Devotions to the Holy Cross ; Offices of the Trinity, the Holy Cross, the Virgin ; Private prayers ; Directions for private devotions* ; Note in cryptography ; Notes on the names of the Seven Sleepers, on the age of the Virgin*, the Ages of the World, the length of Christ's body, on the rainbow ; Somniale Danielis ; Medical recipe* ; Rules of confraternity* ; Collectar ; Litany ; Gospel of St. John i.1-14 : 1023x1031, WiNM.
DigiPal Project
Rushforth No. 14.
Ker: Directions for private devotions*, OE rubric*, recipe*, rules of confraternity*, Alphabet, nine lines beg. 'Her is seo endebyrdnes monangonges. 7 sæflodes', and notes on the age of the Virgin* all added s. xi1.
Temple: Cryptogram reads 'Aelwino monacho aeque deacono ... me possidet' + name of scribe, Aelsinus. Ælfwine was deacon at WiNM 1032x1035; Ælsine was WiNM monk and main hand of Stowe 944. Added obits of Ælfwine's mother [d. 1029] and Abbot Brythmear [sic; d. 1030] give 1030 as t.a.q. for main hand. [Really?]
Cf. Ker 1957, lvi: Written by Ælsinus of WiNM in 1023 x 1035.
Scribes discussed in depth in S.D. Keyne's edition of Wi Liber Vitae on pp. 68ff and 111-13.
- Ælfsige (D. xxvii, 30v–55r, plus Latin) (Ælfsige. 1020s/1030s))
- Hand 1 (note on xxvii, 25v, plus Latin xxvi, 20r–68r and xxvii, 22r–29v, 64v, 66
- Prognostications, 'Gloria' (D.xxvii: 55v–56v)
- Sun and Moon; Age of Virgin (D.xxvii: 56v)
- Directions for Devotion (D.xxvi: 2rv)
- Rubric, Recipe (D.xxvi: 16v–17r)
- Decisions of Bishops (D.xxvi, 17v–18r)