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.