Manuscript: Bodleian Junius 121 (5232)

Description (from Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts)

(A version of Wulfstan's 'Handbook') : Excerpts from canons and penitentials ; Council of Winchester (1070) ; Penitential articles issued after the Battle of Hastings ; Council of Winchester (1076) ; Wulfstan, Institutes of Polity*, 'Canons of Edgar'*, (trans.) Institutio canonicorum i.145* ; De ecclesiasticis gradibus* ; 'Benedictine Office'* ; Handbook for a confessor* ; Penitential* ('Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti') ; Penitential* ('Poenitentiale Pseudo-Egberti'); Ælfric, Pastoral Letters I* and III* ; Homilies* (most by Wulfstan and Ælfric) [Companion vol. to nos. 637 and 638] : s. xi3/4 and additions s. xi2 and s. xi ex., Worcester.

Current location

Repository

Bodleian Library

Town or City

Oxford

Shelfmark

Junius 121 (5232)

Other information

Catalogue Numbers

G. 644

K. 338

Format

Unspecified

Date

Unspecified

Origin

Worcester , s (cf. CCCC 178, 458r; Hatton 113 and 114)

Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (G. 644)

(A version of Wulfstan's 'Handbook') : Excerpts from canons and penitentials ; Council of Winchester (1070) ; Penitential articles issued after the Battle of Hastings ; Council of Winchester (1076) ; Wulfstan, Institutes of Polity*, 'Canons of Edgar'*, (trans.) Institutio canonicorum i.145* ; De ecclesiasticis gradibus* ; 'Benedictine Office'* ; Handbook for a confessor* ; Penitential* ('Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti') ; Penitential* ('Poenitentiale Pseudo-Egberti'); Ælfric, Pastoral Letters I* and III* ; Homilies* (most by Wulfstan and Ælfric) [Companion vol. to nos. 637 and 638] : s. xi3/4 and additions s. xi2 and s. xi ex., Worcester.

DigiPal Project

Ker 1957, p. lvi: Colophon, Wulfgeat 'scriptor Wigornensis', but scribe of exemplar only?

Frere, Bibliotheca: Describes as 'troper' with neumes on 1r