(6) Cotton
Tiberius
B.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01
Traube's edition of the poems
in Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, Mon. Germ. Hist. , 1896.
Ethelwulf's Latin poem on Crayke (? ). See Mabillon, Acts of Benedictine
Saints.
Felix of Croyland's Life of St Guthlac. See Acta Sanctorum, 11 April, etc.
For the Old English lives, see Chapter iv. In addition to the Exeter Book
Guthlac, there are prose Old English lives of the saint in the Vercelli Book
and in Brit. Mus. Cott. Vesp. D. XXI. See ed. Goodwin, C. W. , 1848.
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435
Gildas. “The copies which remain are few. A partially burnt manuscript
(Cott. Vitellius A. VI) of the eleventh century is the primary authority. It
is fairly well represented by the early printed editions: better by that of
John Joscelin (1568) than by that of Polydore Vergil (1525). Of two in
the Cambridge University Library, one, which belonged to Glastonbury,
is not independent of the Cottonian: the other, from Salley Abbey,
contains only the first part. Thomas Gale, who edited Gildas in 1691,
followed this copy so far as it goes; and to his edition we owe the
common but erroneous division of the work into two parts, Epistle
(chapters 1-26) and History (27-110). The next oldest manuscript to the
Cottonian is one formerly at Mont St Michel and now at Avranches: it
is of the twelfth century and very probably had some Breton ancestor”
(M. R. James). Edd. Stevenson, J. , Eng. Hist. Soc. , 1838 (together with
the Life, ascribed to Caradog of Llancarvan); Hardy, T. , Mon. Hist.
Brit. , 1848; Williams, H. , Cymmrodorion Records, 1899-1901; Mommsen,
Mon. Germ. , 1894; trans. Habington, T. , 1638 and Giles, J. A. , in Six Old
English Chronicles, 1848 (Asser's Alfred, Ethelwerd's Chronicles, Gildas,
Nennius, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Richard of Cirencester). See also
Skene, Four Ancient Books of Wales, de la Borderie, A. , in Revue
Celtique vi and Wright's Biogr. Brit. Lit.
Hisperica Famina. Ed. Stowasser, Vienna, 1887; ed. Jenkinson, Cambridge
(in preparation). See also Bradshaw, H. , Collected papers, Cambridge,
1889, Ker, W. P. , The Dark Ages and Zimmer, H. , in Göttingische
Nachrichten, 1895.
Nennius. “The oldest copy of the Historia Britonum (incomplete, and not
offering the best text) is one of the ninth or tenth century at Chartres.
The best are a Harleian manuscript (No. 3859) of the eleventh and
twelfth century and a Cottonian (Vespasian D. XXI) of the twelfth.
A Durham copy, one at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (No. 139) and
another in the University Library at Cambridge (Ff. 1. 27), which contains
two copies of the bulk, under the names of Nennius and Gildas re-
spectively, are also important. The first printed edition was that of
Thomas Gale in 1691” (M. R. James). Edd. Stevenson, J. , Eng. Hist.
Soc. , 1838; Hardy, T. , Mon. Hist. Brit. ; Mommsen, T. , Mon. Germ. , 1894;
trans. Giles, J. A. (see above). See also de la Borderie, A. , L'Hist. Brit.
attrib. à N. , Paris, 1883; Zimmer, H. , Nennius Vindicatus, Berlin, 1893;
and Mommsen in Neues Archiv. d. Gesell. XIX.
St Boniface. Opera Omnia. Ed. Giles, J. A. 1844.
Dümmler. Poetae Latini aevi Carolini. Mon. Germ. Hist. 1880 ff.
Jaffé. Mon. Moguntina. Bibl. Rerum Germ. 1866.
St Columba. In addition to Adamnan's Life (see above), see also Manus
O'Donnell's MS concerning Columba, Bodl. Rawl. B. 514.
St Columban (543-615). See Patrick Fleming's Collectanea Sacra, Augs-
burg, 1621.
St Cuthbert. For the life by the Lindisfarne monk, etc. , see Acta Sanc-
torum, 20 March.
St Patrick (373-463). See the Tripartite Life, Rolls Series, ed. Whitley
Stokes; Lives of the Saints from the Book of Lismore, ed. Whitley
Stokes, Oxford, 1889; lives by Todd, J. H. , 1863 and Bury, J. B. , 1905.
Tatwin. Riddles, MS Brit. Mus. Reg. 12, cxxIII. See Giles, J. A. , Anecdotae
Bedae, Lanfranci et aliorum, Caxton Soc. , 1851 and Wright, T. , Anglo-
Norman Poets, Rolls Series.
Willibald (700-786), nephew of St Boniface, bishop and pilgrim to Palestine.
For the record of his travels, see Mabillon, Acta Ss. 0. Benedicti;
28–2
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436
Bibliography to
.
Wright, T. , Early Travels in Palestine (see above); and Beazley, C. R. ,
Dawn of Modern Geography, 1897. See also Giles, J. A. , Vita Quorun-
dam Anglo-Saxonum, Caxton Soc. , 1854.
The writings of Isidore of Seville, referred to on pp. 71, 75, 80, etc. can
be most easily consulted in Migno's Patrologia, LXXXI-LXXXVI. See also
Sandys' Classical Scholarship, 1, for brief particulars of the Origines, “which
gathered up for the Middle Ages much of the learning of the ancient world. ”
A. R. W.
CHAPTER VI
ALFRED AND THE OLD ENGLISH PROSE OF HIS REIGN
MSS OF ALFRED'S WORKS AND OF WORKS CONNECTED WITH HIS NAME.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
(a) Tanner 10, Bodl. (6) Corpus Christi College 41, Cambridge. (c) Otho
B. xi, Brit. Mus. (d) Corpus Christi College 279, Oxford. (e) Cambridge
University Library Kk. 3. 18.
Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy.
(a) Cotton Otho A. vi, Brit. Mus. [Metra in verse). (6) Bodl. MS, 180,
Oxford [Metra in prose). (c) Fragment forming the last leaf of Bodl. MS,
86. (See Napier in ZDA. , N. F. XIX, 52. )
Gregory's Dialogues.
(a) Cotton Otho 0. . (6) Corpus Christi College S. 10, Cambridge.
(c) Hatton 76, Oxford. (dle) Transcript Jun. 46 and 52.
Gregory's Pastoral Care.
(a) Hatton 20, Bodl.
(6) Cotton Tiberius B. xi, Brit. Mug. (c) Juning 53,
Bodl. (d) Cotton Otho B. 11, Brit. Mus. (e) Three MSS at Cambridge, in
Corpus Christi, Trinity and the University Library. (There also appears to
be a leaf at Cassel. (See Ten Brink, Hist. Eng. Lit. , Eng. Trans. I, p. 84). ]
The Laws.
(a) Corpus Christi College 383, Cambridge. (6) Corpus Christi College
173, Cambridge. (c) Cotton Nero E. 1, Harl. 55, etc. , Brit. Mus. (d) MS
Textus Roffensis. (e) Bodl. , etc. (See Liebermann for complete list. )
The Martyrology.
(a) Brit. Mus. Addit. MS 23211. (6) Three Younger MSS.
Orosius's History of the World.
(a) Lauderdale-Tollemache (Helmingham, Suffolk]. (6) Cotton Tiberias
B. 1. (c) Transcript of Cotton by Junius. (d) Transcripts of Junius by
Elstob and Ballard.
St Augustine's Soliloquies.
(a) Cotton Vitell. A. 15, Brit. Mus. (Beowulf MS). (6) Transcript of
above by Junius, Jun. 70. 1, Oxford.
[For the Old English Chronicle see bibliography to the following Chapter. ]
(a) Lauderdale-Tolemache Helmingham, sufolie
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Psalms ascribed to Alfred.
MS. Bibl. Nat. Paris, Latin 8824.
EDITIONS OF ALFRED'S WORKS AND OF WORKS CONNECTED
WITH HIS NAME.
Complete Works.
The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great. Ed. Giles, J. A. Jubilee
Edition. 3 vols. Oxford and Cambridge, 1858.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
Miller, T. The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. 2 parts.
E. E. T. S. 1890-8.
Schipper, J. König Alfreds Übersetzung von Bedas Kirchengeschichte
[Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Prosa, Bd. 4]. Cassel and Göttingen,
1897.
Smith, J. Historiae ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum libri quinque. Cam-
bridge, 1722. [The Old English version begins on p. 471. ]
Wheloc, A. Historiae Ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum Libri v. Cambridge,
1643-4. .
Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy.
Cardale, J. S. King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius de Consola
tione Philosophiae : with an English Trans. 1829.
Fos, S. King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius: with a Literal
English Trans. , etc. 1864.
Rawlinson, C. An. Manl. Sever. Boethi Consolationis Philosophiae Libri v.
Anglo-Saxonice redditi ab Alfredo inclyto Anglo-Saxonum rege. Oxford,
1698.
Sedgefield, W. J. King Alfred's Old English Version of Boethius de Con-
solatione Philosophiae. Oxford, 1899. .
Gregory's Dialogues.
Hecht, H. In Grein-Wülker's Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Prosa. Vol. v.
Cassel and Göttingen, 1900.
Gregory's Pastoral Care.
Sweet, H. King Alfred's West Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care.
English trans. , Latin Text, etc. E. E. T. S. 1871. (See also M. Parker's
edition of Asser, 1574. )
The Laws.
Cook, A. S. Extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Laws. New York, 1880.
Birch, De Gray. Cartularium Saxonicum. 1885 ff.
Earle, J. A Handbook to the Land Charters and other Saxonic documents.
Oxford, 1888.
Kemble, J. M. Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici. Eng. Hist. Soc. 6 vols.
1839 ff.
Lambard, G. 'Apxalovoula, sive de priscis Anglorum legibus libri, sermone
anglico, vetustate antiquissimo. 1568. (First printed edition. ]
Liebermann, F. Gesetze der Angelsachsen (text and trans. ). Halle, 1898 ff.
[By far the ablest work on the subject. ]
Schmid, R. Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. In der Ursprache mit Über-
setzung und Erläuterung. 1. Teil, den Text nebst Übersetzung enthaltend.
Leipzig, 1832, 1858.
Thorpe, B. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England (text and trans. ).
2 vols. 1840.
LOUUN.
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Constitutiones et alia ad Historiam Ecclesiae Anglicanae spectantia.
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Saints.
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Guthlac, there are prose Old English lives of the saint in the Vercelli Book
and in Brit. Mus. Cott. Vesp. D. XXI. See ed. Goodwin, C. W. , 1848.
## p. 435 (#455) ############################################
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435
Gildas. “The copies which remain are few. A partially burnt manuscript
(Cott. Vitellius A. VI) of the eleventh century is the primary authority. It
is fairly well represented by the early printed editions: better by that of
John Joscelin (1568) than by that of Polydore Vergil (1525). Of two in
the Cambridge University Library, one, which belonged to Glastonbury,
is not independent of the Cottonian: the other, from Salley Abbey,
contains only the first part. Thomas Gale, who edited Gildas in 1691,
followed this copy so far as it goes; and to his edition we owe the
common but erroneous division of the work into two parts, Epistle
(chapters 1-26) and History (27-110). The next oldest manuscript to the
Cottonian is one formerly at Mont St Michel and now at Avranches: it
is of the twelfth century and very probably had some Breton ancestor”
(M. R. James). Edd. Stevenson, J. , Eng. Hist. Soc. , 1838 (together with
the Life, ascribed to Caradog of Llancarvan); Hardy, T. , Mon. Hist.
Brit. , 1848; Williams, H. , Cymmrodorion Records, 1899-1901; Mommsen,
Mon. Germ. , 1894; trans. Habington, T. , 1638 and Giles, J. A. , in Six Old
English Chronicles, 1848 (Asser's Alfred, Ethelwerd's Chronicles, Gildas,
Nennius, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Richard of Cirencester). See also
Skene, Four Ancient Books of Wales, de la Borderie, A. , in Revue
Celtique vi and Wright's Biogr. Brit. Lit.
Hisperica Famina. Ed. Stowasser, Vienna, 1887; ed. Jenkinson, Cambridge
(in preparation). See also Bradshaw, H. , Collected papers, Cambridge,
1889, Ker, W. P. , The Dark Ages and Zimmer, H. , in Göttingische
Nachrichten, 1895.
Nennius. “The oldest copy of the Historia Britonum (incomplete, and not
offering the best text) is one of the ninth or tenth century at Chartres.
The best are a Harleian manuscript (No. 3859) of the eleventh and
twelfth century and a Cottonian (Vespasian D. XXI) of the twelfth.
A Durham copy, one at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (No. 139) and
another in the University Library at Cambridge (Ff. 1. 27), which contains
two copies of the bulk, under the names of Nennius and Gildas re-
spectively, are also important. The first printed edition was that of
Thomas Gale in 1691” (M. R. James). Edd. Stevenson, J. , Eng. Hist.
Soc. , 1838; Hardy, T. , Mon. Hist. Brit. ; Mommsen, T. , Mon. Germ. , 1894;
trans. Giles, J. A. (see above). See also de la Borderie, A. , L'Hist. Brit.
attrib. à N. , Paris, 1883; Zimmer, H. , Nennius Vindicatus, Berlin, 1893;
and Mommsen in Neues Archiv. d. Gesell. XIX.
St Boniface. Opera Omnia. Ed. Giles, J. A. 1844.
Dümmler. Poetae Latini aevi Carolini. Mon. Germ. Hist. 1880 ff.
Jaffé. Mon. Moguntina. Bibl. Rerum Germ. 1866.
St Columba. In addition to Adamnan's Life (see above), see also Manus
O'Donnell's MS concerning Columba, Bodl. Rawl. B. 514.
St Columban (543-615). See Patrick Fleming's Collectanea Sacra, Augs-
burg, 1621.
St Cuthbert. For the life by the Lindisfarne monk, etc. , see Acta Sanc-
torum, 20 March.
St Patrick (373-463). See the Tripartite Life, Rolls Series, ed. Whitley
Stokes; Lives of the Saints from the Book of Lismore, ed. Whitley
Stokes, Oxford, 1889; lives by Todd, J. H. , 1863 and Bury, J. B. , 1905.
Tatwin. Riddles, MS Brit. Mus. Reg. 12, cxxIII. See Giles, J. A. , Anecdotae
Bedae, Lanfranci et aliorum, Caxton Soc. , 1851 and Wright, T. , Anglo-
Norman Poets, Rolls Series.
Willibald (700-786), nephew of St Boniface, bishop and pilgrim to Palestine.
For the record of his travels, see Mabillon, Acta Ss. 0. Benedicti;
28–2
## p. 436 (#456) ############################################
436
Bibliography to
.
Wright, T. , Early Travels in Palestine (see above); and Beazley, C. R. ,
Dawn of Modern Geography, 1897. See also Giles, J. A. , Vita Quorun-
dam Anglo-Saxonum, Caxton Soc. , 1854.
The writings of Isidore of Seville, referred to on pp. 71, 75, 80, etc. can
be most easily consulted in Migno's Patrologia, LXXXI-LXXXVI. See also
Sandys' Classical Scholarship, 1, for brief particulars of the Origines, “which
gathered up for the Middle Ages much of the learning of the ancient world. ”
A. R. W.
CHAPTER VI
ALFRED AND THE OLD ENGLISH PROSE OF HIS REIGN
MSS OF ALFRED'S WORKS AND OF WORKS CONNECTED WITH HIS NAME.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
(a) Tanner 10, Bodl. (6) Corpus Christi College 41, Cambridge. (c) Otho
B. xi, Brit. Mus. (d) Corpus Christi College 279, Oxford. (e) Cambridge
University Library Kk. 3. 18.
Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy.
(a) Cotton Otho A. vi, Brit. Mus. [Metra in verse). (6) Bodl. MS, 180,
Oxford [Metra in prose). (c) Fragment forming the last leaf of Bodl. MS,
86. (See Napier in ZDA. , N. F. XIX, 52. )
Gregory's Dialogues.
(a) Cotton Otho 0. . (6) Corpus Christi College S. 10, Cambridge.
(c) Hatton 76, Oxford. (dle) Transcript Jun. 46 and 52.
Gregory's Pastoral Care.
(a) Hatton 20, Bodl.
(6) Cotton Tiberius B. xi, Brit. Mug. (c) Juning 53,
Bodl. (d) Cotton Otho B. 11, Brit. Mus. (e) Three MSS at Cambridge, in
Corpus Christi, Trinity and the University Library. (There also appears to
be a leaf at Cassel. (See Ten Brink, Hist. Eng. Lit. , Eng. Trans. I, p. 84). ]
The Laws.
(a) Corpus Christi College 383, Cambridge. (6) Corpus Christi College
173, Cambridge. (c) Cotton Nero E. 1, Harl. 55, etc. , Brit. Mus. (d) MS
Textus Roffensis. (e) Bodl. , etc. (See Liebermann for complete list. )
The Martyrology.
(a) Brit. Mus. Addit. MS 23211. (6) Three Younger MSS.
Orosius's History of the World.
(a) Lauderdale-Tollemache (Helmingham, Suffolk]. (6) Cotton Tiberias
B. 1. (c) Transcript of Cotton by Junius. (d) Transcripts of Junius by
Elstob and Ballard.
St Augustine's Soliloquies.
(a) Cotton Vitell. A. 15, Brit. Mus. (Beowulf MS). (6) Transcript of
above by Junius, Jun. 70. 1, Oxford.
[For the Old English Chronicle see bibliography to the following Chapter. ]
(a) Lauderdale-Tolemache Helmingham, sufolie
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Chapter VI
437
Psalms ascribed to Alfred.
MS. Bibl. Nat. Paris, Latin 8824.
EDITIONS OF ALFRED'S WORKS AND OF WORKS CONNECTED
WITH HIS NAME.
Complete Works.
The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great. Ed. Giles, J. A. Jubilee
Edition. 3 vols. Oxford and Cambridge, 1858.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
Miller, T. The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. 2 parts.
E. E. T. S. 1890-8.
Schipper, J. König Alfreds Übersetzung von Bedas Kirchengeschichte
[Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Prosa, Bd. 4]. Cassel and Göttingen,
1897.
Smith, J. Historiae ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum libri quinque. Cam-
bridge, 1722. [The Old English version begins on p. 471. ]
Wheloc, A. Historiae Ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum Libri v. Cambridge,
1643-4. .
Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy.
Cardale, J. S. King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius de Consola
tione Philosophiae : with an English Trans. 1829.
Fos, S. King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius: with a Literal
English Trans. , etc. 1864.
Rawlinson, C. An. Manl. Sever. Boethi Consolationis Philosophiae Libri v.
Anglo-Saxonice redditi ab Alfredo inclyto Anglo-Saxonum rege. Oxford,
1698.
Sedgefield, W. J. King Alfred's Old English Version of Boethius de Con-
solatione Philosophiae. Oxford, 1899. .
Gregory's Dialogues.
Hecht, H. In Grein-Wülker's Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Prosa. Vol. v.
Cassel and Göttingen, 1900.
Gregory's Pastoral Care.
Sweet, H. King Alfred's West Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care.
English trans. , Latin Text, etc. E. E. T. S. 1871. (See also M. Parker's
edition of Asser, 1574. )
The Laws.
Cook, A. S. Extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Laws. New York, 1880.
Birch, De Gray. Cartularium Saxonicum. 1885 ff.
Earle, J. A Handbook to the Land Charters and other Saxonic documents.
Oxford, 1888.
Kemble, J. M. Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici. Eng. Hist. Soc. 6 vols.
1839 ff.
Lambard, G. 'Apxalovoula, sive de priscis Anglorum legibus libri, sermone
anglico, vetustate antiquissimo. 1568. (First printed edition. ]
Liebermann, F. Gesetze der Angelsachsen (text and trans. ). Halle, 1898 ff.
[By far the ablest work on the subject. ]
Schmid, R. Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. In der Ursprache mit Über-
setzung und Erläuterung. 1. Teil, den Text nebst Übersetzung enthaltend.
Leipzig, 1832, 1858.
Thorpe, B. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England (text and trans. ).
2 vols. 1840.
LOUUN.
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