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Aelfric, 11th century, end

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MS. Laud Misc. 509
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  1. Heptateuch (part) and Joshua. (Old English translation, at least partly by Aelfric)
  2. Aelfric, Homily on Judges
  3. Aelfric, Letter to Wulfgeat
  4. Aelfric, Libellus de veteri testamento et novo (This MS. was formerly a single volume with BL MS. Cotton Vesp. D. xxi fols. 18-40.)

Dates

  • Creation: 11th century, end

Extent

141 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • English, Old (ca.450-1100)

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 509

Arrangement

Originally arranged and housed in 1641 at the Bodleian in Duke Humfrey’s Library, Selden End, compartment as ‘E 19’, see Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, p. 14

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, no. 942

Henry O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars secunda codices Latinos et Miscellaneous Laudianos complectens (Oxford, 1885, reprinted in 1973, with numerous corrections and additions, and an historical introduction by R.W. Hunt), Misc. no. 509

Custodial History

See the red-and-green initial on f. 65. On f. 2, old reference 'No. 139'. Manuscript 2829 acquired by the Bodleian Library

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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