Manuscripts and
Manuscript Studies
Six medieval (A, B, C, D, E, F)
manuscripts and one early modern transcript (C*) survive of the Old English
Martyrology, none of them complete.
Manuscripts
- A London, British Library, Additional
23211 (c. 871 x 899, Wessex), fol 2
- B London, British Library, Cotton Julius
A. x (s. x / xi), fols 44-175
- C Cambridge, Corpus Christi College
196 (s. xi2, Exeter), pp. 1-110
- C* London, British Library, Cotton
Vitellius D. vii. (s. xvi), fols 131r- 132r
- D Cambridge, Corpus Christi College
41 (s. xi1 - xi med., prob. S England, prov. Exeter by s. xi3-4),
pp. 122-32
- E London, British Library, Additional
40165 A.2 (s. ix ex. or ix / x), fols 6-7
- F London, British Library, Harley 3271 (s. xi1), fol 92v
The last of these may or may not be interpreted as a sixth surviving manuscript of the text,
consisting only of the very short section on The Beginning of Summer (83a)
and parts of the equally short section on The Beginning of Winter (221a).
The passage was edited by H. Henel, Altenglischer Mönchsaberglaube',
Englische Studien 69 (1934-5), 329-49, at 347-8 and classified as B.19.6
by R. Frank, and A. Cameron, ed., A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English
(Toronto, 1973). Kotzor, ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium, I, 3
n. 2 notes the existence of this manuscript without collating it in his edition.
See also N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon
(Oxford, 1957), no. 239 item 11, and K. J. Quinn and K. P. Quinn, A Manual
of Old English Prose, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 453 (New
York, 1990) no. 606.
R. M. Wilson, The Lost Literature
of Medieval England, 2nd edn (1970), pp. 81-2 and M. Lapidge, Surviving
Booklists from Anglo-Saxon England', Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon
England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth
Birthday, ed. M. Lapidge and H. Gneuss (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 33-89 at 62-4 discuss an eleventh-century
booklist from Worcester which seems to refer to a manuscript now lost.
J. Morrish's suggestion that British
Library, Additional 34652 (s. xi) contains a copy of the Old English Martyrology
is an error; see Dated and Datable Manuscripts Copied in England during
the Ninth Century: A Preliminary List', Mediaeval Studies 50 (1988),
512-38, at 531n.
Manuscript Studies
General
- Herzfeld, G., ed., An Old English Martyrology,
Early English Text Society os 116 (London, 1900), pp. xi-xviii [now superseded]
- Sisam, C., An Early Fragment of the
Old English Martyrology', Review of English Studies ns
4 (1953), 209-20, at 209-12 and 216-17 [seminal]
- Kotzor, G., ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium,
2 vols., Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist.
Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich, 1981), I, 41-171 [the most extensive discussion
of the manuscripts to date, the general part of which includes surveys of
the later history of the manuscripts (pp. 9-39) and the relationships between
them (pp. 118-71), a stemma codicum (p. 143, revised from C. Sisam),
a diagram indicating the contents of the witnesses (p. 167) and a discussion
of editorial principles)]
- Lapidge, M., Surviving Booklists from Anglo-Saxon England', Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. M. Lapidge and H. Gneuss (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 33-89 [two references to the texts in Anglo-Saxon booklists]
- Rauer, C., ‘Usage of the Old English Martyrology’, Foundations of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, ed. R. H. Bremmer jr. and K. Dekker, Medievalia Groningana ns 9 (Leuven, 2007), pp. 125-46
- Rauer, C., ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013), pp. 18-25
Contents and Studies of
Individual Manuscripts
For the contents of individual
manuscripts, see also the Index of Reference Nos., Saints,
Feasts, and Manuscript Contents; the contents of individual folios and pages are listed on a separate page. NB that the following bibliographies only
list items relevant to the texts of the Old English Martyrology, but
not to other items in the given manuscripts.
MS A
Contains only a small proportion
of the text (four entries); 14 April (64, Valerianus, Tiburtius, Maximus)
to 23 April (67, George). Nevertheless important on account of its early
date; provides the terminus ante quem for the composition of the Old English
Martyrology.
- Sweet, H., ed., The Oldest English Texts,
Early English Text Society os 83 (London, 1885), pp. 177-8 [early edition
of MS A, with some commentary on the manuscript, now superseded]
- Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts
Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957), no. 127
- Kotzor, G., ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium,
2 vols., Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist.
Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich, 1981), I, 43-55 [most extensive discussion of MS
A, with palaeographical and codicological descriptions and a facsimile page
of fol. 2r (see p. 46)]
- Gneuss, H., 'A Preliminary List of Manuscripts
Written or Owned in England up to 1100', Anglo-Saxon England 9
(1981), pp. 1-60, no. 282
- Morrish, J. J., 'An Examination of Literacy
and Learning in England in the Ninth Century' (diss., Oxford, 1982) [see
manuscript index for page numbers]
- Dumville, D. N., 'The West Saxon Genealogical
Regnal List: Manuscripts and Texts, Anglia 104 (1986), 1-32, at
2-3
- Morrish, J., Dated and Datable Manuscripts
Copied in England during the Ninth Century: A Preliminary List', Mediaeval
Studies 50 (1988), 512-38, at 531
- Quinn, K. J. and K. P. Quinn, A Manual
of Old English Prose, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 453
(New York, 1990) no. 603 [lists secondary literature on MS A]
- Dumville, D. N., Wessex and England from
Alfred to Edgar: Six Essays on Political, Cultural, and Ecclesiastical Revival
(Woodbridge, 1992) [Plate V depicts fol. 2v of MS A, an example of 'the
poor bookhand of Alfred's reign']
- Gneuss, H., Handlist
of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments
Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 241 (Tempe, 2001), no. 282
- Dumville, D. N., 'English Script in the Second Half of the Ninth Century', Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, ed. K. O'Brien O'Keeffe and A. Orchard, 2 vols (Toronto, 2005), I, 305-25
- Rauer, C., ‘Usage of the Old English Martyrology’, Foundations of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, ed. R. H. Bremmer jr. and K. Dekker, Medievalia Groningana ns 9 (Leuven, 2007), pp. 125-46
- Doane, A. N., 'London, British Library, Add. 23211', in his Saints' Lives, Martyrologies, and Bilingual 'Rule of St. Benedict' in the British Library, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile 19 (Tempe, 2010), pp. 1-4
- Rauer, C., ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013), p. 19
- Gneuss, H. and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2014), p. 217
- British Library Digitised Manuscripts [colour images of the relevant folio, available without subscription]
MS B
Leithandschrift of all critical
editions. Extensive in its contents (229 entries) although with intermittent
gaps: 31 December (7, Pope Silvester I) to 25 January (35, The
Conversion of St Paul); 27 February (36, Discovery of the Head of St John
the Baptist) to 13 March (43, Macedonius, Patricia, Modesta); 18 March
(45, The First Day of Creation) to 24 June (111, The Birth of St
John the Baptist); 2 July (117, Processus, Martinianus) to 11 November
(224, Mennas, Heliodorus).
- Ker, N.R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing
Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957), no. 161
- Kotzor, G., ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium,
2 vols., Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist.
Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich, 1981), I, 56-74 [descriptions of contents and palaeographical
and codicological details; facsimile pages of fols. 44v, 131v, 135r, 170v
(pp. 60-3)]
- Gneuss, H., 'A Preliminary List of Manuscripts
Written or Owned in England up to 1100', Anglo-Saxon England 9
(1981), pp. 1-60, no. 338
- Quinn, K. J. and K. P. Quinn, A Manual
of Old English Prose, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 453
(New York, 1990) no. 605 [lists secondary literature on MS B]
- Gneuss, H., Handlist
of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments
Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 241 (Tempe, 2001), no. 338
- Roberts, J., Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 (London, 2005), pp. 72-3 [facsimile page and analysis of script]
- Rauer, C., ‘Usage of the Old English Martyrology’, Foundations of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, ed. R. H. Bremmer jr. and K. Dekker, Medievalia Groningana ns 9 (Leuven, 2007), pp. 125-46
- The MANCASS C11 Database: An Inventory of Script and Spellings in Eleventh-Century English [MS B included in searchable database of letter forms and spellings]
- Doane, A. N., 'London, British Library, Cotton Julius A. x', in his Saints' Lives, Martyrologies, and Bilingual 'Rule of St. Benedict' in the British Library, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile 19 (Tempe, 2010), pp. 37-50
- Rauer, C., ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013), p. 20
- Gneuss, H. and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2014), pp. 259-60
- Stokes, P. A., English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut, circa 990 to circa 1035, Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies 14 (Cambridge, 2014), pp. 111-12 [on the various hands]
- Thomson, S. C., Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript: Towards a History of Reception for the Nowell Codex, The Manuscript World 10 (Leiden, 2018), pp. 71-2 and 272-4 [on the various hands]
- British Library Digitised Manuscripts [colour images of the entire manuscript, available without subscription]
MS C
Together with MS B the most complete
copy of the text (207 entries). Contains the sections from 19 March (46,
The Second Day of Creation) to 21 December (238, Thomas).
- James, M. R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1912), I, 471-2
- Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957), no. 47
- Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great
Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London, 1964), p. 82
- Page, R. I., On the Lost Leaf of MS.
C.C.C.C. 196', Notes and Queries 21 (1974), 472-3 [on leaf later
transcribed as MS C*; see below]
- Drage, E. M., 'Bishop Leofric and the Exeter Cathedral Chapter (1050-1072): A Re-Assessment of the Manuscript Evidence' (diss., Oxford, 1978)
- Kotzor, G., ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium,
2 vols., Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist.
Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich, 1981), I, 75-88 [contents, palaeographical and codicological
descriptions; facsimile of p. 10 (on p. 78); list of accents, hyphenations
and interlinear corrections (II, 269-71)]
- Gneuss, H., 'A Preliminary List of Manuscripts
Written or Owned in England up to 1100', Anglo-Saxon England 9
(1981), pp. 1-60, no. 62
- Lapidge, M., Surviving Booklists from
Anglo-Saxon England', Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England:
Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday,
ed. M. Lapidge and H. Gneuss (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 33-89 at 64-7 [suggests
that the martyrology mentioned in the Exeter booklist can possibly be identified
with MS C]
- Robinson, P. R., Catalogue of Dated and
Datable Manuscripts c. 737-1600 in Cambridge Libraries, 2 vols. (Cambridge,
1988), no. 141 [dates MS C to 1050 x 1072, Exeter]
- Quinn, K. J. and K. P. Quinn, A Manual
of Old English Prose, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 453
(New York, 1990) no. 602 [lists secondary literature on MS C]
- Gameson, R., The Origin of the Exeter
Book of Old English Poetry', Anglo-Saxon England 25 (1996), 135-85,
at 144
- Gneuss, H., Handlist
of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments
Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 241 (Tempe, 2001), no. 62
- Graham, T., 'Cambridge Corpus Christi College 191', Corpus Christi College, Cambridge I: MSS 41, 57, 191, 302, 303, 367, 383, 422, ed. T. Graham, R. J. S. Grant, P. J. Lucas, E. M. Treharne, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile 11 (Tempe, 2003), pp. 39-47, at 40-1
- Treharne, E., 'Bishops and their Texts in the Later Eleventh Century: Worcester and Exeter', Essays in Manuscript Geography, ed. W. Scase (Turnhout, 2007), pp. 13-28
- Rauer, C., ‘Usage of the Old English Martyrology’, Foundations of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, ed. R. H. Bremmer jr. and K. Dekker, Medievalia Groningana ns 9 (Leuven, 2007), pp. 125-46
- Corradini, E., 'Leofric of Exeter and his Lotharingian Connections: A Bishop's Books, c. 1050-72' (diss., Leicester, 2008) [esp. pp. 56, 73 and 216]
- The MANCASS C11 Database: An Inventory of Script and Spellings in Eleventh-Century English [MS C included in searchable database of letter forms and spellings]
- Parker Library on the Web [electronic images of the complete MS C, with zoom facility; available to subscribers only]
- The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220 [description with bibliography]
- Rauer, C., ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013), pp. 20-1
- Gneuss, H. and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2014), pp. 76-7
MS C*
Part of the so-called Collectanea
Joscellini, a sixteenth-century collection of transcriptions made by John
Joscelyn, archbishop Parker's secretary. MS C* is an early modern transcription
of a leaf lost from MS C, as recognized by Kotzor (see the cited article below).
Contains select sections of text, most importantly the one for 17 March (44,
Patrick) which is contained in no other manuscript, but also the calendrical
and astronomical sections, wholly or partially: 58a (The End of March),
58b (The Beginning of April), 73b (The Beginning of May), 83a
(The Beginning of Summer), 94a (The End of May), 94b (The Beginning
of June), 111a (Summer Solstice), 116a (The End of June), 116b
(The Beginning of July), 139a (The End of July), 139b (The Beginning
of August), 171a (The End of August), 171b (The Beginning of September),
200a (The End of September), 200b (The Beginning of October), 217a
(The End of October), 217b (The Beginning of November), 221a (The
Beginning of Winter), 233a (The End of November), 233b (The Beginning
of December).
- Kotzor, G., St Patrick in the Old
English Martyrology: On a Lost Leaf of MS. C.C.C.C. 196', Notes
and Queries 21 (1974), 86-7
- Page, R. I., On the Lost Leaf of MS.
C.C.C.C. 196', Notes and Queries 21 (1974), 472-3
- Kotzor, G., ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium,
2 vols., Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist.
Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich, 1981), I, 9-10 and 87-8 [on the Collectanea
Joscellini]
- Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts
Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957); see under no. 47
- Graham, T. and A. G. Watson, The Recovery of the Past in Early Elizabethan England: Documents by John Bale and John Jocelyn from the Circle of Matthew Parker, Cambridge Bibliographical Society Monographs 13 (Cambridge, 1998)
- Graham, T., 'John Joscelyn, Pioneer of Old English Lexicography', The Recovery of Old English: Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, ed. T. Graham (Kalamazoo, 2000), pp. 83-140
- Rauer, C., ‘Usage of the Old English Martyrology’, Foundations of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, ed. R. H. Bremmer jr. and K. Dekker, Medievalia Groningana ns 9 (Leuven, 2007), pp. 125-46
- Rauer, C., ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013), p. 21
MS D
Preserves only minor sections
of the text (7 entries); its relationship with the other manuscripts remains
somewhat unclear. Contains in its margins the sections from 25 December (1,
The Birth of Christ) to 31 December (7, Pope Silvester I). The extensive
literature on the other items contained in this codex is not listed here.
- James, M. R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1912), I, 81-5
- Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957), no. 32
- Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn (London, 1964), p. 82
- Grant, R. J. S., MS. C.C.C.C. 41, with Special Regard to the B-Version of the Old English Bede' (diss., Cambridge, 1971), pp. 1-76
- Drage, E. M., 'Bishop Leofric and the Exeter Cathedral Chapter (1050-1072): A Re-Assessment of the Manuscript Evidence' (diss., Oxford, 1978)
- Hohler, C., [Review of R. J. S. Grant, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41: The Loricas and the Missal], Medium Ævum 49 (1980), 275-80 [argues for a link with Glastonbury]
- Kotzor, G., ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium, 2 vols., Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich, 1981), I, 89-108 [contents, palaeographical and codicological details, facsimile of p. 124 (on p. 95)]
- Gneuss, H., 'A Preliminary List of Manuscripts
Written or Owned in England up to 1100', Anglo-Saxon England 9
(1981), pp. 1-60, no. 39
- Sisam, C., [Review of G. Kotzor, ed., Das
altenglische Martyrologium], Notes and Queries 30 (1983),
67-8 [on the relationship between MS D and the other manuscripts]
- Quinn, K. J. and K. P. Quinn, A Manual
of Old English Prose, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 453
(New York, 1990) no. 601 [lists secondary literature on MS D]
- Keefer, S. L., 'Margin as Archive: The Liturgical Marginalia of a Manuscript of the Old English Bede', Traditio 51 (1996), 147-77 [texts other than the Old English Martyrology]
- Gameson, R., The Origin of the Exeter Book of Old English Poetry', Anglo-Saxon England 25 (1996), 135-85, at 148
- Budny, M., D. M. Wilson and R. I. Page, Insular,
Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge, 2 vols (Kalamazoo, 1997), I, 501-24 and II, plates 398-9
- Gneuss, H., Handlist
of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments
Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 241 (Tempe, 2001), no. 39
- Grant, R. J. S., 'Cambridge Corpus Christi College 41', Corpus Christi College, Cambridge I: MSS 41, 57, 191, 302, 303, 367, 383, 422, ed. T. Graham, R. J. S. Grant, P. J. Lucas, E. M. Treharne, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile 11 (Tempe, 2003), pp. 1-27
- Rowley, S. M., 'Nostalgia and the Rhetoric of Lack: The Missing Exemplar for Corpus Christi Collge, Cambridge, Manuscript 41', Old English Literature in its Manuscript Context, ed. J. T. Lionarons, Medieval European Studies 5 (Morgantown, 2004), pp. 11-35
- Thompson, N. M., ' Anglo-Saxon Orthodoxy', Old English Literature in its Manuscript Context, ed. J. T. Lionarons, Medieval European Studies 5 (Morgantown, 2004), pp. 37-65
- Bredehoft, T. A., 'Filling the Margins of CCCC 41: Textual Space and A Developing Archive', Review of English Studies 57 (2006), 721-32
- Rauer, C., ‘Usage of the Old English Martyrology’, Foundations of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, ed. R. H. Bremmer jr. and K. Dekker, Medievalia Groningana ns 9 (Leuven, 2007), pp. 125-46
- Jolly, K. L., 'On the Margins of Orthodoxy: Devotional Formulas and Protective Prayers in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS41', Signs on the Edge: Space, Text and Margin in Medieval Manuscripts, ed. S. L. Keefer and R. H. Bremmer jr, Medievalia Groningana 10 (Paris, 2007), pp. 135-83
- Corradini, E., 'Leofric of Exeter and his Lotharingian Connections: A Bishop's Books, c. 1050-72' (diss., Leicester, 2008) [esp. pp. 46, 63, 74]
- Anlezark, D., ed. and trans., The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn (Cambridge, 2009), pp. 5-6 [description of manuscript and its contents]
- Olsen, K., 'Thematic Affinities between the Non-Liturgical Marginalia and the Old English Bede in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41', Practice in Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, Mediaevalia Groningana 16 (Leuven, 2010), pp. 133-45
- The MANCASS C11 Database: An Inventory of Script and Spellings in Eleventh-Century English [MS D included in searchable database of letter forms and spellings]
- Parker Library on the Web [electronic images of the complete MS D, with zoom facility; available to subscribers only]
- Rowley, S. M., The Old English Version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, Anglo-Saxon Studies 16 (Cambridge, 2011) [particularly pp. 23-4 and 156-73]
- Rauer, C., ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013), pp. 21-2
- Gneuss, H. and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2014), pp. 48-50
MS E
Another early copy. Contents:
2 May (75, Athanasius) to 10 May (85, Calepodius) (11 entries).
- Thompson, E. M. and others (New Palaeographical
Society), Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, ss (London, 1913-30),
I, pl. 102 [facsimile and transcription of MS E]
- Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts
Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957), no. 132
- Sisam, C., An Early Fragment of the
Old English Martyrology', Review of English Studies ns
4 (1953), 209-20
- Kotzor, G., ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium,
2 vols., Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist.
Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich, 1981), I, 109-17 [contents, palaeographical and
codicological details, facsimile page of fol. 7r (p. 111)]
- Gneuss, H., 'A Preliminary List of Manuscripts
Written or Owned in England up to 1100', Anglo-Saxon England 9
(1981), pp. 1-60, no. 298
- Morrish, J. J., 'An Examination of Literacy
and Learning in England in the Ninth Century' (diss., Oxford, 1982) [see
manuscript index for page numbers]
- Morrish, J., Dated and Datable Manuscripts
Copied in England during the Ninth Century: A Preliminary List', Mediaeval
Studies 50 (1988), 512-38, at 535
- Quinn, K. J. and K. P. Quinn, A Manual
of Old English Prose, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 453
(New York, 1990) no. 604 [lists secondary literature on MS E]
- Gneuss, H., Handlist
of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments
Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 241 (Tempe, 2001), no. 298
- Dumville, D. N., 'English Script in the Second Half of the Ninth Century', Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, ed. K. O'Brien O'Keeffe and A. Orchard, 2 vols (Toronto, 2005), I, 305-25
- Rauer, C., ‘Usage of the Old English Martyrology’, Foundations of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, ed. R. H. Bremmer jr. and K. Dekker, Medievalia Groningana ns 9 (Leuven, 2007), pp. 125-46
- Doane, A. N., 'London, British Library, Add. 40165 A', in his Saints' Lives, Martyrologies, and Bilingual 'Rule of St. Benedict' in the British Library, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile 19 (Tempe, 2010), pp. 5-13
- Rauer, C., ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013), p. 22
- Gneuss, H. and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2014), p. 226
- British Library Digitised Manuscripts [colour images of the relevant folios, available without subscription]
MS F
Contains only two entries, The Beginning of Summer (9 May, 83a) and The Beginning of Winter (7 November, 221a).
- Henel, H., 'Altenglischer Mönchsaberglaube', Englische Studien 69 (1934-5), 329-49, at 347-8 [edition]
- Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957), no.239, item 11.1
- Frank, R. and A. Cameron, A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English (Toronto, 1973), p. 204 [classification as B.19.6]
- Kotzor, G., ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium, 2 vols., Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich, 1981), I, 3n.
- Chardonnens, S., ‘London, British Library, Harley 3271: The Composition and Structure of an Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Miscellany', Form and Content of Instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the Light of Contemporary Manuscript Evidence, ed. P. Lendinara, L. Lazzari and M. A. D'Aronco, Textes et Études du Moyen Âge 39 (Turnhout, 2007), pp. 3-34 [manuscript context]
- Doane, A. N., Grammars, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile 15 (Tempe, 2007), pp. 25-34 [refers to the entries as a 'Note on the Pleiades', p. 29]
- The MANCASS C11 Database: An Inventory of Script and Spellings in Eleventh-Century English [MS F included in searchable database of letter forms and spellings]
- Rauer, C., ‘Usage of the Old English Martyrology’, Foundations of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, ed. R. H. Bremmer jr. and K. Dekker, Medievalia Groningana ns 9 (Leuven, 2007), pp. 125-46
- Rauer, C., ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013), pp. 22-3
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