Cyprian epistles and Old English Martyrology fragments
Scope & Content:
These fragments of Cyprian epistles LV, LXXIV and LXIX (ff. 1-5) and of an Old English Martyrology (ff. 6-7) were used as flyleaves in the binding of a 12th-century manuscript. They have been removed and bound together.
B. 1. "Cantica Glosata" (in the hand of the list of contents in A, f. 3) : commentary on the Song of Songs, described on the binding as "Gu . . . [? Gulielmus] super Cantica." Pref. beg. "Liber iste uocatur eanticum canticorum," text "Osculetur me . i . delectet me." f. 1. 2. "Sententie S. Gre...
Contents: The Anglo-Saxon Martyrology: the part for 2nd to 10th May, incipit "On þone aefteran [daeg þaes] monðes" (p. 70, 1. 10), explicit: "þaes martyres tid sancti Gor[dianes]" (p. 80,11. 13-14). (References to An Old English Martyrology, pp. 70-80). There are two other manuscripts of pa...