Old English translation of Felix, Vita sancti Guthlaci
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These folios contain a prose Old English translation of Felix's Vita S Guthlaci, copied in the third quarter of the 11th century. In the 12th century, an alphabet and the first words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin were added to f. 40v. This text was originally copied together with works attribut...
These folios contain various hymns and poems, all copied in what is now France or Germany in the first half of the 9th century: ff. 41r–68v: Sedulius, Paschale carmen (Schaller and Könsgen, Initia (1977), no. 11692); ff. 68v–70v: Sedulius, Hymnus i (Schaller and Könsgen, Initia (1977), no. 19...
Ps.-Augustine of Hippo, De uisitatione infirmorum (1r–15r); Robert Grosseteste, De dotibus (15v–19v); letter of Pope Innocent IV (1243–1254) (19v–21r) followed by Robert Grosseteste, epistola cxxviii, 1253 (21r–23r); John Wyclif, De diabolo et membris eius (23v–29r); Gospels concordance (29v–32v)
Ps.-Augustine of Hippo, Meditationes (1r–22r); Anselm of Canterbury, Orationes (22r–26r, 29r–30v, 32r–36v, 39v–46v, 53v–61r, 63r–82r), interspersed with other prayers and hymns including Maurilius of Rouen, Oratio ad beatam uirginem Mariam (36v–39r)