Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical treatise
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Contents: ff. 10r–120v: Ælfric, Grammar ( imperfect); ff. 120v–130v: Ælfric, Glossary; ff. 131r–135v: Grammatical treatise, beginning ‘Sum verbum substantium’. Decoration: Initials in red, some with penwork decoration in the same colour. Numerous small initials with penwork decoration in brown and/...
Metrical prayer; Adrian and Ritheus; Disticha Catonis
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Contents (see Walbers, 'Numbers and Measurement' (2012), table II.10) : ff. 136r–137r: Fragment of a metrical prayer;' beginning, 'Æla drihten leof. æla dema god' (Dobbie, Minor Poems (1942), p. 94); ff. 137v–140r: Dialogue between Adrian and Ritheus; f. 140v: Notes on the names of the two thieves ...
Bede, De temporum ratione; Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; Disticha Catonis
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This manuscript contains 3 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): ff. 2-9: Bede, De temporum ratione, books lxvi–lxx (imperfect), 1st quarter of the 12th century; ff. 10-135: Ælfric, Grammar (10r–120v: imperfect), Ælfric, Glossary (120v–130v); a grammatical treatise, beginni...