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• Résumé : CCCC MS 183 is one of several manuscripts associated with Æthelstan, King of the English (924/5-39), but the only one of these written in England in his reign. He seems to have commissioned it for presentation to the community of St Cuthbert, which at this point was at Chester-le-Street in Country Durham, having fled Lindisfarne to escape Viking attacks but not yet settled in its eventual home at Durham. The famous presentation picture shows Æthelstan, with bowed head, presenting the book to St Cuthbert himself, and is a very important example of the revival of figure art in manuscript painting during Æthelstan's reign. It was written between 934 and 939, the year of Æthelstan's death, by a scribe who also appears in London, BL MS Royal 7. D. XXIV, perhaps at Glastonbury, but certainly somewhere in the south of England. It contains Bede's two Lives of St Cuthbert, the first in prose and the second metrical, and a mass and office for Cuthbert's feast day, as well as lists of popes, bishops, and kings, and a record of Æthelstan's other gifts to the community. Its production can be linked to Æthelstan's political activities in the North.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Bede the Venerable - author

  1v-58r - Bede the Venerable, Vita Sancti Cuthberti || Liber Bedae presbiteri de vita et miraculis S. Cuthberti

  Note : On f. 1v is a fine full-page picture. The frame is of yellow, enclosing panels of conventional foliage with birds and a lion, in white on deep-red ground, exceedingly sharp and good. The ground of the picture is plain. On L. a king in short dark (purple) mantle over lighter tunic, red hose, crown, yellow hair and beard, stands under an arch with tiled dome: he bends over to R. and holds an open book. On R. a church with tiled roof, clerestory and aisles (tiled): rectangular window in W. gable: ornament at the summit of each gable. In front of it (at W. end) stands a nimbed beardless saint, tonsured, in chasuble (red) over alb, holding up his R. hand, a book in L. On the identification of the figures see below.

  rubric : (2r) Incipit prefatio bede presbiteri de uita sancti cuðberhti lindisfarnensis episcopi ad eadfridum episcopum

  Note : (P. L. XCIV 575)

  incipit : (2r) Domino sancto ac beatissimo

  Note : (capitals, filled in with red and yellow: large initial, principally in red and yellow, with bird's head)

  explicit : (3v) dilectissimi fratres et domini mei. Amen

  rubric : (3v) Explicit prologus libri sequentis deo gratias. fiat

  rubric : (3v) Incipiunt capitule (corr. to a) libri sequentis

  Note : (xlvi)

  rubric : (5v) Incipit liber de vita et miraculis sancti cuthberhti lindisfarnensi episcopi

  Note : in fine red capitals

  incipit : (6r) Principium nobis scribendi de uita beati cuðberhti

  Note : Fine initial: framework in red: panels of acanthus and other patterns in white on yellow

  Note : Numerals of chapters are in red, usually placed central, in a line by themselves. Initials of chapters are very prettily done in red, green, and blue, sometimes in single colours: sometimes with heads of beasts. The number xviii is written xiiiiiiii

  Note : Cap. xlv ends

  explicit : (56r) misericordia et miseratione coronat. Amen

  rubric : (56r) xlvi. Explicit liber de uita et miraculis sancti cuðberhti lindisfarnensis aecclesie episcopi feliciter. Amen

  rubric : (56r) Item ex libro historiae aecclesiastice gentis anglorum quarto kapitulo uicesimo nono

  Note : (Historia Ecclesiastica IV 31 edd.)

  incipit : (56r) Erat in eodem monasterio frater quidam

  Note : (57r) xlvii (Historia Ecclesiastica IV 32)

  incipit : (57r) Nec silentio praetereundum quod ante triennium

  explicit : (58r) tumoris apparuisset. deo gratias

  Note : (58v) blank

  
  

  59r-60r - List of Popes || Pontificum sedis apostolicae

  Note : After Item 1 follow lists of the Popes, of the 70 disciples, and of English Bishops and Kings. I give the text of these in full (excepting that of the Popes) and also a collation with the earliest MS. of the lists, Vespasian B. 6 (V). This, though often differing in spelling, agrees with 183 in some of its most curious errors. Note: James' lists appear here. For his comparison with the Vespasian manuscript see the following figures:

  rubric : (59r) Nomina pontificum sedis (apostolice erased)

  Note : Column 1

  Note : i. Petrus ii. Linus to xxv. Xistus

  Note : Column 2

  Note : xxvi. Dionisius to l. Felix

  Note : (59v) Column 1

  Note : li. Gelasius to lxxvi. Martinus

  Note : (59v) Column 2

  Note : lxxvii. Eugenius ... xcviii. Hadrianus xcviiii. Leo c. Stephanus ci. Pascual cii. Eugenius

  Note : (60r) Column 1

  Note : ciii. Ualentinus ciiii. Gregorius cv. Sergius cvi. Leo cvii. Benedictus cviii. Nicolaus cviiii. Adrianus cx. Iohannis cxi. Marinus cxii. Adrianus

  Note : The numbering is continued, without names, to cxviii.

  
  

  60r-60v - The Seventy-Two Disciples of Christ || Septuaginta duorum discipulorum Christi

  Note : (60r) Column 2

  rubric : (60r) Nomina septuaginta duorum discipulorum Christi

  Note : i. Iacobus Iustus ii. Mathias iii. Ioseph iiii. alius Ioseph v. Marcus euuangelista vi. barnabas vii. lucas euuangelista viii. cleophas viiii. seneca x. symeon xi. lucius xii. manain xiii. sostenes xiiii. caefas xv. thaddeus xvi. ermen (qui) et pastor xvii. andronicus xviii. Iohannas xviiii. Amplias xx. Urbanus xxi. erodiones xxii. asyncritis xxiii. Iasonem xxiiii. Stephanus prius martir

  Note : (60v) Column 1

  Note : xxv. Philippus xxvi. Prochorus xxvii. Nicanor xxviii. Timon xxviiii. Parmena xxx. Aquilas xxxi. Iudas qui uocabatur barnabas xxxii. Silas xxxiii. Siluanus xxxiiii. Symon cleophe xxxv. Nason xxxvi. Agabas xxxvii. Ananias xxxviii. Ignatius xxxviiii. Symon xl. quirenense xli. Alexander xlii. Rufus xliii. Nathanael xliiii. Nichodemus xlv. Cleophas xlvi. Symon xlvii. Iudas xlviii. Iacobus xlviiii. Symon Coriarius l. Lucas

  Note : (60v) Column 2

  Note : li. barnabas lii. Iohannes liii. barnabas liiii. Stephanus lv. chorisius lvi. milichus lvii. gaius lviii. Flegonta lviiii. Ermen Hi sunt qui electi fuerunt ab apostolis in ordinem pro quibus(dam) qui recesserunt lx. appellen probabilis lxi. dyonisius ariopagita lxii. æpenetus lxiii. Iesus qui dicitur Iustus lxiiii. Stachin lxv. Ponplius lxvi. Aristobolus lxvii. Stephanus Corinthiensis lxviii. Erodius lxviiii. Rufus lxx. Olymphus lxxi. Titus lxxii. Filimonem

  
  

  61r-61r - Archbishops of Canterbury || Archiepiscoporum Dorobernensis ecclesiae

  rubric : (61r) Nomina archiepiscoporum dorobernensis ecclesie

  Note : (61r) i. Agustinus ii. Laurentius iii. Mellitus iiii. Iustus v. Honorius vi. Deusdedit vii. Theodorus viii. berhtuualdus viiii. Tatuuinus x. Noðhelmus xi. Cuðberhtus xii. Iaenberhtus xiii. breguuinus xiiii. æðelheardus xv. uulfredus xvi. feologeldus xvii. ceolnoðus xviii. æðelredus xviiii. plegmundus xx. æðelhelmus xxi. Uulfhelmus

  Note : xxii. (The number original: the name Odo added in cent. xvi) xxiii. (The number original: the name Dunstanus added in cent. xvi) xxiiii. (The number original: the name Athelgarus added in cent. xvi)

  Note : xxv. The last original number. The series is continued to no. 70 (Matthew Parker). Dates are added for all the Archbishops in the same hand of cent. xvi

  
  

  61v-61v - Bishops of Rochester || Episcoporum Hrofensis ecclesiae

  rubric : (61v) Nomina episcoporum hrofens ecclesie

  Note : (61v) i. Paulinus ii. Ithamar iii. Putta iiii. Cuuichelm v. Gebmund vi. Tobias vii. Alduulf viii. Dunn viiii. Earduulf x. Deora xi. Uuærmund xii. beornmod

  Note : The numbering is continued to xviii

  
  

  61v-61v - Bishops of the East Saxons || Episcoporum Horientalium Saxonum

  rubric : (61v) Nomina episcoporum horientalium saxonum

  Note : (61v) i. Mellitus ii. Cedd iii. Ercnuuald iiii. Uualdhere v. Inguuald vi. Ecguulf vii. Sighæh viii. Eadberht viiii. Eadgar x. Coenuualh xi. Eadbald xii. Haðoberht xiii. Osmund xiiii. Æþelnoð xv. Ceolberht

  Note : The numbering is continued to xviii

  
  

  62r-62r - Bishops of the South Saxons || Episcoporum Australium Saxonum

  rubric : (62r) Nomina episcoporum australium saxonum

  Note : (62r) i. Eadberht ii. Eolla iii. Sicgga iiii. Aluberht v. Osa vi. Gislhere vii. Tota viii. Ƿiohthun viiii. æþeluulf x. Cynred xi. Guðheard

  Note : The numbering is continued to xviii

  
  

  62r-62v - Bishops of the West Saxons and Winchester || Episcoporum Occidentalium Saxonum et Wentanae civitatis

  rubric : (62r) Nomina episcoporum occidentalium saxonum

  Note : (62r) i. birinus fuit episcopus qui cum consilio honorii pape venerat brittaniam ii. Agilberht iii. Ƿine iiii. leutherius v. hædde deinde in duas parrochias diuisus est. altera uuenta cenorum ecclesie altera scireburnensis ecclesie

  rubric : (62r) uuentane ciuitatis episcopi

  Note : (62r) vi. Danihel vii. Hunfrið viii. Cynheard viiii. Æþelheard x. Ecgbald xi. dudd xii. Cynebryht xiii. Alhmund xiiii. Ƿigþegn xv. Hereferð xvi. Eadhun xvii. Helmstan

  Note : (62v) xviii. Sƿiðhun xviiii. xx. Deneƿulf xxi. Friþestan xxii. Ælfheah xxiii. xxiiii. Deinde uuintoni xxv. ensis ecclesia in duas xxvi. parrochias xxvii. diuisa est tempore xxviii. Friþestani. unam tenu xxviiii. it Friðestan. et alteram xxx. Æþelstan. postea. Oda

  
  

  62v-62v - Bishops of Sherborne || Episcoporum Scireburnensis ecclesiae

  rubric : (62v) Scireburnensis ecclesie episcopi

  Note : (62v) i. Adhelm ii. Forðhere iii. Hereuuald iiii. Æðelmod v. Denefrið vi. Ƿigbriht vii. [E]alhstanE added viii. heahmund viiii. æþelheah x. Ƿulfsige xi. asser xii. æðelƿeard

  Note : deinde in tres parrochias diuisa est. ƿillensis ecclesie et cridiensi(s) ecclesie

  rubric : (62v) Scireburnensis ecclesie

  Note : (62v) xiii. ƿærstan xiiii. æþelbald xv. Sigelm xvi. ælfred

  
  

  62v-62v - Bishops of Wells || Episcoporum Wellensis ecclesiae

  rubric : (62v) Uuillensis ecclesie

  Note : (62v) i. æƿelmus ii. uulfhelmus iii. ælfheah

  
  

  62v-62v - Bishops of Crediton || Episcoporum Cridiensis ecclesiae

  rubric : (62v) Cridiensis aecclesie

  Note : (62v) i. Eaduulf (ii). æþelgar

  
  

  62v-63r - Bishops of the Hwicce after Seaxƿulf || Hwicciorum post Seaxwulfum

  rubric : (62v) Nomina episcoporum huuicciorum post seaxƿulfum

  Note : (62v) i. bosel ii. oftfor iii. Ecgƿine iiii. ƿilfrid v. milred vi. ƿærmund

  Note : (63r) vii. tilhere viii. heaðored viiii. denebriht x. heaberht

  Note : The numbering goes on to xv

  
  

  63r-63v - Bishops of the Mercians || Episcoporum provinciae Merciorum

  rubric : (63r) Nomina episcoporum prouinciae merciorum

  incipit : (63r) Primus in prouintia merciorum et lindisfarorum ac mediterraneorum anglorum episcopus

  Note : (63r) i. Diuina ii. Cella hambo de scotia iii. Trumhere de natione anglorum iiii. Gearomon v. Ceadda vi. Vuynfrið vii. Seaxuulf Postea uero in .v. parrochias diuiditur. post seaxuulfum prouinciae merciorum duos episcopos habuit. headdan et uuilfriðum. postea uuilfriðus eiectus. et headda prefatus regebat ambas parrochias. deinde alduuine quiet uuor nominabatur. Iterum diuisa est in duas parrochias i. Torhthelm ii. Eadberht

  Note : (63v) iii. unƿona iiii. Ƿerenberht v. ræðhún vi. aldred vii. ciolred i. hƿita ii. hæmele iii. cuðfrið iiii. berhthun v. hygeberht vi. alduulf vii. hereƿine viii. æþeluuald viiii. humberht x. cyneferð

  
  

  63v-63v - Bishops of Hereford

  rubric : (63v) Nomina episcoporum uuestor elih' post seaxuulfum

  Note : (63v) i. Putta ii. Tyrhthelm iii. Torhthere iiii. Ƿalhstod v. Cuðberht vi. Podda vii. Acca viii. headda viiii. Aldberht x. esne xi. Ceolmund xiii. Utel xiii. Uulfheard xiiii. beonna xv. eadƿulf xvi. cuðƿulf xvii.

  
  

  63v-63v - Bishops of Lindsey

  rubric : (63v) Nomina episcoporum lindisfarorum post seaxulfum

  Note : (63v) i. eadhæð ii. æþelƿine iii. eadgar iiii. cynebert v. aloƿioh vi. aldƿulf vii. ceolƿulf viii. eadƿulf viiii. beorhtred

  Note : The numbering is continued to xvii, ending in col. 3

  
  

  63v-63v - Bishops of the East Anglians

  rubric : (63v) Nomina episcoporum orientalium Anglorum

  Note : (63v) i. Felix ii. Thomas iii. berhtgisl iiii. bisi Postea in duas parrochias diuiditur i. beadeƿine ii. noðberht iii. heaðolác iiii. æþelfrið v. eanfrið vi. æþelƿulf vii. alhheard viii. Sibba viiii. Húnferð x. Húnberht xi. xii.

  
  

  64r-64r - Bishops of Dunwich

  Note : (64r) i. Aecce ii. Aescuulf iii. eardred iiii. cuðƿine v. aldberht vi. ecglaf vii. heardred viii. ælfhún viiii. Tidfrið x. Ƿærmund xi. Ƿillred

  
  

  64r-64r - Archbishops of York || Archiepiscoporum Eboracensium

  rubric : (64r) Nomina episcoporum gentis norþanhymbrorum

  incipit : (64r) Primus paulinus a iusto archiepiscopus ordinatus ii æþan iii Fines iiii colman v. tuda. Post ea in duas parrochias diuiditur. Cædda eboracensi ecclesie ordinatum. uuilfrið hagstaldensie ordinatur depositoque uuilfriðo a rege Ecgfriðo eata pro eo ordinatur episcopum hagstaldensie pro ceddan bosa eboraci defuncto eatan iohannis pro eo ordinatur post longum uero exilium uuilfrið iterum in episcopatu hagstaldensie. receptus est et idem iohan defuncto bosan eboraci substitutus

  rubric : (64r) Eboracens ecclesiae

  Note : (64r) i. Uuilfrið ii. Ecgberht iii. Coena iiii. Eanbald v. Eanbald vi. Uulfsige vii. Ƿigmund

  
  

  64v-64v - Bishops of Hexham

  rubric : (64v) Nomina episcoporum hagustaldensis ecclesiae

  Note : (64v) i. Acca ii. Frioþeberht iii. Alhmund iiii. Tilberht v. æþilberht vi. heardred vii. eanberht viii. viiii. x. xi.

  
  

  64v-64v - Bishops of Lindisfarne

  rubric : (64v) Nomina episcoporum lindesfarnensis insule

  Note : (64v) i. æðan ii. Fines iii. Colman iiii. Eata v. Cuðberht vi. Eadberht vii. Eadfrið viii. Oiðilƿald viiii. Cyneƿulf x. hygebald xi. Ecgberht

  
  

  64v-64v - Bishops of Whithorn

  rubric : (64v) Nomina episcoporum ecclesie, quae dicitur casa Candida

  Note : (64v) i. Pehthelm ii. Frioþouuald iii. Pehtƿine iiii. Æþelberht v. beadƿulf

  
  

  65r-65v - Genealogies of Northumbrian kings || Genealogiae regum Brittanniae regnantium in diversis locis

  rubric : (65r) Haec sunt genelogie per partes brittanie regum regnantium per diversa loca

  rubric : (65r) Norðhymbrorum

  Note : (65r) Eadƿine ællingælle yffingyffe uuscfreainguuscfrea uuilgislinguuilgils uuestorƿalinguuestorualcna soemlingsoemel sæfugulingsæfugel sæbaldingsæbald siggeotingsiggeot suebdægingsuebdæg siggaringsiggar uuægdæginguuegdæg uuodeninguuoden frealafing

  rubric : (65r) Item norþahymbrorum

  Note : (65r) ecgfrið osƿeoingosƿio æðelfriðingaeþelfrið aeþelricingaeðelric idingida eoppingeoppa oesingoesa æþelberhtingaeðelberht angengeotingangengiot alusingalusa ingebrandingingebrand ƿægbrandingƿgbrand beornicingbeornic bældægingbældæg ƿodningƿoden frealafing

  rubric : (65v) Item norþanhymbrorum

  Note : (65v) Ceolƿulf CuþƿiningCuþƿine Leodƿaldingleodƿald eadhelmingecgƿald ocgtingeadhelm idingocg eatingeadberht leodƿaldingeata

  rubric : (65v) Item norðanhymbrorum

  Note : (65v) Alhred EanƿiningEanƿine byrnhomingbyrnhom bofingbofa blæcmoningblæcmon eadricingeadric iding

  
  

  65v-65v - Lengths of reigns of Northumbrian kings

  Note : (65v) Ida regnauit xi. annos Glappa i. Addaviii. æþelric vii. ðeodric vii. Frioþoƿald vii. hussa vii. æþelfrið xxvii. eadƿine xvii. x paganus 7 vii christianus ósƿald viiii. ósƿio xxviii. ecgfrið xv. aldfrið xx. ósred xi. coenred ii. ósric xi. ceolƿulf viii. Eadberht xxi. ósƿulf i. æþilƿald vi. alhred viiii. æþilred iiii. ælfƿald x. ósred .i. Item æþilred vii

  
  

  66r-66r - Lengths of reigns of Mercian kings

  Note : (66r) Penda regnavit annos xxi. Peada i. ƿulfhere xvii. æþelred xxviiii. Coenred v. Ceolred vii. æþelbald xli. offa xxxviiii. ecgfrið cxli. dies. coenƿulf ceolƿulf beornƿulf ludeca ƿiglaf beorhtƿulf

  
  

  66r-66r - Genealogy of Mercian kings

  rubric : (66r) Item merciorum

  Note : (66r) æðelbald alƿingalhƿih eoƿingeoƿa Pybbing

  
  

  66r-66v - Genealogy of Mercian kings

  rubric : (66r) Merciorum

  Note : (66r) æðelred PendingPenda PybbingPybba CreodingCreoda CyneƿaldingCyneƿald CnebbingCnebba IclingIcel eomæringeomær angengeotingangengiot offingoffa ƿærmundingƿærmund ƿihtlægingƿihtlæg ƿioþolgeotingƿeoþolgiot ƿodningƿoden frealafing

  rubric : (66r) Item merciorum

  Note : (66r) ecgfriþ offingoffa þingferþingþingferþ eanƿulfingeanƿulf ósmodingósmod eoƿingeoƿa Pybbing

  rubric : (66r) Item merciorum

  Note : (66r) Coenƿulf cuþbrihtingCuðbriht bassingbassa ceonreoƿing

  Note : (66v) Cynreoƿ CentƿiningCentƿine CuþƿalingCuþƿalh CenƿalingCenƿalh Pybbing

  
  

  66v-66v - Kings of Lindsey

  rubric : (66v) lindisfearna

  Note : (66v) Aldfriþ eatingeata eanferþingEanferþ bisceopingbeoscep bedingbeda bubbingbubba cædbædingcædbed cƿedgilsingcƿedgils crettingcretta ƿintingƿinta ƿodningƿoden frealafingfrealaf frioþoƿulsing (so)freoþoƿulf finningfinn godƿulfinggodƿulf geating

  
  

  66v-66v - Kings of Kent

  rubric : (66v) Cantƿariorum

  Note : (66v) æþelbriht ƿihtredingƿihtred ecgberhtingecgberht erconberhtingerconberht eadbaldingeadbald æþelberhting

  Note : (66v) (col. 2)

  Note : (66v) æþelberht eormenricingeormenric oesingoese ocgingocga hengestinghengest ƿittingƿitta ƿihtgislingƿihtgisl ƿægdægingƿægdæg ƿodningƿoden frealafing

  
  

  66v-66v - Kings of the East Angles

  rubric : (66v) easter engla

  Note : (66v) ælfƿald aldƿulfingaldƿulf æþelricingæþelric eningeni Tyttlingtyttla ƿuffingƿuffa ƿehhingƿehh ƿilhelmingƿilfhelm hryppinghryp hroðmundinghroðmund TryglingTrygil TytmaningTytman caseringcaser ƿodningƿoden frealafing

  
  

  67r-67r - Kings of the West Saxons

  rubric : (67r) Occidentalium Saxonum

  Note : Ine CenredingCenred CeolƿaldingCeolƿald CuþƿulfingCuþƿulf CuþƿiningCuþƿine CelingCelin CynricingCynric CreodingCreoda CerdicingCerdic AlucingAluca GiƿisingGiƿis brandingbrand bældægingbældæg ƿodning ƿoden frealafing

  Note : This ends the genealogies

  
  

  67r-70r - Notes on the Ages of the World and other subjects

  Note : Immediately upon the last of the genealogies follows a paragraph, partly perhaps taken from the Historia BritonumThe attribution of any part of this paragraph to the Historia Britonum is contested by Mr H. Munro Chadwick, who says in a note to me: I doubt the borrowing of the note Quando Gratianus etc. from the H. Br., partly on account of the form Wyrtgeorno, and still more because of quarta, which apparently does not occur in any text of the H. Br. As H. Br. in §§ 57-65 has clearly used a text related to 183 (containing (1) genealogies (2) lists of kings) there is some reason for thinking that the borrowing may have been the other way. Again, the gist of the whole passage Britannia-sexcenti is in Bede H. E. 11, whereas the latter part (circuitus) does not occur in H. Br., or (so far as I know) in any Celtic writer. (see Mommsen in MGH. pp. 132, 172), partly from Pliny (N. H. IV 16. 102) or Solinus (22. 10)

  Note : (67r) Quando gratianus consul fuit secundo et equitiusquarta. tunc his consulibus saxones a ƿyrtgeorno inbrittannia suscepti sunt. anno ccco xlviiii a passione christi. Britannia insula habet in longitudine dccc milia et in latitudine cc milia et in circuitu habet tria miliamilium et sexcenti

  Note : This is followed by a group of paragraphs of a different kind

  rubric : (67r) de trina Incarnatione Christi

  Note : (67r) Dominus noster Iesus Christus ter carnaliter huic mundo ortus est. Prima incarnatio quando in utero sancte marie uirginis conceptus est. viii. kl. Ap. vi. fer. luna uidelicet illo tempore xxvii

  Note : (67v) Secunda quando natus est viii. kl. Jan. iii fer. luna eo tempore xvii. regnante cesare augusto. no. octauianus ut sacra testatur ueritas euangelica. Tertia resurrectio quando excitatus catulus surrexit vi. kl. Apr. die dominico. luna ipso tempore xvi. secundum legem moysi .xiiii. die lune passus. regnante tiberio cesare

  rubric : de annis domini

  Note : Sunt ergo anni domini nostri Iesu Christi in corpore conuersantes .xxxii. et menses .iii. hoc est dierum .xi. milia. dcclxx. ex qua autem die baptizatus est dominus usque in diem passionis sue, recepti sunt dies iuxta seriem mensium .dcccxx

  Note : Prima aetas ab adam usque ad noe ann .ii. ccxlii etc.

  Note : (68v) Ending

  explicit : (68v) ab origine mundi usque in aduentum domini anni .v. milia cxcviiii

  Note : After this point a good deal of the matter is found, in a different order, in Vesp. B. VI (V)

  incipit : (68v) Prima aetas infantia vii annis. Secunda pueritia xiiii

  explicit : senium nullo certo annorum numero finitur

  Note : (V, f. 107r)

  Note : Ossa hominis sunt numero .cc.xviiii. Numerus uenarum .ccclxv.

  Note : Dentium numerus in perfecta aetate .xxxii.

  Note : (V, f. 106v, line 1)

  Note : Christianus historicus dicit longitudinem mundi esse .xii. milium (milia V) latitudo (+ uero V) vi. miliarum

  Note : (V, f. 106v)

  Note : Longitudo templi (+ habens V) .lx. cubitos in longitudine et .xxx. cubitos in latitudine et .xxx. cubitos in altitudine

  Note : Tabernaculum habens longitudinis cubitos .xxx. latitudinis .x. altitudinis aeque .x.

  Note : Longitudo ecclesie sancti petri .lx. passus. latitudo xl passus (latitudine (o) cubitos .xl. passus V). passus .v. pedes sunt .ccxx. columnis sustentatur. scala sancti petri gressibus .xlii.bus ascen/69r/dens. Altitudo turris v. milia .clxxiiii. passus .i. xl. v. dccc. lxxx. pedum

  Note : De arca noe .ccc. cubitorum in longitudine in latitudine l. cubitorum in altitudine xxx cubitorum

  Note : De nouo et uetere canone libri sunt .lxxii. sicque et linguarum numero aeque et discipulorum christi sine numero (numerus V) .xii. apostolorum (V, f. 106v-107r, l. 1)

  Note : Hic est numerus in psalterio uersu. In prima quinquaginta dccxc. In secundo dcclxxui. In tertio dccclii. Id est duo milia. cccclii

  Note : In .i. miliario perticarum .cccclxxx. pedum .v. milia .dcclx. pedum on furlonge .cccclxxx

  Note : (V, f. 106v, ll. 4-6)

  Note : Duo grana ordei. digiti unius transuersio est. sedecim digiti transuersi pedem efficiunt. duo uero pedes et dimidium faciunt gressum. duo autem (the sign for autem is used both here and in V) gressus passum implent. Passus quoque .cxx. stadium est. Et viii stadia mille passus efficiunt. xii pedes perticam faciunt. xii pertice arripinam faciunt. xii arripine (-ae V) uigem (sic, and in V) faciunt

  Note : (V, f. 107r)

  Note : In principio creauit deus caelum et terram mare et omnia. que in eis sunt simul. Prima die lucem .ii. firmamentum .iii. herbas et ligna pomifera .iiii. solem et lunam et stellas et omnia sidera

  Note : (69v) Ending

  explicit : (69v) et sanctificauit ilium, quia in ipso requieuit ab omni opere suo quod creauit

  Note : (Not in V)

  Note : This group of paragraphs, from De trina incarnatione, occurs again in MS 320, ff. 95-100. Some of the matter is also found in Julius A. 2 in Anglo-Saxon, printed by Napier, Anglia, XI, 1. Christianus Historicus I believe to be Cosmas Indicopleustes. The dimensions of the earth according to him agree with those given above. He conceives of it as oblong in form, and compares it with the tabernacle and the ark. I connect the citation of him here with a letter of Koaena archbishop of York to Lullus of Mainz, in which certain libri cosmografiorum are mentioned. (Jaffe, Monumenta Moguntina, p. 291.) See Mr E. O. Winstedt's Cosmas Indicopleustes, Cambridge, 1909, p. ix

  
  

  70r-92v - Bede the Venerable, Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica, with glossary || Liber de miraculis sancti Cuthberti episcopi, versu

  Note : Next follows a list of the difficult words that occur in the metrical Life of St Cuthbert, with their interpretations. About one-third are in Anglo-Saxon

  rubric : (70r) Haec sunt quae in libello sequenti caraxata sunt atque archana

  Note : Tetricas obscuritates ... Chalubum est de qua optimum ferrum uenit

  Note : Cameron D5

  rubric : (71r) Incipit epistola bede presbiter ad iohannem presbiterum

  Note : (XCIV 575)

  incipit : (71r) Domino in domino dominorum dilectissimo

  explicit : intercedere memineris

  rubric : (72r) Incipit liber de miraculis Sancti Cudberhti episcopi

  incipit : (72r) Multa suis dominus fulgescere lumina saeclis

  Note : Initials after the first are plain capitals filled with colour

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (92v) Vita manens castis lumenque salusque per aeuum

  rubric : (92v) baede famuli Christi et presbiteri. Explicit liber de uirtutibus Sancti Cudberhti lindisfarnensis aecclesie episcopi deo gratias. Amen

  
  

  92v-96v - Mass and Office of St Cuthbert || Missa et officium S. Cuthberti

  rubric : (92v) Incipit hymnus Sancti Cudberhti episcopi

  incipit : (92v) Magnus miles mirabilis...Gloria patri ingenito. gloria unigenito

  rubric : (93r) Missa Sancti Cudberhti xiii kal. Aprilis siue II. non. septembris quod est translatio eius

  Note : With marginal additions, noted (of cent. xi ?), to the Preface

  rubric : (94r) In uigilia Sancti Cudberhti ad uesperos

  Note : (95v) Ending with Antiphons in matutinis laudibus

  Note : (96r) blank

  Note : (96v) in three hands

  Note : (a)

  Note : with neumes: sequence for St Cuthbert: in a fine hand (x?)

  incipit : Hodiernus sacratior uenerandus in orbe dies preclarus ubique

  explicit : Hoc nobis cunctipotens tribuat clementiam domine

  Note : (b)

  Note : a list of vessels etc. in Anglo-Saxon (x-xi?)

  Note : Tea . calices 7 sex . disces . 7 . tƿoegentig bleod. 7 . feoƿer steapas . 7 . an bælt. 7 an hana 7ðrea . condel. stafas . 7 . fif. tene . cuppa . 7 . fiftene bleda 7 nion leoda 7 an cetel . 7 fifcalices . 7 feaƿer . discas . 7 sex tene . hornas . gerinade . 7 ðrea . un . rinade

  Note : Cameron B16.8.4

  Note : This list coincides to a slight extent only with the list of presents made to St Cuthbert's church by Aethelstan in 931: see above

  Note : (c)

  Note : One line erased, beginning with a W

  Note : (d)

  Note : Walchear b. 7 eal sce cuðberhtes hyred sealdan ealdgyðe þat land æt ðornhlaƿato þyse male þat is þus þat gyf heo hit forlæteð beo hit æt deadum oððe æt cƿicum sƿa sƿa hyre þearfe sy . þat mala is viii exen 7 xii cyg. 7 iiii menn. 7 eac hélænde hyre þat land æt ƿinde gatum ealle ða hƿile þe hyre þearf byð

  Note : Cameron B16.8.2