London, British Library, Royal 4 A. xiv Missal, Pseudo-Hieronymus "In psalmos," Felix "Vita Guthlaci"

Abstract

285. London, British Library, Royal 4 A. xiv

Missal, Pseudo-Hieronymus "In psalmos," Felix "Vita Guthlaci"

[Ker 250, 251, Gneuss 454, 455, 456]

HISTORY: Dated to the 10c, and, given that the scribe of ff. 1r-106v is the same as that of British Library, Royal 2 B. v (284), almost certainly written at Winchester, although this ascription has been questioned by Dumville (1991: 48), who also notes that Royal 4 A. xiv was at Worcester Cathedral from the 12c at the latest. The bifolium (ff. 107r-108v) containing the prologue and chapter headings to Felix's life of St. Guthlac is not part of the orginal manuscript, but dates to the 8/9c. The manuscript was at Worcester Cathedral in the 17c (see Young 1944: 18, 32, 63), and came into the possession of John Theyer between 1644 and 1646 (Warner and Gilson 1921: 81).