London, British Library, Sloane 1044, f.2 Fragmentary Gospel Leaf

Abstract

305. London, British Library, Sloane 1044, f.2

Fragmentary Gospel Leaf

(with BL Cotton Tiberius B. v, f. 76 and C.U.L. Kk.1.24)

[K.er 22, Gneuss 21, Lowe 2.*138)

HISTORY: Top part of a leaf from the final text leaf of an 8c English Gospel Book containing bits of John 21. The lower half of the leaf is British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v, f. 76 [229], which contains the adjoining text of John and an OE document from Hatfield, Herts. on bottom of verso; the leaf was taken from the end of the Gospel Book Cambridge University Library, Kk. 1.24 [102], perhaps by Thomas James. Sloane 1044 was a collection of manuscript and print fragments collected by the London bookdealer John Bagford (c.1650-1716) and acquired from him by Sir Hans Sloane about 1707; Bagford's original volume was rearranged in Sloane's collection; it was acquired by the British Museum with the Sloane collection after Sloane's death in 1753 and was further split into manuscript and print items in 1891 (Nickerson 1983: 53-54; Gatch 1985: 97, 110). See the descriptions of [229] and [102].