Bloomington, Indiana, Lilly Library, Additional 1000 (formerly Sigmaringen) Fragment of Ælfric's "Grammar" (with B.L. Harley 5915, ff. 8-9 [277])

Abstract

14. Bloomington, Indiana, Lilly Library,

Additional 1000 (formerly Sigmaringen)

Fragment of Ælfric's "Grammar"

(with B.L. Harley 5915, ff. 8-9 [277])

[Ker 384 & Supp., Gneuss 441; cf. Ker 242]

HISTORY: An early 11c fragment of .tElfric's "Grammar:' Probably from the same manuscript as the fragment of the "Grammar" in London, British Library Harley 5915, ff. 8-9 (277) in John Bagford's collection (Gatch 1985: 109). Collins (1964) shows in detail the identity of layout and letter spacing and letter forms in Lilly Add. 1000 and those of Harley 5915, ff. 8-9. The Lilly leaf is first mentioned by Birlinger in 1870 as belonging to the Library at Sigmaringen: "Das Blatt fand ich beim Notar Strauven in Düsseldorf, gegenwärtig gehört es der fiirstl. Hohenz. Bibliothek in Sigmaringen" ( cited Ker, Cat., 456). Purchased from Herbert Reichner by the University of Indiana, Lilly Library in 1961 (Collins 1976: 43).