London, British Library, Royal 6 A. vi Aldhelm, "Epistola ad Heahfridum;' "De laudibus virginitatis"

Abstract

288. London, British Library, Royal 6 A. vi

Aldhelm, "Epistola ad Heahfridum;'

"De laudibus virginitatis"

[Ker 254, Gneuss 464]

HISTORY: Dated 980-1000, and associated with Canterbury; the main hand is identified with the gloss hand of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F. 1. 15, part I (Boethius) (343], a St. Augustine's manuscript perhaps written there (Bishop 1957: 329; cf. Hussey 2014: 115) and main hand of Cambridge, Trinity College B.14. 3 (289) (Ara tor) (78), written at St. Augustine's, as well as with a Muchelney charter of 995 (see Bishop 1971: 9). Gwara flatly calls it "a Christ Church manuscript" (Gwara 2001: 1.177"" , cf. 107-08""; Gwara 1996: 110-11), seeing the main hand as being identical to the gloss hand to "Epistle to Heahfridum" in BL Cotton Domitian ix (190), ff. 4r, 7r (see Ker, Cat., p. 188) . The colophon on f. 109r is identical to that found at the end of the prose "De laudibus virginitatis" in BL Harley 3013 (272), a 12c manuscript whose glosses descend from those in this manuscript. F. 107 is a 16c supply leaf.