Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Rawlison C. 697 (12541) Aldhelm, "Ænigmata;' "Carmen de virginitate;' "De octo uitiis principalibus;' Prudentius, "Psychomachia;' acrostic poem on Æthelstan

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405. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Rawlinson C. 697 (12541)

Aldhelm, "Ænigmata;' "Carmen de virginitate;'

"De octo uitiis principalibus;'

Prudentius, "Psychomachia;' acrostic poem on Æthelstan

[Ker 349, Gneuss 661]

HISTORY: A continental (NE Francia, Bischoff 1976: 211) manuscript of ca. 900; in England by the mid-l0c, when the acrostic poem on f. 78v was added, along with various glosses and corrections. Several of the annotations appear to be in "Hand D" attributed to St. Dunstan by R. W Hunt (e.g. ff. l 7r, 36v, see Bishop 1968: 399-400). A 13c ex libris and pressmark associate the codex with Bury St. Edmunds; its earlier provenance in England is unknown, perhaps Malmesbury or Glastonbury. Acquired by the Bodleian with Richard Rawlinson's manuscripts in 1756.