Oxford, Bodleian Libray, Bodley 572 (2026) Mass of St. Germanus; Expositio missae, Book of Tobit; Latin sermons; "De raris fabulis" and OE Rubrics, Cryptograms, OE, Welsh, and Cornish Glosses; Latin penitential texts

Abstract

362. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 572 (2026)

Mass of St. Germanus; Expositio missae, Book of Tobit;

Latin sermons; "De raris fabulis" and OE Rubrics,

Cryptograms, OE, Welsh, and Cornish Glosses;

Latin penitential texts

[Ker 313, Gneuss/Lapidge 583 + 583.3]

HISTORY: Bodley 572 is a composite of five separate manuscripts, generally dated between 850 and 950 (Marsden 19946: 4). Watson (1984: I, no. 102) dates ff. 2-50 "before 981:' Among Celticists Bodley 572 is referred to as the Codex Oxoniensis Posterior. Part 1 probably originated at Lannaled, St. Germans (Dumville 1992a: 117; Olson 1989: 60-62, 65-66), and Parts 3 and 4 are also probably of Cornish origin. Part 2 has three Old Cornish glosses. For the unusual manuscript context of the "Dominus uobiscum" at the date of this manuscript see Jones (1998: 672), who calls attention to its transmission outside a paraliturgical context. Dumville describes the hand(s) of ff. 2-25 as "now a late Celtic minuscule, attributable (if taken by itself) to the later ninth or earlier tenth century, now a hybrid Insular-Caroline which is presumably to be placed in the mid-tenth century' (Dumville 1992a: 116; see also Rushforth 2012: 202). Lindsay (1912: 29-32) provides a list of abbreviations in the fust 50 ff. of the manuscript. Marsden (1995: 181) identifies the source of the version of Tobit in Bodley 572 as "one of the two Ceolfrithian pandects which remained in Northumbria ('Offa's bible'):' He observes that its version is "an idiosyncratic text, with many readings without parallel in other known Vulgate versions" (19946: 120). Nicholson (1913: xxvi) believes the paschal table on f. 40v to be of Winchester origin. See also Scragg 2012: nos. 855-57. Stokes (2014: 83) would place ff. 1-50 "probably" at the New Minster in the llc. Bischoff (2004: 2.361 ([item 3787]) gives the provenance of ff. 51-107 as 'wohl Nordostfrankreich" and dates it to "1./2. Viertel" of the 9c. Parts 2-4 have glosses in Old Welsh, Old Cornish, and Old English, as well as in Latin ( on the script of the glosses, and possible origins, see Charles-Edwards 2012: 403). The manuscript was at St. Augustine's, Canterbury in the last quarter of the eleventh century, and Ker (1960: 29-30 and pl. 10b) uses f. 39v, II. 22-31 to illustrate the co-occurrence of "English;' Christ Church, and "mixed" scripts in the development of Norman script at St. Augustine's Canterbury in the late 11 c. Bodley 572 was item 129 in the fifteenth-century catalogue of St. Augustine's Canterbury (ed. Barker-Benfield 2008: item BAl.129), and it bears the St. Augustine's pressmark 'd.l.G.3.' Other Bodleian Library pressmarks are 'Th.B.21.9' and 'NE.B.5.9: Bodley 572 was presented to the Bodleian Library by Ralph Barlow in 1606. A digitized copy of the manuscript is available at http:/ /image.ox.ac.uk/show-all-openings?collection=bodleian&ma n uscript=msbodl5 72).