A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Electronic Gneuss-Lapidge

Entry 350

Number
350
Shelfmark
London, British Library, Cotton Otho A. xii, fols. 8-12, 14-16, 18-19
Date
xi3/4 or xi2
Origin
[unknown]
Provenance
[unknown]
Note
NOTE: the first three items of this MS, as seen and described by T.S. Smith (1696) 67, were: (1) Asser, Vita Ælfredi; (2) two OE charms; (3) the OE poem ‘The Battle of Maldon’. All three were destroyed in 1731. The surviving remnant of the MS, containing Osbern, Vita et translatio S. Ælphegi, constituted arts. 4-5 in Smith’s catalogue. Arts. 1-5 originally consisted of 86 folios, of which 10 survive.

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