Number

383

Shelfmark

London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A. xiv, fols. 114-79 (‘Letter-book of Archbishop Wulfstan’)

Date

[unknown]

Origin

[unknown]

Provenance

[unknown]

Note

173v, 177v]

Contents

• Alcuin, selected Epistolae
• various letters, mainly by popes, and to tenth-century Anglo-Saxon bishops
• poem addressed to Archbishop Wulfstan (SK 13280)
• decrees of the Councils of Chelsea (816) and Hertford (672 = Bede, Historia ecclesiastica IV.5)
• Atto of Vercelli, De rapinis ecclesiasticarum rerum
• Archbishop Oda of Canterbury, Constitutiones (942×946)
• De actiua uita et contemplatiua

Bibliography

MSS

• Stubbs (1874) liv-lv
• Dümmler (1895) 9-11
• Levison (1946) 247
• Bethurum (1957) 7-8
• N.R. Ker (1957) no. 204
• N.R. Ker (1971) 326-7 [repr. N.R. Ker (1985) 20-1]
• Whitelock (1976) 28-33
• Rella (1977) 71
• A.G. Watson (1979) I, no. 564
• P.L. Heyworth (1989) 198, 289
• C. Brett (1991) 55-6, 65-70
• Webster—Backhouse (1991) no. 159 [M.P. Brown]
• C.A. Jones (1999) 128 n. 100
• P. Wormald (1999) 188 n. 108, 451 n. 125, 462 n. 176
• Baxter (2004) 161 n. 1
• Bullough (2004) 97-101 et passim
• Dance (2004) 31 n. 6
• J. Hill (2004) 313 n. 11, 321
• G. Mann (2004)
• A. Orchard (2004) 66 n. 15
• Vanderputten (2006) 219, 221, 225, 227-32, 235-6
• R. Gameson (2012b) 110 n. 61, 111 n. 66
• A. Orchard (2012) 697 [no. 9]
• Scragg (2012a) no. 597.5

FACS

• Loyn (1971) pls. at end [fols. 148v, 171v, 173v]
• Cross—Morrish Tunberg (1993b) pls. I-IV [fols. 148v, 149r, 153r, 173v]
• G. Mann (2004) figs. 9.1-3 [fols. 171v,

ED

• Haddan—Stubbs (1869-71) III.579-85 [Council of Chelsea]
• Stubbs (1874) 354 [poem addressed to Archbishop Wulfstan], 369-70, 380-1, 383-9, 404-5 [various letters]
• Dümmler (1895) 18-481 [Alcuin, Epistolae, coll. as A2]
• BCS no. 896 [poem addressed to Archbishop Wulfstan]
• Bethurum (1957) 374-7 [letters relating to Archbishop Wulfstan], 377-8 [poem addressed to Archbishop Wulfstan]
• N.R. Ker (1971) 326-7 [poem addressed to Archbishop Wulfstan]
• Chase (1975) [base MS (= A2) for Alcuin, Epistolae]
• Whitelock et al. (1981a) I.67-74 [base MS for Oda, Constitutiones], 441-7 [Letter from the bishops of Britain to the pope]
• Cross (1993d) 243-4 [Atto of Vercelli]
• G. Mann (2004) 242 [fols. 116r-118v], 243 [fols. 121r, 124r, 128v], 244 [fols. 141v-142r, 137v-138r], 245-6 [fol. 146r], 247 [fol. 168v], 248 [fols. 167r-v], 250 [fol. 171v], 252 [fol. 155v], 253 [fol. 156v], 256 [fol. 163r], 269 [De actiua uita et contemplatiua]
• Vanderputten (2006) 237-44 [Letters from Wido, Fulrad and Odbert to Canterbury, coll. as B]

ST

• Whitelock (1937) 463-4 [repr. Whitelock (1981b), no. VIII]
• Bethurum (1942) 929
• Whitelock (1942) 30-2, 43 n. 5 [repr. Whitelock (1981b) no. XI]
• Levison (1946) 246-8
• Bethurum (1949)
• Cubitt (1995) 308-9 [Council of Chelsea]
• R. Gameson (1996a) 213 n., 239
• Bullough (1998b) 24 and n. 71
• CSLMA II (1999) 172, 178-80, 184, 193, 201, 212-15, 229, 233, 239, 241, 247, 298, 310, 321, 329, 338, 348
• Sauer (2000) 341, 372
• Bullough (2004)
• Vanderputten (2006) 219, 234