Number

385

Shelfmark

London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. vi, fols. 104-9

Date

[unknown]

Origin

[unknown]

Provenance

[unknown]

Note

805814, Mercia

Contents

• ‘Metrical Calendar of York’ (incomplete)
• tables of Greek and Roman numerals
• chronological note on the death of King Æthelbald of Mercia
• Ages of the World
• encyclopedic notes: dimensions of Solomon’s Temple at Jerusalem, of the Tabernacle, of St Peter’s basilica in Rome, of Noah’s Ark
• numbers of books of the Bible, number of languages of the world, number of bones, veins and teeth in a human body, dimensions of the world, number of verses in the Book of Psalms
• excerpts from Eucherius, Instructiones (CPL 489)
• two additional notes on measurements
• verses on the days of the week
• the Ages of Man
• list of popes from Peter to Leo III, with addenda
• names of the seventy-two disciples of Christ
• fifteen Anglo-Saxon episcopal lists
• Anglian collection of royal genealogies

Bibliography

MSS

• K. Sisam (1953a) 4-6
• K. Sisam (1953b) 289
• Dumville (1976) 24-5
• A.G. Watson (1979) I, no. 568
• Lapidge (1984) 328 [repr. Lapidge (1993a) 345]
• Morrish (1988) 517, 522, 537
• Webster—Backhouse (1991) no. 29 [Prescott]
• Lapidge (1996c) 430
• M.P. Brown (1996) 170-2
• Webster—Brown (1997) 224 [no. 55]
• Karkov (2004) 66 nn. 69 and 72, 67 n. 79
• Keynes (2004) 151
• Dumville (2005) 310
• Keynes (2005b)
• Dekker (2007) 301-5
• M.P. Brown (2012) 164

FACS

• Thompson—Warner (1881-4) II, pl. 24 [fol. 104r]
• NPS I, pl. 165 [fols. 104r, 107r]
• A.G. Watson (1979) II, pl. 4 [fol. 106r]

ED

• Sweet (1885) 167-71 [Anglian royal genealogies]
• M.R. James (1910) [disciples of Christ]
• M.R. James (1912) I.428-38 [lists of disciples of Christ, of Anglo-Saxon bishops and kings, coll. with those in no. 56]
• Wilmart (1934) 65-8 [Metrical Calendar of York]
• R.I. Page (1966) 3-7 [lists of Anglo-Saxon bishops]
• Dumville (1976) 30-1 [Anglian royal genealogies]
• Tristram (1985) 300-1 [Ages of the World]
• Dekker (2007) 283 [encyclopaedic notes, coll. in footnotes]
• Dekker (2010) 170-3 [base MS for Eucherius, three other texts]

ST

• K. Sisam (1953b) [Anglo-Saxon genealogies]
• Stenton (1959) [Anglian royal genealogies]
• Dumville (1976) [Anglian royal genealogies]
• Dumville (1977) 90
• Lapidge (1984) 327-32 [repr. Lapidge (1993a) 344-9] [Metrical Calendar of York]
• Tristram (1985) 83
• BCLL (1985) no. 1229
• Dolbeau (1992) [Seventy disciples]
• Bullough (2003b) 348 [Metrical Calendar of York]
• Bullough (2004) 106 n. 264, 208-9 and n. 237, 241-2 and n. 336
• Keynes (2005b)
• Dekker (2007) 256-8, 291, 293, 301-6, 309-10
• Dekker (2010) 156-8
• Gneuss (2012) 291