Number

432

Shelfmark

London, British Library, Harley 2965 (the ‘Book of Nunnaminster’)

Date

viii/ix or ix1

Origin

Mercia or S England?

Provenance

Winchester Nun

Contents

• prayerbook: gospel extracts
• prayers
• Lorica of Laidcenn mac Baith
• BCLL 294
• SK 15745]
• two charms
• record* (s. ix/x)
• forms of confession and absolution, prayer (s. x1)

Bibliography

MSS

• Thompson—Warner (1881-4) II.61-2
• Birch (1889)
• Kenney (1929) no. 577
• CLA II (1935) no. 199
• K. Sisam (1953a) 269
• N.R. Ker (1957) no. 237
• Gjerløw (1961) 23, 134
• McGurk (1961b) 12 [repr. McGurk (1998) no. V]
• N.R. Ker (1964) 202
• Sawyer (1968) 55 and no. 1560
• C.E. Wright (1972) xxii, 419
• Parkes (1976b) 158 n. 3 [repr. Parkes (1991) 155 n. 3]
• Alexander (1978a) no. 41
• T.J. Brown (1982a) 110 [repr. T.J. Brown (1993a) 210]
• Parkes (1983) 131-3 [repr. Parkes (1991) 173-8]
• M.P. Brown (1986) 135
• M.P. Brown (1986) 135
• Dumville (1987) 159, 170 n. 117 171 n. 129
• Herren (1987) 4
• Morrish (1988) 518-22, 525-6
• Muir (1988) xxxii, 12-19
• R. McKitterick (1989a) 316
• Webster—Backhouse (1991) no. 164
• Dumville (1992a) 96, 101-2, 125
• Dumville (1992b) 83-6, 95
• ASMMF I (1994) 37-43 [no. 271
• Doane]
• Raw (1997) 145-53
• Webster—Brown (1997) 248 [no. 154]
• Crowley (2000) 123, 144
• Lapidge (2000a) 14-15
• M.P. Brown (2001b)
• M.P. Brown (2012) 158
• R. Gameson (2012a) 43 n. 119
• Raw (2012) 460 and n. 1, 461 and n. 13, 462-4

DEC

• Deshman (1974) 193
• Alexander (1978a) no. 41
• Ohlgren (1986) no. 41
• Raw (1990) 220
• M.P. Brown (2001c) 51-8
• M.P. Brown (2011b) 37
• N. Edwards (2012) 246 n. 14

FACS

• Thompson—Warner (1881-4) II, pl. 22 [fol. 16v]
• Alexander (1978a) ills. 135, 137-9 [fols. 4v, 11r, 37r, 16v]
• Parkes (1983) pls. III(a)-(b) [fols. 41r, 40v (details)] [repr. Parkes (1991) pls. 30(a)-(b)]
• Dumville (1992b) pl. II [fol. 40v (detail)]
• T.J. Brown (1993a) ill. 56 [fol. 11r (detail)]
• ASMMF I (1994) no. 271
• M.P. Brown (1996) figs. 10-13 [fols. 16v, 36v-37r, 4v, 40v]
• Lapidge (2000a) 15 [fol. 11r (detail)]
• M.P. Brown (2001b) fig. 19.1 [fol. 16v]
• M.P. Brown (2007a) pls. 48-9 [fols. 16v, 40v]

ED

• BCS (1885-99) no. 630 [record]
• Birch (1889) 32-3 [record], 39-97 [base MS for prayerbook]
• Herren (1987) 76-89 [Lorica of Laidcenn coll. as N]

ST

• E. Bishop (1918) 192-7
• Wilmart (1932) 210-13
• Finberg (1964) no. 177 [record]
• K. Hughes (1970)
• BCLL (1985) no. 1280
• Herren (1987) 3-18 [Lorica]
• Biggs. et al. (1990) 138-9
• Sims-Williams (1990) 275-327
• M.P. Brown (1996) 117-18, 137-42, 154, 168-9, 171-2, 178-9 et passim
• M.P. Brown (2001c)