Date

820x840

Origin

Mercia (Worcester?)

Provenance

Cerne?

URL

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-LL-00001-00010/1

Gneuss-Lapidge number

28

Bibliography

• Ker, N.R., Catalogue of manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957)
• Dumville, David N., "Liturgical drama and panegyric responsory from the eighth century? A re-examination of the origin and contents of the ninth-century section of the Book of Cerne.", Journal of Theological Studies 23 2 374-406 (1972)
• Wormald, Francis, Collected writings I: Studies in medieval art from the sixth to the twelfth centuries, ed. J. J. G. Alexander, T. Julian Brown and Joan Gibbs (London: Harvey Miller, 1984)
• Brown, Michelle, The Book of Cerne: prayers, patronage and power in ninth-century England (London: British Library, 1996)
• Brown, Michelle, "The eastwardness of things", in Matthew T. Hussey and John D. Niles (eds), The Genesis of books: studies in the scribal culture of medieval England in honour of A.N. Doane, Studies in the early Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011) 9 17-49

Contents in handlist:

• Bede Metrical Versions of Psalms XLI, LXXXIII and XVIII, f. 43r, Psalm 112, (BEDE.Psalm)
• Hymn for communion, f. 86v, (N.Commun.Hymn)
• Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury octosyllabic prayer addressed to God, f. 66r-v, (THEODORE.Sator.Octo)
• Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury octosyllabic prayer addressed to Christ, f. 66v, (THEODORE.Xpist.Octo)
• Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury octosyllabic prayer addresed to Christ, f. 62v, (THEODORE.Heloi.Octo)