A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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ID
https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/CVMMA.VasAureum.Vers
Author
Cumma, abbot (of Abingdon?)
Title
Verses on a golden bowl
Language
Latin
Place
Abingdon?
Edited
M. Lapidge, 'Some Remnants of Bede's Lost Liber epigrammatum', English Historical Review 90 (1975), 798-820, at 814
Time
e/m viii?
Listed
ICL 1489a
Metre
hexameter
MSS
lost; known from Leland
Description
commissioning of a goldsmith to make a vessel of gold and silver
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CVMMA.VasAureum.Vers

CVMMA.VasAureum.Vers 1. Aurificum manibus vas hoc ego Cumma iubendo Aurificum manibus uas hoc ego Cumma iubendo
caesura pattern: 2m | 3m | 4m | 4d, fs: 2\3, pat: DDSD
CVMMA.VasAureum.Vers 2. abbas, divini nutus moderamine, supplex abbas, diuini nutus moderamine, supplex
caesura pattern: 3m | 4m, fs: 5\2, pat: SSSD
CVMMA.VasAureum.Vers 3. argenti atque auri perfeci pondere multo. argenti atque auri perfeci pondere multo.
caesura pattern: 2m? | 3m | 4d, fs: 3\2, ca: p, pa: p, ma: Y, e: hs, pat: SSSS