A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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ID: https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/SÆWOLD.Lib.Vers
Author: Saewold, sometime abbot of Bath (c.1070)
Title: Verses describing the donation of his books to the church of Saint-Vaast
Language: Latin
Edited: P. Gierson, ‘Les livres de l’abbé Seiwold de Bath,’ Revue Bénédictine 52 (1940), 96-116; ML, Surviving Booklists, in Learning and literature in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. M. Lapidge and H. Gneuss (Cambridge, 1985), p. 59
Time: xi2
Metre: hexameter?
MSS: Arras 849 (539), f. 159
Description: Distich prefacing the donation of his books to the church of Saint-Vaast
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SÆWOLD.Lib.Vers 1.	Abbas deuotus probus ac uita Seiwoldus Abbas deuotus probus ac uita Seiuuoldus caesura pattern: 3m \| 4m, fs: 2\4, pat: SSDS
SÆWOLD.Lib.Vers 2.	contulit hos libros Christo dominoque Vedasto. contulit hos libros Christo dominoque Vedasto. caesura pattern: 2m \| 3m \| 4m, fs: 4\3, pa: c, pat: DSSD