The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

O.2.26

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Shelfmark O.2.26
Manuscript Title

Alcuin of York
Alternative Title

Alcuinus De Pontificibus Ebor
James Number 1130
Century 17th
Physical Description

24 lines to a page. Well written.
Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. M. 9. No. 417.
Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 23 x 18.5
Folio 74 pp.
Material Paper
Language Latin
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.2.26/manifest.json
Online Since 23/09/2013

Contents

A note on the flyleaf by Thomas Gale. "Let this copy be returned intire after ye compositor hath done with it."
De Pontificibus et Sanctis Ecclesiae Eboracensis.
Poema auctore Flacco Alcuino.
Ex. mss. codd. Remensi et S. Theodorici prope Remos.

Printed by Gale in Hist. Angl. Script., p.703.

See also Dummler, Poetae aevi Carolini. I.162.

Bibliography

Keynes, S., Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Other Items of Related Interest in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Old English Newsletter Subsidia 18 (Binghampton, NY, 1992), no. 34 + pl. XXXIV.

Hargrove, M., 'Alcuin's "Poem on York"', reprinted from Cornell Abstracts of Theses 1937.

Godman, P., 'Mabillon, Ruinart, Gale et l'Eboracum d'Alcuin' Revue Mabillon 59 (1978)

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