Manuscripts

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F. 4. 32 Unit: section 3, ff. 19-36Liber Commonei

Latin, Old Welsh
s. ix¹
Welsh manuscripts
vellum

Identifiers

Location

England Oxford, Bodleian Library

Part of

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F. 4. 32 = St Dunstan’s Classbook [s. ix + s. xi]

Title

Liber Commonei

The name of Commoneus is derived from a colophon in syllabic verse found on f. 19v, previously the last page of the manuscript: Finit opus in Domino o thei quiri altisimo meo patre Commoneo scriptum simul ac magistro.

Type

computistics theological and exegetical literature

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin Secondary: Old Welsh

Date

s. ix¹

First half of the 9th century.

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Foliation

18 ff. (ff. 19 (part of reversed bifolium with f. 35), 20-32, 33 (singleton), 34, 35)

Table of contents

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Welsh manuscripts

Sources

See also the parent manuscript for further references.

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] Oxford Digital Library, Early manuscripts at Oxford University, Online: University of Oxford, 2001–present. URL: <http://image.ox.ac.uk>.

Digital reproduction direct link

[dig. img.] Digital Bodleian, Online: Oxford, Bodleian Library, ?–present. URL: <http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk>.

Digital reproduction direct link

[facs.] Hunt, Richard W., Saint Dunstan’s Classbook from Glastonbury: Codex Biblioth. Bodleianae Oxon. Auct. F.4./32, Umbrae codicum occidentalium, 4, Amsterdam, 1961.

Facsimile edition, with introduction

Facsimile edition with introduction

[ed.] Stokes, Whitley, “Cambrica”, Transactions of the Philological Society 7 (1860–1861): 204–249, 288–293 (addenda and corrigenda).

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – addenda and corrigenda: <link>

Old Welsh glosses

Secondary sources (select)

Lapidge, Michael, “Latin learning in Dark Age Wales: some prolegomena”, in: D. Ellis Evans, John G. Griffith, and E. M. Jope (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Celtic studies, held at Oxford, from 10th to 15th July, 1983, Oxford: D. E. Evans, 1986. 91–107.

Lapidge, Michael, and Richard Sharpe, A bibliography of Celtic-Latin literature, 400-1200, Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources, Ancillary Publications, 1, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1985.

[id. 83.]

Lindsay, W. M., Early Welsh script, Saint Andrews University Publications, 10, Oxford, 1912.

Internet Archive: <link>, <link>, <link>

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