Wells, Cathedral Archives, MS DC/ADM8/10 Gospel fragment, with prayer and Vita sancti Cungari
- Latin
- c.1000 + s. xii manuscript fragment
- English manuscripts
- parchment
Manuscript fragment (4 ff.) of a gospelbook, containing the final words from the Gospel of John and two 12th-century additions, a prayer and a portion of the Life of St Cungar. Except for this fragment, which ended up serving as the cover of a book, the gospelbook is lost.
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Collections of the Dean and Chapter (DC), the College of Vicars Choral (VC), and Wells Old Almshouses (AH).
See more Writing in c.1918/1919, Robinson writes that the fragment has “recently been given to the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Wells ... [t]hrough the kindness of Mrs Palmer, daughter of a former Lay Vicar of Wells, and of her son, the Rev. T. F. Palmer, Vicar of Witham Friary, Somerset”.
The hand responsible for adding the Life of Cungar, dated, again with the help of J. A. Herbert, to “the latter part of the twelfth century”.
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