Margin as Archive: The Liturgical Marginalia of a Manuscript of the Old English Bede
Sarah Larratt Keefer
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41 contains the B-text of Old English Bede, and a sizeable body marginalia that includes substantial amount liturgy. The main text is in large format but remains incomplete some its artwork; it was copied two parts by different scribes early eleventh century supplied with various decorated initials, not all them finished. book given Bishop Leofric to Exeter between 1050 1072. It immediately apparent whether liturgical addenda were there or done earlier at other center, nature suggests additions made, as perhaps itself, provincial scriptorium no great size. use margins indicates shortage available vellum, thus suggesting original Bede may have been made for smaller center minimal library, possibly an individual.
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