The colophon of the Eadwig Gospels
Richard Gameson
‘Eaduuius surnamed Basan’ is one of the small number late Anglo-Saxon scribes to be known by name, and he unquestionably most important. Eadwig Ü Old English name represented Latin ‘Eaduuius’–identified himself in a colophon but exquisite gospelbook, Hanover, Kestner-Museum, WM XXIa, 36 (see pl. V); his distinctive hand has been recognized further three gospelbooks or lectionaries, psalters, four charters. It on this corpus material that our knowledge him rests. The does not, unfortunately, contain much information it highly formulaic; all more important, therefore, interpret its words judiciously. Before we turn text, however, will helpful rehearse salient points Eadwig's career, so far as they are known.
Anglo-Saxon England