A Canterbury classbook of the mid-eleventh century (the ‘Cambridge Songs’ manuscript)
A. G. Rigg|Gernot Wieland
Cambridge, University Library, Gg. 5.35 is known to scholars principally for the contents of fols. 432–41, lyric anthology (somewhat mis-leadingly) as ‘Cambridge Songs’. Important though this group poems history Latin lyric, it has diverted attention from manuscript a whole, which presents remarkable range texts, mainly poetic, Early Christian, Carolingian and Anglo-Latin periods. Physical description, moreover, generally been confined section containing Songs’ consequently method compilation whole codex neglected. The Cambridge Library catalogue, instance, gives impression forty-four works entered sequentially in manuscript, leaves unexplained such curiosities no. 41 ‘Prose treatise on medicine’ 44 ‘Certain medical prescriptions’, appear sandwich between them another ‘hymns’. This article describes its physical appearance, genesis, detail.
Anglo-Saxon England