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Plain light brown leather binding by Douglas Cockerell and Son (1969) with gold lettering on spine. Sewing guards around each quire and ff. 7 and 88 mounted on guards. <\/p>

Pastedowns and a University Library bookplate are preserved from an earlier, 18th-century binding, noted by N.R. Ker. The pastedowns are a page from Paulus de Sancta Maria, bishop of Burgos, Scrutinum Scripturarum<\/i> (Paris: Anthonius Bonne Mere, colophon dated 1472 but printed c. 1515). <\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "

The manuscript contained 290 pages (145 leaves) in 1574, i.e., 52 leaves more than at present; and Ælfric's Glossary was followed by 'Historia Angliæ Saxon'. See the printed list of Parker's donation to the University, found in some copies of his De antiquitate Britannicæ Ecclesiæ Cantuariensis<\/i> (1572).<\/p>

The last two leaves of Quire 12, now wanting, were present in the 16th century when John Joscelyn (1529-1603) included words excerpted from them in London, Lambeth Palace 692, fols 9v-10r.<\/p>

A piece of parchment (5 cm x 1.5 cm) has been cut from the outer top corner of fol. 1.<\/p>

Moderate cropping presumably occurred on the occasion of the earlier binding, as ink foliation numbers and the 17th-century annotations have suffered.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

The main text of the book is written in five hands, 'carefully differentiating Latin and Old English by their use of Caroline [minuscule]<\/i> or Insular minuscule<\/i> respectively' (see Drage (1978), p. 337). For further details, see the description<\/a> available at The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220<\/a> project.<\/div>
Rubrics written in rustic capitals<\/i>. <\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Exeter." }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "

N.R. Ker ascribes a Christ Church, Canterbury provenance based on the suggestion that it was bound with London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.viii<\/a>, an assertion that has been refuted by Dumville. Drage suggests that although the manuscript is not identifiable in the inventories of 1327 or 1506, it remained at Exeter Cathedral Priory until the sixteenth century (p. 338). <\/p>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "Codex: i + vi + 93 + ii leaves. Leaf height: 205 mm, width: 140 mm." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "Third quarter of 11th century." }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Suzanne Paul (2013), CUDL PID Workflow, Revised by James Freeman (2026)" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Parchment" }, { "label": "Collation", "value": "