{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Exeter" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Almost certainly written at Exeter. It was acquired by Matthew Parker (1504-1575), Archbishop of Canterbury probably before 1568 and presumably directly from the chapter library at Exeter. Parker owned several Exeter manuscripts, for example, CUL MS Ii.2.11 which contains an inscription recording its donation to Parker by Gregory Dodds, Dean of Exeter, by 1566. MS Ii.2.4 is no. 6 in the listing of manuscripts given to Cambridge University Library by Parker in 1574." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 (pastedown), 2bis, 3-146, 149, 149bis, 150, 150bis, 151, 151bis, 152 (pastedown). Two leaves are missing at the beginning before fol. 3<\/a> and two at the end after fol. 146<\/a>. Leaf height: 330 mm, width: 225 mm. Written height: 278 mm, width: 160 mm." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "Third quarter of the 11th century C.E." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Ii.2.4" }, { "label": "Note(s)", "value": "The text of the translation begins on fol. 10v<\/a>. It is preceded by a prefatory letter (fols 5r-6v<\/a>), a metrical preface (fols 6v-7r<\/a>) and a list of chapter headings (fols 7r-10r<\/a>); The text ends imperfectly, corresponding to Sweet 1871-72, p. 467, line 25." }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "
Ker notes \"some faintly pencilled Latin glosses, e.g. on f. 30<\/a>, which appear to be of s. xiii\" (Ker 1957:28). See the top of the page. See also, for example, fol. 92r<\/a>, line 23. <\/div>
Latin translations of Alfred's prefatory letter and the metrical preface are copied on fols 3v-4v<\/a> in a 16th-century hand. A hand of similar date has added an interlinear modern English gloss to those two texts on fols 5r-7r<\/a> Graham suggests that this gloss probably served as a model for the gloss accompanying the edition of the prose and metrical prefaces included in Matthew Parker's 1574 edition of Asser's life of King Alfred, Ælfredi regis res gestae<\/i> (Graham 1995:633-34).<\/div>
Graham notes the name 'Johannes Parker' in red crayon in the top right-hand corner of fol. 5r<\/a>, probably in Matthew Parker's hand (Graham 1995:636-37). He suggests that the archbishop wrote the names of his two sons in several of his volumes, probably indicating which of them should inherit it. One of his other copies of the Pastoral Care (Trinity R.5.22) is inscribed 'Matthaeus Parker'.<\/div>
Other 16th-century additions include the underlining of two lines in red crayon on fol. 146v<\/a> and the addition of the word \"finis\" at the foot of the same page.<\/div>
The text on the 16th-century flyleaf, fol. 150v<\/a>, and readable from the offset on fol. 151r<\/a>, is a document in Latin from Richard Lyell, Doctor of Law and vicar-general to Thomas Thirlby, Bishop of Westminster concerning a matrimonial case. The document contains a date in 1543, probably the year in which it was issued. For more details see Graham 1995:632. <\/div>
An inscription in an early modern hand on the front pastedown <\/div>
Abraham Wheelocke (1593-1653) notes in the upper margin of the front pastedown<\/a> that he began to read the text on 3 September 1638 and finished it on 17 July 1639. There are additional notes in his hand on fol. 150r<\/a>, formerly the back pastedown.<\/div>
References to chapter numbers in the Latin text are added throughout in an early modern hand.<\/div>
Shelfmarks are added on the front pastedown<\/a> (\"253\", \"D.β.3\" and \"Ii-2-4\") and on fol. 150r<\/a> (\"4:2.3\").<\/div>
Interlinear Latin glosses in pencil are added intermittently throughout in a hand (or hands) that are probably modern.<\/div>
In addition to adding foliation and signatures to the MS, Henry Bradshaw added notifications of missing leaves on the front pastedown<\/a> and fol. 146v<\/a>, and a summary of the collation on the back pastedown<\/a> in the 19th century.<\/div>
In the course of repairs to the manuscript in 1967, two modern parchment leaves were added, fols 2bis<\/a> and 151bis<\/a>.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Pastoral theology; English prose literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Bradshaw, Henry, 1831-1886; Wheelocke, Abraham, 1593-1653; Jewel, John, 1522-1571; Alfred, King of England, 849-899" }, { "label": "Filiations", "value": "
The preface indicates that this copy derives from the one sent by Alfred to Wulfsige who was bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. Other versions of the text are found in: