No More Learning

Alcuin. 1892.
Aldhelm. Ed. Giles, J. A. Patres Eccles. Angl. Oxford, 1844. Also in
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Angliae, 1516.
Baehrens, A. Poetae Latini Minores. Leipzig, 1879-83 (for Riddles).
Browne, G. F. Aldhelm : his life and times. 1903.
Bucheler, F. and Riese, A. Anthologia Latina. Leipzig, 1894 (for
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Manitius, M. Aldhelm und Baeda. Sitzungsb. d. Wien. Akad. 1886.
Norden, E. Die antike Kunstprosa vom vi. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis in
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Bede. In Migne's Patrologia, xc-xcv. Early folio editions were published
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See Wright's Biogr. Brit. Lit. and Notes and Queries, 4th Ser. Ix, x
and XII. The MS containing Cuthbert's letter and the II. of 0. E. verse
quoted as Bede's is at St Gall.
E, L, I.
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Bede. Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. MSS, Cambridge University
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of the life by Frithegode (1. 950) a monk of Canterbury.
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of scholasticism, and “in some respects he may be accounted the herald
of the movement of the eleventh century, but in more he is the last
prophet of a philosophy belonging to earlier ages” (Poole, D. of N. B. ).
“ His great work on The Division of Nature has been appreciated as the
one purely philosophical argument of the Middle Ages. He was called in
by Hincmar of Rheims to strengthen the right cause against Gottscalo.
They wanted a skilled apologist; they found one whose help, like that of
the magic sword in certain fairy tales, might be dangerous for the side
that used it. They asked him to oppose the excessive cruelties of pre-
destination, as maintained by Gottscale. But he would not be limited to
the requisite amount of controversy, and before the Irish philosopher
could be checked, he had refuted Sin and Hell. Neo-Platonist he is
called, but in his case the name does not stand for eclectic oriental work;
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Gildas. “The copies which remain are few. A partially burnt manuscript
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is fairly well represented by the early printed editions: better by that of
John Joscelin (1568) than by that of Polydore Vergil (1525). Of two in
the Cambridge University Library, one, which belonged to Glastonbury,
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contains only the first part. Thomas Gale, who edited Gildas in 1691,
followed this copy so far as it goes; and to his edition we owe the
common but erroneous division of the work into two parts, Epistle
(chapters 1-26) and History (27-110). The next oldest manuscript to the
Cottonian is one formerly at Mont St Michel and now at Avranches: it
is of the twelfth century and very probably had some Breton ancestor”
(M. R. James). Edd. Stevenson, J. , Eng. Hist. Soc. , 1838 (together with
the Life, ascribed to Caradog of Llancarvan); Hardy, T. , Mon. Hist.
Brit. , 1848; Williams, H. , Cymmrodorion Records, 1899-1901; Mommsen,
Mon. Germ. , 1894; trans. Habington, T. , 1638 and Giles, J. A. , in Six Old
English Chronicles, 1848 (Asser's Alfred, Ethelwerd's Chronicles, Gildas,
Nennius, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Richard of Cirencester). See also
Skene, Four Ancient Books of Wales, de la Borderie, A. , in Revue
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Hisperica Famina. Ed. Stowasser, Vienna, 1887; ed. Jenkinson, Cambridge
(in preparation). See also Bradshaw, H. , Collected papers, Cambridge,
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Nachrichten, 1895.
Nennius. “The oldest copy of the Historia Britonum (incomplete, and not
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The best are a Harleian manuscript (No.
3859) of the eleventh and
twelfth century and a Cottonian (Vespasian D. XXI) of the twelfth.
A Durham copy, one at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (No. 139) and
another in the University Library at Cambridge (Ff. 1. 27), which contains
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spectively, are also important. The first printed edition was that of
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A. R. W.
CHAPTER VI
ALFRED AND THE OLD ENGLISH PROSE OF HIS REIGN
MSS OF ALFRED'S WORKS AND OF WORKS CONNECTED WITH HIS NAME.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
(a) Tanner 10, Bodl. (6) Corpus Christi College 41, Cambridge. (c) Otho
B. xi, Brit. Mus. (d) Corpus Christi College 279, Oxford. (e) Cambridge
University Library Kk. 3. 18.
Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy.
(a) Cotton Otho A. vi, Brit. Mus. [Metra in verse). (6) Bodl. MS, 180,
Oxford [Metra in prose). (c) Fragment forming the last leaf of Bodl. MS,
86. (See Napier in ZDA. , N. F. XIX, 52. )
Gregory's Dialogues.
(a) Cotton Otho 0. . (6) Corpus Christi College S. 10, Cambridge.
(c) Hatton 76, Oxford. (dle) Transcript Jun. 46 and 52.
Gregory's Pastoral Care.
(a) Hatton 20, Bodl. (6) Cotton Tiberius B. xi, Brit. Mug. (c) Juning 53,
Bodl. (d) Cotton Otho B. 11, Brit. Mus. (e) Three MSS at Cambridge, in
Corpus Christi, Trinity and the University Library. (There also appears to
be a leaf at Cassel. (See Ten Brink, Hist. Eng. Lit. , Eng. Trans. I, p. 84). ]
The Laws.
(a) Corpus Christi College 383, Cambridge. (6) Corpus Christi College
173, Cambridge. (c) Cotton Nero E. 1, Harl. 55, etc. , Brit. Mus. (d) MS
Textus Roffensis. (e) Bodl. , etc. (See Liebermann for complete list. )
The Martyrology.
(a) Brit. Mus. Addit. MS 23211. (6) Three Younger MSS.
Orosius's History of the World.
(a) Lauderdale-Tollemache (Helmingham, Suffolk]. (6) Cotton Tiberias
B. 1. (c) Transcript of Cotton by Junius. (d) Transcripts of Junius by
Elstob and Ballard.
St Augustine's Soliloquies.
(a) Cotton Vitell. A. 15, Brit. Mus. (Beowulf MS). (6) Transcript of
above by Junius, Jun. 70. 1, Oxford.
[For the Old English Chronicle see bibliography to the following Chapter. ]
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Psalms ascribed to Alfred.
MS. Bibl. Nat. Paris, Latin 8824.
EDITIONS OF ALFRED'S WORKS AND OF WORKS CONNECTED
WITH HIS NAME.
Complete Works.
The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great. Ed. Giles, J. A. Jubilee
Edition. 3 vols. Oxford and Cambridge, 1858.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History.