Cambridge. Cambridge University Library, MS Ll.1.10

Source

Cambridge Digital Library

Library

Cambridge. Cambridge University Library

Shelfmark

• MS Ll.1.10

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q210134

Date

• ninth century, (c. 820-840 C.E.)

Language

• Latin
• Old English

Title

• Book of Cerne
• Charters relating to Cerne Abbey, Dorset
• Exhortation to prayer
• Gospel extracts
• Prayers and hymns
• Psalter (abbreviated)
• De descensu Christi ad inferos (The Harrowing of Hell)
• Collection of sequences
• see more

Agent

• Preferred form

  • John Moore (1646-1714)

  Role

  • Former owner

  Original form

  • John Moore (1646-1714)
  • Moore, John, 1646-1714

  Other form

  • John Moore, Bishop of Ely (1646-1714)
  • John Moore
  • John Moore (d. 1714)
  • Moore
  • Moore, John 1646-1714
  • see more

  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdatacf768b3608fcd1964a231d0d9545f44f788c2374

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q16997

• Preferred form

  • Georges I (roi de Grande-Bretagne, 1660-1727)

  Original form

  • King George I (1660-1727)
  • George I, King of Great Britain, 1660-1727

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q32424

Description

• The Book of Cerne is a composite manuscript. The central section, part II (fols 2-99), is a ninth-century prayerbook written in principally in Latin with some glosses in Old English. It contains a selection of extracts from the gospels, prayers and hymns probably assembled for private devotion. It is believed to have been composed in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia (which broadly corresponds to the modern West Midlands). At some later point, possibly as late as the sixteenth century, this ninth-century manuscript was bound together with two other collections of texts assembled at Cerne Abbey in Dorset (parts I (fols i-xxvi) and III (fols i-xxviii). It is from this that the manuscript takes its name, although there is no evidence to associate the Anglo-Saxon portion of the manuscript with Cerne.

  The Book of Cerne is stylistically associated with a group of eighth- and ninth-century prayerbooks produced in southern England known as the Tiberius or Canterbury group. Surviving members of the group are London, British Library, MSS Harley 7653 (known as the Harley prayerbook), Harley 2965 (known as the Book of Nunnaminster) and Royal 2.A.xx.

  The Book of Cerne is on display in the British Library exhibition Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War until 19 February 2019.

Place

• Preferred form

  • Mercia (kingdom)

  Original form

  • Mercia

  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/ldata7d374f9470e07b7b2f35f238365b2c8feba88b5c

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q27516

• Preferred form

  • Dorset. Cerne Abbey (United Kingdom)

  Original form

  • Cerne Abbey, Dorset

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q83823

Rights

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License

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Digitisation

• http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-LL-00001-00010/1

Manifest URL

• https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/MS-LL-00001-00010