• Scribble

The OE scribble appears on fol. ir, the first leaf of Booklet A. According to Lucas 1997 (p. 15), the collation is as follows : Booklet A: 1 2 (fols i-ii), 2 8 (fols 1-8), 3 8 (fols 9-16), 4

• ~x00e6~lfric's Grammar, & c. and Rule of St Benedict, & c.

written in a similar hand to Royal 15. B. xxii , but appear in the right corner of the rectos. Collation of fols 3-151: 1 8 wants 1 before fol. 3, 2-10 8 , 11 8 wants 1 before fols

• Liber Wigornensis ; Hemming's Cartulary

14 8 (8 missing, blank, after fol. 109), 15 8 . Part 2 consists of ten quires but 'their exact collation is not certain' ( Ker 1948 , p. 56): 1-3 8 (fols 119-42), 4-6 (fols 144-52, 154-66) unknown, 7

• Ecclesiastical institutes, &c.

i, ii are medieval parchment flyleaves. c. 288 mm. x 185 mm. Written space 230- 220 mm. x 132 mm. Collation of part B (pp. 295-420): 1 4 , 2-4 8 , 5 8 wants 7, probably blank, after p.

• Bilingual Rule of St Benedict

, includes the following Latin items: s. xviii, table of contents of manuscript (fol. [i]:1r) list of books read at collation (fol. [i]1v/1-11) s. xii, inventory of about 450 books (fol. 1:2r/1a-2:3r/31b) Letter of Pope Alexander III to Roger, Archbishop

• Documents and Sermons

area in this period. 270 205 228 133 The quire containing the Old English consists of three bifolia. The manuscript collation is as follows: 1 2 bifolium (blank) (fols 1-2); 2 4 probably two bifolia (repaired) (fols 3-6); 3 2+1

• Homilies; Coronation oath; Paternoster and Creed

170 80 Foliated in ink 1-55*, 56-58. Formerly paginated in Parkerian red pencil on rectos of fols 2-58, marking 1-115. Collation of fols 2-58: 1-6 8 , 7 8 wants 7 after fol. 55, 8 three. There are traces of

• Annotations to Orosius, Chronicle

Fol. 1r contains a contents list, s. xvii and fol. 2r is an engraved title page from Robert Cotton's library. Collation of fols 3-165: 1-11 8 (fols 3-90), 12 8 + 1 leaf after 8 (fols 91-99), 13 10 +

• Computistica; Astronomica; Pontifical; Homilies

[1], 2-203, [204-6]. Collation of Part 1: 1 6 , fols 2-7, 2 10 , fols 8-17, 3 8 , fols 18-25, 5 8 , fols 26-33. fols 27, 32 are singletons, 5 8 , fols 34-42. Collation of Part

• Homilies

quire is effectively bound separately. 25 quires now, with Quires 12 and 13 being bound together. Folio 1 is supplied. Collation (as Ker, and checked against the codex) of fols 2-196: 1 1 (fol. 2), 2-7 8 , 8 8

• Medical Treatises

of four leaves, bifolia or single leaves (see Doane 1994 , pp. 45-46). Considering the surviving signatures and catchwords, the collation is the following: Quire 1: fols 1r-10v (4 and 9 are added slips); Quire 2: fols 11-19 (fragments): quire

• Homilies

leaves are modern flyleaves of the date of binding and are not numbered. The other leaves are foliated i-iii, 1-394. Collation of fols ii, 1-394: 1-18 8 (fols iii, 1-143), 19 6 (fols 144-49), 20 10 (fols 150-59), 21-24 8

• A: Regularis concordia ; Bede, De die judicii B: Homilies by ~x00e6~lfric and Wulfstan, Apollonius, laws &c.

90-91). pp. 1-272 280 162 280 162 250 122 222 100 Paginated 1-178 in Parker ian red pencil on rectos. Collation checked from Ker 1957 , 49AB: 1-4 8 , 5 8 wants 1 before p. 65, 6-9 8 10

• ~x00e6~lfric: Hexameron , Homilies

of contents on p. 9 (See 'Additions' below) corresponds to the actual manuscript foliation and not to the pagination scheme. Collation is as Ker 1957 : 1-11 8 (pp. 11-188), 12 8 wants 2 after p. 188 (pp. 189-200), 13-14

• Homilies, Vision of Leofric, etc.

top right corner and a Corpus Christi College ex libris plate; ivv has an ink '36' in top left corner. Collation appears to be as James suggests: Paper 1 10 , 2 10 , 3 12 (wants 10-12), 4 14

• ~x00e6~lfric's Grammar and Glossary

trimmed on... etc (p. 62). It may be that the pencil was different practice from the pen numbering. Worth checking. Collation of fols # + vi + 93 + ii: A paper flyleaf, no foliation 6 paper flyleaves (fols i-vi)

• The Orrmulum

revisions into the text. For details of these, see the quiring diagram. To my knowledge, this is the first physical collation of the manuscript. Quire 2: 'I' fol. 10r base right edge LH column; Quire 4: 'III', fol. 31r base

• Gospels , etc.

side of this leaf, as there was no space on the pastedown. Quires 2-26 (fols 2-199): same as the current collation. Quire 27 (fols 200-202): three singletons. Part of fol. 202 has been cut, and bound in the Exeter Book

• Homilies

are actually 132-143: p. 141 has been paginated as such twice. All succeeding page numbers are therefore two pages out. Collation is as Ker (1957) suggests: 1 8 wants 8, 2 before p. 1, 2-23 8 . Indeterminate number of

• Eadwine Psalter

1 4 , 2-35 8 , 36 8 wants one after fol. 283, 37 4 wants one before fol. 284. Collation diagram in 'Codicology and Palaeography', by Pickwoad and Webber, in Gibson 1998 , pp. 10-11. Quire signatures denoted by