Appendix. List of Scribal Hands

Summary

The following is a list of the extant English Vernacular hands datable c. 990–1035 discussed in this volume, followed by a second table of those that were considered for but subsequently excluded from the corpus or, in one case, came to my attention too late to examine for discussion in this book. Entries in the first table are arranged in order of the abbreviated form found throughout the text. For discussion of the system of reference to scribal hands used here, see further the Introduction to this book and Stokes, ‘Referring’. For conventions in referring to pages, folios and lines see the Introduction to this book.

Cross-references are provided to Scragg, Conspectus, for comparison. Inevitably there are minor differences in the identification of scribal stints, or indeed of dating. In particular, the list included here has generally not disentangled the many glossing hands and additions that are present in some manuscripts (see further the Introduction to this book). The Conspectus has benefited from work done by Kathryn Powell as part of AHRC-funded research into the additions to manuscripts in Corpus Christi College Library and the British Library. Since the details of this work are not yet available, it has not yet been possible (or, necessarily, desirable) to describe separately the many glossing hands that they have identified: for this reason, a number of scribes in the table here are represented as more than one scribe in the Conspectus.