Fontes Anglo-Saxonici - Bibliographic reference

hymnos canamus gloriae hymni … haec nobis una visio

1-32

Bede

CCSL, ed. J. Fraipont, CCSL 122 (Turnhout, 1955), pp. 407-438.

558-585

hafað nu se halga … ond ealles leohtes gefea

Hymni

Comment:: Campbell 1982 (145), Harrowing of Hell episode in relation to Gospel of Nicodemus (Act.Pilati):'passage about the harrowing...at least suggested by Bede's Hymn,although...imagery and wording derives from...standard OE wordhoard'
Bibliography:: Cook 1900a, 115-9, 129-131; Campbell 1982, 145

Contributor:: R.E. Greenman

Created:: 1992-12-31

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Contributor:	R.E. Greenman
Text:	Cynewulf: Christ 2 (The Ascension)
Edition:	Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 15-27
Reference:	C.A.3.1.2
Created:	1992-12-31
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-16

Cynewulf

et surgens dixit ad annam … de iesu in petorio meo

17.1.1-28.ep.36

Anonymous

558-585

hafað nu se halga … ond ealles leohtes gefea

Acta Pilati

Kim 1973

Comment:: Campbell 1982 (145), Harrowing of Hell episode in relation to Gospel of Nicodemus (Act.Pilati):'passage about the harrowing...at least suggested by Bede's Hymn,although...imagery and wording derives from...standard OE wordhoard'
Bibliography:: Cook 1900a, 115-9, 129-131; Campbell 1982, 145

Contributor:: R.E. Greenman

Created:: 1992-12-31

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Contributor:	R.E. Greenman
Text:	Cynewulf: Christ 2 (The Ascension)
Edition:	Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 15-27
Reference:	C.A.3.1.2
Created:	1992-12-31
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-16

Cynewulf

23.7-10

Biblia Sacra

558-585

hafað nu se halga … ond ealles leohtes gefea

Psalmi (unspecified)

Comment:: Campbell 1982 (145), Harrowing of Hell episode in relation to Gospel of Nicodemus (Act.Pilati):'passage about the harrowing...at least suggested by Bede's Hymn,although...imagery and wording derives from...standard OE wordhoard'
Bibliography:: Cook 1900a, 115-9, 129-131; Campbell 1982, 145

Contributor:: R.E. Greenman

Created:: 1992-12-31

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Contributor:	R.E. Greenman
Text:	Cynewulf: Christ 2 (The Ascension)
Edition:	Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 15-27
Reference:	C.A.3.1.2
Created:	1992-12-31
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-16

Cynewulf

3.19

Biblia Sacra

621-626

ic þec ofer eorðan … eorðan scealt eft gesecan

Genesis

Comment:: The passage represents, according to Cook, an 'extended paraphrase of the quotation from Genesis.'
Bibliography:: Cook 1900a, 135

Contributor:: R.E. Greenman

Created:: 1992-12-31

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Contributor:	R.E. Greenman
Text:	Cynewulf: Christ 2 (The Ascension)
Edition:	Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 15-27
Reference:	C.A.3.1.2
Created:	1992-12-31
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-16

Cynewulf

2.16

Biblia Sacra

629a

monnes magutudre

Hebraeos

Comment:: Cook seems more certain of this attribution than I am.
Bibliography:: Cook 1900a, 135

Contributor:: R.E. Greenman

Created:: 1992-12-31

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Contributor:	R.E. Greenman
Text:	Cynewulf: Christ 2 (The Ascension)
Edition:	Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 15-27
Reference:	C.A.3.1.2
Created:	1992-12-31
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-16

Cynewulf

dedit vero dona hominibus … interpretationem linguarum

1218D

Gregory the Great

664-685

sumum wordlaþe wise … cræfte ofer oþre forð

Homiliae xl in evangelia

PL, 76, 1075-1312.

Comment:: Section probably more dependent on OE rhetorical formulae than biblical material. Comparison with 'Gifts of Men' and 'Fortunes of Men' shows subject not rare, and vernacular treatments have much in common (cf. Cook 1900a)
Bibliography:: Dietrich 1853a, 204; Cook 1900a, 115-9, 137

Contributor:: R.E. Greenman

Created:: 1992-12-31

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	R.E. Greenman
Text:	Cynewulf: Christ 2 (The Ascension)
Edition:	Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 15-27
Reference:	C.A.3.1.2
Created:	1992-12-31
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-16

Cynewulf

7.7

Biblia Sacra

664-685

sumum wordlaþe wise … cræfte ofer oþre forð

1 Corinthios

Comment:: Section probably more dependent on OE rhetorical formulae than biblical material. Comparison with 'Gifts of Men' and 'Fortunes of Men' shows subject not rare, and vernacular treatments have much in common (cf. Cook 1900a)
Bibliography:: Dietrich 1853a, 204; Cook 1900a, 115-9, 137

Contributor:: R.E. Greenman

Created:: 1992-12-31

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Contributor:	R.E. Greenman
Text:	Cynewulf: Christ 2 (The Ascension)
Edition:	Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 15-27
Reference:	C.A.3.1.2
Created:	1992-12-31
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-16

Cynewulf

4.8

Biblia Sacra

664-685

sumum wordlaþe wise … cræfte ofer oþre forð

Ephesios

Comment:: Section probably more dependent on OE rhetorical formulae than biblical material. Comparison with 'Gifts of Men' and 'Fortunes of Men' shows subject not rare, and vernacular treatments have much in common (cf. Cook 1900a)
Bibliography:: Dietrich 1853a, 204; Cook 1900a, 115-9, 137

Contributor:: R.E. Greenman

Created:: 1992-12-31

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	R.E. Greenman
Text:	Cynewulf: Christ 2 (The Ascension)
Edition:	Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 15-27
Reference:	C.A.3.1.2
Created:	1992-12-31
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-16

Cynewulf

3.5-7

Biblia Sacra

805b-814

[ure] wæs longe [lagu] flodum … on eorðan onmedla wæs

2 Petri

Comment:: The runic symbols in the text are represented here by the words in square brackets. [ur]= ?of old; [lagu]= water, sea.
Bibliography:: Cook 1900a, 165

Contributor:: R.E. Greenman

Created:: 1992-12-31

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	R.E. Greenman
Text:	Cynewulf: Christ 2 (The Ascension)
Edition:	Krapp and Dobbie 1936, 15-27
Reference:	C.A.3.1.2
Created:	1992-12-31
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-16

Cynewulf

quem latebra et obsetrix … mundi ruentis soluerit

11.97-108

Prudentius

CCSL, ed. M.P. Cunningham, CCSL 126 (Turnhout, 1966), pp. 3-72.

820b-825

scyle gumena gehwylc … rede one ryhtwis

Cathemerinon liber