ABSTRACT
In his Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1957, reissued with supplement 1990), pp. 194–196, N. R. Ker revealed that the British Library manuscript, Cotton Faustina A.X, sheds light on the teachings of Peter Abelard. The two-manuscript volume is a composite. One part of it contains on fols. 3–100 Aelfric’s grammar and glossary, probably copied in the second half of the eleventh century. A second part, which was written in the first half of the twelfth century and which probably joined the first part of the volume later in the twelfth century, and just conceivably at Worcester, 1 contains a tr, anslation by St Aethelwold of the Rule of St Benedict (fols. 102–148) as well as an account of the revival of monasticism in England in the tenth century (fols. 148–151v). There are in this second part various marginal and interlinear additions written in the twelfth century in Latin. Among these and in the margins of fols. 106–111v are twenty- two theological questions in eleven of which Master Peter Abelard is mentioned on account of opinions attributed to him. A further reference to Abelard appears in the margins, on fol. 151.
