Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 2004)
Ms. Bodley 271: Establishing the Anselmian Canon?
Ian Logan
Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University
ABSTRACT
This paper addresses the role and importance of Ms. Bodley 271. It reviews the case presented by Dom F.S. Schmitt for the authorship and dating of this manuscript and the objections presented by R.W. Southern. Following detailed palaeographical analysis of the hands of the scribes involved in the manuscript's production, I identify the main scribe, and through a comparison with his other known works suggest a date for his involvement. In conclusion, I argue that this manuscript marked an attempt to produce a definitive canon of Anselm's works, in which Anselm himself may have been involved.
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