Abbo of Fleury, Carmina acrosticha ad Dunstanum archiepiscopum (986–7)

Incipit

• Summe sacer
• O praesul Dunstane

quoted in Byrhtferth’s Vita S. Oswaldi

Editions

• S. J. Gwara, ‘Three acrostic poems by Abbo of Fleury’, JML 2 (1992) 203–235 (at 215–26).

Repertories

• Initia carminum Latinorum (ICL) 15822
• Initia carminum Latinorum (ICL) 10987

Sources

• BL MS Cotton Nero E. i pt 1 (s. xi, Worcester), fols. 19v [‘O praesul’], 19v–20r [‘Summe sacer’].
• Oxford, St John’s College, MS 17 (1081 × 1092, Ramsey, later at Thorney), fol. 3r [‘Summe sacer’].

Attested Copies

• Leland, Collectanea, 4. 97, mentions an old book, which he borrowed from Robert Talbot of Norwich, containing seventy acrostic carmina dedicated by Abbo to Dunstan.