Ever since Hickes, the poem has generally been called theMenologium, although many modern scholars have regarded this as inappropriate. Dobbie, for instance, regards it as ‘not quite appropriate’,¹ Hart ‘not wholly appropriate’² and Henel ‘nicht recht passend’.³ Baker also says that the poem is ‘mistakenly known as the “Menologium”’,⁴ Lapidge writes that it ‘normally passes under the utterly inappropriate title “Menologium”’⁵ and Fulk and Cain refer to it as the ‘misnamedMenologium’.⁶ Some have even avoided using it, adopting some other title such as ‘Old English Metrical Calendar’.⁷ The main problem with the title is that it is originally...

Italics mark any word which is emended. Editorial additions are marked by [ ]. Abbreviations are expanded without notice. The Tironian sign is expanded asand, since it is used more often (five times) thanond(used twice). Roman numerals in the manuscript are retained. The sectioning is scribal, while the overall layout, word division and punctuation follow modern convention. Capitalisation also follows modern convention except for those at the beginning of the poem, where I have retained scribal capitalisation. On the left hand side of the page, line numbers are inserted, while folio numbers are given on the right...