Anglo-Saxon Homilies; Rule of St Benet in Latin and A-S. — Worcester, Worcestershire. Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary the Virgin.
| Provenance: | Worcester, Worcestershire. Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary the Virgin. |
| Location: | Corpus Christi College , Cambridge |
| Shelfmark: | 178 |
| Author/Title: | Anglo-Saxon Homilies; Rule of St Benet in Latin and A-S. |
| Type of evidence: | m: evidence from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe |
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| Notes on evidence: | Corpus Christi Coll. 162 fols. 139–160, was part of Corpus Christi Coll. 178. Cambridge, UL, MS Kk.3.18; Clare College, MS 30, Corpus Christi College, MSS 12; 162 pp. 139–160; 178; 198; 391; 557; Glasgow, UL, MS Hunterian 431; Lawrence, University of Kansas, MSS Y.103, Y.104; London, BL, MSS Cotton Otho B.x fols. 29, 30; Otho C.i, part ii; Harley 55; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Hatton 20; 76; 113; 114; 115; 116; Junius 121; Laud Misc. 482; Worcester Cathedral, MS F.174: contain annotations in a tremulous hand, probably of s. xiii in. (see C. H. Turner, Early Worcester MSS, p. lvi; N. R. Ker in Leeds Studies in English 7 (1937), p. 28.
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| Contents of the book: |
(fols. 1r–15r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 1st series, De initio creaturae (fols. 15r–31r) Ælfric OSB, Hexameron (fols. 32r–43r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 1st series, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (fols. 43r–54r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 1st series, Feria III de Dominica oratione (fols. 54r–73r) Ælfric OSB, Sermo ad populum in octavis Pentecosten dicendus (fols. 73r–88r) Composite homily drawing on works by Ælfric OSB including "The Prayer of Moses" and "Memory of the Saints" from "Lives of Saints", and "De duodecim abusivis" (fols. 88r–101r) Composite homily drawing on works by Ælfric OSB including "On Auguries" and "Saint Swithun" from "Lives of Saints", and the additional sermon "De Auguriis" (fols. 101r–114r) Ælfric OSB, Sermo de die iudicii (fols. 114r–126r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 2nd series, Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, with extracts from Ælfric's "Dominica XVI Post Pentecosten" and "De Virginitate" (fols. 126r–134r) Ælfric OSB, Homily for the Common of a Confessor (fols. 134r–137r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 1st series, English Preface (adapted; = extract from 1st series, First Sunday in Advent) (fols. 137r–138r) Ælfric OSB, De sanguine (fols. 138r–139r) Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, The Maccabees (fols. 139r–140r) Homily "De infantibus non baptizandis" (fols. 140r–141r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 2nd series, Virgins (extract with additions) (fols. 141r–14r) Homily "De auaritia" (fols. 142r–163r) Ælfric OSB, De falsis diis Directions to the reader (fols. 163r–173r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 1st series, Annunciation (fols. 173r–182r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 1st series, Christmas (fols. 182r–190r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 1st series, Circumcision (fols. 190r–201r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 2nd series, Epiphany (fols. 201r–210r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 1st series, Purification (fols. 210r–217r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 2nd series, First Sunday in Lent (fols. 217r–229r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 2nd series, Palm Sunday (fol. 229r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 1st series, Palm Sunday (extract) and Cyrclice Þeawas (fols. 229r–237r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Sunday, Easter (fols. 237r–244r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 1st series, First Sunday after Easter (fols. 244r–253r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 2nd series, Feria IV in Letania maiore with additions (fols. 253r–263r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 1st series, Ascension (fols. 263r–270r) Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, 1st series, Pentecosten (ends imperfectly) – a quire has been lost here – (fols. 187r–457r) Benedictine Rule in Latin and Old English (fol. 458r) The Six Ages of the world |
| Date: | s. xi |
| Medieval Catalogue: | B114.7 Further details of medieval catalogue: B114. BENEDICTINES: THE SHORTER CATALOGUES: Worcester: List of books in English, 11th cent. |