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Fragments of homily (in English) on the Holy Rood formerly in bindings of SP.4 and SP. 260 — 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: 557
Author/Title: Fragments of homily (in English) on the Holy Rood formerly in bindings of SP.4 and SP. 260
Type of evidence: m: evidence from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe
  • Evidence:
  • Annotations by the 'Tremulous Hand'
  • Evidence:
  • Annotations by the 'Tremulous Hand'
Notes on evidence:

Corpus Christi Coll. 557 and Lawrence, Univ. of Kansas, Y.103 are fragments of one MS.

Cambridge, UL, Kk.3.18; Clare Coll. 30, CCC 12; 162 pp. 139–160; 178; 198; 391; 557; Glasgow, UL, Hunterian 431; Lawrence, Univ. of Kansas, Y.103, Y 104; London, BL, Cotton Otho B.x fols. 29, 30; Otho C.i, part ii; Harley 55; Oxford, Bodl., Hatton 20; 76; 113; 114; 115; 116; Junius 121; Laud Misc. 482; Worcester Cathedral 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.

 

Contents of the book:

(fols. 1r–2v) Old English fragments of the Legend of the Cross

Date: s. xi
Ownership:

Printed books given by Archbp. Matthew Parker (no. 2 in locker 8 "in minori bibliotheca").

Notes:

SP.4 and SP. 260: Tertia pars chronici Carionis, Basel 1563 and [...].