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Alternative title

Homiliae Saxonicae (IV)

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 2 + 394

Date created

[ca. 900 CE - 1099]

Language

English, Old (ca. 450-1100), Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

mostly 26 but in one part 23 lines to a page

Height (mm)

270

Width (mm)

185

Collation

1(8) (+ frontispiece) 2(8)-18(8) 19(6) 20(10) 21(8)-24(8) 25(10) 26(8)-30(8) 31(6) 32(8)-46(8) 47(6) 48(4) 49(8) 50(10) (wants 10).

Writing

in very various hands

Foliation

ff. a-c + i-iii + 1-394 + d-g

Provenance

From Worcester: see below.

The book is copiously glossed in Latin throughout, and chiefly by the same curious tremulous hand which has annotated MS 12 and MS 178. This must mean that in cent. xii the three books MS 12, MS 178 and MS 198 were in the same monastery. That the monastery in question was Worcester admits of no doubt. See on MS 12. The same hand appears in MSS. at Oxford which are clearly from Worcester.

Additions

On f. iv a list (cent. xvi) of contents, headed: Quartus liber. On f. iir an old list (xi) of contents. The original hand goes from i. Sermo in natale domini to xxxi. Non. mai. inuentio s. crucis. The hand of the principal annotator (xii?) continues the list to no. lx. sancti andree. At top of f. 1r in large red letters (xvi) is: Aelfricus abbas transtulit.

Decoration

There is a frontispiece (f. ir), a drawing in outline with shading in red and faint purple. The style is good, but not the best Anglo-Saxon. The picture represents six apostles, nimbed and richly draped, in two rows of three. In the upper row the first on L. has a book, and his legs are crossed, the second (Andrew) holds a short sceptre terminating in a cross set in a circle, the third (Peter) beardless holds book and key and turns to R. In the lower row the first has pen and book, the second with crossed legs addresses the third who holds up a pair of tablets: all three are beardless.

Summary

CCCC MS 198 is an important collection of Old English homilies, mostly by Ælfric of Eynsham OSB (c. 950-c. 1010). It was written in the first half of the eleventh century and received a number of additions in the second half. It also contains a neumed office for St Guthlac added towards the end of the eleventh century. The manuscript may have been written at Worcester; although the textual associations of the main body are south-eastern, the additions appear from their spellings to be from the west of England, and in the thirteenth century it was annotated by the scribe known as the 'Worcester Tremulous Hand'. It was Parker's fourth volume of homilies in his numeration system.

Contents

Homily for the Nativity of Christ -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Stephen -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Assumption of St John -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Holy Innocents -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Circumcision -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Epiphany -- Homily for the First Sunday after Epiphany -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday after Epiphany -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Third Sunday after Epiphany -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Purification -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Gregory -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Cuthbert -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Benedict -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Annunciation -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Septuagesima -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sexagesima -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Quinquagesima -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent -- Homily for the Second Sunday in Lent -- Homily for the Third Sunday in Lent -- Homily for the Fourth Sunday in Lent -- Homily for the Fifth Sunday in Lent -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday in Lent -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Fifth Sunday in Lent -- Homily for Palm Sunday -- Homily In Cena Domini -- Homily De parasceue -- De sabbato sancto -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Easter -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Easter -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sts Philip and James -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Invention of the Cross -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Easter -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Easter -- Homily for Wednesday in Easter Week -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Martyrs -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Confessor -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Virgins -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Ascension -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Pentecost -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Third Sunday after Pentecost -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Third Sunday after Pentecost, alia narratio -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, St John the Baptist -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sts Peter and Paul -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Sts Peter and Paul -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Paul -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St James and the Seven Sleepers -- Lives of Saints, St Mark -- Lives of Saints, St Sebastian -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Lent -- Admonissions in Lent with a continuation taken from Blickling Homily no. 10 -- Dominica III in Quadragesima -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Bartholomew (incomplete) -- Lives of Saints, The Maccabees -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Laurence -- Homily for the Assumption of Mary the Virgin -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Dedicatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, De initio creaturae -- Homily De sancto Iohanne -- Neumed office for St Guthlac (partial) -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Martin -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Excusatio dictantis -- Homily for St Andrew

M.R. James Date

x-xi

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:cv437pm6743/MS_198.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kq931sw9331/198.pdf

Contains

• Homily for the Nativity of Christ. 1r-7r

  Note

  (Cameron B3.2.1)

  Rubric

  (1r) Sermo in natale domini

  Note

  (1r) Title in red capitals

  Incipit

  (1r) Þæt halige godspell be ðære hean medomnysse

  Note

  On f. 4r two short passages have been erased
  Copied for Professor Napier: also in Vercelli Book and Bodleian NE. F. 4. 10, f. 1

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Stephen. 7r-12v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.4)

  Rubric

  (7r) In nativitate Sancti Stephani protomartyris

  Incipit

  (7r) Ƿe rædað on ðære bec

  Note

  Thorpe I 44

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Assumption of St John. 12v-21r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.5)

  Rubric

  (12v) In assumptione Sancti Iohannis apostoli

  Incipit

  (12v) Iohannes se godspellere cristes dyrling

  Note

  Thorpe I 58. Sweet, Anglo-Saxon Reader, 79
  Change of hand at f. 16r
  (20r) On the margin of f. 20r in a hand of cent. xi (?) is:
  (20r) Me grauat hic esse / quoniam potare necesse / uinum de messe / quem nos consueuimus esse / Poto sed inuite / potum probo gentis a (uite) / Vinum de uite quando (or quoniam) / uitis uia uite

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Holy Innocents. 21r-27v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.6)

  Rubric

  (21r) V. kalendas Ianuarias In natale innocentum

  Incipit

  (21r) Nu to dæg godes gelaðung

  Note

  Thorpe I 76. Sweet, Anglo-Saxon Reader, 90
  Change of hand at f. 24r

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Circumcision. 27v-34v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.7)

  Rubric

  (27v) Kalendis Ianuariis Circumcisio domini

  Incipit

  (27v) Se godspellere lucas be leac

  Note

  Thorpe I 90

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Epiphany. 34v-43v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.8)

  Rubric

  (34v) In epiphania domini

  Incipit

  (34v) Men ða leofestan nu for feaƿum dagum

  Note

  Thorpe I 104

• Homily for the First Sunday after Epiphany. 43v-47r

  Note

  (Cameron B3.2.3)

  Rubric

  (43v) Dominica I post Theophania domini

  Incipit

  (44r) Monað us 7 mengað

  Note

  Copied for Professor Napier: also in Vercelli Book and NE. F. 4. 10, f. 33

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday after Epiphany. 47r-57v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.5)

  Rubric

  (47r) Dominica II post Theophania domini

  Incipit

  (47r) Nuptie facte
  (47r) Iohannes se godspellere cƿæð

  Note

  Thorpe II 54

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Third Sunday after Epiphany. 57v-64v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.9)

  Rubric

  (57v) Dominica III post Theophania

  Incipit

  (57v) Cum descendissed
  (57v) Matheus se eadiga godspellere

  Note

  Thorpe I 120
  Change of hand at f. 64r

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Purification. 64v-73r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.10)

  Rubric

  (64v) IIII Nonus Februarias In purificatione Sancte Marie

  Incipit

  (64v) God bebead on ðære ealdan ae

  Note

  Thorpe I 134

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Gregory. 73r-81r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.10)

  Rubric

  (73r) IIII Idus. In natale Sancti Gregorii pape

  Incipit

  (73r) Gregorius se halga papa engliscre þeode apostol

  Note

  Thorpe II 116

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Cuthbert. 81r-90r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.11)

  Rubric

  (81r) XIII kalendas aprili in natale Sancti Cuhtberhti Episcopi

  Incipit

  (81r) Cuðberhtus se halga bisceop

  Note

  Thorpe II 132
  Change of hand at f. 88r

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Benedict. 90r-103v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.12)

  Rubric

  (90r) In natale Sancti Benedicti Abbatis

  Incipit

  (90r) Benedictus se halga abbud

  Note

  Thorpe II 154

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Annunciation. 103v-110r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.14)

  Rubric

  (103v) In adnuntiatione Sancte Marie

  Incipit

  (104r) Ure se ælmihtiga scyppend

  Note

  Thorpe I 192

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Septuagesima. 110r-117r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.6)

  Rubric

  (110r) Dominica in septuagessima

  Incipit

  (110r) Simile est regnum
  (110r) Se haelend cƿæð þæt heofonan rice

  Note

  Thorpe II 72
  (115v) (Quare pretermittetur alleluia.)

  Incipit

  (115v) Ƿe ƿillað eoƿ secgan

  Note

  Thorpe II 84

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sexagesima. 117r-122v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.7)

  Rubric

  (117r) Dominica in sexagessima

  Incipit

  (117r) Cum turba plurima
  (117r) On sume tide ðaða micel

  Note

  Thorpe II 88

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Quinquagesima. 122v-128v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.11)

  Rubric

  (122v) Dominica in quinquagessima

  Incipit

  (122v) Assumpsit Iesus
  (122v) Her is geread on ðisum godspelle

  Note

  Thorpe I 152

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent. 128v-132v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.8)

  Rubric

  (128v) Dominica in quadragessima

  Incipit

  (128v) Men ða leofostan eoƿ eallum is cuð

  Note

  Thorpe II 98

• Homily for the Second Sunday in Lent. 132v-137r

  Note

  (Cameron B3.2.11.5)

  Rubric

  (132v) Dominica II quadragesima

  Incipit

  (132v) Men ða leofestan Ic cyðe eoƿ þæt ðreo ðing

  Note

  Copied for Professor Napier: also in Vercelli Book and NE. F. 4. 10 and 12

• Homily for the Third Sunday in Lent. 137r-140v

  Note

  (Cameron B3.2.13)

  Rubric

  (137r) Dominica III in xl

  Incipit

  (137r) Geherað nu men ða leofstan hu ðas halgan bec

  Note

  Also in MS 419, p. 329
  Assmann, Angelsächsische Homilien, 1889, p. 138

• Homily for the Fourth Sunday in Lent. 140v-145r

  Note

  (Cameron B3.2.15)

  Rubric

  (140v) Dominica IIII in xl

  Incipit

  (140v) Men ða leofestan ƿe ƿillað her sprecan feaƿum ƿordum

  Note

  Copied for Professor Napier: also in MS 419, p. 308, and elsewhere

• Homily for the Fifth Sunday in Lent. 145r-149v

  Note

  (Cameron B3.2.16)

  Rubric

  (145r) Dominica V. in xl

  Incipit

  (145r) Men ða leofestan. us is on ælcne sæl geornlice

  Note

  Assmann, Angelsächsische Homilien, 1889, no. XII, f. 144

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday in Lent. 150r-152v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.9)
  Another hand at f. 150r

  Rubric

  (150r) Dominica II in quadragesima

  Incipit

  (150r) Egressus inde Iesus
  (150r) Drihten haelend ðreade

  Note

  Thorpe II 110

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Fifth Sunday in Lent. 153r-159v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.15)

  Rubric

  (153r) Dominica quinta in quadragesima

  Incipit

  (153r) þeos tid fram ðisum an ƿeardan dæge

  Note

  Thorpe II 224

• Homily for Palm Sunday. 160r-166v

  Note

  (Cameron B3.2.18.3)

  Rubric

  (160r) Passio domini. In ramis palmarum

  Incipit

  (160r) Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Matheum
  (160r) Men ða leofestan þis is ures drihtnes þroƿung

  Note

  Also in MS 162, p. 322. Copied for Professor Napier

• Homily In Cena Domini. 166v-174

  Note

  (Cameron B3.2.22)

  Rubric

  (166v) Feria quinta in cena domini

  Incipit

  (166v) De huius diei ueneratione et de domini misericordia in memoria aeterne iohannes euangelista uenera (sic). Sægeð on ðisum bocum be ðære arƿurðnesse

  Note

  Assmann, Angelsächsische Homilien no. XIII, p. 151

• Homily De parasceue. 174v-186v

  Note

  (Cameron B3.2.24.1)

  Rubric

  (174v) Feria VI in parasceuen

  Incipit

  (174v) Hƿæt se ælmihtiga drihten

  Note

  Also in MS 162, p. 347. Cf. MS 303, p. 61 and elsewhere. Copied for Professor Napier

• De sabbato sancto. 186v-196v

  Note

  (Cameron B3.2.25)

  Rubric

  (186v) De Sabbato sancto

  Incipit

  (186v) Men ða leofstan ƿe magon hƿilcum hƿega ƿordum

  Note

  Also in MS 162, p. 365. Copied for Professor Napier

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Easter. 196v-202r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.17)

  Rubric

  (196v) Dominica in die Sancte pasce

  Incipit

  (196v) Oft ge gehydron ymbe þæs hælendes aerist

  Note

  Thorpe I 220

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter. 202r-206v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.18)
  (202r) Change of hand at 202r

  Rubric

  (202r) Dominica I post pascha

  Incipit

  (202r) Æfter þæs hælendes æriste

  Note

  Thorpe I 230

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Easter. 206v-209r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.19)

  Rubric

  (206v) Dominica II post pascha

  Incipit

  (206v) Ðis godspel þe nu geræd ƿæs cyð

  Note

  Thorpe I 238

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sts Philip and James. 209r-213r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.21)

  Rubric

  (209r) Kalendis maiis in natale apostolorum Philippi et Iacobi

  Incipit

  (209r) Philippus se godes apostol

  Note

  Thorpe II 294

  Incipit

  (211r) Ƿe ƿurðiad eac ... Iacob

  Note

  Thorpe II 298

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Invention of the Cross. 213r-215r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.22)

  Rubric

  (213r) v. Nonas kalendas Mai.(!) inuentio Sancte crucis

  Incipit

  (213r) Men ða leofestan nu to dæg ƿe ƿurðiad þære halgan rode

  Note

  Thorpe II 302

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Easter. 215r-226r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.18)

  Rubric

  (215r) Eodem die passio alexandri euenti et ðeodoli

  Incipit

  (215r) On þisum dæge þroƿode

  Note

  Thorpe II 308

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Easter. 218r-226r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.19)
  Change of hand at f. 218r

  Rubric

  (218r) In die Sancta pasce

  Incipit

  (218r) Men ða leofostan gelome eoƿ is gesæd

  Note

  Thorpe II 262

• Homily for Wednesday in Easter Week. 226r-231v

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.20)

  Rubric

  (226r) Item alia de sancta pasce

  Incipit

  (226r) Hit is sƿiðe gedafenlic

  Note

  Thorpe II 282

  Rubric

  (228v) Alia de sancta pasce

  Incipit

  (228v) Gelome æteoƿde ure drihten

  Note

  Thorpe II 288

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Martyrs. 231v-236v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.46)

  Rubric

  (231v) In natale sanctorum martyrum

  Incipit

  (231v) Cum audieritis prelia
  (231v) Se hælend forsæde his leorning cnihtum

  Note

  Thorpe II 536

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Confessor. 236v-242v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.47)

  Rubric

  (236v) In natale unius confessoris

  Incipit

  (236v) Homo quidam pergere
  (236v) Ure drihten saede þis bispel

  Note

  Thorpe II 548

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Virgins. 242v-247v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.48)

  Rubric

  (242v) In natale sanctarum uirginum

  Incipit

  (242v) Simile est regnum
  (242v) Se haelend saede gelomlice bigspel

  Note

  Hand changes on f. 245r
  Thorpe II 562

  Explicit

  (247v) man þyssere ƿorulde geendunge. ne f[u]rðon his

  Note

  Ends imperfectly
  (247v) Old note (xii ?) deficit

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Ascension. 248r-253v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.23)
  Change of hand at f. 248r

  Rubric

  (248r) In ascensione domini

  Incipit

  (248r) Lucas se godspellere us monade

  Note

  Thorpe I 294

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost. 253v-259v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.24)

  Rubric

  (253v) In die pentecosten

  Incipit

  (253v) Fram þam halgan easterlican dæge

  Note

  Thorpe I 310

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Pentecost. 259v-263v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.25)

  Rubric

  (259v) Dominica I post octavas pentecosten

  Incipit

  (259v) Homo quidam erat diues
  (259v) Se ƿealdenda drihten sæde

  Note

  Thorpe I 328

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Third Sunday after Pentecost. 263v-266r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.29)

  Rubric

  (263v) Dominica II post octavas pentecosten

  Incipit

  (263v) Homo quidam quidam fecit cenam
  (263v) Se hælend sæde þis bigspell

  Note

  Thorpe II 370

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Third Sunday after Pentecost, alia narratio. 266r-267v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.30)

  Rubric

  (266r) [Alia narratio de euangelii textu]

  Note

  Margin
  (266r) Est sermo 13 in li M. bower
  (xvi)

  Incipit

  (266r) Mine gebroðra ƿe ƿillað sume cristes rinda

  Note

  Thorpe II 378

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St John the Baptist. 267v-273r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.27)

  Rubric

  (267v) VIII. kalendas Iulii natifitas Sancti Iohannis Baptista

  Incipit

  (267v) Se godspellere lucas aƿrat on cristes bec

  Note

  Thorpe I 350

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sts Peter and Paul. 273r-278v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.31)

  Rubric

  (273r) III kalendas Iulii in natale Sancti petri apostoli

  Incipit

  (273r) Lucas se godspellere us sæde on ðissere pistol

  Note

  Thorpe II 380

  Rubric

  (274v) Item alia de petre

  Incipit

  (274v) Mattheus se godspellere aƿrat

  Note

  Thorpe II 384

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Sts Peter and Paul. 278v-286r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.28)

  Rubric

  (278v) III kalendas Iulii in natale Sancti petri apostoli. Hoc est euangelium

  Incipit

  (278v) Venit Iesu in partes
  (278v) Mattheus se godspellere

  Note

  A line and a half erased on f. 280v
  Thorpe I 364

  Rubric

  (281r) Passio Apostolorum petri et pauli

  Incipit

  (281r) Ƿe ƿillað æfter ðisum godspelle eoƿ gereccan

  Note

  Thorpe I 370

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Paul. 286r-291v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.29)

  Rubric

  (286r) II kalendas Iulii In natale Sancti Pauli apostoli

  Incipit

  (286r) Godes gelaðung ƿurðiað

  Note

  Thorpe I 384
  Change of hand at f. 288r

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St James and the Seven Sleepers. 291v-295r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.34)

  Rubric

  (291v) Passio. natale Sancti Iacobi apostoli

  Incipit

  (291v) On þisum dæge ƿe ƿurþiaþ on urum lofsangum

  Note

  Thorpe II 412

• Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, St Mark. 295r-298v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.3.16)

  Rubric

  (295r) De quarta euangelistas Matheus Marcus Lucas Iohannes

  Incipit

  (295r) Marcus se godspellere be godes dihte for to egypta lande

  Note

  Skeat's Aelfric's Lives of Saints no. XV (I 320)

• Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, St Sebastian. 298v-306v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.3.6)

  Rubric

  (298v) XIII kalendas Februarii Passio Sancti Sebastiani Martyris

  Incipit

  (298v) Sebastinus hatte sum halig godes þegen

  Note

  Skeat's Aelfric's Lives of Saints no. V (I 116)

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Lent. 306v-311v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.12)

  Rubric

  (306v) Dominica in quadragessimo iii

  Incipit

  (306v) Ductus est iesus
  (306v) Ic ƿolde eoƿ trahtnian

  Note

  Thorpe I 166

• Ælfric OSB, Admonissions in Lent with a continuation taken from Blickling Homily no. 10. 311v-316r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.9.7 with an excerpt from B3.4.20)

  Rubric

  (311v) Incipit de penitentia in quadragessima

  Incipit

  (311v) Læƿedum mannum is to ƿitane þæt ælc man

  Note

  Thorpe II 608
  Consists of two parts, (1) = Thorpe II 602-608, (2) a Blickling Homily (pp. 111 (l. 18) to 114), Napier

• Ælfric OSB, Dominica III in Quadragesima. 316r-321r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.9.7 with an excerpt from B1.4.4)

  Rubric

  (316r) Dominica III in quadragesima

  Note

  (title xiii ? in red)

  Incipit

  (316r) Erat ihesus eiciens ...
  (316r) On þære mærran tide

  Note

  Also in MS 188, p. 123, MS 302, p. 129, MS 303, p. 30, and elsewhere
  At bottom of f. 321r an inscription partly erased and rewritten
  Line 1 is erased
  Line 2 reads
  (321r) þis his þæt boc þæt ic Ulf h.. h(a)bba. tal(?)a///þ.../
  Line 3
  (321r) be. ƿannan scypas lære [mid min fæg (over line)] /// oto handa. Crist eo.l . 7 C/

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Bartholomew (incomplete). 321v-327v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.33)

  Rubric

  (321v) De Sancto Bartholomeo

  Incipit

  (321v) Ƿyrd ƿriteras secgaþ

  Note

  Thorpe I 454. The end appears to differ

• Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, The Maccabees. 328r-342v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.3.25)
  Change of hand at f. 328r

  Rubric

  (328r) Kalendas Augustus. Passio Sanctorum Machabeorum

  Incipit

  (328r) Æfter ðam ðe alexander se egefulla

  Note

  Skeat's Aelfric, no. XXV (II 66)

  Rubric

  (341v) De tribus ordinibus

  Incipit

  (341v) Is sƿa ðeah to ƿitenne

  Note

  (Skeat's Aelfric II 120)

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Laurence. 342v-350r

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.31)

  Rubric

  (342v) III Idus augusti. Passio Sancti Laurentii Martyris

  Incipit

  (342v) On decius dæge þæs hreoƿan caseres

  Note

  Thorpe I 416

• Homily for the Assumption of Mary the Virgin. 350r-359v

  Note

  (Cameron B3.3.20)

  Rubric

  (350r) In assumptione Sancte Marie uirginis

  Incipit

  (350r) Men ða leofestan gehyrað nu hƿaet her segð

  Note

  Copied for Professor Napier. Blickling Homilies, p. 137

  Incipit

  (353r) Et post hec uocauit Sancta Maria omnes apostolas in cubiculo suo
  (353r) Ond ða æfter ðon ða cegde seo halige Maria

  Note

  Ends 359r. The lower part (blank?) is cut off, the verso blank
  Blickling Homilies, p. 139 (defective)

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Dedicatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis. 360r-366v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.36)

  Rubric

  (360r) III kalendas Octobris. Dedicatio ecclesie Sancti michaelis archangeli

  Incipit

  (360r) Manegum is cuð seo halige stoƿ

  Note

  Thorpe I 502

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, De initio creaturae. 367r-374v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.2)
  Change of hand at f. 367r

  Rubric

  (367r) Exameron siue initium creaturae

  Note

  (title added xvi)

  Incipit

  (367r) An anginn is ealra ðinga

  Note

  Thorpe I 8

• Homily De sancto Iohanne. 374v-377r

  Note

  (Cameron B3.4.17.1)

  Rubric

  (374v) De Sancto Iohanne

  Incipit

  (374v) Sanctus Iohannes geseah ofer garsegc

  Note

  (of the Phoenix)
  Kluge, Engl. Studien 8, 477

• Neumed office for St Guthlac (partial). 377v-377v

  Note

  On f. 377v are parts of an office in Latin for St Guthlac, with neumes, in a small hand

  Incipit

  (377v) Secundo anno inquit beatus GUTHLACUS

  Note

  (377v) quo hanc heremum inhabitaui mane ad (et) uespere semper angelum domini colloquutorem habui qui meos labores leuigabat qui michi aeterna gaudia nuntiabat hinc anima mea dominum magnificat. Magnificat. Per sanctum interuentorem nostrum GUTHLACUM adoremus dominum deum nostrum. Venite exult. (I)n ipso ortu beati GUTHLACI quis esset futurus aparuit miraculo celesti. Beatus uir. Visa est palam cunctis humana manus de celo fulgida cum cruce ante hostium domus puerperi porrecta. Quare f. Cunctis uidentibus admirabilis manus signo crucis signauit hostium et sic recepta est in celum (neumes cease here). Domine quid mult. Mox inauditum miraculum patriam impleuit et quantus puer natus esset in mundo claruit. Cum inuocarem

  Explicit

  (377v) Vita eius diuersa benigna pueritia bellicosa adholescentia cetera sanctitas theorica

  Incipit

  (377v) Ingenuas uires adholescentie bellis exercuit et cetibus ut sciret quid diuine militie deberet conuersus. Ordinata erat beati GUTHLACI abstinentiam uictus eius post solis occasum panis ordeaceus cum aqua

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Martin. 378r-385v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.42)
  Another hand at f. 378r

  Rubric

  (378r) III Idus Novembris. Depositio Sancti Martini Episcopi

  Incipit

  (378r) Martinus se ƿuldorfulle godes andettere

  Note

  Thorpe II 498

  Rubric

  (384r) (De obitus eius)

  Incipit

  (384r) Martinus se eadiga ƿiste his geendunge

  Note

  Thorpe II 516

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Excusatio dictantis. 385v-385v

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.43)

  Rubric

  (385v) Excusatio dictantis

  Incipit

  (385v) Fela fægere godspell ƿe forlætað

  Note

  Thorpe II 520

• Homily for St Andrew. 386r-394v

  Note

  (Cameron B3.3.1.1)

  Rubric

  (386r) Sancti Andreae

  Incipit

  (386r) Her sigð þæt æfter þam þe Drihten

  Note

  The name Andreas is in capitals throughout
  Goodwin, Anglo-Saxon Legends of Andrew and Veronica; Bright, Anglo-Saxon Reader 113, Blickling Homilies
  (394v) A large initial H and some six lines of carefully erased writing, the beginning of another sermon, follow

TJames

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Stanley

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Location

https://purl.stanford.edu/fh878gz0315

MS 198

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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