Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 162: Old English Homilies

IIIF Drag-n-drop purl.stanford.edu/ft757ht3699
Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 162: Old English Homilies
Alternate Title:
Anglo-Saxon Homilies (I)
Language:
English, Old (ca. 450-1100) and Latin
Extent:
ff. 2 + 70 + 11 + 206
Dimensions:
295 Height (mm) and 200 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Provenance:
This is seemingly not one of the Worcester books; pp. 139-160 are an insertion made by Parker from a Worcester MS. The rest of the volume may very well have been one of those sent to Parker by Bishop Scory from Hereford.
Table of contents:
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, De initio creaturae
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria IIII de fide catholica
  • Homily Be þam drihtenlican sunnandæg folces lar
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Feria II in Letania maiore
  • Lives of Saints, The Prayer of Moses
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Mid-Lent Sunday
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Mid-Lent Sunday, Secunda sententia
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday after Epiphany
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Third Sunday after Epiphany
  • Hexameron (end; currently pasted over)
  • Interrogationes Sigeuulfi in Genesin
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (incomplete)
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Septuagesima
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Septuagesima (continued)
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sexagesima
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Quinquagesima
  • Lives of Saints, Ash Wednesday, with additions
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Lent
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent (continued)
  • Feria VI in prima ebdomada Quadragesimae
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday in Lent
  • Homily for Second Sunday in Lent
  • Feria VI in secunda ebdomada Quadragesimae
  • Dominica III in Quadragesima (rubric only)
  • Feria VI in tertia ebdomada Quadragesimae
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Mid-Lent Sunday
  • Feria VI in quarta ebdomada Quadragesimae
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Fifth Sunday in Lent
  • Homily for Friday after the Fifth Sunday in Lent
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Palm Sunday
  • Homily on Palm Sunday
  • Homily In Cena Domini
  • Homily In Parasceve
  • Homily In Sabbato sancto
  • Homily for Palm Sunday
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Easter
  • Homily for Monday in Rogationtide
  • Homily for Tuesday in Rogationtide
  • Homily for Wednesday in Rogationtide
  • Homily for Ascension day
  • 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, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sixteenth Sunday after PentecostCatholic Homilies, Second Series, De Maria
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost (cont.)
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Advent
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday in Advent
  • Homily for the Deposition of Saint Augustine of Canterbury (incomplete)
Description:
CCCC MS 162 is a collection of Old English homiles, written in the early eleventh century. Its spellings, and similiarities with the script and decoration of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Bodley 340 and 342 and London, BL MS Royal 6. C. I, suggest that it originated somewhere in the south-east of England, perhaps at Rochester or Canterbury. The texts it contains are mostly by Ælfric, but it also includes some anonymous material, including sermons for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Holy Week, for which Ælfric refused to provide sermon material. Parker removed some material from CCCC MS 178, a Worcester book, into MS 162, where it is now pp. 139-60. He also added a woodcut of the Crucifixion at the front of the manuscript.
More details »