Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 178: Old English Homilies. Benedictine Rule in Latin and Old English
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 178 consists of two Anglo-Saxon manuscripts bound together. The first is a collection of Old English homilies, mostly by Ælfric OSB (d. c. 1010) but with some anonymous and composite material. It was written in the first half of the eleventh century, probably towards the end of that period. A colophon lays out the compiler's intentions: twelve sermons are given which may be preached at any time, and another twelve for specific occasions; twenty-two of these are taken exactly from an exemplar but two have been augmented; the sermons for specific days are by Ælfric. This colophon seems more or less accurate when compared to the manuscript as it survives. It was at Worcester by the end of the eleventh century, when it was annotated by the scribe Coleman, probably the chaplain of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester (d. 1095). Parker removed some leaves of this part of MS 178 into CCCC MS 162. The second Anglo-Saxon manuscript is a copy of the bilingual Benedictine Rule, with each chapter in Latin followed by its translation into Old English. It contains some feminine forms but seems to represent a stage in the transmission of the text where it was being changed from nuns' to monks' use. It was written in the first half of the eleventh century. It was certainly at Worcester, and probably already associated with the homily manuscript, in the thirteenth century when both were annotated by the famous 'Worcester Tremulous Hand'.
- Contents
- Catholic Homilies, First Series, De initio creaturae -- Hexameron -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione -- Sermo ad populum in octauis Pentecosten dicendus -- 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 abusiuis' -- Composite homily drawing on works by Ælfric OSB including 'On Auguries' and 'Saint Swithun' from 'Lives of Saints', and the additional sermon 'De Auguriis' -- Sermo de die iudicii -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, with extracts from Ælfric's 'Dominica XVI Post Pentecosten' and 'De Virginitate' -- Homily for the Common of a Confessor -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, English Preface (adapted; = extract from First Series, First Sunday in Advent) -- De sanguine -- Lives of Saints, The Maccabees -- Homily 'De infantibus non baptizandis' -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Virgins (extract with additions) -- Homily 'De auaritia' -- De falsis diis Directions to the reader -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Annunciation -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Christmas -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Circumcision -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Epiphany -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Purification -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Palm Sunday -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Palm Sunday (extract) and Cyrclice þeawas -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Easter -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Feria IV in Letania maiore with additions -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Ascension -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost -- Benedictine Rule in Latin and Old English -- The Six Ages of the World
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xi
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:cv229zs1252/MS_178.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qt454ft5786/178.pdf
- Contains
-
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, De initio creaturae. 1-15
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.1.12; Ker item A.1)
- Rubric
- (1) De initio creaturae
- Incipit
- (1) An angin
- Note
-
(1) Large handsome initial A in plain red. Glosses by the tremulous hand in Latin
Thorpe I 8
- Ælfric OSB, Hexameron. 15-31
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.5.13; Ker item A.2)
- Rubric
- (15) Incipit Exameron Anglice
- Incipit
- (15) On sumum oðrum spelle
- Note
-
Edited by Norman and published by J. R. Smith
Also in MS 188, Junius 23 and 24, and Otho B. x
The original end of this
(34) Þæt hir life is gelogod on gesƿincum
to - Explicit
- (34) soðe scippende ealra Þinga. Amen
- Rubric
- (34) Finis Exameron
- Note
- is replaced by a leaf (p. 31) carefully written in Parker's time (very likely by Lyly). The Latin glosses are copied. The original end is now bound in MS 162, p. 139-160 along with what was formerly the next article in the volume, namely the Interrogationes of Sigewulf: but in MS 162 the text of the end of the Hexameron is pasted over
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost. 32-43
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.1.26; Ker item A.4)
- Rubric
- (32) Dominica quarta post festum Pentecosten
- Note
-
Thorpe I 338
The beginning to nehgeburas him to 7 cƿyð supplied in cent. xvi, as the end of item 2. The original beginning is in MS 162, p. 160 and was previously pasted over
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione. 43-54
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.1.21; Ker item A.5)
- Rubric
- (43) De Dominica Oratione
- Note
- Thorpe I 258
- Ælfric OSB, Sermo ad populum in octauis Pentecosten dicendus. 54-73
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.4.11; Ker item A.6)
- Rubric
- (54) Sermo ad populum In octavis Pentecosten dicendus
- Incipit
- (54) Ƿe ƿillað eoƿ secgan sume sƿutelunge
- Note
- Also in MS 188, p. 215, MS 421, p. 99, MS 303, Junius 99, Trinity B. 15. 34
- 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 abusiuis'. 73-88
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.3.14 (extract); B1.3.17 (extract); B1.6.2; Ker item A.7)
- Rubric
- (73) De Octo Vitiis et de duodecim abusiuis gradus
- Incipit
-
(73) Omnia nimia nocent et temperantia mater uirtutum dicitur
(73) þæt is on englisc. ealle ofer done - Note
- Morris, Old English Homilies I 296 (E. E. T. S.)
- Composite homily drawing on works by Ælfric OSB including 'On Auguries' and 'Saint Swithun' from 'Lives of Saints', and the additional sermon 'De Auguriis'. 88-101
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.3.18; B1.3.22 (extract); B1.4.30; Ker item A.8)
- Rubric
- (88) De Auguriis
- Incipit
- (88) Se apostol Paulus ealra Þeoda lareoƿ
- Note
- Skeat, Aelfric's Lives XVII (I 364)
- Ælfric OSB, Sermo de die iudicii. 101-114
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.4.19; Ker item A.9)
- Rubric
- (101) Sermo de die Iudicii
- Incipit
-
(101) Interrogatus autem
(101) Seo halige Cristes boc - Note
- Copied for Professor Napier: also in Junius 23, f. 23
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, with extracts from Ælfric's 'Dominica XVI Post Pentecosten' and 'De Virginitate'. 114-126
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Ælfric
- Note
- (Cameron B1.2.35; B1.4.27; B1.4.31; Ker item A.10)
- Rubric
- (114) Sermo ad populum quando volueris
- Incipit
-
(114) Dixit Ihesus ad quosdam qui in se
(114) Drihten sæde Þis big spell - Note
- Cf. Thorpe II 426
- Ælfric OSB, Homily for the Common of a Confessor. 126-134
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.5.11; Ker item A.11)
- Rubric
- (126) Sermo in Natale unius Confessoris
- Incipit
-
(126) Vigilate ergo
(126) Matheus se godspellere us sæde - Note
- Ed. Assmann, A.-S. Homilien u. Heiligenleben, Bibl. d. A.-S. Prosa III 1889, p. 49. See MS 188. 46
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, English Preface (adapted; = extract from First Series, First Sunday in Advent). 134-137
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.1.11 (adapted; = extract from B1.1.41); Ker item A.12)
- Rubric
- (134) De Anticristo
- Incipit
- (134) Menn behofiað godre lare
- Note
- Thorpe I 2
- Ælfric OSB, De sanguine. 137-138
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.8.7; Ker item A.13)
- Rubric
- (137) De sanguine prohibito
- Incipit
- (137) Her gesƿutelað on Þisum geƿrite
- Note
- Engl. Studien 8, 62
- Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, The Maccabees. 138-139
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.3.25; Ker item A.14)
- Rubric
- (138) De tribus ordinibus seculi
- Incipit
- (138) Git is to ƿitanne Þæt on Þisre ƿorulde
- Note
- Skeat's Aelfric, no. XXV (II 120)
- Homily 'De infantibus non baptizandis'. 139-140
- Note
- (Cameron B3.4.51; Ker item A.15)
- Rubric
- (139) De Inphantibus non baptizandis
- Incipit
- (139) Ƿe biddað eoƿ menn 7 beodað
- Note
- Anglia X 154 from another manuscript (Napier)
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Virgins (extract with additions). 140-141
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.2.48; Ker item A.16)
- Rubric
- (140) De Vaniloquio Negligentium
- Incipit
- (140) Sume gedƿol menn cƿædon Þæt seo halige Maria
- Note
- ? Thorpe II 572. Copied for Professor Napier
- Homily 'De auaritia'. 141-142
- Note
- (Cameron B3.4.4; Ker item A.17)
- Rubric
- (141) De avaritia
- Incipit
- (141) Auarus Þæt is gytsere
- Note
- Copied for Professor Napier. Also in Bodl. NE F. 4. 12, f. 166b
- Ælfric OSB, De falsis diis Directions to the reader. 142-163
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.4.22; B27.2.4; Ker items A.18 and A.19)
- Rubric
- (142) De Falsis diis
- Incipit
-
(142) O fratres dilectissimi
(142) Eala ge gebroðra ða leofostan - Note
-
Copied for Professor Napier. Also in MS 303, p. 306 and several other MSS.
(163) Colophon to the First Book - Incipit
-
(163) Her geendaÞ seo forme boc. 7 her æfter onginÞ seo oðer boc. on ægðer Þara boca synd tƿelf spell unleaslice
(163) Ðas spell Þe stondað on Þissere forman bec - Note
- Latin note
- Incipit
- (163) In hoc codicello continentur duodecim sermones anglice quos accepimus de libris quos Ælfricus Abbas anglice transtulit: i. De adnuntiatione Sanctae Mariae ... xii. De Pentecosten
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Annunciation. 163-173
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.1.14; Ker item A.20)
- Rubric
- (163) viii kalendas Aprilis. Adnuntiatio Sanctae Mariae
- Incipit
-
(164) Missus est
(164) Vre se ælmihtiga scyppend se ðe ealle - Note
-
Thorpe I 192
In the following part the script, hitherto rather noticeably round, settles down gradually into one more pointed and closer
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Christmas. 173-182
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.1.3; Ker item A.21)
- Rubric
- (173) viii kalendas Ianuarii. Nativitas domini nostri Iesu Christi
- Incipit
- (173) Ƿe ƿyllað to trymminge
- Note
- Thorpe I 28
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Circumcision. 182-190
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.1.7; Ker item A.22)
- Rubric
- (182) Kalendas Ianuarii. Circumc(is)io domini salvatoris nostri Ihesu Christi
- Incipit
- (182) Se godspellere Lucas beleac
- Note
- Thorpe I 90
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Epiphany. 190-201
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.2.4; Ker item A.23)
- Rubric
- (190) viii Idus Ianuarii. Sermo in Epipha(n)ia domini
- Incipit
- (190) Ðes dæg is gehaten on bocum
- Note
- Thorpe II 36
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Purification. 201-210
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.1.10; Ker item A.24)
- Rubric
- (201) In Purificatione Sanctae Mariae
- Incipit
-
(201) Postquam impleti
(201) God bebead on ðære ealdan æ - Note
- Thorpe I 134
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent. 210-217
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.2.8; Ker item A.25)
- Rubric
- (210) Dominica prima in quadragessima
- Incipit
- (211) Men ða leofostan eoƿ eallum is cuð
- Note
- Thorpe II 98
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Palm Sunday. 217-229
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.2.16; Ker item A.26)
- Rubric
- (217) Dominica palmarum. De Passione domini
- Incipit
- (217) Drihtnes ðroƿunge
- Note
- Thorpe II 240
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Palm Sunday (extract) and Cyrclice Þeawas. 229-229
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
-
(Cameron B1.1.15; B1.1.16; Ker item A.27)
(229) (De Resurrectione Christi) no title - Incipit
- (229) Ƿe habbað oft gesæd and gyt secgað
- Rubric
- (229) Cyrclice ðeaƿas forbeodaÞ to secgenne ænig spell on ðam ðrim sƿig dagum
- Note
-
(capitals)
Note in another hand
(229) Ac ðis ne Þynceð no us ƿell gesæd etc.
(Wanley, p. 121). This is in a very fine small hand. In the margin just above is cplfmbn (i.e. Coleman) in fine round letters
Thorpe I 218
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Easter. 229-237
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.1.17; Ker item A.28)
- Rubric
- (229) Die Dominica Paschae
- Incipit
- (229) Oft ge gehyrdon
- Note
- Thorpe I 220
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter. 237-244
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.1.18; Ker item A.29)
- Rubric
- (237) Dominica prima post Pascha
- Incipit
-
(237) Cum esset sero
(237) Æfter ðæs hælendes - Note
- Thorpe I 230
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Feria IV in Letania maiore with additions. 244-253
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.2.28 with B1.4.26; Ker item A.30)
- Rubric
- (244) Vigilia Ascensionis domini
- Incipit
- (244) Iohannes se godspellere aƿrat on ðisum
- Note
- Thorpe II 360
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Ascension. 253-263
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.1.23; Ker item A.31)
- Rubric
- (253) In Ascensione Domini
- Incipit
- (253) (Men ða leofestan) Lucas se godspellere us manode
- Note
- Thorpe I 294
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost (ends imperfectly). 263-270
- Author
- Ælfric OSB
- Note
- (Cameron B1.1.24; Ker item A.32)
- Rubric
- (263) In die sancto Pentecosten
- Incipit
- (263) Fram Þam halgan
- Note
-
Thorpe I 310
Ending - Explicit
- (270) mid his blæde on ælde eorÞlicra manna heortan
- Note
- Incomplete; a quire has been lost here
- Benedictine Rule in Latin and Old English. 287-457
- James
- Regula Sancti Benedicti. 287-457
- Note
-
(Cameron B10.3.1; Ker item B.1)
Ed. Schroer, Bibl. d. A.-S. Prosa II 9-77, 1885 etc. - Rubric
- (287) Incipit capitula. explicit prologus
- Note
-
(287) In red capitals
There is evidently a gap before this. Parker's paging (continuous throughout the volume) has a lacuna between p. 270 and p. 287, with which this portion begins
The Capitula are in Latin only, ending p. 290
Text - Rubric
- (290) De generibus monachorum
- Incipit
- (290) Monachorum quattuor esse gerera (!)
- Note
- Anglo-Saxon version
- Rubric
- (291) Be munuca cynne
- Incipit
- (291) Feoƿer synt muneca cyn
- Note
-
The Anglo-Saxon is copiously glossed in Latin by more than one hand. The tremulous hand re-appears. The general character of the hand is rather narrow, inclining to be pointed. Initials of sentences are filled with dabs of red
Ends - Explicit
- (457) bufan gemundum Þæt æge ƿeorðe
- The Six Ages of the World. 458-458
- Note
-
(Cameron B24.25.1; Ker item B.2)
(458) On p. 458, in a much rounder hand, very pretty, is a note on the seven ages of the world - Incipit
- (458) On Þisre ƿorulde fruman god ælmihtig gesceop
- Explicit
- (458) seofoðe belimpð to Þam toƿeardan life
- Note
- (458) The tremulous hand has written in pencil and ink some Anglo-Saxon words and Latin equivalents
- Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, De initio creaturae. 1-15
- TJames
- 277
- Stanley
- S. 6
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/pm669yz1553
- MS 178
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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