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Alternative title

Homiliae Saxonicae (VI)

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 2 + 177

Date created

[ca. 1000-1099]

Language

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

Material

Vellum

Layout

19 and 25 lines to a page

Height (mm)

205

Width (mm)

120

Collation

a(2), 1(8) 2(8) 3(4) 4(8)-6(8) 7(6) (6 canc.) || 8(8)-14(8) (wants 8) || 15(8) || 16(8)-21(8) 22(6) 23(10) (8 canc.) 24 (two).

Writing

largely in the same hand as no. 419

Foliation

ff. a-b + i-ii + pp. 1-354 + ff. c-d

Research

MS. A in Napier's Wulfstan. Wanley, p. 131.

Professor Napier notes: At the end was the Tractate de xii abusiuis: it is now apparently lost. (I doubt if this is correct: T. James notices the occurrence of this tract under his no. 285 which is no. 303. In that volume the tract occurs.)

Additions

On f. iir Parkerian title (Liber Sextus) and list of contents.

Decoration

On p. 1 a contemporary frontispiece of good English work washed copiously with red in background: high lights left in white. The Crucifixion, with maria and iohannes: the extremities of the Cross are stepped: there are 4 nails. Christ has a fillet or diadem on His head, and a cross-nimbus. Above is the Divine Hand; below, a dragon, both within the outline of the Cross. Conventional foliage in the upper corners.

Summary

CCCC MS 421 is an important collection of Old English homilies, many by Ælfric of Eynsham OSB (d. 1010). It originated in the first half of the eleventh century as a companion volume to CCCC MS 419, partly written by the same scribe, and pp. 1–2 of MS 421 were originally physically part CCCC MS 419. Substantial additions were made to MS 421 at at Exeter in the time of Bishop Leofric (1050-1072). The manuscript contains an eleventh-century frontispiece drawing of the Crucifixion in the part (p. 1) which was originally in CCCC MS 419. MS 421 was Parker's sixth volume of homilies in his numeration system.

Contents

Prayer following Homily for the Feast of an Apostle -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Apostle -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Martyrs -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Confessor -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Virgins -- Sermo ad populum in octauis Pentecosten dicendus -- Sermon on Larspel and scriftboc -- Sermon Ammonitio amici -- Homily for Tuesday in Rogationtide -- Sermon on Larspel -- Luke on the last days -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, In Letania maiore -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria IIII de fide catholica -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Ascension

M.R. James Date

xi

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vt721xp7463/MS_421.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tx954cf7573/421.pdf

Contains

• Prayer following Homily for the Feast of an Apostle. 2-2

  Note

  (Cameron B12.4.8.2)
  (2) Prayer or conclusion of Sermon in honour of an Apostle (such as no. 3) not on the hand which follows

  Incipit

  (2) Uton nu biddan ealle eadmodlice [uel an] þysne [þas] halgan [haligan] Apostol [uel las] .N. þaet he [uel hi] for his [uel hira] mæran gearnungum, etc.

  Note

  ending

  Explicit

  (2) þe ƿe nu to dæg ƿurþigeaþ 7 mid eallon his halgan. Se þe leofað 7 ricsað a buton ende on ecnysse. Amen. Credo in unum deum

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost. 3-25

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.24)

  Rubric

  (3) In die Sancto Pentecosten

  Incipit

  (3) Fram ðam halgan Easterlican dæge

  Note

  Thorpe I 310
  pp. 3-96 are in a more regular hand than what follows

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Apostle. 25-36

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.44)

  Rubric

  (25) In natale unius Apostoli

  Incipit

  (25) Ðes Apostolica freols dæg

  Note

  Thorpe II 520

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Martyrs. 36-54

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.46)

  Rubric

  (36) In Natale Plurimorum Sanctorum Martyrum

  Incipit

  (36) Cum audieritis prelia
  (36) Se Hælende foresæde

  Note

  Thorpe II 536

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Confessor. 54-76

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.47)

  Rubric

  (54) In Natale Unius Confessoris

  Incipit

  (54) Homo quidam peregre
  (54) Ure Drihten saede

  Note

  Thorpe II 548

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Virgins. 76-98

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.2.48)

  Rubric

  (76) In natale Sanctarum Virginum

  Incipit

  (76) Simile est regnum ... decem uirginibus
  (76) Se Hælend sæde gelomlice

  Note

  Thorpe II 562
  Ends p. 96
  pp. 97, 98 blank

• Ælfric OSB, Sermo ad populum in octauis Pentecosten dicendus. 99-150

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.4.11)

  Rubric

  (99) Sermo ad populum in octavis Pentecosten

  Incipit

  (99) Ƿe ƿillað eoƿ sæcgan sume sƿutelunge

  Note

  MS 178 (5), MS 188 (22), MS 303 (42) and elsewhere
  (99) pp. 99-208 are in the hand of no. 419

• Sermon on Larspel and scriftboc. 150-159

  Note

  (Cameron B3.4.38)

  Rubric

  (150) Lar Spel 7 Scrift Boc

  Incipit

  (150) Leofan men. doð sƿa ic eoƿ bidde gehyrað þæt soð is

  Note

  Napier, Wulfstan XLVII, p. 242

• Sermon Ammonitio amici. 159-170

  Note

  (Cameron B3.4.39.2)

  Rubric

  (159) Ammonitio amici þaet is freondlic mynegung

  Incipit

  (159) Eala geƿynsuman men 7 æþele ƿæpmen

  Note

  Napier, Wulfstan XLVIII, p. 246

• Homily for Tuesday in Rogationtide. 170-208

  Note

  (Cameron B3.2.40.2)

  Rubric

  (170) Lar spell

  Incipit

  (170) Men ða leofestan ƿe gehyrdon oft sæcgan be þam æþelan to cyme

  Note

  Napier, Wulfstan XLIX, p. 250

• Sermon on Larspel. 209-221

  Note

  (Cameron B3.4.40)

  Rubric

  (209) Lar spell

  Incipit

  (209) Ƿe secgeað urum cyne hlaforde

  Note

  Napier, Wulfstan L, p. 266
  pp. 209-224 are in a careful upright hand, 25 lines to a page

• Wulfstan, Luke on the last days. 221-226

  Author

  Wulfstan

  Note

  (Cameron B2.1.3)

  Rubric

  (221) (Erunt signa)

  Incipit

  (221) Crist cƿæð on his halgan godspelle þæt fela fortacna

  Note

  Napier, Wulfstan XV, p. 90
  Ends p. 224
  pp. 225, 226 are blank

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, In Letania maiore. 227-254

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.20)
  On p. 227 the hand of MS 419 resumes

  Rubric

  (227) In L(etania maiore)

  Incipit

  (227) Ðas dagas synd gehatene Letanige

  Note

  Thorpe I 224

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione. 254-287

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.21)

  Rubric

  (254) Feria III. De Dominica Oratione

  Incipit

  (254) Se hælend Crist syððan he

  Note

  Thorpe I 258

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria IIII de fide catholica. 287-324

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.22)

  Rubric

  (287) Feria IIII. De fide catholica

  Incipit

  (287) Ælc Cristen man sceal æfter rihte cunnan

  Note

  Thorpe I 274

• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Ascension. 324-354

  Author

  Ælfric OSB

  Note

  (Cameron B1.1.23)

  Rubric

  (324) In ascensione domini. Primum quidem sermonem

  Incipit

  (324) Lucas se godspellere us manede

  Note

  Thorpe I 294
  Ends

  Explicit

  (354) Bartholomeus on India. Matheus on æthiopia. And sƿa heora gehyƿylc on his daele 7 godes miht

TJames

266

Stanley

S. 13

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 421

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