Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 419: Old English Homilies by Wulfstan and others

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 419: Old English Homilies by Wulfstan and others
Alternate Title:
Homiliae Saxonicae (VII)
Language:
English, Old (ca. 450-1100) and Latin
Extent:
ff. 2 + 184 + 2
Dimensions:
205 Height (mm) and 125 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Table of contents:
  • Sermon De temporibus anticristi
  • Sermon on Sunnandæges spell
  • Sermonem angelorum nomina
  • Sermo Lupi ad Anglos
  • Baptism
  • An Outline of History
  • The Creed
  • Sermon In Die Iudicii
  • Institutes of Polity
  • A Pastoral Letter
  • A Pastoral Letter (continued)
  • Sermon To eallum folce
  • Sermon To folce
  • Sermon on Larspel
  • Lives of Saints, On auguries
  • Homily for the Fourth Sunday in Lent
  • Homily for the Third Sunday in Lent
  • Sermon De uirginitate
Description:
CCCC MS 419 is an important collection of Old English homilies, many by Wulfstan of York (d. 1023). It was written in the first half of the eleventh century. Pp. 1-2 of CCCC MS 421 were originally physically part of this manuscript, and the original part of CCCC MS 421 was a companion volume to CCCC MS 419, partly written by the same scribe. The manuscripts were together at Exeter in the time of Bishop Leofric (1050-1072), where additions were made to CCCC MS 421. This manuscript was Parker's seventh volume of homilies in his numeration system. He added a frontispiece miniature of the Entry into Jerusalem taken from the same French thirteenth-century psalter as the images which he added to CCCC MS 452 and London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 1370 (The MacDurnan Gospels).
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