Description
Alternative title
Homiliarium
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 134 + 2
Date created
[ca. 1100 - 1199]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 37 lines
Height (mm)
312
Width (mm)
217
Collation
I(8)-XVI(8), XVII(6), a(2) .
Writing
in a fine regular black hand
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-135 + iii-iv
Additions
The two flyleaves at the end (ff. 135r-136v) are ff. xcii and c of a service-book with music on five-line stave (cent. xv) containing music for the Office of the Nativity of the Virgin.
On f. 12v, scribbled: Thomas Abott Sodway. On f. 57r: Thomas ... Wond.
Decoration
There are various rather rough pencil sketches on the margins, of men, animals and ornaments, e.g. f. 37r.
Writing
Two scribes at least are discernible.
2 fo.
cessit in prima
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 65, dating to the twelfth century, contains a collection of homilies by a variety of patristic authors such as Gregory the Great, Jerome, Bede, etc. Paul the Deacon (c. 720/30-99), a scholar at the court of Charlemagne, compiled such a collection, ordered by appropriate date of the Church year, which travelled widely in the Middle Ages as a useful resource for preachers. This manuscript contains a version of the summer half of Paul the Deacon's collection, and was presumably once accompanied by a winter volume, now lost. The manuscript contains flyleaves with musical notation at the end, a rare survival of English fourteenth-century polyphony, including a four-part Alleluia.
- Contents
- Homiliary -- Homilies
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