Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 162

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 162
    • CCCC MS 162
    • MS 162
    • Parker Library MS 162
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : English, Old (ca.450-1100), Latin
  • Author : Aelfric (0955?-1020?)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1000 - 1099
  • Script :
    • in two good hands, that of the main part being a beautiful thin upright hand, the other somewhat thicker
  • Decoration :
    • The heading of the first Homily, and the first words, are in red and green capitals; the initial is large and ornamented, wholly in green. Subsequent initials are smaller and are either red or green with modest ornament.Occasionally there are pencil sketches in the margin: e.g. p. 207 Christ and the devil, p. 298 seated figure, p. 524 seated figure.
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 2 + 70 + 11 + 206
  • Dimensions :
    • 200 x 295
  • Codicological details :
    • 23 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + i-iv + pp. 1-138 + 138a-b + 139-258 + 258a-b + 259-570 + v + c-d
    • of þam fagran
    • a(2) 1(8)-3(8) (wants 2) 4(8)-9(8) (wants 8; 7 replaced) || A(10) (+1) || 10(8) (wants 1) 11(8)-24(8) (2 canc.) 25(8)-35(8) (6-8 blank, replaced).

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  • Résumé : 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.


    Contenu :


    Langue(s) des textes : anglais, latin


    Intervenants :

    Ælfric OSB - author

    1-17 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, De initio creaturae

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.2)

    rubric : (1) De initio creaturae

    incipit : (1) An angin is ealra ðinga

    Note : Thorpe, Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church, Ælfric Soc. I 8


    17-30 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.21)

    rubric : (17) De dominica oratione

    incipit : (17) Se hælend crist syððan he to ðysum life

    Note : Thorpe, I 258


    30-44 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria IIII de fide catholica

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.22)

    rubric : (30) De catholica fide

    incipit : (30) Ælc cristen man sceal æfter rihte

    Note : Thorpe, I 274


    44-52 - Homily Be þam drihtenlican sunnandæg folces lar

    Note : (Cameron B3.4.53)

    rubric : (44) Be þam drihtenlican sunnandæg folces lár

    incipit : (44) Men þa leofestan her onginð ðæt ærendgeƿrit

    Note : Printed by Professor Napier in An Old English Miscellany (in honour of Dr Furnivall), p. 357


    52-66 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Feria II in Letania maiore

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.24)

    Note : (52) [On Matt. xxii 37]

    incipit : (52) Men þa leofestan uton hlystan þære godcundan lare

    Note : Thorpe, II 314


    66-79 - Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, The Prayer of Moses

    Note : (Cameron B1.3.14)

    rubric : (66) De oratione Moysi in medio .XL. vel quando uolueris

    incipit : (66) Æfter ðam ðe Moyses se mære heretoga

    Note : Skeat, Ælfric's Lives I no. XIII (I 282). This MS. is F in his edition


    79-97 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Mid-Lent Sunday

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.13)

    rubric : (79) Item sermo de lege dei in media .XL.

    incipit : (79) Men þa leofestan ƿe rædað nu æt godes þenungum

    Note : Thorpe, II 188


    97-107 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Mid-Lent Sunday, Secunda sententia

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.14)

    rubric : (97) Item secundus sermo de Iosue et de pugnis eius

    incipit : (97) Moyses 7 aaron 7 ða yldestan

    Note : Thorpe, II 212

    Note : p. 108 blank


    109-125 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday after Epiphany

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.5)

    rubric : (109) Dominica secunda post Epiphania domini

    incipit : (109) Nuptie facte sunt

    incipit : (109) Iohannes se godspellere

    Note : Thorpe, II 54


    125-136 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Third Sunday after Epiphany

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.9)

    rubric : (125) Dominica III post epiphania domini

    incipit : (125) Cum descendisset

    incipit : (125) Matheus se eadiga

    Note : Thorpe, I 120

    Note : Ends p. 136: the last words (ende. Amen) are supplied. pp. 137, 138 are a more modern blank leaf; pp. 138a-138b are a paper flap from a printed book dated 1709


    139-139 - Ælfric OSB, Hexameron (end; currently pasted over)

    Note : (Cameron B1.5.13)

    Note : The next eleven leaves, in a quite different hand, have been inserted since the quires were numbered. The numbering of the quires is medieval but not original

    Note : The upper half of p. 139 is pasted over with parchment, on which, in a Parkerian hand, is written

    rubric : (139) Albini in genesim questiones prefatio

    incipit : (139) Dilectissimo in christo fratri Siguulfo

    Note : The text now covered up by this patch was the end of a sermon: see on MS 178

    Note : This portion of the MS. (pp. 139-160) as noticed by G. E. MacLean in his edition of the text (Anglia vi, vii and separately, Halle 1883) was originally a portion of 178. MacLean gives an elaborate description of the MS.


    139-160 - Ælfric OSB, Interrogationes Sigeuulfi in Genesin

    Note : (Cameron B1.6.1)

    rubric : (139) Interrogatio Sigeuulfi presbiteri

    incipit : (139) Sum geþungen lareoƿ

    Note : (MacLean, l.c.)

    Note : Ends p. 160

    Note : This portion of the MS. (pp. 139-160) as noticed by G. E. MacLean in his edition of the text (Anglia vi, vii and separately, Halle 1883) was originally a portion of 178. MacLean gives an elaborate description of the MS.

    Note : In this section (pp. 139-160) the peculiar tremulous hand of a glossator occurs, which is seen in MS 12, MS 178, MS 198 (see further on MS 12). It does not appear elsewhere in the present volume


    160-160 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (incomplete)

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.26)

    Note : (160) The lower part of the page, with the beginning of another tract, was once pasted over. The pasted down leaf, from a late medieval document, was removed in 1970 and bound into the volume at the end as f. v


    161-171 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Septuagesima

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.6)

    Note : We revert to a hand like the first, but finer

    rubric : (161) Dominica in septuagesima

    incipit : (161) Simile est regnum

    incipit : (161) Se Hælend cƿæð þæt heofona rice

    Note : Thorpe, II 72


    Intervenants :

    iÆlfric OSB - author

    171-174 - iÆlfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Septuagesima (continued)

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.6)

    Note : The second part (de Alleluia) begins on p. 171 without title

    incipit : (171) ƿe ƿillað eoƿ secgan be ðyssere andweardantid

    Note : Thorpe, II 84


    174-184 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sexagesima

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.7)

    rubric : (174) Dominica in sexagesima

    incipit : (174) Cum turba plurima

    incipit : (174) On sumere tide ða ða micel

    Note : Thorpe, II 88


    184-194 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Quinquagesima

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.11)

    rubric : (184) Dominica in quinquagesima

    incipit : (184) Assumpsit ihesus

    incipit : (184) Her is gerædd on iðysum godspelle

    Note : Thorpe, I 152


    194-206 - Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, Ash Wednesday, with additions

    Note : (Cameron B1.3.13)

    rubric : (194) Alia narratio doctrina populi

    incipit : (194) ƿe ƿillað eoƿ areccan gyt ane lytle tihtinge

    Note : Skeat, Ælfric I 269 (with an addition at each end)


    206-218 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.12)

    rubric : (206) Dominica prima in quadragesima

    incipit : (206) Ductus est ihesus

    incipit : (206) Ic ƿolde eoƿ trahtnian ðis godspell

    Note : Thorpe, I 166


    218-226 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.8)

    rubric : (218) Item alia doctrina populi

    incipit : (218) Men þa leofestan us eallum is cuð

    Note : Thorpe, II 98


    226-227 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent (continued)

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.8)

    incipit : (226) Vs is ðon sƿyðe micel nead þearf men þa leofestan þæt a ƿe dæges

    Note : Wanley, p. 117


    Intervenants :

    Īlfric OSB - author

    227-237 - Īlfric OSB, Feria VI in prima ebdomada Quadragesimae

    Note : (Cameron B1.4.2)

    rubric : (227) Feria vi in prima ebdomada quadragesimae

    incipit : (227) Erat dies festus

    incipit : (227) Se godspellere iohannes þe ƿæs

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier: perhaps also in Vitellius C. 5, f. 233v


    237-243 - Īlfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.9)

    rubric : (237) Dominica secunda in quadragesima

    incipit : (237) Egressus Ihesus

    incipit : (237) Drihten hælend ðreade

    Note : Thorpe, II 110


    243-252 - Homily for Second Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.11)

    rubric : (243) Item alia doctrina populi

    incipit : (243) Men þa leofestan ic cyðe eoƿ þæt þreo þing

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier. Other copies in MS 198, f. 132v, Vercelli Book, and Bodleian


    252-258 - Ælfric OSB, Feria VI in secunda ebdomada Quadragesimae

    Note : (Cameron B1.4.3)

    rubric : (252) Feria vi in secunda ebdomada quadragesime

    incipit : (252) Homo erat paterfamilias

    incipit : (252) Ure drihten sæde oft sƿiðe

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier. Also in Vitellius C. 5, f. 239v


    258-258 - Ælfric OSB, Dominica III in Quadragesima (rubric only)

    Note : (Cameron B1.4.4)

    rubric : (258) Dominica III in xl

    incipit : (258) Erat ihesus eiciens demonia

    Note : No text follows


    258-267 - Ælfric OSB, Feria VI in tertia ebdomada Quadragesimae

    Note : (Cameron B1.4.5)

    rubric : (258) Feria vi in tert(i)a ebdomada .XL.

    incipit : (258a) Uenit Ihesus in ciuitatem samarie

    incipit : (258a) Se godspellere iohannes sæde on þysum godspelle

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier. Also in Vitellius C. 5, f. 242v


    267-274 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Mid-Lent Sunday

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.13)

    rubric : (267) Dominica IIII in quadragesima

    incipit : (267) Abiit Ihesus trans mare

    incipit : (267) Se Hælend ferde ofer ðære galileiscan sæ

    Note : Thorpe, I 180


    274-284 - Ælfric OSB, Feria VI in quarta ebdomada Quadragesimae

    Note : (Cameron B1.4.6)

    rubric : (274) Feria vi in iiiita Ebdomada .XL.

    incipit : (274) Erat quidam languens lazarus

    incipit : (274) On þam halgan godspelle

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier. Also in MS 303, p. 38 and Vitellius C. 5, f. 247


    284-298 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Fifth Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.15)

    rubric : (284) Dominica V in quadragesima

    incipit : (284) Dicebat Ihesus turbis iudeorum

    incipit : (284) Ðeos tid fram ðysum andƿeardan dæge

    Note : Thorpe, II 224

    Note : The words læt and lege in the margins of pp. 293 and 294 respectively constitute Cameron B27.2.3


    298-305 - Homily for Friday after the Fifth Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B1.5.4)

    rubric : (298) Feria vi in quinta ebdomada .XL.

    incipit : (298) Collegerunt ergo

    incipit : (298) þæt halige godspell þe ge gehyrdon

    Note : Assmann, A.-S. Homilien u. Heiligenleben (Bibl. d. A.-S. Prosa III), 1889, p. 65


    305-322 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Palm Sunday

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.16)

    rubric : (305) Dominica in ramis palmarum

    incipit : (305) Passio domini nostri Ihesu Christi secundum Iohannem

    incipit : (305) Drihtnes ðroƿunge

    Note : Thorpe, II 240


    322-333 - Homily on Palm Sunday

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.18)

    rubric : (322) Dominica in ramis palmarum

    incipit : (322) Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum matheum

    incipit : (322) Men þa leofestan ðis is ures drihtnes þroƿung

    Note : Also in MS 198, f. 160 and Bodl. NE. F. 4. 10


    333-347 - Homily In Cena Domini

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.22)

    rubric : (333) De cena domini in v feria

    incipit : (333) Her sprycþ be þære arƿurðnysse

    Note : Assmann, p. 151


    347-365 - Homily In Parasceve

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.24)

    rubric : (347) De parasceue

    incipit : (347) Hƿæt se ælmihtiga drihten ƿæs symble sƿiðe

    Note : Also in MS 198, f. 174v and MS 303, p. 61 and Vercelli Book and Bodl. NE. F. 4. 10


    365-382 - Homily In Sabbato sancto

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.25)

    rubric : (365) In sabbato sancto

    incipit : (365) Men þa leofestan ƿe magon hƿilcum hƿega

    Note : Also MS 198, f. 186 and Bodl. NE. F. 4. 10


    382-391 - Homily for Palm Sunday

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.27)

    rubric : (382) In die sancto pasce

    Note : In margin: apocrifum

    incipit : Men þa leofestan her segð on ðisum bocum hƿæt hƿega be þysum halgan easter dæge ƿe þe nu to dæg ƿurðiað 7 mærsiað sƿa gecƿeden is on þisum

    Note : Leaf cut out, p. 383 begins unarimedum ƿundrum under his anƿealde

    Note : Apparently only here: copied for Professor Napier


    391-398 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.18)

    rubric : (391) Dominica prima post pasca

    incipit : (391) Cum esset sero

    incipit : (391) Æfter ðæs hælendes æriste

    Note : Thorpe, I 230


    398-403 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Easter

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.19)

    rubric : (398) Dominica prima post octabas paschae

    incipit : (398) Ego sum pastor

    incipit : (398) Ðis godspel þe nu geræd ƿæs cyð

    Note : Thorpe, I 238


    403-412 - Homily for Monday in Rogationtide

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.34)

    rubric : (403) Feria ii in Letania maiore

    incipit : (403) Men þa leofestan us gedafenað ærest þæt ƿe gemunen

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier. Also in MS 303, p. 215, Cleopatra B. 13 and Vercelli Book


    412-422 - Homily for Tuesday in Rogationtide

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.38)

    rubric : (412) In tertia feria in letania maiore

    incipit : (412) Mine gebroðra ða leofestan ðis syndon halige dagas

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier. Also in MS 303, p. 219 and Vercelli Book


    422-431 - Homily for Wednesday in Rogationtide

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.44)

    rubric : (422) In quarta feria in letania maiore

    Note : (in margin: apocrifum)

    incipit : (422) Men þa leofestan cƿaeð se halga lareoƿ hƿæt ƿe gemunan magon

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier. Also in Junius 24


    431-441 - Homily for Ascension day

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.45)

    rubric : (431) In die ascensionis domini

    incipit : (432) Men þa leofestan us is micclum to ƿuldrienne

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier: apparently only here


    441-454 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.24)

    rubric : (441) In die sancto Pentecosten

    incipit : (441) Fram ðam halgan Easterlican dæge

    Note : Thorpe I 310


    454-462 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.25)

    rubric : (454) Dominica secunda post Pentecosten

    incipit : (454) Homo quidem erat diues

    incipit : (454) Se ƿealdenda Drihten

    Note : Thorpe I 328


    462-468 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Third Sunday after Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.29)

    rubric : (462) Dominica III post Pentecosten

    incipit : (463) Homo quidam fecit cenam magnam

    incipit : (463) Se hælend sæde þis bigspel

    Note : Thorpe II 370


    468-472 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Third Sunday after Pentecost, alia narratio

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.30)

    rubric : (468) Alia narratio de euangelii textu

    incipit : (468) Mine gebroþra ƿe ƿillað eoƿ gereccan sume cristes ƿundra

    Note : Thorpe II 378


    472-482 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.26)

    rubric : (472) Dominica IIII post Pentecosten

    incipit : (472) Erant adpropinquantes ad Ihesum

    incipit : (472) Ðæt halige godspel us segð þæt gerefan

    Note : Thorpe I 338


    483-489 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.32)

    rubric : (483) Dominica VIII post Pentecosten

    incipit : (483) Cum multa turba esset

    incipit : (483) Marcus se godspellere cƿaeð on þysum

    Note : Thorpe II 394


    489-496 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.33)

    rubric : (489) Dominica IX post Pentecosten

    incipit : (489) Adtendite a falsis prophetis

    incipit : (490) Drihten cƿæð to his leorning cnihtum

    Note : Thorpe II 404


    496-508 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.30)

    rubric : (496) Dominica XI post Pentecosten

    incipit : (496) Cum adpropinquaret Ihesus Hierusalem

    incipit : (496) On sumere tide ƿæs se Hælend farende

    Note : Thorpe I 402


    508-516 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.35)

    rubric : (508) Dominica XII post Pentecosten

    incipit : (508) Dixit Ihesus ad quosdam qui in se confidebant

    incipit : (508) Drihten sæde þis bigspel be sumum mannum

    Note : Thorpe II 426


    516-521 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Catholic Homilies, Second Series, De Maria

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.38 and Cameron B1.2.39)

    rubric : (516) Dominica XVI post Pentecosten

    incipit : (516) Nemo potest duobus dominis seruire

    incipit : (516) Drihten cƿæð on sumne timan

    Note : Thorpe II 460


    521-530 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.35)

    rubric : (521) Dominica XVII post Pentecosten

    incipit : (521) Ibat Ihesus in ... Naim

    incipit : (522) Ure drihten ferde to sumere byrig

    Note : Thorpe I 490


    530-545 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.37)

    rubric : (530) Dominica XXI post Pentecosten

    incipit : (530) Loquebatur Ihesus cum discipulis suis in parabolis

    incipit : (530) Drihten ƿæs sprecende on sumere tide

    Note : Thorpe I 520


    545-547 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost (cont.)

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.37)

    Note : (545) Seven Pains of Hell etc.

    incipit : (545) Nu bidde ƿe eoƿ for godes lufan 7 eac myngiad

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier. Apparently only here


    547-553 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Advent

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.41)

    rubric : (547) Dominica prima in aduentu domini

    incipit : (547) Ðyses dæges ðenung

    Note : Thorpe I 600


    553-563 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday in Advent

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.42)

    rubric : (553) Dominica secunda in aduentu domini

    incipit : (553) Erunt signa

    incipit : (553) Se godspellere Lucas aƿrat on ðysum

    Note : Thorpe I 608


    563-564 - Homily for the Deposition of Saint Augustine of Canterbury (incomplete)

    Note : (Cameron B3.3.2)

    rubric : (563) In die depositionis Beati Augustini anglorum doctoris

    incipit : (563) Men þa leofestan ƿe ƿillað sume gereccednysse cyðan embe þyses

    Note : This is in another hand and only fifteen lines of text are written, ending

    explicit : (563) þæt he heonon geceas haligra mænigu. Sume ƿæron heahfæderan healice

    Note : Apparently only in this MS.

    Note : p. 564 is blank. A line of text at top is erased

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Provenance

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • 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.

Notes

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Research: Full Incipits and Explicits are given by Wanley, p. 116.
  • Additions: On the flyleaves at the beginning are some notes in Whelock's hand. On f. 1r is pasted a full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion on vellum from a missal. On f. 1v is an index of the Homilies of Parker's time headed Primus liber.

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