Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 198

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 198
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  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : English, Old (ca.450-1100), Latin
  • Author : Aelfric (0955?-1020?)
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in very various hands
  • Decoration :
    • There is a frontispiece (f. ir), a drawing in outline with shading in red and faint purple. The style is good, but not the best Anglo-Saxon. The picture represents six apostles, nimbed and richly draped, in two rows of three. In the upper row the first on L. has a book, and his legs are crossed, the second (Andrew) holds a short sceptre terminating in a cross set in a circle, the third (Peter) beardless holds book and key and turns to R. In the lower row the first has pen and book, the second with crossed legs addresses the third who holds up a pair of tablets: all three are beardless.
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 2 + 394
  • Dimensions :
    • 185 x 270
  • Codicological details :
    • mostly 26 but in one part 23 lines to a page
    • ff. a-c + i-iii + 1-394 + d-g
    • 1(8) (+ frontispiece) 2(8)-18(8) 19(6) 20(10) 21(8)-24(8) 25(10) 26(8)-30(8) 31(6) 32(8)-46(8) 47(6) 48(4) 49(8) 50(10) (wants 10).

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 198 is an important collection of Old English homilies, mostly by Ælfric of Eynsham OSB (c. 950-c. 1010). It was written in the first half of the eleventh century and received a number of additions in the second half. It also contains a neumed office for St Guthlac added towards the end of the eleventh century. The manuscript may have been written at Worcester; although the textual associations of the main body are south-eastern, the additions appear from their spellings to be from the west of England, and in the thirteenth century it was annotated by the scribe known as the 'Worcester Tremulous Hand'. It was Parker's fourth volume of homilies in his numeration system.


    Contenu :


    Langue(s) des textes : anglais, latin


    1r-7r - Homily for the Nativity of Christ

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.1)

    rubric : (1r) Sermo in natale domini

    Note : (1r) Title in red capitals

    incipit : (1r) Þæt halige godspell be ðære hean medomnysse

    Note : On f. 4r two short passages have been erased

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier: also in Vercelli Book and Bodleian NE. F. 4. 10, f. 1


    Intervenants :

    Ælfric OSB - author

    7r-12v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Stephen

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.4)

    rubric : (7r) In nativitate Sancti Stephani protomartyris

    incipit : (7r) Ƿe rædað on ðære bec

    Note : Thorpe I 44


    12v-21r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Assumption of St John

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.5)

    rubric : (12v) In assumptione Sancti Iohannis apostoli

    incipit : (12v) Iohannes se godspellere cristes dyrling

    Note : Thorpe I 58. Sweet, Anglo-Saxon Reader, 79

    Note : Change of hand at f. 16r

    Note : (20r) On the margin of f. 20r in a hand of cent. xi (?) is:

    Note : (20r) Me grauat hic esse / quoniam potare necesse / uinum de messe / quem nos consueuimus esse / Poto sed inuite / potum probo gentis a (uite) / Vinum de uite quando (or quoniam) / uitis uia uite


    21r-27v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Holy Innocents

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.6)

    rubric : (21r) V. kalendas Ianuarias In natale innocentum

    incipit : (21r) Nu to dæg godes gelaðung

    Note : Thorpe I 76. Sweet, Anglo-Saxon Reader, 90

    Note : Change of hand at f. 24r


    27v-34v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Circumcision

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.7)

    rubric : (27v) Kalendis Ianuariis Circumcisio domini

    incipit : (27v) Se godspellere lucas be leac

    Note : Thorpe I 90


    34v-43v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Epiphany

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.8)

    rubric : (34v) In epiphania domini

    incipit : (34v) Men ða leofestan nu for feaƿum dagum

    Note : Thorpe I 104


    43v-47r - Homily for the First Sunday after Epiphany

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.3)

    rubric : (43v) Dominica I post Theophania domini

    incipit : (44r) Monað us 7 mengað

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier: also in Vercelli Book and NE. F. 4. 10, f. 33


    47r-57v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday after Epiphany

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.5)

    rubric : (47r) Dominica II post Theophania domini

    incipit : (47r) Nuptie facte

    incipit : (47r) Iohannes se godspellere cƿæð

    Note : Thorpe II 54


    57v-64v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Third Sunday after Epiphany

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.9)

    rubric : (57v) Dominica III post Theophania

    incipit : (57v) Cum descendissed

    incipit : (57v) Matheus se eadiga godspellere

    Note : Thorpe I 120

    Note : Change of hand at f. 64r


    64v-73r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Purification

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.10)

    rubric : (64v) IIII Nonus Februarias In purificatione Sancte Marie

    incipit : (64v) God bebead on ðære ealdan ae

    Note : Thorpe I 134


    73r-81r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Gregory

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.10)

    rubric : (73r) IIII Idus. In natale Sancti Gregorii pape

    incipit : (73r) Gregorius se halga papa engliscre þeode apostol

    Note : Thorpe II 116


    81r-90r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Cuthbert

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.11)

    rubric : (81r) XIII kalendas aprili in natale Sancti Cuhtberhti Episcopi

    incipit : (81r) Cuðberhtus se halga bisceop

    Note : Thorpe II 132

    Note : Change of hand at f. 88r


    90r-103v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Benedict

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.12)

    rubric : (90r) In natale Sancti Benedicti Abbatis

    incipit : (90r) Benedictus se halga abbud

    Note : Thorpe II 154


    103v-110r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Annunciation

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.14)

    rubric : (103v) In adnuntiatione Sancte Marie

    incipit : (104r) Ure se ælmihtiga scyppend

    Note : Thorpe I 192


    110r-117r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Septuagesima

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.6)

    rubric : (110r) Dominica in septuagessima

    incipit : (110r) Simile est regnum

    incipit : (110r) Se haelend cƿæð þæt heofonan rice

    Note : Thorpe II 72

    Note : (115v) (Quare pretermittetur alleluia.)

    incipit : (115v) Ƿe ƿillað eoƿ secgan

    Note : Thorpe II 84


    117r-122v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sexagesima

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.7)

    rubric : (117r) Dominica in sexagessima

    incipit : (117r) Cum turba plurima

    incipit : (117r) On sume tide ðaða micel

    Note : Thorpe II 88


    122v-128v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Quinquagesima

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.11)

    rubric : (122v) Dominica in quinquagessima

    incipit : (122v) Assumpsit Iesus

    incipit : (122v) Her is geread on ðisum godspelle

    Note : Thorpe I 152


    128v-132v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.8)

    rubric : (128v) Dominica in quadragessima

    incipit : (128v) Men ða leofostan eoƿ eallum is cuð

    Note : Thorpe II 98


    132v-137r - Homily for the Second Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.11.5)

    rubric : (132v) Dominica II quadragesima

    incipit : (132v) Men ða leofestan Ic cyðe eoƿ þæt ðreo ðing

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier: also in Vercelli Book and NE. F. 4. 10 and 12


    137r-140v - Homily for the Third Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.13)

    rubric : (137r) Dominica III in xl

    incipit : (137r) Geherað nu men ða leofstan hu ðas halgan bec

    Note : Also in MS 419, p. 329

    Note : Assmann, Angelsächsische Homilien, 1889, p. 138


    140v-145r - Homily for the Fourth Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.15)

    rubric : (140v) Dominica IIII in xl

    incipit : (140v) Men ða leofestan ƿe ƿillað her sprecan feaƿum ƿordum

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier: also in MS 419, p. 308, and elsewhere


    145r-149v - Homily for the Fifth Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.16)

    rubric : (145r) Dominica V. in xl

    incipit : (145r) Men ða leofestan. us is on ælcne sæl geornlice

    Note : Assmann, Angelsächsische Homilien, 1889, no. XII, f. 144


    150r-152v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.9)

    Note : Another hand at f. 150r

    rubric : (150r) Dominica II in quadragesima

    incipit : (150r) Egressus inde Iesus

    incipit : (150r) Drihten haelend ðreade

    Note : Thorpe II 110


    153r-159v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Fifth Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.15)

    rubric : (153r) Dominica quinta in quadragesima

    incipit : (153r) þeos tid fram ðisum an ƿeardan dæge

    Note : Thorpe II 224


    160r-166v - Homily for Palm Sunday

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.18.3)

    rubric : (160r) Passio domini. In ramis palmarum

    incipit : (160r) Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Matheum

    incipit : (160r) Men ða leofestan þis is ures drihtnes þroƿung

    Note : Also in MS 162, p. 322. Copied for Professor Napier


    166v-174 - Homily In Cena Domini

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.22)

    rubric : (166v) Feria quinta in cena domini

    incipit : (166v) De huius diei ueneratione et de domini misericordia in memoria aeterne iohannes euangelista uenera (sic). Sægeð on ðisum bocum be ðære arƿurðnesse

    Note : Assmann, Angelsächsische Homilien no. XIII, p. 151


    174v-186v - Homily De parasceue

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.24.1)

    rubric : (174v) Feria VI in parasceuen

    incipit : (174v) Hƿæt se ælmihtiga drihten

    Note : Also in MS 162, p. 347. Cf. MS 303, p. 61 and elsewhere. Copied for Professor Napier


    186v-196v - De sabbato sancto

    Note : (Cameron B3.2.25)

    rubric : (186v) De Sabbato sancto

    incipit : (186v) Men ða leofstan ƿe magon hƿilcum hƿega ƿordum

    Note : Also in MS 162, p. 365. Copied for Professor Napier


    196v-202r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Easter

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.17)

    rubric : (196v) Dominica in die Sancte pasce

    incipit : (196v) Oft ge gehydron ymbe þæs hælendes aerist

    Note : Thorpe I 220


    202r-206v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.18)

    Note : (202r) Change of hand at 202r

    rubric : (202r) Dominica I post pascha

    incipit : (202r) Æfter þæs hælendes æriste

    Note : Thorpe I 230


    206v-209r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Easter

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.19)

    rubric : (206v) Dominica II post pascha

    incipit : (206v) Ðis godspel þe nu geræd ƿæs cyð

    Note : Thorpe I 238


    209r-213r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sts Philip and James

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.21)

    rubric : (209r) Kalendis maiis in natale apostolorum Philippi et Iacobi

    incipit : (209r) Philippus se godes apostol

    Note : Thorpe II 294

    incipit : (211r) Ƿe ƿurðiad eac ... Iacob

    Note : Thorpe II 298


    213r-215r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Invention of the Cross

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.22)

    rubric : (213r) v. Nonas kalendas Mai.(!) inuentio Sancte crucis

    incipit : (213r) Men ða leofestan nu to dæg ƿe ƿurðiad þære halgan rode

    Note : Thorpe II 302


    215r-226r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Easter

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.18)

    rubric : (215r) Eodem die passio alexandri euenti et ðeodoli

    incipit : (215r) On þisum dæge þroƿode

    Note : Thorpe II 308


    218r-226r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Easter

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.19)

    Note : Change of hand at f. 218r

    rubric : (218r) In die Sancta pasce

    incipit : (218r) Men ða leofostan gelome eoƿ is gesæd

    Note : Thorpe II 262


    226r-231v - Homily for Wednesday in Easter Week

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.20)

    rubric : (226r) Item alia de sancta pasce

    incipit : (226r) Hit is sƿiðe gedafenlic

    Note : Thorpe II 282

    rubric : (228v) Alia de sancta pasce

    incipit : (228v) Gelome æteoƿde ure drihten

    Note : Thorpe II 288


    231v-236v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Martyrs

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.46)

    rubric : (231v) In natale sanctorum martyrum

    incipit : (231v) Cum audieritis prelia

    incipit : (231v) Se hælend forsæde his leorning cnihtum

    Note : Thorpe II 536


    236v-242v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Confessor

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.47)

    rubric : (236v) In natale unius confessoris

    incipit : (236v) Homo quidam pergere

    incipit : (236v) Ure drihten saede þis bispel

    Note : Thorpe II 548


    242v-247v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Virgins

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.48)

    rubric : (242v) In natale sanctarum uirginum

    incipit : (242v) Simile est regnum

    incipit : (242v) Se haelend saede gelomlice bigspel

    Note : Hand changes on f. 245r

    Note : Thorpe II 562

    explicit : (247v) man þyssere ƿorulde geendunge. ne f[u]rðon his

    Note : Ends imperfectly

    Note : (247v) Old note (xii ?) deficit


    248r-253v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Ascension

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.23)

    Note : Change of hand at f. 248r

    rubric : (248r) In ascensione domini

    incipit : (248r) Lucas se godspellere us monade

    Note : Thorpe I 294


    253v-259v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.24)

    rubric : (253v) In die pentecosten

    incipit : (253v) Fram þam halgan easterlican dæge

    Note : Thorpe I 310


    259v-263v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.25)

    rubric : (259v) Dominica I post octavas pentecosten

    incipit : (259v) Homo quidam erat diues

    incipit : (259v) Se ƿealdenda drihten sæde

    Note : Thorpe I 328


    263v-266r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Third Sunday after Pentecost

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.29)

    rubric : (263v) Dominica II post octavas pentecosten

    incipit : (263v) Homo quidam quidam fecit cenam

    incipit : (263v) Se hælend sæde þis bigspell

    Note : Thorpe II 370


    266r-267v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Third Sunday after Pentecost, alia narratio

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.30)

    rubric : (266r) [Alia narratio de euangelii textu]

    Note : Margin

    Note : (266r) Est sermo 13 in li M. bower

    Note : (xvi)

    incipit : (266r) Mine gebroðra ƿe ƿillað sume cristes rinda

    Note : Thorpe II 378


    267v-273r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St John the Baptist

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.27)

    rubric : (267v) VIII. kalendas Iulii natifitas Sancti Iohannis Baptista

    incipit : (267v) Se godspellere lucas aƿrat on cristes bec

    Note : Thorpe I 350


    273r-278v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sts Peter and Paul

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.31)

    rubric : (273r) III kalendas Iulii in natale Sancti petri apostoli

    incipit : (273r) Lucas se godspellere us sæde on ðissere pistol

    Note : Thorpe II 380

    rubric : (274v) Item alia de petre

    incipit : (274v) Mattheus se godspellere aƿrat

    Note : Thorpe II 384


    278v-286r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Sts Peter and Paul

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.28)

    rubric : (278v) III kalendas Iulii in natale Sancti petri apostoli. Hoc est euangelium

    incipit : (278v) Venit Iesu in partes

    incipit : (278v) Mattheus se godspellere

    Note : A line and a half erased on f. 280v

    Note : Thorpe I 364

    rubric : (281r) Passio Apostolorum petri et pauli

    incipit : (281r) Ƿe ƿillað æfter ðisum godspelle eoƿ gereccan

    Note : Thorpe I 370


    286r-291v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Paul

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.29)

    rubric : (286r) II kalendas Iulii In natale Sancti Pauli apostoli

    incipit : (286r) Godes gelaðung ƿurðiað

    Note : Thorpe I 384

    Note : Change of hand at f. 288r


    291v-295r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St James and the Seven Sleepers

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.34)

    rubric : (291v) Passio. natale Sancti Iacobi apostoli

    incipit : (291v) On þisum dæge ƿe ƿurþiaþ on urum lofsangum

    Note : Thorpe II 412


    295r-298v - Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, St Mark

    Note : (Cameron B1.3.16)

    rubric : (295r) De quarta euangelistas Matheus Marcus Lucas Iohannes

    incipit : (295r) Marcus se godspellere be godes dihte for to egypta lande

    Note : Skeat's Aelfric's Lives of Saints no. XV (I 320)


    298v-306v - Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, St Sebastian

    Note : (Cameron B1.3.6)

    rubric : (298v) XIII kalendas Februarii Passio Sancti Sebastiani Martyris

    incipit : (298v) Sebastinus hatte sum halig godes þegen

    Note : Skeat's Aelfric's Lives of Saints no. V (I 116)


    306v-311v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Lent

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.12)

    rubric : (306v) Dominica in quadragessimo iii

    incipit : (306v) Ductus est iesus

    incipit : (306v) Ic ƿolde eoƿ trahtnian

    Note : Thorpe I 166


    311v-316r - Ælfric OSB, Admonissions in Lent with a continuation taken from Blickling Homily no. 10

    Note : (Cameron B1.9.7 with an excerpt from B3.4.20)

    rubric : (311v) Incipit de penitentia in quadragessima

    incipit : (311v) Læƿedum mannum is to ƿitane þæt ælc man

    Note : Thorpe II 608

    Note : Consists of two parts, (1) = Thorpe II 602-608, (2) a Blickling Homily (pp. 111 (l. 18) to 114), Napier


    316r-321r - Ælfric OSB, Dominica III in Quadragesima

    Note : (Cameron B1.9.7 with an excerpt from B1.4.4)

    rubric : (316r) Dominica III in quadragesima

    Note : (title xiii ? in red)

    incipit : (316r) Erat ihesus eiciens ...

    incipit : (316r) On þære mærran tide

    Note : Also in MS 188, p. 123, MS 302, p. 129, MS 303, p. 30, and elsewhere

    Note : At bottom of f. 321r an inscription partly erased and rewritten

    Note : Line 1 is erased

    Note : Line 2 reads

    Note : (321r) þis his þæt boc þæt ic Ulf h.. h(a)bba. tal(?)a///þ.../

    Note : Line 3

    Note : (321r) be. ƿannan scypas lære [mid min fæg (over line)] /// oto handa. Crist eo.l . 7 C/


    321v-327v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Bartholomew (incomplete)

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.33)

    rubric : (321v) De Sancto Bartholomeo

    incipit : (321v) Ƿyrd ƿriteras secgaþ

    Note : Thorpe I 454. The end appears to differ


    328r-342v - Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, The Maccabees

    Note : (Cameron B1.3.25)

    Note : Change of hand at f. 328r

    rubric : (328r) Kalendas Augustus. Passio Sanctorum Machabeorum

    incipit : (328r) Æfter ðam ðe alexander se egefulla

    Note : Skeat's Aelfric, no. XXV (II 66)

    rubric : (341v) De tribus ordinibus

    incipit : (341v) Is sƿa ðeah to ƿitenne

    Note : (Skeat's Aelfric II 120)


    342v-350r - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Laurence

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.31)

    rubric : (342v) III Idus augusti. Passio Sancti Laurentii Martyris

    incipit : (342v) On decius dæge þæs hreoƿan caseres

    Note : Thorpe I 416


    350r-359v - Homily for the Assumption of Mary the Virgin

    Note : (Cameron B3.3.20)

    rubric : (350r) In assumptione Sancte Marie uirginis

    incipit : (350r) Men ða leofestan gehyrað nu hƿaet her segð

    Note : Copied for Professor Napier. Blickling Homilies, p. 137

    incipit : (353r) Et post hec uocauit Sancta Maria omnes apostolas in cubiculo suo

    incipit : (353r) Ond ða æfter ðon ða cegde seo halige Maria

    Note : Ends 359r. The lower part (blank?) is cut off, the verso blank

    Note : Blickling Homilies, p. 139 (defective)


    360r-366v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Dedicatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.36)

    rubric : (360r) III kalendas Octobris. Dedicatio ecclesie Sancti michaelis archangeli

    incipit : (360r) Manegum is cuð seo halige stoƿ

    Note : Thorpe I 502


    367r-374v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, De initio creaturae

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.2)

    Note : Change of hand at f. 367r

    rubric : (367r) Exameron siue initium creaturae

    Note : (title added xvi)

    incipit : (367r) An anginn is ealra ðinga

    Note : Thorpe I 8


    374v-377r - Homily De sancto Iohanne

    Note : (Cameron B3.4.17.1)

    rubric : (374v) De Sancto Iohanne

    incipit : (374v) Sanctus Iohannes geseah ofer garsegc

    Note : (of the Phoenix)

    Note : Kluge, Engl. Studien 8, 477


    377v-377v - Neumed office for St Guthlac (partial)

    Note : On f. 377v are parts of an office in Latin for St Guthlac, with neumes, in a small hand

    incipit : (377v) Secundo anno inquit beatus GUTHLACUS

    Note : (377v) quo hanc heremum inhabitaui mane ad (et) uespere semper angelum domini colloquutorem habui qui meos labores leuigabat qui michi aeterna gaudia nuntiabat hinc anima mea dominum magnificat. Magnificat. Per sanctum interuentorem nostrum GUTHLACUM adoremus dominum deum nostrum. Venite exult. (I)n ipso ortu beati GUTHLACI quis esset futurus aparuit miraculo celesti. Beatus uir. Visa est palam cunctis humana manus de celo fulgida cum cruce ante hostium domus puerperi porrecta. Quare f. Cunctis uidentibus admirabilis manus signo crucis signauit hostium et sic recepta est in celum (neumes cease here). Domine quid mult. Mox inauditum miraculum patriam impleuit et quantus puer natus esset in mundo claruit. Cum inuocarem

    explicit : (377v) Vita eius diuersa benigna pueritia bellicosa adholescentia cetera sanctitas theorica

    incipit : (377v) Ingenuas uires adholescentie bellis exercuit et cetibus ut sciret quid diuine militie deberet conuersus. Ordinata erat beati GUTHLACI abstinentiam uictus eius post solis occasum panis ordeaceus cum aqua


    378r-385v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Martin

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.42)

    Note : Another hand at f. 378r

    rubric : (378r) III Idus Novembris. Depositio Sancti Martini Episcopi

    incipit : (378r) Martinus se ƿuldorfulle godes andettere

    Note : Thorpe II 498

    rubric : (384r) (De obitus eius)

    incipit : (384r) Martinus se eadiga ƿiste his geendunge

    Note : Thorpe II 516


    385v-385v - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Excusatio dictantis

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.43)

    rubric : (385v) Excusatio dictantis

    incipit : (385v) Fela fægere godspell ƿe forlætað

    Note : Thorpe II 520


    386r-394v - Homily for St Andrew

    Note : (Cameron B3.3.1.1)

    rubric : (386r) Sancti Andreae

    incipit : (386r) Her sigð þæt æfter þam þe Drihten

    Note : The name Andreas is in capitals throughout

    Note : Goodwin, Anglo-Saxon Legends of Andrew and Veronica; Bright, Anglo-Saxon Reader 113, Blickling Homilies

    Note : (394v) A large initial H and some six lines of carefully erased writing, the beginning of another sermon, follow

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Provenance

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  • From Worcester: see below.
  • The book is copiously glossed in Latin throughout, and chiefly by the same curious tremulous hand which has annotated MS 12 and MS 178. This must mean that in cent. xii the three books MS 12, MS 178 and MS 198 were in the same monastery. That the monastery in question was Worcester admits of no doubt. See on MS 12. The same hand appears in MSS. at Oxford which are clearly from Worcester.

Notes

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  • Additions: On f. iv a list (cent. xvi) of contents, headed: Quartus liber. On f. iir an old list (xi) of contents. The original hand goes from i. Sermo in natale domini to xxxi. Non. mai. inuentio s. crucis. The hand of the principal annotator (xii?) continues the list to no. lx. sancti andree. At top of f. 1r in large red letters (xvi) is: Aelfricus abbas transtulit.

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