Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 421

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 421
    • CCCC MS 421
    • MS 421
    • Parker Library MS 421
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : English, Old (ca.450-1100), Latin
  • Author : Aelfric (0955?-1020?) | Wulfstan (0960?-1023)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1000 - 1099
  • Script :
    • largely in the same hand as no. 419
  • 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.
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 2 + 177
  • Dimensions :
    • 120 x 205
  • Codicological details :
    • 19 and 25 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + i-ii + pp. 1-354 + ff. c-d
    • 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).

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Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : 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.


    Contenu :


    Langue(s) des textes : anglais, latin


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

    Note : (Cameron B12.4.8.2)

    Note : (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


    Intervenants :

    Ælfric OSB - author

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

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.24)

    rubric : (3) In die Sancto Pentecosten

    incipit : (3) Fram ðam halgan Easterlican dæge

    Note : Thorpe I 310

    Note : pp. 3-96 are in a more regular hand than what follows


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

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.44)

    rubric : (25) In natale unius Apostoli

    incipit : (25) Ðes Apostolica freols dæg

    Note : Thorpe II 520


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

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.46)

    rubric : (36) In Natale Plurimorum Sanctorum Martyrum

    incipit : (36) Cum audieritis prelia

    incipit : (36) Se Hælende foresæde

    Note : Thorpe II 536


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

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.47)

    rubric : (54) In Natale Unius Confessoris

    incipit : (54) Homo quidam peregre

    incipit : (54) Ure Drihten saede

    Note : Thorpe II 548


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

    Note : (Cameron B1.2.48)

    rubric : (76) In natale Sanctarum Virginum

    incipit : (76) Simile est regnum ... decem uirginibus

    incipit : (76) Se Hælend sæde gelomlice

    Note : Thorpe II 562

    Note : Ends p. 96

    Note : pp. 97, 98 blank


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

    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

    Note : (99) pp. 99-208 are in the hand of no. 419


    150-159 - Sermon on Larspel and scriftboc

    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


    159-170 - Sermon Ammonitio amici

    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


    170-208 - Homily for Tuesday in Rogationtide

    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


    209-221 - Sermon on Larspel

    Note : (Cameron B3.4.40)

    rubric : (209) Lar spell

    incipit : (209) Ƿe secgeað urum cyne hlaforde

    Note : Napier, Wulfstan L, p. 266

    Note : pp. 209-224 are in a careful upright hand, 25 lines to a page


    Intervenants :

    Wulfstan - author

    221-226 - Wulfstan, Luke on the last days

    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

    Note : Ends p. 224

    Note : pp. 225, 226 are blank


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

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.20)

    Note : 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


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

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.21)

    rubric : (254) Feria III. De Dominica Oratione

    incipit : (254) Se hælend Crist syððan he

    Note : Thorpe I 258


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

    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


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

    Note : (Cameron B1.1.23)

    rubric : (324) In ascensione domini. Primum quidem sermonem

    incipit : (324) Lucas se godspellere us manede

    Note : Thorpe I 294

    Note : Ends

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

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Notes

Data Source: Parker on the Web

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

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