Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 303: Old English Homilies

IIIF Drag-n-drop purl.stanford.edu/fr670md2824
Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 303: Old English Homilies
Alternate Title:
Homiliae Saxonicae (IX)
Language:
English, Old (ca. 450-1100) and Latin
Extent:
ff. 184
Dimensions:
258 Height (mm) and 195 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1100 - 1199]
Table of contents:
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Third Sunday after Epiphany
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Septuagesima
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Septuagesima
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sexagesima
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Quinquagesima
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Lent
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday in Lent
  • Dominica III in Quadragesima
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Mid-Lent Sunday
  • Feria VI in quarta ebdomada Quadragesimae
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Fifth Sunday in Lent
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Palm Sunday
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Palm Sunday
  • Homily De Parasceve (part)
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Easter
  • Gospel of Nicodemus Homily (for Easter Day)
  • Homily on the Invention of the Cross
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St John the Baptist
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Sts Peter and Paul
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Sts Peter and PaulPrayer following Homily for the Feast of an Apostle
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Paul
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Paul
  • Old English Life of St Margaret
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Laurence
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Decollation of St John the Baptist
  • Old English Life of St Giles
  • Homily for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Annunciation
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Dedicatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, All Saints
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, All Saints
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Clement
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Andrew
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Andrew (cont.)
  • Old English Life of St Nicholas
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Apostle
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Apostles
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Martyrs
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Confessor
  • Homily for Commemoration of Virgins
  • Homily De inclusis
  • Sermo ad populum in octauis Pentecosten dicendus
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, In Letania maiore
  • Homily for Monday in Rogationtide
  • Homily for Tuesday in Rogationtide
  • Homily for Wednesday in Rogationtide
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Feria IV in Letania maiore
  • Lives of Saints, On auguries
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Ascension
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Third Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Third Sunday after Pentecost, alia narratio
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, De Maria
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
  • Lives of Saints, Memory of Saints
  • De duodecim abusiuis (part)
  • De doctrina Apostolica
  • De falsis diis
  • Interrogationes Sigeuulfi in Genesin
  • Lives of Saints, Ash Wednesday
  • Lives of Saints, The Prayer of Moses
  • Excommunication in Latin and Old English
  • Lives of Saints, Passion of St Alban
  • Lives of Saints, The Maccabees
  • Lives of Saints, The Maccabees
  • Judith
Description:
CCCC MS 303 is an interesting witness to the fate of the Old English language after the Norman Conquest led to the replacement of much of the English elite with French-speaking Normans. Manuscripts of Old English homilies were still produced at least as frequently as they had been in the period before the Conquest; contrary to popular misconception Old English seems to have continued in use. MS 303 is a collection of Old English homilies, many of them by Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 950-c. 1010), copied in the first half of the twelfth century in the south east of England, probably at Rochester. An old foliation shows that several quires have been lost from the start of this manuscript. Parker gave it the number 9 in his collection of homiletic manuscripts.
More details »