Cambridge, Magdalene College Pepys 2981, no. 16 Ælfric, Catholic Homilies (First Series), Homily "De fide catholica" (fragments) (with London, BL Harley 5915, f. 13 [277a])

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66. Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2981, no. 16

Ælfric, Catholic Homilies (First Series),

Homily "De fide catholica" (fragments)

(with London, BL Harley 5915, f. 13 [277a])

[Ker 243(1), Gneuss 442]

HISTORY: Pepys 2981 is Volume I of the "Calligraphical Collection" of Samuel Pepys the diarist (1633-1703), who possessed it certainly by 1700, probably by purchase from John Bagford (Gatch 1985: 96-7). No.16 is in the same early 11c hand and in the same format as British Library, Harley 5915, folio 13 [277a]. Ker, Cat., compares the script with Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 340 [358]. It is pasted on to p. 9, so that the verso side can hardly be seen. The inscription around the fragment is written by Paul Lorrain, Pepys's library clerk, taken from Humphrey Wanley's notes (McKitterick [and Whalley] 1989: 4. iv, 6).