London, British Library, Harley 5915, f. 13 Ælfric, Catholic Homilies (First Series), "Homily for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost" (fragments) (with Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2981 (no. 16) (66])

Abstract

277a. London, British Library, Harley 5915, f. 13

Ælfric, Catholic Homilies (First Series),

"Homily for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost" (fragments)

(with Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2981 (no. 16) (66])

[Ker 243, Gneuss 442]

HISTORY: Harley 5915 assembles unconnected fragments from manuscripts and printed books ( the latter removed to the Library's Department of Printed Books) from the collection of John Bagford (1650-1716), on whom see Johnson 1970, Gatch 1985, and Birrell 1988. Folio 13, in the same early llc hand and in the same format as Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2981, no. 16 [66], is the lower part of a leaf subsequently used as a pastedown, pasted on the verso side; Ker compares the script with Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 340 [358]. At the bottom of the recto side of Harley 5915, f. 13 is the 16c inscription 'Thomas Dayly vicari<us> de M<ar>cham p<ro>pe abe<n>doniam: Marcham is a village in Ock Hundred, Berkshire.