The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek 133 D 22 Ælfric, "Catholic Homilies" I (fragments from three homilies) with 150. Copenhagen, Kongelige Biblioteket Acc. 1996/12 152a. Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet Middelaldersamlingen Aftagne Frag. Nr. 637-698
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136. The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek 133 D 22
Ælfric, "Catholic Homilies" I (fragments from three homilies)
with 150. Copenhagen, Kongelige Biblioteket Acc. 1996/12
152a. Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet Middelaldersamlingen
Aftagne Frag. Nr. 637-698
[Ker 118, Gneuss 830]
HISTORY: Nine strips of parchment cut from the leaves of an A-S manuscript dating from the first half of the 11c, containing Ælfric's "Catholic Homilies:' The strips derive from three homilies which "only occur together elsewhere in the four complete copies of the first series" (Ker, Cat., p. 155; cf. Ker nos. 15, 43, 220, 257). This copy is Clemoes' "fe' On a paper wrapping it is written that Ph. L. van den Bergh, Archivist-General of the Netherlands, donated the strips to the Royal Library on 24 October 1861. Paleographical and codicological evidence has strongly favored the claim that a collection of 62 similar fragments from the Copenhagen State Archive, plus seven more recently noticed fragments from a single leaf now in the Royal Library, Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet binding fragments 637-698 [152a], + Copenhagen, Kongelige Biblioteket Acc. 1996/12 [ISO], edited and published by Fausbøll 1986 + 1995), are from the same manuscript (Dumville 1989: 132-34). The Copenhagen Rigsarkiv fragments were taken from bindings of the collected papers of Peder Charisius, Danish resident minister in The Hague from 1651 to 1669. It is very likely that the Hague fragments were used by the same binder who bound the papers of Peder Charisius, presumably in 1657. The manuscript would therefore have been in The Hague in the 1650s. A few marginalia in the Copenhagen fragments, most likely dating from the 17c, indicate that before they were made into binding strips they had been in the possession of an antiquarian. For further information on these fragments and their context consult the descriptions of 150 and 152a.