Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 188: Old English Homilies, mostly from Ælfric's First Series

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 188: Old English Homilies, mostly from Ælfric's First Series
Alternate Title:
Anglo-Saxon Homilies (III)
Language:
English, Old (ca. 450-1100) and Latin
Extent:
ff. 5 + 224
Dimensions:
280 Height (mm) and 170 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Provenance:
Possibly this is one of the books sent by Bishop Scory to Parker from Hereford.
Table of contents:
  • Hexameron
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Christmas
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Stephen
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Assumption of St John
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Holy Innocents
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Circumcision
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Epiphany
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Third Sunday after Epiphany
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Purification
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Quinquagesima
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Lent
  • Dominica III in Quadragesima
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Mid-Lent Sunday
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Annunciation
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Palm Sunday
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Easter
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Easter
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, In Letania maiore
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria IIII de fide catholica
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost
  • Sermo ad populum in octauis Pentecosten dicendus
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St John the Baptist
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Sts Peter and Paul
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Sts Peter and Paul (cont.)
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Paul
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Laurence
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Assumption of the Virgin
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Bartholomew
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St John the Baptist
  • Homily for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Homily for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (cont.)
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Dedicatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, All Saints
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, All Saints (cont.)
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Clement
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Andrew
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Andrew (cont.)
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Advent
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday in Advent
  • Homily for the Common of a Confessor
Description:
CCCC MS 188 contains most of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, with a few supplementary pieces also by Ælfric OSB (d. c. 1010). It probably originally contained the whole of the first series, but some material has been lost. It was written in the first half of the eleventh century. Because of a note it contains (recording the copying of a new homily before it was sent to Bishop Æthelwold), it has been argued that this manuscript is a faithful copy of one prepared under the supervision of Ælfric himself at Eynsham where he was abbot, and represents an official revision of his first series of Catholic Homilies. We know that Parker received some Old English manuscripts from Hereford, and it has been suggested that MS 188 was one of these, but on no very firm grounds.
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