Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 198: Old English Homilies, mostly by Ælfric

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 198: Old English Homilies, mostly by Ælfric
Alternate Title:
Homiliae Saxonicae (IV)
Language:
English, Old (ca. 450-1100) and Latin
Extent:
ff. 2 + 394
Dimensions:
270 Height (mm) and 185 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 900 CE - 1099]
Provenance:
From Worcester: see below. and The book is copiously glossed in Latin throughout, and chiefly by the same curious tremulous hand which has annotated MS 12 and MS 178. This must mean that in cent. xii the three books MS 12, MS 178 and MS 198 were in the same monastery. That the monastery in question was Worcester admits of no doubt. See on MS 12. The same hand appears in MSS. at Oxford which are clearly from Worcester.
Table of contents:
  • Homily for the Nativity of Christ
  • 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
  • Homily for the First Sunday after Epiphany
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday after Epiphany
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Third Sunday after Epiphany
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Purification
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Gregory
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Cuthbert
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Benedict
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Annunciation
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Septuagesima
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sexagesima
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Quinquagesima
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent
  • Homily for the Second Sunday in Lent
  • Homily for the Third Sunday in Lent
  • Homily for the Fourth Sunday in Lent
  • Homily for the Fifth Sunday in Lent
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday in Lent
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Fifth Sunday in Lent
  • Homily for Palm Sunday
  • Homily In Cena Domini
  • Homily De parasceue
  • De sabbato sancto
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Easter
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Easter
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sts Philip and James
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Invention of the Cross
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Easter
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Easter
  • Homily for Wednesday in Easter Week
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Martyrs
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Confessor
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Virgins
  • 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, St John the Baptist
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sts Peter and Paul
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Sts Peter and Paul
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Paul
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St James and the Seven Sleepers
  • Lives of Saints, St Mark
  • Lives of Saints, St Sebastian
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Lent
  • Admonissions in Lent with a continuation taken from Blickling Homily no. 10
  • Dominica III in Quadragesima
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Bartholomew (incomplete)
  • Lives of Saints, The Maccabees
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Laurence
  • Homily for the Assumption of Mary the Virgin
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, Dedicatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis
  • Catholic Homilies, First Series, De initio creaturae
  • Homily De sancto Iohanne
  • Neumed office for St Guthlac (partial)
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, St Martin
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Excusatio dictantis
  • Homily for St Andrew
Description:
CCCC MS 198 is an important collection of Old English homilies, mostly by Ælfric of Eynsham OSB (c. 950-c. 1010). It was written in the first half of the eleventh century and received a number of additions in the second half. It also contains a neumed office for St Guthlac added towards the end of the eleventh century. The manuscript may have been written at Worcester; although the textual associations of the main body are south-eastern, the additions appear from their spellings to be from the west of England, and in the thirteenth century it was annotated by the scribe known as the 'Worcester Tremulous Hand'. It was Parker's fourth volume of homilies in his numeration system.
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