Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 302: Old English Homilies, mostly by Ælfric

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CCCC MS 302 is an important collection of Old English homilies, mostly by Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 950-c. 1010). It was written in the early twelfth century, probably in south-east England. It contains late Old English spellings, and is an important witness to the use made of the Anglo-Saxon homiletic tradition after the Norman Conquest. It was Parker's fifth volume of homilies in his numeration system.
Contents
Hexameron (extract) -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Advent -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday in Advent -- Lives of Saints, On auguries -- Baptism -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Christmas -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Stephen -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Assumption of St John -- Letter to Sigeferth, adapted -- Homily for the Third Sunday after Epiphany -- Homily for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany -- Homily for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Septuagesima -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sexuagesima -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Quinquagesima -- Lives of Saints, Ash Wednesday -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Lent -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday in Lent -- Dominica III in Quadragesima -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Mid-Lent Sunday -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Fifth Sunday in Lent -- Homily for Friday after the Fifth Sunday in Lent -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Palm Sunday -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Palm Sunday -- Homily In Cena Domini -- Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Easter -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Easter -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, In Letania maiore -- Homily for Monday in Rogationtide -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione -- Homily for Tuesday in Rogationtide -- Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria IIII de fide catholica

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Alternative title Homiliae Saxonicae (V)
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 6 + 111 + 8
Date created [ca. 1075 - 1099]
Language English, Old (ca. 450-1100); German; Latin
Material Vellum, paper and vellum leaves
Layout 31 lines to a page
Height (mm) 250
Width (mm) 165
Collation 1(8)-12(8) (wants 2) 13(8) 14(8) | 15(4) (paper) 16(4) (vellum): six paper flyleaves are prefixed, and paged by Parker.
Writing in a clear upright rather close script
Foliation pp. a-f + 1-248 + g-j
Research T. James' entry is 275 Homiliae 52. Saxonice which is incorrect so far as this book is concerned: but no other identification seems possible. K.-A. Rand has identified, following R. Page's note, that M. R. James has confused T. James 272 for 275. The 52 A-S. Homilies (T. James 275) are in MS 162, This is MS. E in Skeat's Aelfric's Lives of Saints (see II, p.xiv). He uses it for the Homilies on Ash Wednesday and on Auguries. Napier uses it for no. XLIX in his Homilies of Wulfstan, calling it D.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xi late?
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fn520kv2192/MS_302.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qd756mv5441/302.pdf
Contains
Title
Ælfric OSB, Hexameron (extract). 11-22
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.5.13)
Rubric
(11) Her segð hu ure drihten gesceop heofonan 7 eorðan 7 ealla gesceafta
Incipit
(11) In principio creauit... terram. þæt his on englisc
Note
Also in MS 178, p. 16, MS 188, p. 1, and elsewhere. Copied for Professor Napier
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Advent. 22-26
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.41)
Rubric
(22) Dominica prima de aduentu domini
Incipit
(22) Ðyses dæges þenung 7 þissere tide
Note
Thorpe I 600
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday in Advent. 26-33
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.42)
Rubric
(26) Dominica II. de aduentu domini
Incipit
(26) Erunt signa
(26) Se godspellere Lucas aƿrat
Note
Thorpe I 608
Title
Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, On auguries. 33-40
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.3.18)
Rubric
(33) Dominica III. uel quando uolueris
Incipit
(33) Se apostol paulus ealra þeoda lareoƿ
Note
Skeat's Aelfric, no. XVII (I 364)
Title
Wulfstan, Baptism. 40-42
Author
Wulfstan
Note
(Cameron B2.2.4)
Rubric
(40) Dominica IIII. uel quando uolueris
Note
(40) Purple initial
Incipit
(40) Gehadedum mannum is sƿiðe micclum beboden
Note
Also in Otho B. 10
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Christmas. 43-50
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.3)
Rubric
(43) De natiuitate domini nostri Iesu Christi
Incipit
(43) Ƿe ƿillað to trimmincge eoƿres geleafan
Note
Thorpe I 28
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Stephen. 50-57
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.4)
Rubric
(50) De Sancto Stephano proto martire
Note
(50) Purple and green initials
Incipit
(50) Ƿe rædað on þære bec
Note
Thorpe I 44
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Assumption of St John. 57-66
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.5)
Rubric
(57) De Sancte Iohanne evangelista
Incipit
(57) Iohannes se godspellere cristes dyrlinc
Note
Thorpe I 58
Title
Ælfric OSB, Letter to Sigeferth, adapted. 66-71
Note
adaptation of (Cameron B1.8.5)
Rubric
(66) Dominica II. Be ðere halgan clænn(ysse)
Incipit
(66) Ure Hælend crist cydde þæt he lufod ða halagon clænnesse
Note
Assmann, Angelsächsische Homilien 1889, no. II, p. 13
Title
Homily for the Third Sunday after Epiphany. 71-73
Note
(Cameron B3.2.5)
Rubric
(71) Dominica III. et quando uolueris. Be heofen ƿarum 7 be hel ƿarum
Incipit
(71) Men ða leofestan ute gehyran her godes ƿord 7 gelyfan
Note
Also in Faustina A. 9, f. 20v. Copied for Professor Napier
Title
Homily for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. 73-78
Note
(Cameron B3.2.6)
Rubric
(73) Dominica IIII. et quando uolueris. be urum drihtene
Incipit
(73) Men ða leofestan ure drithen ælmihtig god us singalice mynegað
Note
Assmann, Angels#228;chsische Homilien 1889, no. XIV, p. 164
Title
Homily for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany. 78-83
Note
(Cameron B3.2.7)
Rubric
(78) Dominica V. aut quando uolueris de uerbis domini
Incipit
(78) Men ða leofestan utan geþencan georne on ure geþance 7 þæt fæste gehealden. hu sanctus iacobus
Note
See also at p. 221. It is the same as the 2nd part of a Wulfstan Homily (Wulfstan, p. 257, l. 9 to end) (Napier)
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Septuagesima. 83-91
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.2.6)
Rubric
(83) Dominica in septuagesima
Incipit
(83) Drihten sæde þis bigspel his leorning cnihtum
Note
(the Vineyard)
Thorpe II 72
Rubric
(90) De Alleluia
Incipit
(90) Ƿe ƿillað eoƿ secgan be þissere andƿearden tide
Note
Thorpe II 84
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Sexuagesima. 91-97
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.2.7)
Rubric
(91) Dominica in sexta gesima
Note
(91) Purple initial
Incipit
(91) Cum turba plurima convenirent
Note
(Sower)
Explicit
(97) On sumere tide ða micel mennu
Note
Thorpe II 88
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Quinquagesima. 97-104
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.11)
Rubric
(97) Dominica in quinquagesima
Incipit
(97) Assumsit Iesus duodecim
(97) Her is geræd on ðisum god spelle
Note
Thorpe I 152
Title
Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, Ash Wednesday. 104-112
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.3.13)
Rubric
(104) Lar spel. In capite ieiunii
Note
(104) Purple initial
Incipit
(104) On ðissere ƿucan on ƿodnes dæg sƿa sƿa ge sylfe ƿiton
Note
Skeat, Aelfric, no. XII (I 260)
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Lent. 112-120
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.12)
Rubric
(112) Dominica I. in quadragesima
Incipit
(112) Ductus est iesus
(112) Ic ƿolde eoƿ trahtnian þis godspell
Note
Thorpe I 166
In margin, p. 113, a note
(113) Robberus 7 Reafer. þeofas 7 falsa mynetera(s) Ƿicche 7 panpestras þe fordoþ men 7 mana bigleofa
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent. 120-125
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.2.8)
Rubric
(120) Feria II. Euangelium. Cum uenerit
Incipit
(120) Men ða leofostan eoƿ eallum is cuð þæt þes gearlica ymbryne
Note
Thorpe II 98
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Second Sunday in Lent. 125-129
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.2.9)
Rubric
(125) Dominica II in quadragesima
Incipit
(125) Egressus in die (!) Iesus secessit
(125) Drihten hælend þreade mid ƿordum
Note
Thorpe II 110
Title
Ælfric OSB, Dominica III in Quadragesima. 129-137
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.4.4)
Rubric
(129) Dominica III in quadragesima
Incipit
(129) Erat Iesu eiciens
(129) On þæra mæran tide
Note
Also in MS 188, p. 123, MS 198, p. 316, MS 303, p. 30 and elsewhere
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Mid-Lent Sunday. 137-142
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.13)
Rubric
(137) Dominica IIII Quadragesima
Incipit
(137) Abiit Iesus trans mare
(137) Se hælend ferde ofer þa galileiscan sæ
Note
Thorpe I 180
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Fifth Sunday in Lent. 142-151
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.2.15)
Rubric
(142) Dominica V in quadragesima
Incipit
(142) Ðeos tide fram þisum andƿeardum dæge
Note
Thorpe II 224
Title
Homily for Friday after the Fifth Sunday in Lent. 151-155
Note
(Cameron B1.5.4)
Rubric
(151) Feria VI. ante ramos palmarum
Incipit
(151) Collegerunt pontifices
(151) (Þ)æt halige godspel þe ge gehyrdon nu rædon
Note
Assmann, Angels#228;chsische Homilien no. V, p. 65
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Palm Sunday. 155-163
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.15)
Rubric
(155) Dominica in die ramis palmarum
Incipit
(155) Cristes ðroƿung ƿæs geræd nu
Note
Thorpe I 206
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Palm Sunday. 163-173
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.2.16)
Rubric
(163) Feria II de passione domini
Incipit
(163) Drihtenes þroƿunge ƿe ƿillað eoƿ gedafenlice secgan
Note
Thorpe II 240
Title
Homily In Cena Domini. 174-182
Note
(Cameron B3.2.22)
Rubric
(174) In cena domini feria V
Incipit
(174) Segeð on þisum bocum be þære arƿurðnesse
Note
Assmann. Angels#228;chsische Homilien 1889, no. XIII, p. 151
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Easter. 182-188
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.2.17)
Rubric
(182) Sermo de sacrificio in die pasche
Note
(182) Purple initial
Incipit
(182) Men ða leofostan Gelome eoƿ is gesæd embe ures hælendes æriste
Note
Thorpe II 262
Ends imperfectly
Explicit
(188) transitus 7 in englisc færeld for þan þe on
Note
a leaf gone after p. 188
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Easter. 189-198
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.19)
(189) (On Ego sum pastor bonus: begins imperfectly)
Incipit
(189) to gitsunge sume he onrærð to modignesse
Note
(189) Two additions, alia manu, in lower margin
Thorpe I 238
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, In Letania maiore. 198-205
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.20)
Rubric
(198) Sermo in Letania maiore
Incipit
(198) Þas dagas sind gehatene letanie
Note
Thorpe I 244
Title
Homily for Monday in Rogationtide. 205-212
Note
(Cameron B3.2.35)
Rubric
(205) Feria II in Letania maiore
Incipit
(205) Men ða leofestan us is sƿiðe mycel neod þearf
Note
Copied for Professor Napier
Title
Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione. 213-221
Author
Ælfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.21)
Rubric
(213) Eodem die de dominica oratione
Incipit
(213) Se hælend crist syððan he to þysum life com
Note
There are marginal notes and interlinear glosses here of cent. xvi in Latin and German
Thorpe II 258
Title
Homily for Tuesday in Rogationtide. 221-230
Note
(Cameron B3.2.40.5)
Rubric
(221) Feria III. in Letania maiore
Incipit
(221) Men ða leofestan ƿe gehydron for hoft secgan be þam æðelan to cyme
Note
Napier, Wulfstan no. XLIX, p. 250
(224) On the margins of p. 224 are some names in pencil of cent. xiii, and amounts of money, mostly ob. and quart. (0.5 d. or 0.25 d.). Among the entries I can read are
(224) Garinus ob. Iohannes deb. Alicia ... ob. Ferandus ob. Matell vidua ob. Wills sutor quart. Ric bere ob. Walt lutere quart. Nic Eugen quart. (Cri)stina vidua ob. (Iu)dith vidua ob. (S)abina vidua ob. ...a Chantebon ob. ...ditha Carpn ob. (Con)stantia nutrix quart. Jo(h)annes le bon quart. ...as consutrix quart. and de Th////ng ... In lower margin: Summa collecta ad C..t.f. per T. frances per... xxixd ob.
Title
#198;lfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria IIII de fide catholica. 230-242
Author
#198;lfric OSB
Note
(Cameron B1.1.22)
Rubric
(230) Eodem die de fide catholica
Incipit
(230) Ælc cristen mann sceal aefter rihcte cynnan
Note
Thorpe I 274
Ends imperfectly p. 232
Explicit
(232) Þæt ƿu lufast þæt þu ne leofast
Note
(233) A hand of cent. xvi supplies the rest on paper and vellum leaves (pp. 233-242)
TJames 272
Stanley S. 9
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