Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 419: Old English Homilies by Wulfstan and others
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 419 is an important collection of Old English homilies, many by Wulfstan of York (d. 1023). It was written in the first half of the eleventh century. Pp. 1-2 of CCCC MS 421 were originally physically part of this manuscript, and the original part of CCCC MS 421 was a companion volume to CCCC MS 419, partly written by the same scribe. The manuscripts were together at Exeter in the time of Bishop Leofric (1050-1072), where additions were made to CCCC MS 421. This manuscript was Parker's seventh volume of homilies in his numeration system. He added a frontispiece miniature of the Entry into Jerusalem taken from the same French thirteenth-century psalter as the images which he added to CCCC MS 452 and London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 1370 (The MacDurnan Gospels).
- Contents
- Sermon De temporibus anticristi -- Sermon on Sunnandæges spell -- Sermonem angelorum nomina -- Sermo Lupi ad Anglos -- Baptism -- An Outline of History -- The Creed -- Sermon In Die Iudicii -- Institutes of Polity -- A Pastoral Letter -- A Pastoral Letter (continued) -- Sermon To eallum folce -- Sermon To folce -- Sermon on Larspel -- Lives of Saints, On auguries -- Homily for the Fourth Sunday in Lent -- Homily for the Third Sunday in Lent -- Sermon De uirginitate
Description
| Alternative title | Homiliae Saxonicae (VII) |
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| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 2 + 184 + 2 |
| Date created | [ca. 1000 - 1099] |
| Language | English, Old (ca. 450-1100); Latin |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | 19 lines to a page |
| Height (mm) | 205 |
| Width (mm) | 125 |
| Collation | a(2), 1(8) (+ frontispiece, 2 canc.) 2(8)-23(8), b(2). |
| Writing | in a large dispersed hand which recurs in MS 421 |
| Foliation | ff. a-b + i-iii + pp. 1-366 + ff. iv-v + c-d |
| Research | It is MS. B in Napier's Wulfstan. Wanley, p. 132. It is a companion volume to no. 421, and has unfortunately been separated from it by Nasmith i.e. in his Catalogue. In Parker's numeration 421 preceded it. |
| Additions | The flyleaves at each (ff. ir-iiv, ff. ivr-vv) end have notes in Whelock's hand, and on f. iiv is a Parkerian title (Septimus liber) and list of contents. A frontispiece (f. iiir) of cent. xiii is prefixed. Frame of blue and pink with gold corners. Gold ground. The Entry into Jerusalem: Christ on white ass rides to R. followed by 3 apostles. On R. a tree and a gate; in each is a man. The work is very careful and delicate, but not very skilful. |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xi |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| TJames | 273 |
| Stanley | S. 14 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/sb541hg4710 |
| Location | MS 419 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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