Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 178

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• MS 178

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Date

• 1000 - 1099

Language

• Old English
• Latin

Title

• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 178: Old English Homilies. Benedictine Rule in Latin and Old English
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, De initio creaturae
• Ælfric OSB, Hexameron
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione
• Ælfric OSB, Sermo ad populum in octauis Pentecosten dicendus
• Composite homily drawing on works by Ælfric OSB including 'The Prayer of Moses' and 'Memory of the Saints' from 'Lives of Saints', and 'De duodecim abusiuis'
• Composite homily drawing on works by Ælfric OSB including 'On Auguries' and 'Saint Swithun' from 'Lives of Saints', and the additional sermon 'De Auguriis'
• Ælfric OSB, Sermo de die iudicii
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, with extracts from Ælfric's 'Dominica XVI Post Pentecosten' and 'De Virginitate'
• Ælfric OSB, Homily for the Common of a Confessor
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, English Preface (adapted; = extract from First Series, First Sunday in Advent)
• Ælfric OSB, De sanguine
• Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, The Maccabees
• Homily 'De infantibus non baptizandis'
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Virgins (extract with additions)
• Homily 'De auaritia'
• Ælfric OSB, De falsis diis Directions to the reader
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Annunciation
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Christmas
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Circumcision
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Epiphany
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Purification
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Palm Sunday
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Palm Sunday (extract) and Cyrclice Þeawas
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Easter
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Feria IV in Letania maiore with additions
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Ascension
• Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost (ends imperfectly)
• Benedictine Rule in Latin and Old English || Regula Sancti Benedicti
• The Six Ages of the World
• see more

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Aelfric (0955?-1020?)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Ælfric OSB

  Other form

  • Aelfric (0955?-1020?)
  • Aelfricus Eyneshamensis
  • Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
  • Ælfric of Eynsham
  • Ælfric of Eynsham, c 955-c 1010, Abbot of Eynsham
  • þlfric OSB
  • #198;lfric OSB
  • Ælfric
  • IÆlfric OSB
  • Īlfric OSB
  • see more

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Description

• Summary: CCCC MS 178 consists of two Anglo-Saxon manuscripts bound together. The first is a collection of Old English homilies, mostly by Ælfric OSB (d. c. 1010) but with some anonymous and composite material. It was written in the first half of the eleventh century, probably towards the end of that period. A colophon lays out the compiler's intentions: twelve sermons are given which may be preached at any time, and another twelve for specific occasions; twenty-two of these are taken exactly from an exemplar but two have been augmented; the sermons for specific days are by Ælfric. This colophon seems more or less accurate when compared to the manuscript as it survives. It was at Worcester by the end of the eleventh century, when it was annotated by the scribe Coleman, probably the chaplain of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester (d. 1095). Parker removed some leaves of this part of MS 178 into CCCC MS 162. The second Anglo-Saxon manuscript is a copy of the bilingual Benedictine Rule, with each chapter in Latin followed by its translation into Old English. It contains some feminine forms but seems to represent a stage in the transmission of the text where it was being changed from nuns' to monks' use. It was written in the first half of the eleventh century. It was certainly at Worcester, and probably already associated with the homily manuscript, in the thirteenth century when both were annotated by the famous 'Worcester Tremulous Hand'.

  
  

  Contents :

  
  

  1-15 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, De initio creaturae

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.12; Ker item A.1)

  rubric: (1) De initio creaturae

  incipit: (1) An angin

  Note: (1) Large handsome initial A in plain red. Glosses by the tremulous hand in Latin

  Note: Thorpe I 8

  
  

  15-31 - Ælfric OSB, Hexameron

  Note: (Cameron B1.5.13; Ker item A.2)

  rubric: (15) Incipit Exameron Anglice

  incipit: (15) On sumum oðrum spelle

  Note: Edited by Norman and published by J. R. Smith

  Note: Also in MS 188, Junius 23 and 24, and Otho B. x

  Note: The original end of this

  Note: (34) Þæt hir life is gelogod on gesƿincum

  Note: to

  explicit: (34) soðe scippende ealra Þinga. Amen

  rubric: (34) Finis Exameron

  Note: is replaced by a leaf (p. 31) carefully written in Parker's time (very likely by Lyly). The Latin glosses are copied. The original end is now bound in MS 162, p. 139-160 along with what was formerly the next article in the volume, namely the Interrogationes of Sigewulf: but in MS 162 the text of the end of the Hexameron is pasted over

  
  

  32-43 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.26; Ker item A.4)

  rubric: (32) Dominica quarta post festum Pentecosten

  Note: Thorpe I 338

  Note: The beginning to nehgeburas him to 7 cƿyð supplied in cent. xvi, as the end of item 2. The original beginning is in MS 162, p. 160 and was previously pasted over

  
  

  43-54 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.21; Ker item A.5)

  rubric: (43) De Dominica Oratione

  Note: Thorpe I 258

  
  

  54-73 - Ælfric OSB, Sermo ad populum in octauis Pentecosten dicendus

  Note: (Cameron B1.4.11; Ker item A.6)

  rubric: (54) Sermo ad populum In octavis Pentecosten dicendus

  incipit: (54) Ƿe ƿillað eoƿ secgan sume sƿutelunge

  Note: Also in MS 188, p. 215, MS 421, p. 99, MS 303, Junius 99, Trinity B. 15. 34

  
  

  73-88 - Composite homily drawing on works by Ælfric OSB including 'The Prayer of Moses' and 'Memory of the Saints' from 'Lives of Saints', and 'De duodecim abusiuis'

  Note: (Cameron B1.3.14 (extract); B1.3.17 (extract); B1.6.2; Ker item A.7)

  rubric: (73) De Octo Vitiis et de duodecim abusiuis gradus

  incipit: (73) Omnia nimia nocent et temperantia mater uirtutum dicitur

  incipit: (73) þæt is on englisc. ealle ofer done

  Note: Morris, Old English Homilies I 296 (E. E. T. S.)

  
  

  88-101 - Composite homily drawing on works by Ælfric OSB including 'On Auguries' and 'Saint Swithun' from 'Lives of Saints', and the additional sermon 'De Auguriis'

  Note: (Cameron B1.3.18; B1.3.22 (extract); B1.4.30; Ker item A.8)

  rubric: (88) De Auguriis

  incipit: (88) Se apostol Paulus ealra Þeoda lareoƿ

  Note: Skeat, Aelfric's Lives XVII (I 364)

  
  

  101-114 - Ælfric OSB, Sermo de die iudicii

  Note: (Cameron B1.4.19; Ker item A.9)

  rubric: (101) Sermo de die Iudicii

  incipit: (101) Interrogatus autem

  incipit: (101) Seo halige Cristes boc

  Note: Copied for Professor Napier: also in Junius 23, f. 23

  
  

  114-126 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, with extracts from Ælfric's 'Dominica XVI Post Pentecosten' and 'De Virginitate'

  Note: (Cameron B1.2.35; B1.4.27; B1.4.31; Ker item A.10)

  rubric: (114) Sermo ad populum quando volueris

  incipit: (114) Dixit Ihesus ad quosdam qui in se

  incipit: (114) Drihten sæde Þis big spell

  Note: Cf. Thorpe II 426

  
  

  126-134 - Ælfric OSB, Homily for the Common of a Confessor

  Note: (Cameron B1.5.11; Ker item A.11)

  rubric: (126) Sermo in Natale unius Confessoris

  incipit: (126) Vigilate ergo

  incipit: (126) Matheus se godspellere us sæde

  Note: Ed. Assmann, A.-S. Homilien u. Heiligenleben, Bibl. d. A.-S. Prosa III 1889, p. 49. See MS 188. 46

  
  

  134-137 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, English Preface (adapted; = extract from First Series, First Sunday in Advent)

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.11 (adapted; = extract from B1.1.41); Ker item A.12)

  rubric: (134) De Anticristo

  incipit: (134) Menn behofiað godre lare

  Note: Thorpe I 2

  
  

  137-138 - Ælfric OSB, De sanguine

  Note: (Cameron B1.8.7; Ker item A.13)

  rubric: (137) De sanguine prohibito

  incipit: (137) Her gesƿutelað on Þisum geƿrite

  Note: Engl. Studien 8, 62

  
  

  138-139 - Ælfric OSB, Lives of Saints, The Maccabees

  Note: (Cameron B1.3.25; Ker item A.14)

  rubric: (138) De tribus ordinibus seculi

  incipit: (138) Git is to ƿitanne Þæt on Þisre ƿorulde

  Note: Skeat's Aelfric, no. XXV (II 120)

  
  

  139-140 - Homily 'De infantibus non baptizandis'

  Note: (Cameron B3.4.51; Ker item A.15)

  rubric: (139) De Inphantibus non baptizandis

  incipit: (139) Ƿe biddað eoƿ menn 7 beodað

  Note: Anglia X 154 from another manuscript (Napier)

  
  

  140-141 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Virgins (extract with additions)

  Note: (Cameron B1.2.48; Ker item A.16)

  rubric: (140) De Vaniloquio Negligentium

  incipit: (140) Sume gedƿol menn cƿædon Þæt seo halige Maria

  Note: ? Thorpe II 572. Copied for Professor Napier

  
  

  141-142 - Homily 'De auaritia'

  Note: (Cameron B3.4.4; Ker item A.17)

  rubric: (141) De avaritia

  incipit: (141) Auarus Þæt is gytsere

  Note: Copied for Professor Napier. Also in Bodl. NE F. 4. 12, f. 166b

  
  

  142-163 - Ælfric OSB, De falsis diis Directions to the reader

  Note: (Cameron B1.4.22; B27.2.4; Ker items A.18 and A.19)

  rubric: (142) De Falsis diis

  incipit: (142) O fratres dilectissimi

  incipit: (142) Eala ge gebroðra ða leofostan

  Note: Copied for Professor Napier. Also in MS 303, p. 306 and several other MSS.

  Note: (163) Colophon to the First Book

  incipit: (163) Her geendaÞ seo forme boc. 7 her æfter onginÞ seo oðer boc. on ægðer Þara boca synd tƿelf spell unleaslice

  incipit: (163) Ðas spell Þe stondað on Þissere forman bec

  Note: Latin note

  incipit: (163) In hoc codicello continentur duodecim sermones anglice quos accepimus de libris quos Ælfricus Abbas anglice transtulit: i. De adnuntiatione Sanctae Mariae ... xii. De Pentecosten

  
  

  163-173 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Annunciation

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.14; Ker item A.20)

  rubric: (163) viii kalendas Aprilis. Adnuntiatio Sanctae Mariae

  incipit: (164) Missus est

  incipit: (164) Vre se ælmihtiga scyppend se ðe ealle

  Note: Thorpe I 192

  Note: In the following part the script, hitherto rather noticeably round, settles down gradually into one more pointed and closer

  
  

  173-182 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Christmas

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.3; Ker item A.21)

  rubric: (173) viii kalendas Ianuarii. Nativitas domini nostri Iesu Christi

  incipit: (173) Ƿe ƿyllað to trymminge

  Note: Thorpe I 28

  
  

  182-190 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Circumcision

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.7; Ker item A.22)

  rubric: (182) Kalendas Ianuarii. Circumc(is)io domini salvatoris nostri Ihesu Christi

  incipit: (182) Se godspellere Lucas beleac

  Note: Thorpe I 90

  
  

  190-201 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Epiphany

  Note: (Cameron B1.2.4; Ker item A.23)

  rubric: (190) viii Idus Ianuarii. Sermo in Epipha(n)ia domini

  incipit: (190) Ðes dæg is gehaten on bocum

  Note: Thorpe II 36

  
  

  201-210 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Purification

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.10; Ker item A.24)

  rubric: (201) In Purificatione Sanctae Mariae

  incipit: (201) Postquam impleti

  incipit: (201) God bebead on ðære ealdan æ

  Note: Thorpe I 134

  
  

  210-217 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, First Sunday in Lent

  Note: (Cameron B1.2.8; Ker item A.25)

  rubric: (210) Dominica prima in quadragessima

  incipit: (211) Men ða leofostan eoƿ eallum is cuð

  Note: Thorpe II 98

  
  

  217-229 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Palm Sunday

  Note: (Cameron B1.2.16; Ker item A.26)

  rubric: (217) Dominica palmarum. De Passione domini

  incipit: (217) Drihtnes ðroƿunge

  Note: Thorpe II 240

  
  

  229-229 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Palm Sunday (extract) and Cyrclice Þeawas

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.15; B1.1.16; Ker item A.27)

  Note: (229) (De Resurrectione Christi) no title

  incipit: (229) Ƿe habbað oft gesæd and gyt secgað

  rubric: (229) Cyrclice ðeaƿas forbeodaÞ to secgenne ænig spell on ðam ðrim sƿig dagum

  Note: (capitals)

  Note: Note in another hand

  Note: (229) Ac ðis ne Þynceð no us ƿell gesæd etc.

  Note: (Wanley, p. 121). This is in a very fine small hand. In the margin just above is cplfmbn (i.e. Coleman) in fine round letters

  Note: Thorpe I 218

  
  

  229-237 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Easter

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.17; Ker item A.28)

  rubric: (229) Die Dominica Paschae

  incipit: (229) Oft ge gehyrdon

  Note: Thorpe I 220

  
  

  237-244 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.18; Ker item A.29)

  rubric: (237) Dominica prima post Pascha

  incipit: (237) Cum esset sero

  incipit: (237) Æfter ðæs hælendes

  Note: Thorpe I 230

  
  

  244-253 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Feria IV in Letania maiore with additions

  Note: (Cameron B1.2.28 with B1.4.26; Ker item A.30)

  rubric: (244) Vigilia Ascensionis domini

  incipit: (244) Iohannes se godspellere aƿrat on ðisum

  Note: Thorpe II 360

  
  

  253-263 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Ascension

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.23; Ker item A.31)

  rubric: (253) In Ascensione Domini

  incipit: (253) (Men ða leofestan) Lucas se godspellere us manode

  Note: Thorpe I 294

  
  

  263-270 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost (ends imperfectly)

  Note: (Cameron B1.1.24; Ker item A.32)

  rubric: (263) In die sancto Pentecosten

  incipit: (263) Fram Þam halgan

  Note: Thorpe I 310

  Note: Ending

  explicit: (270) mid his blæde on ælde eorÞlicra manna heortan

  Note: Incomplete; a quire has been lost here

  
  

  287-457 - Benedictine Rule in Latin and Old English || Regula Sancti Benedicti

  Note: (Cameron B10.3.1; Ker item B.1)

  Note: Ed. Schroer, Bibl. d. A.-S. Prosa II 9-77, 1885 etc.

  rubric: (287) Incipit capitula. explicit prologus

  Note: (287) In red capitals

  Note: There is evidently a gap before this. Parker's paging (continuous throughout the volume) has a lacuna between p. 270 and p. 287, with which this portion begins

  Note: The Capitula are in Latin only, ending p. 290

  Note: Text

  rubric: (290) De generibus monachorum

  incipit: (290) Monachorum quattuor esse gerera (!)

  Note: Anglo-Saxon version

  rubric: (291) Be munuca cynne

  incipit: (291) Feoƿer synt muneca cyn

  Note: The Anglo-Saxon is copiously glossed in Latin by more than one hand. The tremulous hand re-appears. The general character of the hand is rather narrow, inclining to be pointed. Initials of sentences are filled with dabs of red

  Note: Ends

  explicit: (457) bufan gemundum Þæt æge ƿeorðe

  
  

  458-458 - The Six Ages of the World

  Note: (Cameron B24.25.1; Ker item B.2)

  Note: (458) On p. 458, in a much rounder hand, very pretty, is a note on the seven ages of the world

  incipit: (458) On Þisre ƿorulde fruman god ælmihtig gesceop

  explicit: (458) seofoðe belimpð to Þam toƿeardan life

  Note: (458) The tremulous hand has written in pencil and ink some Anglo-Saxon words and Latin equivalents

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