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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 188

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  • MS 188
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  • 1000 - 1099
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  • Old English
  • Latin
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    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 188: Old English Homilies, mostly from Ælfric's First Series
    • Ælfric OSB, Hexameron
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Christmas
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Stephen
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Assumption of St John
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Holy Innocents
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Circumcision
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Epiphany
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Third Sunday after Epiphany
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Purification
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Quinquagesima
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Lent
    • Ælfric OSB, Dominica III in Quadragesima
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Mid-Lent Sunday
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Annunciation
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Palm Sunday
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Easter
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Easter
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, In Letania maiore
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria IIII de fide catholica
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost
    • Ælfric OSB, Sermo ad populum in octauis Pentecosten dicendus
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Pentecost
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
    • þlfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St John the Baptist
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Sts Peter and Paul
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Sts Peter and Paul (cont.)
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Paul
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Laurence
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Assumption of the Virgin
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Bartholomew
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St John the Baptist
    • Ælfric OSB, Homily for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    • Ælfric OSB, Homily for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (cont.)
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Dedicatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, All Saints
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, All Saints (cont.)
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Clement
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Andrew
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Andrew (cont.)
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Advent
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday in Advent
    • Ælfric OSB, Homily for the Common of a Confessor
    • see more
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Description

  • Summary: 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.


    Contents :


    1-15 - Ælfric OSB, Hexameron

    Note: (Cameron B1.5.13)

    rubric: (1) Exameron Anglice

    incipit: (1) On sumum oðrum spelle

    Note: See MS 178. 1

    Note: First leaf supplied in Parkerian hand, to

    Note: (2) þone sunu læssan þonne his leofa fæder is


    15-23 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Christmas

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.3)

    rubric: (15) viii Kalendas ianuarii. Natiuitas Domini Nostri Iesu Christi

    incipit: (15) Ƿe ƿillað to trymmincge

    Note: MS 178. 19. Thorpe I 28


    24-32 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Stephen

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.4)

    rubric: (24) vii Kalendas ianuarii. Passio Beati Stephani Protomartyris

    incipit: (24) Ƿe rædaþ on ðære bec

    Note: Thorpe I 44


    32-44 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Assumption of St John

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.5)

    rubric: (32) vi Kalendas ianuarii. Assumptio Sancti Iohannis Apostoli et Euuangelistae

    incipit: (32) Iohannes se godspellere Cristes dyrling

    Note: Thorpe I 58


    44-50 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Holy Innocents

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.6)

    rubric: (44) v Kalendas ianuarii. Natale Innocentum Infantum

    incipit: (44) Nu to dæg godes gelaþung

    Note: Misbound, the end is on p. 99

    Note: Thorpe I 76


    99-107 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Circumcision

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.7)

    Note: James item 5a. Misbound

    rubric: (99) Kalendas ianuarii. Circumcisio domini ac saluatoris nostri Iesu Christi

    incipit: (99) Se godspellere lucas beleac

    Note: Thorpe I 90


    107-54 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Epiphany

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.8)

    rubric: (107) viiii Idus ianuarii Epiphania Domini Nostri Iesu Christi

    incipit: (107) Men ða leofostan nu for feaƿum dagum

    Note: Thorpe I 104

    Note: After p. 114, turn back to 51, where is the conclusion of this text


    54-62 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Third Sunday after Epiphany

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.9)

    rubric: (54) Dominica II post Epiphaniam Domini

    incipit: (54) Cum autem descendisset

    incipit: (54) Mateus se eadiga

    Note: Thorpe I 120

    Note: (61) On the margin of p. 61 is scribbled saƿulf


    63-73 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Purification

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.10)

    rubric: (63) In Purificatione Sanctae Mariae

    incipit: (63) Postquam impleti

    incipit: (63) God bebead

    Note: MS 178. 22. Thorpe I 134


    73-81 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Quinquagesima

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.11)

    rubric: (73) Dominica in quinquagesima

    incipit: (73) Assumsit Iesus

    incipit: (73) Her is geræd

    Note: Thorpe I 152


    81-123 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Lent

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.12)

    rubric: (81) Dominica I in quadragesima

    incipit: (81) Ductus est

    incipit: (81) Ic ƿolde eoƿ

    Note: Thorpe I 166

    Note: After p. 82 two quires are wrongly inserted, see nos. 43, 44, 45, 5.1, 6. Continue at pp. 115


    123-131 - Ælfric OSB, Dominica III in Quadragesima

    Note: (Cameron B1.4.4)

    rubric: (123) Dominica III in quadragesima

    incipit: (123) Erat Ihesus eiciens

    incipit: (123) On þæræ mæran

    Note: Copied for Professor Napier: also in MS 198, p. 316, MS 302, p. 129, MS 303, p. 30, etc. G. Stephens, Tvende Oldengelske Digte, p. 81


    131-137 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Mid-Lent Sunday

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.13)

    rubric: (131) Dominica in media quadragesima

    incipit: (131) Abiit Iesus

    incipit: (131) Se hælend ferde

    Note: Thorpe I 180


    138-147 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Annunciation

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.14)

    rubric: (138) viii kalendas Aprili. Adnuntiatio Sanctae Mariae

    incipit: (138) Missus est

    incipit: (138) Ure se ælmihtiga

    Note: Thorpe I 192


    147-157 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Palm Sunday

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.15 + B1.1.16)

    rubric: (147) In Dominica Palmarum

    incipit: (147) Cristes ðroƿung

    Note: Thorpe I 206

    Note: (note on p. 157)

    Note: (157) Cyrclice þeaƿas forbeodaþ

    Note: MS 178, p. 229. Thorpe I 218


    157-165 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Easter

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.17)

    rubric: (157) Dominica Sanctae Paschae

    incipit: (157) Oft ge gehyrdon

    Note: MS 178, p. 26. Thorpe I 218

    Note: (165) The end is erased, viz. 8.5 lines at top of p. 165


    165-173 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday after Easter

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.18)

    rubric: (165) Dominica I post Pascha

    incipit: (165) Cum esset sero

    incipit: (165) Æfter ðæs hælendes

    Note: Thorpe I 230


    173-189 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Easter

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.19)

    rubric: (173) Dominica II post Pascha

    incipit: (174) Dixit Iesus

    incipit: (174) Ðis godspell ðe nu

    Note: Thorpe I 238


    189-199 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, In Letania maiore

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.20)

    rubric: (189) In Letania Maiore

    incipit: (189) þas dagas synd gehatene

    Note: Thorpe I 244


    199-210 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria III de Dominica oratione

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.21)

    rubric: (199) Feria III de dominica Oratione

    incipit: (199) Se hælend Crist

    Note: (199) Change of hand at p. 199

    Note: Thorpe I 258


    210-210 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Feria IIII de fide catholica

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.22)

    rubric: (210) Feria IIII de fide catholica

    incipit: (210) Ælc cristen man

    Note: Thorpe I 274

    Note: Ends imperfectly

    explicit: (210) þa nytenu he let gan alotene. Man


    211-215 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Pentecost

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.24)

    Note: (211) (In die Pentecosten)

    Note: Thorpe I 310 ?

    Note: Begins imperfectly

    incipit: (211) he is unasecgendlic fyr


    215-233 - Ælfric OSB, Sermo ad populum in octauis Pentecosten dicendus

    Note: (Cameron B1.4.11)

    rubric: (215) Sermo ad populum in octavis Pentecosten

    incipit: (215) Ƿe ƿyllað eoƿ secgan

    Note: Cf. MS 178. 5 (p. 54)


    233-241 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday after Pentecost

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.25)

    rubric: (233) Dominica II post Pentecosten

    incipit: (233) Homo quidam

    incipit: (233) Se ƿealdenda Drihten

    Note: Thorpe I 328


    241-250 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.26)

    rubric: (241) Dominica IIII post Pentecosten

    incipit: (241) Erant adpropinquantes

    incipit: (241) þæt halige godspel

    Note: Thorpe I 338


    250-270 - þlfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St John the Baptist

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.27)

    rubric: (250) viii kalendas iulii. Nativitas Sancti Iohannis Baptistae

    incipit: (250) Se godspellere Lucas aƿrat

    Note: Thorpe I 350


    270-283 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Sts Peter and Paul

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.28)

    rubric: (270) iii kalendas iulii. Passio Apostolorum Petri et Pauli

    incipit: (270) Venit Iesus

    incipit: (270) Matheus se godspellere

    Note: Thorpe I 364


    274-283 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Sts Peter and Paul (cont.)

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.28)

    rubric: (274) De Passione Beatorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli

    incipit: (274) Ƿe ƿyllað æfter

    Note: Thorpe I 370


    283-294 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Paul

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.29)

    rubric: (283) ii Kalendas iulii. Natale Sancti Pauli Apostoli

    incipit: (283) Godes gelaðung

    Note: Thorpe I 384


    294-305 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.30)

    rubric: (294) Dominica XI. post Pentecosten

    incipit: (294) Cum adpropinquasset

    incipit: (294) On sumere tide

    Note: Thorpe I 482


    305-317 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Laurence

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.31)

    rubric: (305) iiii Idus Augusti. Passio Sancti Laurentii Martyris

    incipit: (305) On Decies dæge

    Note: Thorpe I 416

    Note: pp. 317-324 supplied in cent. xvi


    318-332 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Assumption of the Virgin

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.32)

    rubric: (318) De Assumpcione Beate Marie ex Epistola Ieronimi

    incipit: (318) Ieronimus se halig Sacerd

    Note: Thorpe I 436

    Note: pp. 317-324 supplied in cent. xvi


    332-347 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Bartholomew

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.33)

    rubric: (332) viii kalendas Septembris. Passio Sancti Bartholomei Apostoli

    incipit: (332) Ƿyrd ƿriteras

    Note: Thorpe I 454


    347-357 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St John the Baptist

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.34)

    rubric: (347) iiii kalendas Septembris. Decollatio Sancti Johannis Baptistae

    incipit: (347) Misit Herodes

    incipit: (347) Marcus se godspellere

    Note: Thorpe I 476


    357-374 - Ælfric OSB, Homily for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    Note: (Cameron B1.5.8)

    rubric: (357) vi Idus Septembris. Nativitas Sanctae Mariae

    incipit: (357) Men ða leofostan Ƿe synd gemyngode

    Note: Ed. Assmann, Angelsächsische Homilien und Heiligenleben (Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Prosa III), 1889, p. 24


    359-374 - Ælfric OSB, Homily for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (cont.)

    rubric: (359) Incipit de sancta Virginitate

    incipit: (359) Se halga hæland

    Note: Assmann, Angelsächsische Homilien und Heiligenleben, p. 26


    375-382 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.35)

    rubric: (375) Dominica XIIII post Pentecosten

    incipit: (375) Ibat Iesus

    incipit: (375) Vre Drihten ferde

    Note: Thorpe I 490


    382-394 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Dedicatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.36)

    rubric: (382) iii kalendas Octobris. Dedicacio Aecclesiae Sancti Michahelis Archangeli

    incipit: (382) Manegum is cuð

    Note: Thorpe I 502


    394-407 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.37)

    rubric: (394) Dominica XX post Pentecosten

    incipit: (394) Loquebatur Iesus

    incipit: (394) Drihten ƿæs sprecende

    Note: Thorpe I 520


    407-421 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, All Saints

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.38)

    rubric: (407) kalendas Novembris. Natale omnium Sanctorum

    incipit: (407) Halige lareoƿas

    Note: Thorpe I 538


    414-421 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, All Saints (cont.)

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.38)

    rubric: (414) Tractatus de Euuangelio

    incipit: (414) Videns Iesus turbas

    incipit: (414) þæt halige godspel

    Note: Thorpe I 548


    421-434 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Clement

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.39)

    rubric: (421) ix Kalendas Decembris. Natale Sancti Clementis martyris

    incipit: (421) Men ða leofostan eoƿer geleafa

    Note: Thorpe I 556


    434-444 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Andrew

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.40)

    rubric: (434) ii Kalendas Decembris. Natale Sancti Andreae apostoli

    incipit: (434) Ambulans Iesus

    incipit: (434) Crist on sumere tide

    Note: Thorpe I 576


    440-87 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, St Andrew (cont.)

    rubric: (440) Passio Sancti Andree Apostoli

    incipit: (440) Se Apostol Andreas

    Note: Thorpe I 586. After p. 444, turn back to p. 83


    87-96 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, First Sunday in Advent

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.41)

    rubric: (87) Dominica I in aduentu domini

    incipit: (87) þises dæges þenung

    Note: Thorpe I 600


    96-451 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, First Series, Second Sunday in Advent

    Note: (Cameron B1.1.42)

    rubric: (96) Dominica II in Adventu Domini

    incipit: (96) Erunt signa

    incipit: (96) Se godspellere Lucas

    Note: Thorpe I 608. After p. 98, turn to p. 445


    451-460 - Ælfric OSB, Homily for the Common of a Confessor

    Note: (Cameron B1.5.11)

    rubric: (451) Sermo in Natale unius Confessoris

    Note: Latin note

    Note: (451) Hunc sermonem nuper rogatu uenerandi episcopi athelƿoldi scilicet iunioris anglice transtulimus, quem huius libelli calci inscribi fecimus ne nobis desit cum ipse habeat

    Note: (This note is only in this copy of the sermon)

    incipit: (451) Vigilate ergo

    incipit: (451) Mattheus se godspellere

    Note: Assmann, Angelsächsische Homilien und Heiligenleben, p. 49

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (460) seðe ana rixað on ecnysse. Amen

    Note: Title of next sermon follows

    rubric: (460) Sermo de die iudicii

    Note: (Cameron B1.4.19)

    Note: (460) Two lines of text erased

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