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Other identifiers: Homiliae Saxonicae (IV); S.8 (Stanley catalog)
Physical description: parchment, 27 × 18.5 cm, ii+394 fols., 1 col.; fol. 2r features an illustration of six apostles
Language: Old English; glossed in Latin
Date: 9th–11th cent.
Provenance: Worcester?
Contents:
In assumptione marie uirginis (a combination of Dormition of the Virgin Transitus Latin W and chs. 15–17 of Assumption of the Virgin by Pseudo-Melito) (350r–359r)
Sancti Andreae (translation of Acts of Andrew and Matthias) (fols. 386r–394v)
Additional contents: Old English homilies, by Ælfric of Eynsham and anonymous.
Catalogs and studies:
Gneuss, Helmut, and Michael Lapidge. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100. Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 15. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014 (item no. 64).
Hawk, Brandon W. “A History of the Study of Apocrypha in Early England.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 48.3–4 (2019): 13–26.
____. Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England. Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 30. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018 (esp. 51–69).
James, M. R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of
Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912 (pp. 475–81).
Ker, Neil. R. Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon. Oxford: Clarendon, 1957 (item no. 48).
Scragg, D. G. “The Corpus of Vernacular Homilies and Prose Saints’ Lives before Ælfric.” Anglo-Saxon England 8 (1979): 223–77.
Wright, Charles D. The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993 (passim).
_____. “Old English Homilies and Latin Sources.” Pages 15–66 in The Old English Homily: Precedent, Practice, and Appropriation. Edited by Aaron J Kleist. Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 17. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.
Stanley, Will Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Collegii Corporis Christi in Cantabrigia: Quos Legauit Matthaeus Parkerus Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis. London: Prostant apud Gul. & Joh. Innys, 1722 (p. 56)
Other online databases:
The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), and Brandon W. Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 25 March 2022.