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Other identifiers: Old English Bede; Bedae Historia Saxonice
Physical description: parchment, 340 × 205 mm, 244 + ii pp., 1 col., with extensive marginal additions
Language: Old English
Date: 11th cent.
Provenance: prob. S England
Contents:
Assumption of the Virgin by Pseudo-Melito (pp. 280–287; portions)
Apocalypse of Thomas (pp. 287–295)
Gospel of Nicodemus (pp. 295–301)
Additional contents: Old English translation of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People; Old English anonymous homilies (in the margins).
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. 39).
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. 81–85).
Ker, Neil. R. Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon. Oxford: Clarendon, 1957 (item no. 32).
Scragg, D. G. “The Corpus of Vernacular Homilies and Prose Saints’ Lives before Ælfric.” Anglo-Saxon England 8 (1979): 223–77.
Wright, Charles D. “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.
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Brandon W. Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 11 April 2022.