Images: Scheide Library
Other identifiers: Blickling Book
Physical description: parchment, 21 × 15 cm, 150 fols., 1 col.
Language: Old English
Date: 10th cent.
Provenance: Lincoln (?)
Contents:
Blickling 7 (includes portions of Apocalypse of Thomas) (fols. 50r–59v)
Blickling 13 (includes portions of Dormition of the Virgin Transitus Latin W and chs. 15–17 of Assumption of the Virgin by Pseudo-Melito) (fols. 84v–98v)
Blickling 15 (includes portions of Passion of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul [Ps.-Marcellus]) (fols. 104r–119v)
Blickling 18 (translation of Acts of Andrew and Matthias) (fols. 136r–139v)
Additional contents: additional anonymous Old English homilies.
Catalogs and studies:
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 3 vols. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1940–1961 (vol. 3, p. 2323, no. 55).
Gatch, Milton McC. “Eschatology in the Anonymous Old English Homilies.” Traditio 21 (1965): 117–65.
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. 905).
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. pp. 9–10, 14–15, 51–69).
Kelly, Richard J., ed. and trans. The Blickling Homilies. 2 vols. London and New York: Continuum, 2003–2009.
Ker, Neil R. Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon. Oxford: Clarendon, 1957 (item 382).
Morris, Richard, ed. The Blickling Homilies. Early English Text Society, o.s. 58, 63, 73. London: Oxford University Press, 1874–1880; repr. in 1 vol. 1967.
Scragg, D. G. “The Corpus of Vernacular Homilies and Prose Saints’ Lives before Ælfric.” Anglo-Saxon England 8 (1979): 223–77.
Willard, Rudolph, ed. The Blickling Homilies: The John H. Scheide Library, Titusville, Pennsylvania. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile 10. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1960 (facsimile edition).
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.
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), and Brandon W. Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 25 March 2022.