The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

London, British Library, Cotton Otho B. x, fols 29, 30

Homilies, fragments

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Two homilies originally occupied twelve leaves, of which two survived the fire of 1731. The manuscript is copied in one hand, s. ximed. Interlinear glosses in the Tremulous Hand, and probably at Worcester by the beginning of the s. xiii (Ker 1957, p. 229).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: [formally fols 143-51]

   Title (B.1.5.15): Ælfric, Remaining Homilies by Ælfric: Judith

   Incipit: [Lefan men ƿe secgað nu ærest on þissum geƿrite]

   Note: Two leaves that survived the fire are formerly fols 144 and 149, currently fols 29 and 30, 'complete and legible, but slightly shrunk' (Ker 1957, p. 229).

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 178, p. 229

   Assmann 1889

2. Item: [formally fols 151v-54v]

   Title (B.1.5.16.EM): Ælfric, Remaining Homilies by Ælfric: The letter sent from Christ to Jerusalem

   Incipit: [Her onginneð þæt geƿrit þe com of heofonum to Hierusalem and biforan þam geate þe is gecƿeden Effrem on eorðan afeoll.]

   Explicit: [Ðis geƿrit soðlice in ðam halgan burh Hierusalem of heofonum dun afeal and to sancte Petres sepulchrum becom. Ðis is þæt ðridde geƿrit þæt ƿæs asend of heofonum and æfter ðisson ne cymeð nefre nan oðer. Ge bisceopes ond mæssepreostas cyðað gelomlice ðis geƿrit eallum folce and sendað fram anre burhscire to oðre and hi biddon ond geornlice læron þæt hi gelyfon þæt hit nis afunden fram ænigan eorðlice men. Ac geƿriten fram handum ðes haligan hælendes.]

   Note: These folios now all lost.

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 178, p. 229

   Napier 1883, no.45

3. Item: fols 29 and 30

   Title: Interlinear glosses

   Text Language: Latin. No English glosses noted.

   Hand: Tremulous Hand

Administration Information:

Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Johanna Green, with reference to published scholarship; ed. by Takako Kato (2010; 2013)

Bibliography:

Assmann, Bruno, ed., Angelsächsischen Homilien und Heiligenleben, Bibliotek der angelsächsischen Prosa, 13 (Kassel: Wigand, 1889; repr. 1964)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 178

Napier, Arthur Sampson, ed., Wulfstan: Sammlung der ihm zugeschriebenen Homilien nebst Untersuchungen uber ihre Echtheit, Sammlung englischer Denkmaeler in Kritischen Ausgaben, 4 (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1883)