The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 321

A dialogue on Alleluia

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Fol. 139, seventeen lines explaining the origin and meaning of Alleluia in dialogue form. Written in one hand. Origin unknown. The manuscript is a sixteenth-century copy of Petrus Johannes Olnivi's Latin postils on St Matthew. Fol. 139 is an inserted leaf containing only the note on Alleluia.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 139a r-v

   Title (B.12.6.1): Rubrics and Directions for the use of Prayers: Dialogue in Old English [fragment]

   Incipit: (fol. 139ar) Sæge me hƿær ƿære gecƿeden ærest Alleluia ic þe secge betƿih tƿam dunum.

   Explicit: (fol. 139ar) þonne cƿeþe ƿe he ƿæs áá ond nu áá biþ ond he is friþ ond ende ond he is lifgende in eallum circum. Amen.

   Text Language: English

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 59

   James 1912, p. 138

Administration Information:

Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Johanna Green, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2012).

Bibliography:

James, Montague Rhodes, Matthew Parker, and A. Rogers, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 59