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A two-volume homiliary written in s. xiin. Bodley 342, fols 203-18 were added in s. ximed, and they contain Ælfric's homilies for St Andrew, the patron saint of Rochester. The scribe who copied these additional homilies also made numerous alterations and additions between the lines. The manuscript was probably at Rochester in s. xi.
Manuscript Items:Incipit: (fol. 203r) Sƿa hƿa sƿa sylð anum þurstigum menn | ceald ƿæter on minum naman
Explicit: (fol. 204v) Mid þam libbað. | ˥rixað. on lichaman ˥on saƿle on eal | ra ƿorulda ƿoruld. ameN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, p. 366, art. 76
Incipit: (fol. 204v) [S]imle (no 's' at beginning) est regnum celorum homini pa | tri familias. qui exiit primo mane. | eno 's' at beginning hælend sƿæð þ heofonan rice ƿære | gelic sumum hiredes ealdre. se ðe | ferde on ærnemerien. ˥ ƿolde hyri | an ƿyrhtan into his ƿinearde;
Explicit: (fol. 206r) sƿa sƿa halford his hired on his eal | le (ends abruptly)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 366, art. 77
Rubric (initial): (fol. 206v) .II. k l . NATALE S C I ANDREE. APOSTOLI.
Incipit: (fol. 206v) Ambulans ie s iuxta mare galileae. & rel . | Crist on sumere ride ferde ƿið ða galileiscan sæ
Explicit: (fol. 11v) geornlice gefelle. ˥ healde þurh ðone þe leofað ˥ rixað a buton ænde. AMEN.
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 366, art. 78
Rubric (initial): (fol. 211v) EODEM DIE PASSIO S C I . ANDREA. APOSTOLI
Incipit: (fol. 322v) Se apostol andreas
Explicit: (fol. 218r) a to ƿiðan feore. (Ends imperfectly. Part of lines on fol. 128 lost because outer part of folio was cut off)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, p. 366-37, art. 79
Manuscript described by Takako Kato with the assistance of Hollie Morgan and Sanne van der Schee with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 309
Wilcox, J., Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile (Tempe: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008), vol. 17: Homilies by Ælfric and other Homilies