The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220
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A collection of homilies datable to the second quarter of the twelfth century (perhaps about 1140 or so). Begins with a homily on St. Chad (pp. 1-18), which is unique. Fols 18-152, 179-252, 279-90 are homilies for Saints' Days from 24 June to 30 November, from Ælfric's First Series of Sermones Catholici. Pages 253-78, 290-395 are catechetical and mainly Ælfrician, and most also occur in Hatton 115. Glosses in Latin and English throughout are in the Tremulous Hand.
Rubric (initial): (1r/2) IN NATALE SANCTI CEADDE EPISCOPI. ˥ CONFESSORIS
Incipit: MEN þa leofestan. ic eow onginnu secgan
Explicit: se leofað ˥ rixað mid þam feder ˥ mid þam haligan gasta in eallre worulda woruld. AMEN.
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Vleeskruyer 1953, 162-84
Rubric (initial): Natiuitas sancti Iohannis Baptistę
Incipit: SE GODSPELLERE LUCAS awrat on cristes béc
Explicit: þam sy wuldor ˥ lof mid fæder ˥ mid halgum gaste a on ecnesse. AMEN.
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Clemoes 1997, 379-87
Rubric (initial): Passio sanctorum apostolorum petri. ˥ pavli
Incipit: Venit iesus in partes cęsarere philippi. Et reliqua. MATHEVS. se godspellere awrat on þæra godspellican gesetnesse
Explicit: þæt him ne bið getiþod naþor ne synna forgifenes. ne infær þæs heofonlican rices
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Clemoes 1997, 388-91, ll. 1-96
Rubric (initial): De passione beatorum apostolorum Petri. ˥ pauli.
Incipit: WE willað æfter þisum godspelle eow gereccan
Explicit: þurh þes hælendes tiðe. þam si wuldor ˥ lof. a on ecnesse AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Clemoes 1997, 301-9, ll. 99-295
Rubric (initial): Commemoratio sancti pauli apostoli.
Incipit: GODES gelaþung wurðaþ þysne dæg
Explicit: þæt hi mid him ˥ mid gode þæt ece lif habban moton. AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Clemoes 1997, 400-9
Rubric (initial): Passio sancti Lavrentii. martyris
Incipit: ON DECIES dagum þes welhreowan caseres
Explicit: he þrowode mid cenum mode mænifealde tintregu. mid þam he orsorhlice on ecnesse wuldraþ. AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Clemoes 1997, 418-28
Rubric (initial): Assumptio sancte marie. virginis.
Incipit: Heironimus se halga sacerd awrat ænne pistol
Explicit: Se þe leofað ˥ rixað mid fæder ˥ halgum gasta on ealra worulda woruld. AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Clemoes 1997, 429-38
Rubric (initial): Passio sancti Bartholomei. apostoli.
Incipit: Wyrdwriteras secgað þæt þry leodscipas synd gehatene india
Explicit: Sy him wuldor ˥ lof on ealra worulda woruld. AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Clemoes 1997, 439-50
Rubric (initial): Decollatio Sancti Iohannis Baptiste.
Incipit: Misit herodes et tenuit iohannem. ET RELIQVA. MARCVS se godspellere awrat on cristes bec
Explicit: Se þe leofað ˥ rixað mid feder ˥ mid halguum gaste áá butan ende. AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Clemoes 1997, 451-8
Rubric (initial): Natiuitas sncte marie. virginis.
Incipit: MEN þa leofostan. we synd gemungode
Explicit: ˥ hire deopnesse on diglum andgite underniman willað on incundre heortan
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Assmann 1889, 24-6, ll. 1-53 (no. 3)
Rubric (initial): Incipit de sancta virginitate.
Incipit: SE halga hælend crist. ˥ se heofonlica æþeling
Explicit: þam is wuldor ˥ wurðmynt a to worulde. AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Assmann 1889, 26-48, ll. 53-597 (no. 3)
Rubric (initial): Dedicatio sancti Michaelis archangli.
Incipit: MANEGVM is cúð se hálige stow sancte michaeles
Explicit: se þe leofað ˥ rixaþ á on ecnesse. AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Clemoes 1997, 465-75
Rubric (initial): In Natale Omnium sanctorum
Incipit: HALIGE lareowas ræddon þæt se geleaffulle gelaþung
Explicit: mid fæder. ˥ mid halgum gaste. áá on ecnesse. AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Clemoes 1997, 486-96
Rubric (initial): IN NATALE SANCTI CLEMENTIS. MARTYRIS
Incipit: MEN ÐA leofestan. eower geleafa biþ þe trumra
Explicit: se þe leofað ˥ rixaþ a butan ende. AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Clemoes 1997, 497-506
Rubric (initial): In natale sancti ANDREE. apostoli.
Incipit: Ambulans iesus iuxta mare galileę. ET RELIQVA. Crist on sumere tide ferde wið þære galileiscan sǽ
Explicit: Sy þam ælmihtigan drihtne wurðmynt. ˥ lof á on ecnesse. AMEN.
Text Language: English
Note: The present quire XII (pp. 253-278) originally came after the present quire XIII (pp. pp. 279-94)
Bibliography:
Clemoes 1997, 507-19
Rubric (initial): SERMO IN NATALE UNIUS CONFESSORIS
Incipit: Vigilate ergo. MATHEVS se godspellere us sæde on þysum godspelle.
Explicit: þe ealle þing gescop. se þe ana rixað on ecnesse. AMEN
Text Language: English
Note: Displaced quire
Bibliography:
Assmann 1889, 49-64 (no. 4)
Rubric (initial): De Exameron; þæt is. BE GODES SIX DAGA weorcum.
Incipit: ON sumum oðrum spelle we sædon hwilon ǽr
Explicit: on anre godcundnesse. ána soð scyppend eallra. 'þinga' AMEN
Text Language: English
Note: Displaced quire.
Bibliography:
Crawford 1921, 33-74
Rubric (initial): INTERROGATIONES SIGEWULPHI PRESBITERI
Incipit: SVM geþungen lareaw wæs on engla lande albinus gehaten
Explicit: þam is anwurðmynt mid þam halgan gaste on ealra worulda woruld. we cweðaþ AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
MacLean 1884, 2-56
Rubric (initial): DE OCTO UITIIS ET DE XIIcim. ABVSIVIS.
Incipit: OMNIA nimia nocent et temmperantia mater uirtutum dicitur. Þæt is on englisc. Ealle oferdone þing deriað
Explicit: Si him ǽ wuldor ˥ wurðmynt. AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Morris 1867, 296-304 (appendix 2)
Rubric (initial): DE AUGURIIS.
Incipit: SE APOSTOL paulus ealra þeoda lareow manode þa cristenan
Explicit: mid him æfre to wuni'g'enne on þam ecum witum a buton ende
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Skeat 1881-1900, 364-82 (no. 17)
Pope 1967-68, 790-6 (no. 29)
Rubric (initial): DE FALSIS DIIS
O FRATRES dilectissimi diuina scripturaIncipit: (365/13) EAla ge gebroðra þa leofestan. þæt godcunde gewrit us tæhte
Explicit: Þam si wuldor ˥ lof a to worulde AMEN
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Pope 1967-68, 676-85, 711-12, ll. 150, 645-76 (no. 21)
Rubric (initial): DE SEPTI. FORMI SPIRITV.
Spiritus sanctus pro septenaria operationeIncipit: (374/9) Þæt ilce on englisc. ISAIAS se witega awrát on his witegunge. be þam halgum gaste. ˥ be his seofonfealdum gifum
Explicit: him godes gast on wunige oððe þæs gramlican deofles
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Napier 1883, 50, 56-60 (nos 7-8)
Rubric (initial): DE SANGUINE
Incipit: Her geswultelað on þisum gewrite. hu god ælmihtig forbead mancynne ælces cynnes blod to etenne
Explicit: hit bið swa þeah to astorfenum geteald
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Kluge 1885, 62, note 3
Clayton 2007
Rubric (initial): DE INFANTIBUS
Incipit: WE biddaþ eow men ˥ beodaþ on godes naman
Explicit: ˥ hæfð þonne hellewite gif hit hæþen acwylð
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Napier 1888, 154-55
Rubric (initial): De cogitatione
Incipit: SE swicola deofol þe syrwð ymbe mancynn asent yfele geþohtas
Explicit: swa he lufode forþam þe crist agylt ælcum be his dædæ
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Pope 1967-68, 325, 330-31 (No. 6)
Incipit: MEN þa leofestan þis sinden dagas mid eallum cristnum folce
Explicit: se þe leofað ˥ rixað mid suna ˥ mid þam halgan gaste á butan æghwylcum ende. AMEN.
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Bazire and Cross 1982, 47-54 (no. 3)
Incipit: Deus qui dedisti legem moisi
Text Language: Latin
Note: Added in a later 12th century hand
Incipit: ceac. vrceus... iþingþe meritum
Text Language: English and Latin
Note: Attributed to the 'tremulous hand of Worcester'
Bibliography:
Franzen 1991, 196
Incipit: ic am nout for þisse þingc wo
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Franzen 1991, 196
Form: Codex
Support: Pages i-vi, 403-8 are paper leaves of the date of binding. Pages 399-402 are parchment end-leaves taken over from the medieval binding (see above).
Extent:
260 mm x 180 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
ca. 195-203 mm x 135 mm (dimensions of all - size of written space)
Foliation and/or Pagination:
Pages iii+201+v, paginated i-vi, 1-84, 84a, b, 85-160, 160a, b, 161-408. Another pagination, 1-396, of s. xvi(?), is on rectos only.
Collation:
Note:
See Ker 1957, p. 406; Treharne 2000, pp. 25-26
Initials and titles in red. Titles in rustic capitals or minuscules.
The collect 'Deus qui dedisti legem Moisi in summitate montis Sinay. et illic / per angelum tuum corpus Katerine uirginis. mirabiliter / collocasti. tribue quesumus. ut eius meritis et intercessione ad montem qui Cristus est ualeamus peruenire. ' and antiphon 'Ecce crucem domini. fugite partes aduerse de tribu Juda radix David. Alleluia.' were added slightly later in s. xii in the five lines remaining blank on p. 395. A note in Thomas Barlow's hand identifies the collect with that in Roman and Sarum service-books for 25th November, St. Katherine's day, specifically concerning her reception by angels. The antiphon was used as an exorcism or healing formula. It is interesting to note this addition for St. Katherine in a manuscript associated with the region that produced the early thireenth-century manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 34, containing the Katherine-Group of Saints' lives and other texts.
Bound in s. xvii/xviii uniformly with Hatton 115. The rust-mark from a nail which held the strap of an earlier binding in position shows on pp. 391-402.
Pages 399-402 are two waste leaves, a bifolium of a copy of a Summa of the Decretum of Gratian, s. xiiex, used as a pastedown and flyleaf.
Written in the West of England, almost certainly at Worcester. Whilst the manuscript shows characteristics common with manuscripts produced at Worcester, McIntyre 1978 points out that the style is regional, not just belonging to a single scriptorium (pp. 36-37). It must be borne in mind, however, that there are also many shared features with manuscripts produced in other centres in the West of England (Treharne 2000, p. 27).
At Worcester in the first half of the thirteenth century, as it was glossed by the Tremulous Hand. Remained in Worcester until at least 1622, as it is mentioned in Young's catalogue.
Belonged to Christopher, Lord Hatton in 1644 and was acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1678.
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Bazire, J., and J. E. Cross, eds, Eleven Old English Rogationtide Homilies, Toronto Old English Series (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982)
Clemoes, Peter, ed., Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: The First Series, Text, EETS, SS 17 (London: Oxford University Press, 1997)
Crawford, S. J., Exameron Anglice, or the Old English Hexameron, Bibliotek der angelsachsischen Prosa (Hamburg: H. Grand 1921), vol. 10
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