The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Owen Roberson

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 85

Homilies

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Five homilies, fragments, owing to the loss of leaves after and before quires. The manuscript is part of Junius 86. Origin unknown.

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fol. 2r

   Title (B.3.2.40): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: Tuesday in Rogationtide

   Incipit: (fol. 2r) song 7 godes lof [...] | stan cynincges

   Explicit: (fol. 2r) soðlice buton | ænde; AMEN

   Note: Fragment

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 409-11

   Wilcox 2008, pp. 113-28.

2. Item: fols 2-17

   Title (B.3.5.14): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, listed under the opening words]: Men ða leofestan we gelornodon on godcundum gewritum þæt [...] æghwylces monnes sawul

   Incipit: (fol. 2v) Men ða leofestan we gelornodon on godcundum gewritum þæt [...] æghwylces monnes sawul

   Explicit: (fol. 17) mid his gecorenum | ænglum; a in ealra wurulda wu|ruld; a buton ænde; amen

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, pp. 409-11

   Wilcox 2008, pp. 113-28.

3. Item: fols 3-11

   Title (B.3.5.1): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, listed under the opening words]: And hit sægð her on ðisum halgum gewrite

   Incipit: (fol. 3r) 7 .m[en ða leofestan]. hit sægð her on ðisum halgum ge-|write

   Explicit: (fol. 11v) 7 hio hin[e] ðan[ne] gegretað ðæs synfullan mannes

   Bibliography:

   Healey 1978, pp. 63-73

   Ker 1957, pp. 409-11

   Wilcox 2008, pp. 113-28.

4. Item: fol. 17

   Title (B.23.1.15): Prose Charm

   Incipit: (fol. 17r/5) wið | wif bearneacenu

   Explicit: (fol. 17v/17) [imperfect ending]

   Bibliography:

   Cockayne 1864-66, I pp. 392-94

   Ker 1957, pp. 409-11

   Storms 1948, 283, no. 45; 286, no. 49; 279, no.41

   Wilcox 2008, pp. 113-28.

5. Item: fols 18-24

   Title (B.1.2.8): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: First Sunday in Lent

   Incipit: (fol. 18r) MEN ÐA LEOFESTAN EOW EALLUM IS CUÐ.

   Explicit: (fol. 24r) .Á. in ealra worulda woruld Amen

   Bibliography:

   Godden 1979, pp. 60-66

   Ker 1957, pp. 409-11

   Wilcox 2008, pp. 113-28.

6. Item: fols 25-35

   Title (B.3.5.5): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, listed under the opening words]: Geherað nu men þa leofestan hu us godes bec

   Incipit: (fol. 25r) Geherað nu mæn ða leofestan hu us | godes bec moniegaþ. 7 myndigað to | ures lifes clænnesse 7 lichaman | 7 saule

   Explicit: (fol. 35) continued in Junius 86

   Bibliography:

   Fadda 1977, pp. 6-31

   Ker 1957, pp. 409-11

   Wilcox 2008, pp. 113-28.

Administration Information:

Described by Owen Roberson August 2010 with reference to published scholarship.

Bibliography:

Cockayne, Thomas Oswold, ed., Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England, 3 vols (London: Longman, 1864-66)

Fadda, Luiselli, and Anna Maria, eds, Nuove Omelie Anglosassoni della Rinascenza Benedettina, Filologia germanica. Testi e studi, 1 (Firenze: F. Le Monnier, 1977)

Godden, Malcolm, ed., Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: The Second Series; Text, EETS, SS 5 (London: Oxford University Press, 1979)

Healey, Antonette di Paolo, ed., The Old English Vision of St. Paul., Speculum Anniversary Monographs, 2 (Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1978)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 336

Storms, G., ed., Anglo-Saxon Magic (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1948; repr. Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library Editions, 1975)

Wilcox, J., Homilies by Ælfric and other Homilies, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, 17 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008)