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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 86

The Production and Use of English Manuscripts: 1060 to 1220

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Homilies

Date: s. ximed

Summary:

Three homilies, fragments, owing to the loss of leaves after and before quires. The manuscript is part of Junius 85. Origin unknown.

Manuscript Items:
  1. Item: fols 36-40

      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. 36) continuation of Junius 85

      Explicit: (fol. 40r) wuniað ðon[ne] mid criste | ðam ðe nu lyfað. 7 ricsað. mid god | fæder. ðam sie wuldor. 7 lof. a in eal|ra. worulda. woruld. a buten ænde

      Bibliography:

  2. Item: fols 40-61

      Title (B.3.5.16.5.EM): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, listed under the opening words]: Geherað nu men þa leofestan hwæt her sægþ on ðisum bocum

      Incipit: (fol. 40v/1) GEHERAÐ NU mæn ða leofestan. hwæt | her sægþ on ðissum bocum. be | manna teoðungceapa

      Explicit: (fol. 61v/14) ends imperfectly

      Bibliography:

        Morris 1880, pp. 39-53/2, 195, 52/2-end no. 4 and 16

        Ker 1957, pp. 409-11

        Wilcox 2008, pp. 113-28

        Willard 1949, pp. 72-78

  3. Item: fols 62-81

      Title (B.3.3.17): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Sanctorale: Saint Martin

      Incipit: (fol. 62r/1) HER we magon hwylcum|hwega wordum secgan be | ðære arwyrðan gebyrda. 7 be þam | halgan life 7 forðfore ðæs eadi|gan weres. s[an]c[tu[s] martinus

      Explicit: (fol. 81r/11) to ðan us gefultumige ure | drihten. se leofað. 7 ricsað a | butan ænde. AMEN

      Bibliography:

        Ker 1957, pp. 409-11

        Scragg 1992, pp. 291-308, no. 18

        Wilcox 2008, pp. 113-28

Administration Information: Bibliography:

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

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

Morris, Richard, ed., Old English Homilies of the Twelfth Century, EETS, OS 53 (London: N. Trübner, 1873)

Scragg, D. G., ed., The Vercelli Homilies and Related Texts, EETS, OS 300 (Oxford: Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1992)

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)

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

Willard, Rudolph, 'The Blickling-Junius Tithing Homily and Caesarius of Arles.', in Philologica: The Malone Anniversary Studies, ed. by Thomas A. Kirby and Henry Bosley (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1949), pp. 65-78