Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 188
188, pp. 61, 408
General Information
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A manuscript of Ælfrich's Old English homilies, mostly from First Series, written in the first half of the eleventh century. The manuscript may be from Hereford but this is not certain.
It contains a scribble 'sawulf' on p. 61 and a Middle English annotation on p. 408. Ker 1957 dates the scribble 'sawulf' to the first half of the eleventh century but Stokes 2006 says none of the letter forms contraindicate the second half of the eleventh century (DigiPal). The annotation in Middle English is dated to the beginning of the thirteenth century (Ker 1957).
Digital Surrogate:
Item: p. 61
Title: scribble in margin
Text: sawulf
Date: s. xi
Bibliography:
Title: p. 408
Title: Middle English marginal annotation
Text: þine mot ihc gon mayde sweete | lef wine mot hi
Date: s. xiiiin
Bibliography:
Object Description
Codex
Parchment
280 x 170 mm
Foliated
5 flyleaves replacing one quire gone | II(8)-IIII(8) | V(8)-XXI(8) (no. XV missing) XXII(8) (1-3 cut out and replaced in cent. xvi) XXIII(8)-XXX(8) (from Parker on the Web)
Hand Description
Additional Information
Digital surrogate available at https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/cg474kk2275 (accessed 27 July 2018)
History
Laing, Margaret, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993), p. 22
Stokes, P., 'English Vernacular Script, ca 990–ca 1035', 2 vols. (unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2006)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990)
Georgia Henley