Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 302

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Cambridge

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Corpus Christi College

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302

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Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

Gnuess/Lapidge

Summary

The manuscript contains Remaining Homilies by Ælfric: Hexameron and homilies for Sundays and feast days in the Temporale arranged according to the church year from the First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: First Sunday in Advent to Wednesday in Rogationtide. The manuscript is incomplete at the end, but the missing text is supplied on pp. 233-42 by a sixteenth-century hand, which emulates the insular minuscule forms of the original. Corpus 302 has a number of texts (items 9-34) in common with Faustina A. ix; perhaps these texts in both manuscripts derive from a common exemplar. Dated by Ker 1957 s. xi/xii, although can probably be assigned to the early twelfth century; probably the first decade of the century.

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Manuscript Items

Item: pp. 11-22
- Title (B.1.5.13): Ælfric, Remaining Homilies by Ælfric: Hexameron
  Incipit: Her segð hu ure drihten gesceop heofonan. 7 eorðan 7 ealle gesceafta
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Initial H is red and purple.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Crawford 1921
Item: pp. 22/15-26/13
- Title (B.1.1.41): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: First Sunday in Advent
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA PRIMA DE ADVENTV DOMINI |
  
  Incipit: ÐYSES DÆGES ÞENUNG
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Initial Ð is green.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, I, 600-07
  
  Clemoes 1997, 520-23
Item: pp. 26/13-33/7
- Title (B.1.1.42): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Second Sunday in Advent
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA .II.a DE ADUENTU | DOMINI
  
  Incipit: Erunt signa in sole.... SE GODSPELLERE LVCAS awrat on þisum dægþerlican | godspelle
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Initial S is red and purple.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, I, 608-19
  
  Clemoes 1997, 524-30
Item: pp. 33/8-40/15
- Title (B.1.3.18): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: On Augeries
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA .III. VELQVANDO UOLVERIS |
  
  Incipit: SE APOSTOL PAULUS EALRA þeoda lareow
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Skeat 1881-1900, I, 364-83
Item: pp. 40/15-42
- Title (B.2.2.4): Wulfstan, The Christian Faith: Baptism
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA .IIII. VEL QVANDO VOLUERIS |
  
  Incipit: GEHADEDVM MANNUM is swiðe micclumbeboden fram | gode sylfum
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Initial G is purple.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Bethurum 1957, 172-74
Item: pp. 43/1-50/21
- Title (B.1.1.3): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Christmas
  Rubric (initial): DE NATIVITATE DOMINI. NOSTRI IESV CHRISTI |
  
  Incipit: ǷE WILLAÐ TO TRIMMINCGE
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, I , 28-45;
  
  Clemoes 1997, 190-97.
Item: pp. 50/21-57/14
- Title (B.1.1.4): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Stephen
  Rubric (initial): De SANCTO STEPHANO PROTPMARTYRE |
  
  Incipit: We rædað on þære bec Þe is gehaten actus apostolorum
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Initial Ƿ is purple and green.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, I, 44-57
  
  Clemoes 1997, 198-205
Item: pp. 57/14-66/30
- Title (B.1.1.5): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Assumption of St John
  Rubric (initial): DE SANCTO IOHANNE EVANGELISTA |
  
  Incipit: IOHANNES SE GODSPELLERE CRISTES dyrlinc wearð on þissum dæg
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, I, 58-77
  
  Clemoes 1997, 206-16
Item: pp. 66/30-71/7
- Title (B.1.8.5.1.EM): Ælfric, Letters: Letter to Sigeferth [adapted]
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA .II. BE ÐERE HALGAN CLÆNNESSE |
  
  Incipit: URE HÆLEND CRIST CYDDE þæt he lufod þa halgan || clænnesse
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Assmann 1889, 13-23, no. 2, ll.13-225.
Item: pp. 71/7-73/14
- Title (B.3.2.5): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: Third Sunday after Epiphany
  Rubric (initial): ƿ Ƿ DOMINICA .III. ET QUANDO UO | LUERIS. BE HEOF-ONWARUM 7 BE HELWARUM |
  
  Incipit: MEN ða LEOFESTAN. ute gehyran her godes word
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Willard 1935, 38
Item: pp. 73/15-78/3
- Title (B.3.2.6): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA .IIII. ET QUANDO UOLVERIS BE URVM DRIHTENE |
  
  Incipit: MEN ÐA LEOFESTAN VRE DRIHTEN Ælmihtig god
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Assmann 1889, 164-69, 13-23, no. 2, ll.13-225
Item: pp. 78/4-83/2
- Title (B.3.2.7): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA .V. AUT QUANDO uolueris de uerbis domini |
  
  Incipit: MEN ða LEOFESTAN VTAN geþencan georne on ure | geþance
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Napier 1883, 257/9-265 [second part of no. 49].
Item: pp. 83/3-90/1
- Title (B.1.2.6): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Septuagesima
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA IN SEPTVAGESIMA |
  
  Incipit: DRIHTEN SÆDE | þis bigspel his leorningcnihtum
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Initial D is green; line 7, initial S red.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, II, 72-84;
  
  Godden 1979: 41-49/223, who treats this item and the following as his single Homily V.
Item: pp. 90/2-91/20
- Title: Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Septuagesima, part 2
  Rubric (initial): DE ALLELVIA
  
  Incipit: ǷE willað eow secgan be þissere andweardan tide
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, II, 84-89,
  
  Godden 1979, 49/234-51/287.
Item: pp. 91/20-97/19
- Title (B.1.2.7): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Sexagesima
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA IN SEXTAGESIMA |
  
  Incipit: CVM TVURBATA PLVRIMA....On sumere tide ða þa micel meniu
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, II, 88-98
  
  Godden 1979: 52-59
Item: pp. 97/19-104/20
- Title (B.1.1.11): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Quinquagesima
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA IN QUINQUAGESIMA |
  
  Incipit: ASSUMSIT IESUS DUODECIM DISCIPULOS.... Her is geræd on þissum godspelle
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, I, 152-65
  
  Clemoes 1997, 258-65
Item: pp. 104/20-112/9
- Title (B.1.3.13): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Ash-Wednesday
  Rubric (initial): LARSPEL IN CAPITE IEIUNII|
  
  Incipit: ON ÐISSERE WUCAN ON WODNESDÆG
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Skeat 1881-1900, I, 260-83.
Item: pp. 112/10-120/6
- Title (B.1.1.12): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: First Sunday in Lent
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA .I. IN QUADRAGESIMA |
  
  Incipit: Ductus est iesus.... Ic wolde eow trahtnian
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: At p. 113, later twelfth century note in right margin refers to 'þa yfelan men' p. 113/14: 'Robberas ˥ Reaferas | þeofas ˥ falsa myneteras | wicche ˥ wanwestras | þe fordoþ men ˥ man | na biȝleofa'; p. 113/24, 'hwi him' interlinear correction; p. 115/3, 'dyrstelican' added to line 2; p. 119/16, 'wanspedge' glosses 'ælfremedan'.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, I, 166-61
  
  Clemoes 1997, 266-74
Item: pp. 120/7-125/26
- Title (B.1.2.8): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: First Sunday in Lent
  Rubric (initial): FERIA .II. EUANGELIUM. CUM VENERIT. |
  
  Incipit: MEN ÐA LEOFESTAN | eow eallum is cuð
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, II, 98-109
  
  Godden 1979: 60-66
Item: pp. 125/26-129/28
- Title (B.1.2.9): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Second Sunday in Lent
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA .II. IN QUADRAGESIMA |
  
  Incipit: EGRESSVS INDIE [sic] iesus.... Drihten hælend þreade mid wordum
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: 'D' in red is smaller.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, II, 110-17
  
  Godden 1979, 67-71
Item: pp. 129/28-137/5
- Title (B.1.4.4): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica III in Quadragesima
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA .III. IN QUADRAGESIMA |
  
  Incipit: ERAT IESUS EICIENS.... ON þære mæran tide þe se mildheorta hælend | wunode
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Pope 1967-68, I, 264-80
Item: pp. 137/5-142/7
- Title (B.1.1.13): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Mid-Lent Sunday
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA .IIII. QUADRA | GESIMA |
  
  Incipit: ABIIT IESUS.... Se hælend ferde ofer þa galileiscean sæ
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Initials A and S are red and intertwined.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Clemoes 1997, 275-80
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, I, 180-93
Item: pp. 142/7-151/14
- Title (B.1.2.15): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Fifth Sunday in Lent
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA .V. IN QUADRAGESIMA |
  
  Incipit: 'ÐEOS TID FRAM þisum andweardum dæge
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Initial Ð, line 8, is green; initial Q, line 22, is purple. Latin text (Godden 1979, 127/14) preceded by the heading 'EUANGELIVM'.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, II, 224-241
  
  Godden 1979, 127-36
Item: pp. 151/14-155/28
- Title (B.1.5.4): Ælfric, Remaining Homilies by Ælfric: Homily for Friday after the Fifth Sunday in Lent
  Rubric (initial): FERIA .VI. ANTE RAMOS PALMARUM |
  
  Incipit: COLLEGERVNT PONTIFICES.... Þæt halige godspel þe ge gehyrdon nu rædon
  
  Note: Erased red letters, lines 17-18.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Assmann 1889, 65-72
Item: pp. 155/28-163/12
- Title (B.1.1.15): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Palm Sunday
  Rubric (initial): DOMINICA IN DIE RAMIS PALMARVM |
  
  Incipit: CRISTES ÞROWUNG WÆS GERÆD
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: At p. 157/5 '˥ bringan' added; p. 157/20, 'hyrsumnysse' glosses 'bigengu'; p. 157/26, 'hrineð fule synne' in right margin; p. 159/bottom margin, 'dedbote'. Same hand as that annotating pp. 113 and 119. At p. 159/12-13 'blissiað' in right margin glosses 'wuldriað'; p. 159/18 'hrigge' in right margin glosses 'bæce'. In right margin p. 161/18 'mid steorede'; p. 161/22 'mid soþre weorche'.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, I, 206-19
  
  Clemoes 1997, 290-98
Item: pp. 163/12-173
- Title (B.1.2.16): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Palm Sunday
  Rubric (initial): FERIA .II. DE PASSIONE DOMINI |
  
  Incipit: DRIHTENES | þrowunge we willað eow gedafenlice secgan
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Initial D in green; its back is hidden in margin.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, II, 240
  
  Godden 1979, 137-49
Item: pp. 174/1-182/23
- Title (B.3.2.22): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: In Cena Domini
  Rubric (initial): IN CENA DOMINI FERIA .V. |
  
  Incipit: SEGEÐ on þisum bocum be þære | arwurðnesse
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Line 14 ÆR is purple.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Assmann 1889, 151-63.
Item: pp. 182/24-88
- Title (B.1.2.18): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Easter
  Rubric (initial): SERMO DE SACRIFICIO IN DIE PASCHAE |
  
  Incipit: MEN þa LEOFOSTAN | Gelome eow is gesæd
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, II, 262
  
  Godden 1979, 150/1-37, 159-324 [one leaf missing at end].
Item: pp. 189/1-198/23
- Title (B.1.1.19): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Second Sunday after Easter
  Incipit: Begins imperfectly: '…to gitsunge. sume he onrærð ro modignesse'
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: The passages Thorpe (1844-46) 242/7 'Be ðisum' - 242/24 'bysnað', and 244/7-9 are omitted, but are added, by a system of signes de renvoi, in the lower margin of p. 189 by an early thirteenth-century hand. From 'Ge magon gehyran on þære halgan lare' (p. 189/31) to the end is not in Thorpe (1844-46). Introductory lines to this part of the homily have been added in the lower margin of p. 189 by a thirteenth-century hand: 'Men ða leffostan us lareowhumgedafenað þa soðen lare ðe god | silf gesette. ðurch us halgan witegan. ˥ þurch hine silfne. eowh | gelome seggan to eowhres lifes richtinge. And be magon gehiran on ðare'.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, I, 240/25-245
  
  Clemoes 1997, 312
Item: pp. 198/24-205/30
- Title (B.1.1.20): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: In Letania Maiore
  Rubric (initial): SERMO IN LETANIA MAIORE
  
  Incipit: ÞAS DAGAS SYND GEHATENE | letanie
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Initial Þ red and purple.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, I, 244
  
  Clemoes 1997, 317-24
Item: pp. 205/31-212
- Title (B.3.2.35): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: Monday in Rogationtide
  Rubric (initial): FERIA .II. IN LETANIA MAIORE
  
  Incipit: MEN ÐA LEOFESTAN US IS SWIÐE | mycel neodþearf þæt we gehyron sumne dæl þyses gastlican ge | writes
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Initial M red and purple.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Bazire and Cross 1982, 70-74
Item: pp. 213/1-221/2
- Title (B.1.1.21): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Feria III de dominica oratione
  Rubric (initial): EODEM IN DIE DOMINICAORATIONE |
  
  Incipit: SE HÆLEND CRIST SYÐÐAN | he to þyssumlife com
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Note: Initial S is green. Line 10, purple P; line 11, green Þ.
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, II, 258
  
  Clemoes 1997, 325-34
Item: pp. 221/2-230/2
- Title (B.3.2.40): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: Tuesday in Rogationtide
  Rubric (initial): FERIA .III. IN LETANIA MAIORE |
  
  Incipit: MEN ÐA LEOFESTAN WE GEHYRDON FORHOFT secgan
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Napier 1883, 250-65, no. 49
  
  Morris 1880, 105
Item: pp. 230/2-232
- Title (B.1.1.22): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Feria III de fide catholica
  Rubric (initial): EODEM DIE IN FIDE CATHOMICA |
  
  Incipit: ÆLC CRISTEN MANN SCEAL æfte rihte cunnan
  
  ends imperfectly: þæt þu ne leofast
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Thorpe 1844-46, I, 274-282/6
  
  Clemoes 1997, 335-338/99 [remainder of homily supplied on pp. 233-342 (sixteenth century)].

Object Description

Form

Form: Codex

Support: Texts are on membrane; leaves arranged HHFF. Flyleaves mixture of paper and parchment. See 'Accompanying Material' below.

Extent:

c. 250 mm x ca. 160 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)

c. 200 mm x 113-120 mm (dimensions of all - size of written space)

Foliation/Pagination:

viii + 111 + x leaves. Pagination in red pencil occurs at top right of rectos, i-vi, 1-247, 249-52. Earlier, paler ink foliation is evident on some top right corners of the rectos (fols 1, 2, 3, etc.) but many of these have been excised. The foliation of the Parkerian table of contents on p. 9 (See 'Additions' below) corresponds to the actual manuscript foliation and not to the pagination scheme.

Collation:

Collation is as Ker 1957: 1-11⁸ (pp. 11-188), 12⁸ wants 2 after p. 188 (pp. 189-200), 13-14⁸(pp. 201-232); 3 and 6 in Quire 14 are half-sheets. Indeterminate number of pages missing at end.

Signatures: Possible quire signatures at p. 154 ('I' with a tick to the right in lower right margin), p. 168 ('nf' in lower right margin), p. 199 ('m' in lower right margin).

Condition:

Quality of leaves varies from thick and suede-like to thin parchment, but general condition of leaves and ink is very good throughout with only minor damage (wormholes present in Quire 1 excising small portions of text; holes original to the animal in Quire 2 are written around; light brown stains on p. 49; pp. 51, 79, 82-83, 97, 99, 155, 177, 183, 206, 214, and 225 show contemporary repairs to parchment). Generally, the ink is very dark brown and occasionally bleeds slightly when the substrate is particularly thick and textured.

Layout Description:

Layout:

Columns: 1
Written Lines: 31
Overview: Single column writing grid with 31 lines per page. Drypoint ruling completed before folding with double vertical and double horizontal bounding lines (Quire 7 has antepenultimate and ultimate horizontal lines ruled; Quires 13 and 14 have single vertical bounding lines).

Hand Description

Number of Hands: 2

Summary: There is one main hand in the manuscript. The aspect is generally backward-looking. The scribe uses insular forms with the sporadic exception of Caroline a. A second hand, rounder and more upright, writes p. 29/1-8, and (not noted by Ker 1957) probably p. 97/3, 'fær mid þam'.

Hand: whole manuscript apart from the first eight lines of script at p. 29.

Scope: main
Description: The main hand is regular, relatively rounded, and though often upright, usually tends to lean backwards. Characteristics are a great compression of the script and relatively meagre interlinear space. In many respects, the aspect of this hand resembles that of the scribe of the later manuscript Faustina A. ix
Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
- a is often single-compartment, and occasionally has a small upstroke rising above the bowl. Sometimes Caroline a is used.
- æ is very regular, with both components of the same size, and the e component has a slightly extended tongue.
- Insular d tends to be the same size as ð and is formed with two strokes, the left-hand side of the bowl and the upstroke.
- e is generally very rounded with a slightly protruding tongue.
- Insular f has a shorter mid-stroke than topstroke, and a descender that tapers a little to the left.
- The downstroke of insular g is formed from towards the left of the headstroke, and curved down into a rounded open tail.
- h is insular, with a clubbed ascender.
- Serifs on the feet of minims generally sit on the line, though often they do not occur at all.
- p sometimes has an angular top to the bowl and a flick to the right of the descender.
- The shoulder of insular r is often very angular; its descender curves to the left a little.
- Insular s and uncial s are used, and more rarely, long s. Also notable is the occurrence of the superscript s, used throughout the twelfth century, particularly in informal hands in Latin manuscripts, to save space (p. 113, line 17).
- t is slightly forward-leaning.
- ð tends to be either the same size as d or has a slightly longer back; the crossbar of ð finishes with a short upwards serif to the left.
- þ has a distinctively clubbed ascender, often very close to the bowl; its descender is usually straight.
- ƿ has an angular bowl and the descender curves very slightly to the left.
- y is found in two forms: rounded and straight-limbed, and both forms are dotted.
- ascenders are often clubbed, or have a serif to the left or a small wedge at the top.
- descenders are straight or curve gently to the left at the very end.
- accents occur on some long vowels as acute hairline strokes.
Abbreviations:
- The crossbar of the stroke through þ in the abbreviation for þæt finishes with a short serif to the left; the macron for omitted nasals is curved unevenly.
- The ˥ with its horizontal bar frequently occurs immediately before the following letter, or is made to appear close to it because of the decorative red stroke added to the descender.
Punctuation: Punctuation is by punctus placed above the line and horizontal hyphens on the line at line-ends.
Ligatures:
- The absence of ligatures, most significantly that of st, is notable.

Hand:The first eight lines of script at p. 29.

Scope: main
Description: This scribe has a larger and more rounded hand than the main scribe, and appears to find it difficult to write in a consistent size.
Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
- The bow of Caroline a is more developed than that of the main hand.
- æ shows the extended tongue of e.
- d is insular. The upstroke is much longer than that of the main hand, and leans backward at 45 degrees. There is a slight curve in the upstroke, and its top ends in a very pronounced flick down to the left (a feature of some Exeter manuscripts some thirty or more years earlier). There is one example, at line 1, of straight-backed d and it has a pronounced flag at the top left of the upstroke.
- e is very rounded with an extended tongue, particularly at line-ends.
- f has a curved topstroke, and a midstroke that varies in length but curves up.
- g has a curved tail that flicks slightly to the right at the end.
- h is insular with serifs to the right of the limbs.
- minims have well-defined serifs to the right on the line.
- r is insular with a rounded shoulder and descender that curves to the left.
- s is insular, with one example of a decorative long s in initial position, with a hooked terminal at the top.
- t shows the slightest hint of the upstroke bisecting the headstroke.
- The upstroke of ð is much longer than that of the main hand, and is slightly curved. The top of the upstroke ends in a distinctive tag to the left. The crossbar ends in a short downward stroke to the right. The top quadrant of the whole graph is thus a 45 degrees cross.
- þ has a long ascender with a wedged end and the descender curves to the left.
- ƿ has a descender that curves to the left.
- y is straight-limbed and dotted, with a tail that curves to the left.
- ascenders are wedged or split.
- descenders generally curve to the left and fill the interlinear space.
Abbreviations: The only abbreviation is an erroneous abbreviated þ at line 8, where the cross-stroke finishes in a serif to the left.
Punctuation: punctuation is by punctus low on the line.

Decoration Description

Ink is very dark brown and occasionally made slightly fuzzy by thick parchment. Titles in red rustic capitals with red and/or purple, or green decorated litterae notabiliores.

Additions

Some contemporary and thirteenth-century English glosses (see above).

Numerous later glosses, notes and marginalia in pencil and pale ink:

pp. 1, 11, 23, 25, 30: the latter three pages have pencil underlining with crosses in the margins at pp. 23/11-24; 25/8-9, 11-13, 29-31; 29/28-30, possibly by Abraham Wheelock
p. 151: pen-trials
pp. 159, 161, 189, 213: German and Latin notes on the Lord's Prayer
pp. 215, 218 (German), 224.

At p. 215, a sixteenth-century note reads 'id est | that is, | si thin nama gehalgod', corresponding to 'sancti ficetur nomen tuum' in the text.

pp. 1-10 paper flyleaves (sixteenth-century). pp. 1-9 blank except for old pressmark (S. 9) and title; p. 10 contains table of contents.

A Parkerian table of contents occurs on p. 9 and identifies 33 articles (a nineteenth-century[?] hand has added 'Be there halgan clennisse'' with an accompanying asterisk at article 9). The foliation of the table of contents corresponds to the actual manuscript foliation and not to the pagination scheme.

Additional Parkerian marking in red crayon occurs on p. 83 (lower right hand corner, 'se hælend cwæð þæt heofon'a' rice')
p. 177 (two red crosses in margin; 'læuel' and '˥ þar an' underlined in red)
p. 183 (red crayon slash at end of line 27)
p. 189 (illegible red crayon note in top margin may indicate that text is missing before p. 189)

Illegible scratched gloss at p. 88/3, margin.

Sixteenth-century: pp. 233-42 the missing text at the end is supplied by an emulative hand.

Binding Description

Rebound in light brown leather in 1954.

pp. i-iv and 249-252 are modern paper flyleaves; pp. v-vi, 1-10 paper of sixteenth-century; pp. 233-242 paper and parchment supply leaves of sixteenth-century; pp. 243-248 parchment flyleaves of sixteenth-century.

Additional Information

Administration Information

Manuscript described by Elaine Treharne with the assistance of Takako Kato and Hollie Morgan (2010; 2013). Bibliography updated by Georgia Henley (2018).

Surrogates

Digital surrogate: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/cg531kv2466 (accessed 18 July 2018)

EM Project facsimile

History

Origin

Origin: The origin and medieval provenance of this manuscript is unknown. It is one of four manuscripts about whose previous history nothing is known.

Provenance: In Archbishop Parker's possession after 1565 as his 'Quintus liber homiliarum' (S. 9).

Acquisition: Bequeathed by Parker to Corpus Christi College in 1575.

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Catalogue Entry Authored By

Elaine Treharne