Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 321
321
General Information
59
91
Fol. 139, seventeen lines explaining the origin and meaning of Alleluia in dialogue form. Written in one hand. Origin unknown. The manuscript is a sixteenth-century copy of Petrus Johannes Olnivi's Latin postils on St Matthew. Fol. 139 is an inserted leaf containing only the note on Alleluia.
Digital Surrogate
Item: fols 139a r-v
Title (B.12.6.1): Rubrics and Directions for the use of Prayers: Dialogue in Old English [fragment]
Incipit: (fol. 139ar) Sæge me hƿær ƿære gecƿeden ærest Alleluia ic þe secge betƿih tƿam dunum.
Explicit: (fol. 139ar) þonne cƿeþe ƿe he ƿæs áá ond nu áá biþ ond he is friþ ond ende ond he is lifgende in eallum circum. Amen.
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 59
James 1912, p. 138
Object Description
Form Codex
Hand Description
Additional Information
Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Johanna Green, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2012).
Digital surrogate: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/js431dq0778 (accessed 18 July 2018)
History
Unknown
James, Montague Rhodes, Matthew Parker, and A. Rogers, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 59
Owen Roberson