Cambridge, Trinity College, B. 15. 34
B. 15. 34
General Information
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Homilies for the Temporale Sundays and feast-days from Easter to the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost. As Ker 1957 notes (p. 130), CUL Ii 4. 6 also has texts in a similar order to those here, up to Pentecost. Over half of the twenty-eight homilies are derived from Ælfric's Sermones Catholici I and II. The main text is s. ximed, with some alterations of s. xi2 and linguistically significant alterations and glosses from s. xii2.
Digital Surrogate
- Item: pp. 3-18
Title (B.1.1.17): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Easter
Title (manuscript): DIE DOMINICA PASCAL
Incipit: (p. 3) OFT GE GEHER | don ymbe þæs hælendes ærist
Explicit: (p. 18) 7 ðam | halgan gaste. nu 7 a on ecenysse. amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 18-26
Title (B.1.2.19): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Easter
Title (manuscript): ITEM ALIUS SERMO DE DIE PASCA
Incipit: (p. 18) HIT IS SWIÐE GEDAFENLIC
Explicit: (p. 26) Si lof 7 wuldor ðam | welwillendan hælende. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 26-35
Title (B.1.2.20): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Wednesday in Easter Week
Title (manuscript): FERIA .IIII
Incipit: (p. 26) GELOME ÆTEOW | de ure drihten hine sylfne
Explicit: (p. 35) 7 godum geearnungum. | to ðam ecum life becuman moton
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 35-51
Title (B.1.1.18): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: First Sunday after Easter
Title (manuscript): DOMINICA. PRIMA. POST PASCHAE
Incipit: (p. 35) Cum esset sero die illa una sabatorum & reliqua | ÆFTER ÐÆS HÆ | lendes æriste wæron his discipuli | belocene on anum huse
Explicit: (p. 51) wunigende | on broðorlicre lufe mid gode a on ex | nysse. amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 51-79
Title (B.1.1.19): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Second Sunday after Easter
Title (manuscript): DOMINICA .IIa. POST PASCHA
Incipit: (p. 51) Dixit iesus discipulis suis. Ego sum | pastor bonus. bonus pastor animam suam || ponat pro ouibus suis. & reliqua | ÐIS GODSPELL | þe nu geræd wæs
Explicit: (p. 79) Þam seo wuldor. 7 lof on ealra | worulda woruld. a butan ende amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 79-90
- Item: pp. 90-103
- Item: pp. 103-18
Title (B.1.4.8): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica V Post Pascha
Title (manuscript): DOMINICA .V. POST PASCA.
Incipit: (p. 103) SUME MEN NY | ton gewiss. for heora nytenysse
Explicit: (p. 118) þam is æfre an | wuldor. 7 an wurdmynt. amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 118-35
Title (B.3.2.30): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: In Letania Maiore
Title (manuscript): IN LETANIA MAIORÆ
Incipit: (p. 118) ÐAS DAGAS SYND | gehatene letanige
Explicit: (p. 135) Se þe leofað | 7 rixað mid fæder 7 mid þam halgum | gaste. a butan ende AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 135-56
Title (B.1.1.21): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Feria III de dominica oratione
Title (manuscript): FERIA .III. DE DOMINICA ORATIONE
Incipit: (p. 135) SE HÆLEND CRIST. | syþþan he to þisum life com
Explicit: (p. 156) he rixað | mid eallum his halgum on | ealra worulda woruld on ecnese amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 156-79
Title (B.1.1.22): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Feria III de fide catholica
Title (manuscript): FERIA .IIIIa. DE FIDE CATHOLICA
Incipit: (p. 156) ÆLC CRISTEN | man sceal æfter rihte cunnan
Explicit: (p. 179) se þe | þurhwunað on þrynesse. an ælmihtig | god. a on ecnesse amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 179-98
Title (B.3.2.76.EM): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: Ascension
Title (manuscript): IM ASCENSIONE DOMINI
Incipit: (p. 179) Primum quidem sermonem feci. & reliqua. | LUCAS SE GOD | spellere us manode
Explicit: (p. 198) Se þe leofað 7 rixað mid ðam | ælmihtigan fæder 7 þam halgan | gaste on ecnesse. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 198-211
Title (B.1.4.9): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica Post Ascensionem Domini
Incipit: (p. 198) Cum autem uenerit paraclitus quem | ego mittam uobis a patre & reliqua. | SE HÆLAND | her on life mid his halgum apostol | um
Explicit: (p. 211) Se ðe a | rixað on ecnysse. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 211-32
- Item: pp. 232-44
- Item: pp. 244-49
Title (B.1.6.3): Ælfric, Tracts: De Septiformi Spiritu [Be þam halgan gaste]
Title (manuscript): DE SEPTIFORMI SPIRITU
Incipit: (p. 244; 45) Spiritus sanctus pro septenaria operatione | [...] alter peior | dolus ficte. reliosistatis | ISAIAS SE WITEGA AWRAT ON HIS WITE | gunge be þam halgan gaste
Explicit: (p. 249) hwæðer him | godes gast on wunige oððe þæs gram | lican deofles
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 241-89
- Item: pp. 281-95
Title: Homilies
Title (B.1.4.13): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica I Post Pentecosten
Incipit: (p. 281) Erat homo ex pharisseis & reliqua | SUM PHARISE | isc man wæs gehaten. nichodemus
Explicit: (p. 295) on anre godcundnysse. | we cweðað.l AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 295-310
Title (B.1.1.25): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Second Sunday after Pentecost
Title (manuscript): DOMINICA .IIa. POST PENTECOSTEN.
Incipit: (p. 295) Homo quidam erat diues. & reliqua. | SE WEALDENDA | drihten sæde þis bispell
Explicit: (p. 310) on anre godcund | nesse wunigende butan anginne | 7 ende a worulde. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 310-19
Title (B.1.2.29): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Third Sunday after Pentecost
Title (manuscript): DOMINICA .III. POST PENTECOSTEN
Incipit: (p. 310) Homo quidam fecit cenam magnam & reliqua | SE HÆLEND SÆde | þis bigspell his leorningcnihtum
Explicit: (p. 319) se ðe þurh his tocyme us þær | to gelaðode. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 337-50
- Item: pp. 350-63
Title (B.1.4.15): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica VI Post Pentecosten
Title (manuscript): DOMINICA .VI. POST PENTECOSTEN
Incipit: (p. 350) Cum turbe inruerent ad iesum. & reliqua. | ON ÐÆRE TIDE | iu. hit getimode swa
Explicit: (p. 363) þam is wuldor \ 7 wurðmynt. a to worulde AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 363-76
Title (B.1.4.16): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica VII Post Pentecosten
Title (manuscript): DOMINICA .VII. POST PENTECOSTEN
Incipit: (p. 363) Amen dico uobis nisi abundauerit & reliqua. | MATHEVS SE | godspellere. þe wæs mid criste on life
Explicit: (p. 376) Þam is wuldor | 7 wurðmynt. a to worulde. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 376-87
Title (B.1.2.32): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Title (manuscript): DOMINICA .VIII. POST PENTECOSTEN
Incipit: (p. 376) Cum multa turba esset cum iesum nec | aberent quod manducarent. & reliqua. | MARCUS SE GOD | spellere cwæð on ðisum dægðerlicum | godspelle
Explicit: (p. 387) Se ðe leofað 7 rixað on ealra | worulda woruld. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 387-98
Title (B.1.2.33): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Title (manuscript): DOMINICA .VIIII. POST PENTECOSTEN
Incipit: (p. 387) Adtendite a falsis prophetis qui ue | niunt in uestimentis ouium & reliqua. | DRIHTEN CWÆÐ | to his leorningcnihtum behealdað | eow wið lease witegan þe to eow cumað
Explicit: (p. 398) Sy him | wuldor. 7 lof mid fæder. 7 halgan gaste. on ealra worulda woruld. amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 398-414
Title (B.1.4.17): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica X Post Pentecosten
Title (manuscript): DOMINICA .X. POST PENTACOSTEN
Incipit: (p. 398) Homo quidam erat diues qui ha \ bebat uillicum. & reliqua. | SE HÆLEND SÆ | de þus to his halgum apostolum. her | on þisum life libbende
Explicit: (p. 414) þam sy | a wuldor on ecnysse. amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
- Item: pp. 415-32
Title (B.1.1.30): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Title (manuscript): DOMINICA .XI. POST PENTECOSTEN
Incipit: (p. 415) Cum adpropinquas & iesus hierusalem. | ON SVMERE TIDE | wæs se hælend farende to hierusalem
Explicit: (p. 432) ends imperfectly; the rest of the homily is supplied on p. 433 in hand of s. xviAc uton we beon carfulle þæt ure tima
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 130-32
Object Description
Form: Codex
Extent:
c. 247 mm x 165 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
200 mm x 100 mm (dimensions of all - size of written space)
Foliation/Pagination: Fols iii + 126 + i + ii. The medieval leaves are paginated in red pencil on the rectos 1-431.
Collation:
Quires: 1-278. 2 and 7 in Quire 8 and 6 in Quire 20 are half-sheets.
Note: Pages i-vi, 435-8 are parchment flyleaves. There are 21 lines to each page. According to Ker 1957 (p. 132), pages 433-34 are a supply leaf from s. xvi. Ker's description of pages 1-2 appears as the first quire's first leaf, separated and reversed from pp. 15-16 is right. The volume is incomplete at the end.
Hand Description
- Number of hands: 3
- Summary: One main hand, s. ximed. Another hand, s. xi2, made some corrections and alterations, and a third hand was responsible for additions and glosses, s. xii. These interventions vary from the modernisation of spelling forms, to the replacement of lexemes with updated synonyms (e.g., 'forwyrde' is replaced by 'pine'). In some homilies, the glossing and modernisation is extensive and would be worth a full study. This tends to cluster around particular homilies, such as those for the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost. Some of the glosses are French words (such as 'ealdre' glossed by 'maistre' at p. 91/15. A later hand still, datable to s. xii/xiii, added vertically on the right marginal bounding line of page 19 (a second homiliy for Easter) 'Omnia uinc’ amo Omniaui Omnia uinc’ amor [et] nos cedam’ amori...'. This quotation, from Vergil's Eclogues, Book X.69, is also found in another, contemporary manuscript of Old English homilies: Junius 85, at fol. 44v. This same hand quotes from the Nicene Creed, emphasising the Council of Toledo's 'filioque' clause, at p. 157, in reponse to lines from Ælfric's 'Sermo ad populum in octauis pentecosten dicendus'.
- Methods of Alteration: The hand of s. xi2 often changed 'hi' to 'hy' and 'him' to 'hym' (Ker 1957, p. 130). Many of these changes are made by simple overwriting or by insertion.
- Hand: main text
- Scope: major
- Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
- Ker reference: Ker 86 SC1
- Description: pp. 3-432. This hand is upright and relatively angular. The mise-en-page allows for generous interlinear space, which this scribe fills with length ascenders, especially of þ and ð.
- Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
- a is Caroline, but often has an undeveloped head.
- e is often high in the combination æ.
- c is horned.
- e is horned both in Latin and Old English.
- f is insular; the middle stroke, which is longer than the headstroke, sits flat on the line.
- Insular g has a flat headstroke; the tail descends from the left of the headstroke into a curved and closed tail.
- High and low s are used in all positions. The former has a distinctive onset stroke; the latter, a split shoulder.
- ð has a cross-bar which transects the upstroke. The cross-bar curves down at the end. The upstroke frequently ends with a small blob down to the right.
- ascenders are long in proportion to x-height, and sometimes have a tag to the left.
- descenders are relatively short and have a very slight curve to the left.
- Punctuation: Punctuation is generally a punctus, slightly above base-line. The punctus versus is used to close major clauses, and is consistently followed by a red enlarged initial.
- Other manuscripts: Written by the same scribe as London, BL, Harley 2892.
- Hand: additions and glosses
- Scope: minor
- Script: English Vernacular Minuscule
- Ker reference: Ker 86 SC2
- Description: The general aspect is upright; the duct angular. The signe de renvoi used for the squeezing in of corrections in the margins is a backward c with a dot on either side. s. xii.
- Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
- a is Caroline.
- Round-backed d with an upstroke the same size as ð is used.
- f is Caroline.
- Insular g is used for the spirant.
- h is Caroline.
- Long s is used.
- ð has a straight crossbar which transects the upstroke.
- u is used for WS y, as in 'ufelnesse', 'sunfullan.'
- ascenders are split wedges.
- Ligatures: de is ligatured in this hand: a true 'biting' de.
- p. 1 contains a full-page drawing of Christ in a mandorla (Wormald 1952, no. 15).
- At the end of each homily there is a mark consisting of a group of four or five dots with four strokes radiating out of them (Ker 1957, p. 132).
- Large initials are in red or olive-green.
- Sentences begin with a smaller red initial.
- The first line of each homily is in large, black capitals. On p. 337, they are surrounded by red dots.
- Titles are in red rustic capitals.
Sixteenth-century binding of brown leather, elaborately tooled and gilded, with decorated clasps on the front. The cover of the binding is stamped at a later date with the arms of Archbishop Whitgift. Top, bottom and foredge are gilded, and '26' is written on the foredge. Front board of binding has had the pastedown removed, allowing an examination of the sewing, consisting of three thongs in the boards. The original binding was attached by four thongs, though. On the board 'Omilia. Saxon 26' is written; this seems to be a typical Parkerian designation. The unpasted pastedown is a sixteenth-century accounts page.
Additional Information
Manuscript described by Elaine Treharne with the assistance of Hollie Morgan and Sanne van der Schee (2010; 2013).
Digital surrogate: http://trin-sites-pub.trin.cam.ac.uk/james/viewpage.php?index=235 (accessed 18 July 2018)
A facsimile of p. 1 is in James, M. R., The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge: A Descriptive Catalogue (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900), vol. 1: Containing an Account of the Manuscripts Standing in Class B, pl. 11
Keynes, Simon, 'Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Trinity College', Old English Newsletter Subsidia 18 (Binghamton: CEMERS, 1992), item xxiib
Wilcox, Jonathan, '80. Cambridge, Trinity College B.15.34 (369) Homilies by Ælfric', in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, ed. by Peter J. Lucas, Jonathan Wilcox, Alger Nicolaus Doane and Ian Campbell Cunningham (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1997), vol. 16: Manuscripts Relating to Dunstan, Ælfric, and Wulfstan; the "Eadwine Psalter" Group, pp. 17-26
History
Origin:
The script and illumination suggest that it was produced in Canterbury.
Provenance:
Unknown. The alterations of s. xii appear not to be in a south-eastern dialect.
Acquisition: Presumably belonged to Archbishop Matthew Parker. It then belonged to his son, John Parker, whose signature is on the pastedown: it is no. 44 in the list of John Parker's manuscripts in London, Lambeth Palace, 737. Bequeathed to Trinity College by Archbishop Whitgift. A note by Professor Timothy Graham in the folder explains that many of the pencil markings in the manuscript are in the hand of William L'Isle. At pages iii-viii is aAbraham Wheelocke index with a title 'Homiliae quaedam Saxonice' at the top middle of p. iii. The index continues at pages 434-438, some of it overwriting an accounts page.
Canterbury
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Belfour, A. O., ed., Twelfth-Century Homilies in MS. Bodley 343, EETS, OS 118 (London: Kegan Paul Trench Trübner, 1909)
Gneuss, Helmut, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), item 177
Greg, Walter W., Facsimiles of Twelve Early English Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1913)
James, M. R., The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge: A Descriptive Catalogue (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900), vol. 1: Containing an Account of the Manuscripts Standing in Class B
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 86
Keynes, Simon, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Trinity College, Old English Newsletter (Binghampton: CEMERS, 1992), vol. Subsidia 18
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Thorpe, B., ed., The Sermones Catholici or Homilies of Ælfric, Ælfric Society, 2 vols (London: Ælfric Society, 1844-46)
Wanley, H., Librorum Veterum Septentrionalium Catalogus (1705)
Wilcox, Jonathan, '80. Cambridge, Trinity College B.15.34 (369) Homilies by Ælfric', in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, ed. by Peter J. Lucas, Jonathan Wilcox, Alger Nicolaus Doane and Ian Campbell Cunningham (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1997), vol. 16: Manuscripts Relating to Dunstan, Ælfric, and Wulfstan; the "Eadwine Psalter" Group, pp. 17-26
Wormald, Francis, English Drawings of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (London: Faber and Faber, 1952)
Elaine Treharne