Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 4. 6
Ii. 4. 6
General Information
21
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Homilies for Sundays and festivals other than Saints' days, from Septuagesima to the first Sunday after Pentecost, with miscellaneous additions at either end of the manuscript. Fols 22-215v, 246-82v are a collection similar to that of Faustina A. ix. Fols 7-47, 55v-75v, 83-109, 117v-202, 238-57v, 264v-76, 290-308v are from the First and Second Series of Ælfric's Sermones catholici. There are some contemporary glosses and additions, and some marginalia of s. xiii/xiv. The manuscript is copied by two main hands. Origin unknown (Ker 1957, p. 35).
On fol. 1 is the inscription 'Hunc codicem cum altero consimili: reperit R. Ferrorseruus comitis Bedfordie in Domo quondam cenobio de Tavestoke in Devinshire, Aº 1566', referring to Ferrar, member of parliament for Tavistock (d. 1572). On fol. 7v is the name 'Fol. Bedford'. The Earl of Bedford gave the manuscript to Archbishop Parker, 29th December 1567 'in camera stellata' (fol. 308v). No. 9 in the list of manuscripts given to Cambridge University by Parker in 1574.
- Item: fols 7-9
Title (B.3.5.17.1.EM): Unidentified Homily [fragment]
Incipit: (fol. 7) siððan (the end of a homily, beginning imperfect)
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, p. 32
- Item: fols 9-18
- Item: fols 18-21
- Item: fols 22-32
- Item: fols 32-39
- Item: fols 39-47
- Item: fols 47-55
- Item: fols 55-64
- Item: fols 64-71
- Item: fols 71-75
- Item: fols 75-83
- Item: fols 83-89
- Item: fols 89-102
Title (B.1.2.13): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Midlent: Sermo de lege dei in media quadragessimae
Incipit: (fol. 89r) Men þa leofostan. ƿe rædað nu æt godes þenungum embe gesetnysse
Explicit: (fol. 102r) þone glædan syllend. Uton éac ealle gemænelice urne leofan drihten biddan þæt he ure mod onlihte. 7 us him glæde gedo. 7 us his mildheortnysse geunne. 7 ure synna forgyfnysse. 7 þæs ecan lifes myrhðe. þam si ƿuldor. 7 lofol. a to ƿorulde. Amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, p. 32
- Item: fols 102-09
- Item: fols 109-17
- Item: fols 117-27
- Item: fols 127-39
- Item: fol. 139v
- Item: fols 139-48
- Item: fols 148-56
- Item: fols 156-71
- Item: fols 171-75
- Item: fols 175-80
- Item: fols 180-87
- Item: fols 187-202
- Item: fols 202-07
- Item: fols 207-15
- Item: fols 215-28
- Item: fols 228-38
- Item: fols 238rv
- Item: fols 238-46
- Item: fols 246-57
- Item: fols 257-64
- Item: fols 264-76
- Item: fols 276-82
- Item: fols 282-89
- Item: fols 290-99
- Item: fols 299-308
Object Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent:
- c. 261 mm x 150 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
- 202 mm x 94 mm (dimensions of all - size of written space)
Foliation and/or Pagination: Fols viii + 1 + i + 296 + ii + 1 + i + 1 + xxii, foliated (i, ii), 1-241, 241*, 242-311, 313-28, 312, (329-30). Fols 8, 10-328 were formerly paginated 1-642.
Collation:
Quires: Collation of fols 7, 9-03, 306, 308: 18, 28 wants 7, 8, probably blank, after fol. 21, 3-610, 7-368, 378 wants 4, 5, after fol. 303 and 7 after fol. 306. 4 and 7 in Quire 3 and 3 and 6 in Quires 16, 20, 23, 25, 27-33, 37 are singeltons. Fol. 7 is reversed.
Condition:
Note:
- Parchment is soft and white, often flecked with grey on the hair side. Ruled for 20 long lines.
Hand Description
- Number of hands: 2 main hands
- Summary: 'Two upright black rather ugly hands' (Ker 1957, p. 35).
- Hand: main text
- Scope: major
- Scribe: Ker 21 SC1
- Script: 11th century
- Description: Fols 22-143.
- Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
- The ascender of d is generally fairly short and curved.
- The head of long s is sometimes prolonged upwards and looped.
- ð is prominent.
- The ends of descenders are seriffed.
- Punctuation:
- hyphens are placed a little way out in the margins at the beginnings and end of lines.
- Hand: main text
- Scope: major
- Scribe: Ker 21 SC2
- Script: 11th century
- Description: Fols 7, 9-21, 148-308. From fol. 148 the first line of a homily is often majuscule.
- Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
- e is sometimes high in the combination æ.
- The head of long s is sometimes prolonged upwards and looped.
- ð is prominent.
- The ends of descenders are seriffed.
- After fol. 148, the first line of a homily is alternately red and green or red and black.
- Titles in red rustic capitals. The red is usually metallic up to fol. 156v.
- Initials are green, red or blue.
Rebound in 1928. Marks of nails on fols -7, 311-12 and a label with the title 'Homiliæ Saxon: 34' on fol. 6 suggest that there was once a Parkerian binding (Ker 1957, p. 35).
Fols (i, ii, 329-30) are paper leaves of the date of binding. Fols 1-6, 8, 304-5, 307, 309-28 are binding leaves and supply leaves, s. xvi, fols 1-3, 6, 311-12 being portions of a 16th-century document, a dispute about the will of William Wiker of Chale (Isle of Wight), of which Richard Tottenham, abbot of Quarr (1508-21) was executor. Other fragments of the same document are in Cambridge, CCC, SP. 438.
Additional Information
Described by Hollie Morgan with the assistance of Owen Roberson and Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship; ed. by Takako Kato (2010; 2013). Surrogates Reduced facsimile of part of fol. 70 in Willard, R., 'The Punctuation and Capitalization of Ælfric's homily for the First Sunday in Lent', The University of Texas Studies in English, 29, no. 1 (1950)
History
Origin:
Unknown.
Provenance:
Unknown.
Acquisition:
On fol. 1 is the inscription 'Hunc codicem cum altero consimili: reperit R. Ferror seruus comitis Bedfordie in Domo quondam cenobio de Tavestoke in Devinshire, Aº 1566', referring to Ferrar, member of parliament for Tavistock (d. 1572). On fol. 7v is the name 'Fol. Bedford'. The Earl of Bedford gave the manuscript to Archbishop Parker, 29th December 1567 'in camera stellata' (fol. 308v). No. 9 in the list of manuscripts given to Cambridge University by Parker in 1574.
Unknown
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 21
Hollie Morgan