Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 4. 6

Present Location

Cambridge

Repository

University Library

Shelfmark

Ii. 4. 6

Contents

Homilies

Date

s. ximed

Medieval Provenance

Unknown

General Information

Ker

Gnuess/Lapidge

Summary

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.

Manuscript Items

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
- Title (B.1.1.9): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: The Third Sunday after Epiphany: Dominica tertia post theophaniam
  Incipit: (fol. 9v) (Latin begins Cum descendisset) Matheus se eadiga godspellere
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
Item: fols 18-21
- Title (B.1.2.30): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Third Sunday after Pentecost: alia narratio
  Incipit: (fol. 18v) Mine gebroðra ƿe ƿyllað eoƿ gereccean sume cristes ƿundra
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
Item: fols 22-32
- Title (B.1.2.6): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Septuagesima: Dominica in septuagessima
  Incipit: (fol. 22r) Drihten sæde þis bigspell. his leorningcnihtum
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
Item: fols 32-39
- Title (B.1.2.7): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Sexagesima: Dominica in Sexagessima
  Incipit: (fol. 32r) (Latin begins Cum turba plurima) On sumre tide þa þa micel meniu
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
Item: fols 39-47
- Title (B.1.1.11): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Quinquagesima: Dominica in quinquagessima
  Incipit: (fol. 39r) (Latin begins Assumpit iesus) Her is gerædd
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
Item: fols 47-55
- Title (B.1.3.13): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Ash-Wednesday: Feria .IIII. in capite ieiunii
  Incipit: (fol. 47r) On þissere ƿucan on ƿodnesdæg
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
Item: fols 55-64
- Title (B.1.1.12): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: First Sunday in Lent: Dominica .I. in quadragessima
  Incipit: (fol. 55v) (Latin begins Ductus est iesus) Ic ƿolde eoƿ trahtnian
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
Item: fols 64-71
- Title (B.1.2.8): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: First Sunday in Lent: Alia parabole in eadem die
  Incipit: (fol. 64v) Men þa leofostan eoƿ eallum is cuð
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
Item: fols 71-75
- Title (B.1.2.9): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Second Sunday in Lent: Dominica .II. in quadragessima
  Incipit: (fol. 71r) (Latin begins Egressus inde iesus) Drihten hælend þreade
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
Item: fols 75-83
- Title (B.1.4.4): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica III in Quadragesima: Dominica .III. in quadragessima
  Incipit: (fol. 75v) (Latin begins Erat iesus eiciens) On þære mæran tide
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
Item: fols 83-89
- Title (B.1.1.13): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Mid-Lent Sunday: Dominica .III. in quadragessima
  Incipit: (fol. 83r) (Latin begins Abiit iesus.) Se hælend férde ofer ða galileiscan sǽ
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
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
- Title (B.1.2.14): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Midlent: secunda sententia: Secundus sermo. de iosue. et de pugnis eius
  Incipit: (fol. 102r) Moyses 7 ááron
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
Item: fols 109-17
- Title (B.1.3.14): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: The Prayer of Moses [De Oratione Moysi]: De oratione moysi
  Incipit: (fol. 109r) Æfter þam þe moyses se mæra heretoga of egipta lánde
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 32
Item: fols 117-27
- Title (B.1.2.15): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Fifth Sunday in Lent: Dominica quinta
  Incipit: (fol. 117v) Ðeos tid fram þisum andƿeardum dæge
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fols 127-39
- Title (B.1.2.16): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Palm Sunday: Dominica de passione domini II
  Incipit: (fol. 127v) Drihtnes þroƿunge
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fol. 139v
- Title (B.1.2.17): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Swigdagas
  Addition: (fol. 139v) Ne mot nan mann secgan spell on þam þrim sƿigdagum
  
  Text Language: English
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fols 139-48
- Title (B.1.1.15): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Palm Sunday: Euangelium. in die ramis palmarum
  Incipit: (fol. 139v) (Latin begins Cum adpropinquasset) iesus Cristus þroƿung
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fols 148-56
- Title (B.1.1.40): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Andrew: Die Dominica paschae
  Incipit: (fol. 148r) Oft ge gehyrdon
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fols 156-71
- Title (B.1.2.18): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Easter: Sermo de sacrificio in die paschae
  Incipit: (fol. 156v) Men þa leofostan gelome eoƿ is gesǽd
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fols 171-75
- Title (B.1.2.19): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Easter
  Incipit: (fol. 171r) Hit is sƿiþe gedafenlic
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fols 175-80
- Title (B.1.2.20): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Wednesday in Easter Week
  Incipit: (fol. 175r) Gelóme æteoƿde
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fols 180-87
- Title (B.1.1.18): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: First Sunday after Easter
  Incipit: (fol. 180v) (Latin begins Cum esset sero) Æfter þæs hælendes ǽriste
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fols 187-202
- Title (B.1.1.19): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Second Sunday after Easter: Dominica .IIa. post oct. paschae
  Incipit: (fol. 187r) (Latin begins Ego sum pastor bonus ) Ðis godspell þe nu gerǽd ƿæs
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fols 202-07
- Title (B.1.4.7): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica IV Post Pascha: Dominica .IIIIa. post oct paschae
  Incipit: (fol. 202r) (Latin begins Uado ad eum qui me misit ) Manega godspel syndon gesette
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fols 207-15
- Title (B.1.4.8): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica V Post Pascha: Dominica .Va. post octab. paschae
  Incipit: (fol. 207v) Sume menn nyton
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fols 215-28
- Title (B.1.2.24): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Feria II in Letania Maiore: Sermo in Letania maiore. Feria .IIa.
  Incipit: (fol. 215v) Læƿende men behofiaþ. þæt him lareo ƿas secgon
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 33
Item: fols 228-38
- Title (B.3.2.41): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: Tuesday in Rogationtide: Feria .IIIa. in Letania maiore
  Incipit: (fol. 228r) Se eádiga apostol iacobus ús mánode
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, pp. 33-34
Item: fols 238rv
- Title (B.3.2.30): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: In Letania Maiore: Feria Quarta
  Incipit: (fol. 238r) Þas dagas synd gehatene laetaniae
  
  Explicit: (fol. 238v) on geleaffulre gelaþunge
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 34
Item: fols 238-46
- Title (B.1.2.28): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Feria IV in Letania Maiore: Euuangelium in uigilia ascensionis domini
  Incipit: (fol. 238v) Iohannes se godspellere aƿrát on þisum dægðerlicum godspelle
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 34
Item: fols 246-57
- Title (B.1.2.31): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Peter and Paul: In ascensione domini
  Incipit: (fol. 246r) (Latin begins Primum quidem) Lucas se godspellere ús manode
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 34
Item: fols 257-64
- Title (B.1.4.9): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica Post Ascensionem Domini: Dominica post ascensione domini
  Incipit: (fol. 257v) (Latin begins Cum autem uenerit) Se hælend her on life
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 34
Item: fols 264-76
- Title (B.1.1.24): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Pentecost: In die sancto pentecosten
  Incipit: (fol. 264v) Fram þam halgan easterlice dæge
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 34
Item: fols 276-82
- Title (B.1.4.10): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica Pentecosten: Dominica pentecosten
  Incipit: (fol. 276r) (Latin begins Si quis diligit me) Iohannes se godspellere. þe þis godspell aƿrát
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 34
Item: fols 282-89
- Title (B.1.4.13): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica I Post Pentecosten: Dominica .Ia. post pentecosten
  Incipit: (fol. 282v) (Latin begins Erat homo ex phariseis) Sum phariseic mann
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 34
Item: fols 290-99
- Title (B.1.1.20): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: In Letania Maiore: Ðis godspell gebyrað on þære gangwucan. Feria .IIa. et .IIIa.
  Incipit: (fol. 290r) God spræc to anum ƿitegan
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 34
Item: fols 299-308
- Title (B.1.1.21): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Feria III de dominica oratione: De dominica oratione
  Incipit: (fol. 299r) Se hælend crist (fols 304, 305 and 307 missing)
  
  Text Language: English and Latin
  
  Bibliography:
  
  Ker 1957, p. 34

Object Description

Form

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.

Decoration Description

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.

Binding Description

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

Administration 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

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.

Provenance

Unknown

Bibliography

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 21

Catalogue Entry Authored By

Hollie Morgan