London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. ix
Faustina A. ix
General Information
153
Homilies for Sundays and festivals other than Saints' days, from the incomplete initial homily for the second Sunday after Epiphany to Pentecost. Twenty-two homilies are from the First and Second Series of Ælfric's Sermones Catholici (ed. Thorpe 1844-46). The collection is similar to, but fuller than CUL Ii. 4. 6 and, most notably, CCCC 302. A number of the anonymous homilies are unique to this manuscript and CCCC 302. There are twelfth-century alterations on fols 119v-30v and 162v-4v (Ker 1957, p. 190).
Digital Surrogate
- Item: fols 2r-11r
- Item: fols 11r-17v
Title (B.1.1.9): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: The Third Sunday after Epiphany
Rubric (initial): Dominica .III. post epiphania. domini.
Incipit: Cum autem descendisset ... Matheus se eadiga godspellere.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, i. 120
- Item: fols 17v-21v
Title (B.1.8.5): Ælfric, Letters: Letter to Sigefyrð
Rubric (initial): Dominica .IIII. Be þere halgan clænnesse.
Incipit: Ure hælend crist cydde.
Note: The preface to Sigefyrð in the margin of fol. 17v in Joscelyn's hand is copied from BL, Cotton, Vespesian D. xiv, Item 4.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Assmann 1889, 13 (no. 2, l.13)
- Item: fols 21v-23v
Title (B.3.2.5): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: Third Sunday after Epiphany
Rubric (initial): Dominica. Va. et quando uolueris be heofonwarum ˥ beo helwarum.
Incipit: Men þa leofestan ute gehyran hér godes word.
Note: The homily is for the third Sunday after Epiphany in CCCC 302.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Willard 1935b, 38-44 and 24
- Item: fols 23v-27v
Title (B.3.2.6): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
Rubric (initial): Dominica .VI et quando uolueris. Larspel be urum drihtne.
Incipit: Men þa leofestan ure drihten ælmihtig god ús singalice menegað.
Note: The homily is for the fourth Sunday after Epiphany in CCCC 302.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Assmann 1889, 164
- Item: fols 27v-31v
Title (B.3.2.7): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
Rubric (initial): Dominica .VII. aud [sic] quando uolueris de uerbis domini.
Incipit: Men þa leofestan utan geþencan georne ˥ on úre geþance þæt fæste healdan. hu sanctus iacobus cristes þegn sǽde. hu se hælend.
Note: The homily is for the fifth Sunday after Epiphany in CCCC 302.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Napier 1883, 257/9
- Item: fols 31v-37v
Title (B.1.2.6.2.EM): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Septuagesima
Rubric (initial): Dominica. in septugesima [sic].
Incipit: Drihten sǽde þis bíspel his leorningcnihtum.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, ii, 72-84
- Item: fols 37v-39
Title (B.1.2.6.3.EM): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Septuagesima
Rubric (initial): De alleluia
Incipit: We willað eow secgan be ðissere andweardan tide.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, ii, 84
- Item: fols 39-44v
Title (B.1.2.7): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Sexagesima
Rubric (initial): Dominica in sexagesima.
Incipit: Cum turba plurima....On sumere tíde þa þa micel mænigu.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, ii. 72-84
- Item: fols 44v-50v
Title (B.1.1.11): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Quinquagesima
Rubric (initial): Dominica. in quinquagesima.
Incipit: Assumsit iesus....Hér is gerǽd.
Explicit: þæt eal folc cweðe be ús. (Ends imperfectly, Thorpe 1844-46, 164/29)
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, i, 152
- Item: fols 51-55
Title (B.1.1.12): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: First Sunday in Lent
Incipit: (Begins imperfectly) ne scéotan. forþan þe hé ascunode.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, i. 170/25
- Item: fols 55-59v
Title (B.1.2.8): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: First Sunday in Lent
Rubric (initial): Feria secunda.
Incipit: Men þa leofestan eow eallum is cuð.
Note: The title Euuangelium at fol. 58v and the words following it 'Cum uenerit filius hominis in magestate sua. et omnes angeli cum eo. tunc sedebit super magestatis sue. et congregabunter omnes gentes; et reliqua; Ðæt is on engliscre spræce' are not in the printed edition. They occur after '˥ þus cwæð' (Thorpe 1844-46, 106/23).
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, ii. 98
- Item: fols 59v-63
Title (B.1.2.9): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Second Sunday in Lent
Rubric (initial): Dominica. II. in quadragesima.
Incipit: Egressus inde iesus.... Ðrihten hælend þréade.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, ii, 110
- Item: fols 63-69
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 tíde.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Müller 1835, 19
- Item: fols 69-73
Title (B.1.1.13): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Mid-Lent Sunday
Rubric (initial): Dominica .IIII. in quadragesima.
Incipit: Abíít iesus.... Se hælend ferde ofer þa galileiscan sæ.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, i, 180
- Item: fols 73-82v
Title (B.1.2.13): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Midlent
Rubric (initial): Sermo de lege dei in media quadragesimae.
Incipit: Men þa leofestan we rædað nu æt godes ðenungum embe gesetnesse.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, ii, 188
- Item: fols 82v-85v
Title (B.1.2.14): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Midlent: secunda sententia
Rubric (initial): Secundus sermo de iosuę et de pungnis eius.
Incipit: Moyses ˥ ááron.
Note: Thorpe 1844-46, ii, 212, but Thorpe 1844-46 218/29 Gifernys bið-224/12 on ðam ecan life does not occur here.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, ii, 212
- Item: fols 85v-91v
Title (B.1.3.14): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: The Prayer of Moses [De Oratione Moysi]
Rubric (initial): De oratione moysi in media quadragesima.
Incipit: Æfter þam þe moyses se mæra heretoga of egipta lande
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Skeat 1881-1900, i. 282
- Item: fols 91v-99
- Item: fols 99-102v
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: 'Collegerunt pontifices...Þæt halige godspel þe ge gehyrdon nú rǽdon'
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Assmann 1889, 65 (no. 5)
- Item: fols 102v-108
Title (B.1.1.15): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Palm Sunday
Rubric (initial): Dominica in die ramis palmarum.
Incipit: 'Cristes þrowung'
Note: One leaf is missing between fol. 102 which ends 'his agenum' (Thorpe 206/6) and fol. 103 which begins 'rihtan geleafan' (Thorpe 206/28)
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, i. 206
- Item: fols 108-116v
Title (B.1.2.16): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Palm Sunday
Rubric (initial): Feria II de passione domini.
Incipit: 'Drihtnes þrówunge'
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, ii. 240
- Item: fols 116v-119v
Title (B.3.3.17.3.1.EM): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Sanctorale: St Martin [Or Blickling 6]
Rubric (initial): Feria III (alt. to II) euangelium.
Incipit: 'Ante sex dies pasce....Ge magon gehýran secgan be ðære árwyrðnysse þysse halgan tide'
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Morris 1874, 1876, 1880, 65-69/18, 73/20-30, 73/35-75/11, 77/33- 79/10, 79/27, 81/33-83/4 (part of the Blickling homily 6, for Palm Sunday)
- Item: fols 119v-126
Title (B.3.2.22): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: In Cena Domini
Rubric (initial): Feria V In cena domini.
Incipit: 'Segeð on þisum bocum be þære áwurðnesse'
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Assmann 1889, 151 (no. 13)
- Item: fols 126-131
Title (B.1.1.17): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Easter
Rubric (initial): Die dominica paschę resurrection‾. domini de euangelio.
Incipit: 'Oft ge gehyrdon'
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, i. 220
- Item: fols 131-139
Title (B.1.2.18): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Easter
Rubric (initial): Sermo de sacrificio in die paschę.
Incipit: 'Men þa leofestan. gelóme eów is gesǽd'
Note: Variant readings have been added by Jocelyn and at the appropriate places the leaf,
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, ii. 262
- Item: fols 139-141v
Title (B.1.2.19): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Easter
Rubric (initial): Alius sermo de die pasche.
Incipit: 'Hit is swiðe gedafenlic'
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, ii. 282
- Item: fols 141v-145
Title (B.1.2.20): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Wednesday in Easter Week
Rubric (initial): Feria III in pascha ebdomada.
Incipit: 'Gelóme ætéowde'
Note: The title 'Euangelium' stands between the passage translated from the gospel and its exposition (Thorpe 288/11)
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, ii. 288
- Item: fols 145-150v
Title (B.1.1.18): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: First Sunday after Easter
Rubric (initial): Dominica. in octaua paschę.
Incipit: 'Cum esset sero. ... Æfter þæs hælendes æriste'
Note: The passage in rhythmic prose, 'Hwær beoð wyrta blosman... þæs hwilwendlican færeldes' (fols 148v/12-150/12), is not in the printed edition. It comes after ' heafde' (Thorpe 236/22)
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, i. 230
- Item: fols 150v-159v
Title (B.1.1.19): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Second Sunday after Easter
Rubric (initial): Dominica II post pascha.
Incipit: 'Dixit iesus discipulis suis; Ego sum pastor bonus....Þis godspel þe nú geræd wæs'
Note: Omitting the passages printed 242/7-24 (Be ðisum- bysnað) and 244/7-9 and adding at the end a long passage which occurs also in CUL Ii.4.6, CCCC 188, CCCC 302, but not in Thorpe. This passage begins 'Ge magon gehýran' (fol. 152v/21) and ends imperfectly 'swícdomes 7 sýrwun-', a leaf having been lost after fol. 159.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, i. 238
- Item: fols 160-162v
Title (B.1.4.20): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: De doctrina Apostolica
Title (B.1.6.3): Ælfric, Tracts: De Septiformi Spiritu [Be þam halgan gaste]
Incipit: 'útan bið geséwen'
Note: After 'grámlican deofles' (Nap. 60/4) the text continues 'Be þam we mágod sécgan sume soðe býsne. swa swa béda awrát...endenextan dæge ' (fols 160v/24-162/18).
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Napier 1883, 58/1 (no. 8)
- Item: fols 162v-165v
- Item: fols 165v-169v
Title (B.1.4.8): Ælfric, Homilies of Ælfric: Dominica V Post Pascha
Rubric (initial): Dominica V post octau‾.
Incipit: 'Sume men nyton gewis'
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Belfour 1909, 12
- Item: fols 169v-176v
Title (B.1.1.22): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Feria III de fide catholica
Rubric (initial): De fide catholica.
Incipit: 'Ælc cristen man'
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
Thorpe 1844-46, i. 274.
- Item: fols 176v-182v
Title (B.1.1.23): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Ascension
Rubric (initial): In die ascendionis domini.
Incipit: 'Primum quidem... Lucas se godspellere ús mánode'
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
As Thorpe 1844-46, i. 294.
- Item: fols 182v-186
- Item: fols 186-192v
Title (B.1.1.24): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Pentecost
Rubric (initial): In die sancto pentecosten.
Incipit: 'Fram þam halgan easterlican dæge'
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 153
As Thorpe 1844-46, i. 310.
- Item: fols 192v-196v
Object Description
Form: Codex
Support: Parchment
Extent:
- 230 mm x 150 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
- c. 187 mm x 111 mm (dimensions of all - size of written space)
Foliation and/or Pagination: (As Ker 1957) fols iv + 196 + iii, foliated (i-iv), 1-196, (197-9). Previously, Quire 23 was misbound before Quire 22 and as a consequence fols 157-71 were foliated 165-71, 157-64. The manuscript was rebound in 1966 using a concertina-type binding so that each quire is effectively bound separately. 25 quires now, with Quires 12 and 13 being bound together. Folio 1 is supplied.
Collation:
- Quires: Collation (as Ker 1957, and checked against the codex) of fols 2-196: 11 (fol. 2), 2-78, 88 wants 1 before fol. 51, 9-128134, 148, 158 wants 2 after fol. 102, 16-218, 228 wants 4 after fol. 159, 23-258, 2612 wants 10-12, probably blank, after fol. 196.
Condition:
The condition of the membrane is generally very good, and often quite thick in texture. Manuscript itself is acephalous. Upper margins appear to have been closely trimmed.
Note:
- Blank parchment leaves have been inserted in place of the leaves missing from Quires 8 and 22. A quire is missing after fol. 50. Ruled with a pencil on Quires 1-4 and hardpoint elsewhere for 24 long lines. Pricked prior to folding. Double bounding lines.
Hand Description
- Number of hands: 1
- Summary: One main hand, although from fol. 92r onwards the script changes from insular to Caroline minuscule then returns to insular. Treharne 2000 argues that 'this scribe has been copying Latin immediately prior to the stint at fol. 92r' (p. 22).
Hand: main text
Sporadically through the compilation of the manuscript, the scribe's hand seems to vary very slightly between quires (along with the ruling between Quires 1-4 and the rest of the manuscript): thus, at fol. 66 (Quire 9), insular d is used in Latin and English, and insular h is used, when the usual form is Caroline. This suggests, perhaps, that this manuscript was copied over a lengthier period of time than might be usual, and in blocks of quires, rather than by textual unit. This seems confirmed by the change of elements of the script at fol. 92r, where Quire 13 (a quire of four) begins.
- Scope: sole
- Scribe: Ker 153 SC1
- Script: twelfth-century minuscule
- Description: Ker 1957 calls this 'an untidy hand, lacking character' (p. 193) although Treharne 2000 describes it as 'quite distinctive' with a general aspect similar to that of CCCC 302 (p. 21). The bowls of letters are often quite round, with some variation towards a squarish line, but the aspect is generally upright and angular, the angularity caused by the tags and serifs of ascenders, the flick of the tail of y, the many acute accents, the positura (two points and a comma), and the heavy abbreviation marks and cross-strokes. It may be this multitude of angular strokes that caused Ker's judgement that the hand is 'untidy'. Quite what he meant by 'lacking character' is unclear.
- Summary of the characteristics of the hand: See Treharne 2000, pp. 20-22.
- a is Caroline and has a fat, angular bowl with a relatively undeveloped headstroke.
- d is usually insular and is the same shape as ð but tends to have a shorter back. Caroline, straight- backed d is used in the first few lines of fol. 92r, and sporadically elsewhere. It is tagged to the left (in the manner of 'prickly script' manuscripts of the the first quarter of the twelfth century from Canterbury and Rochester).
- e is relatively rounded, and often has an upward-curving extended tongue, especially at word- and line-end.
- f is insular throughout the manuscript. The medial and upper cross-strokes both turn down at the end and this is the single most characteristic feature of this hand. This form of f is reminiscent of that used by the scribe of Harley 55, fols 5-13
- g is Caroline, with a tail that is open but slightly flattened at the bottom. From fol. 92r onwards, the tail of Caroline g sweeps round towards the bowl in a rounded fashion.
- h is Caroline up to fol. 66 and insular from fol. 66 up to fol. 92r. Caroline h is used on fol. 92, but it reverts to insular by fol. 93, with some sporadic incidences of Caroline after that.
- minims have consistently formed feet that flick upwards to the right and have a tagged serif in the onset stroke. The first minim of m is often more widely set than the second and third.
- r is usually insular, though Caroline r occasionally occurs (as at fol. 92r, for example).
- Up to fol. 66 the top of s is quite rounded. The top is flatter in subsequent folios. High Caroline s and low insular s are used from fols 66-92r. After fol. 92r long sis employed initially and finally, together with low sand the occasional high s.
- ð is of the same shape as d but with a slightly longer back. The cross-stroke is very straight, slightly angled, and balanced in length, but has a small blob or flick downwards on the right side.
- þ has a quite rounded bowl.
- y is always dotted and is either straight-limbed or has limbs that curve outwards slightly. The tail of straight-limbed y flicks angularly upwards to the right at the end of the tail.
- ascenders are wedged or tagged to the left, and very occasionally flagged to the right. ascenders of b, h, land þ tend to be as high as the interlinear space permits.
- descenders are straight and tapering, though f and roccasionally taper very slightly to the left.
- accents are pronounced and hook-shaped with a distinctive flick downwards at the end. The accents are broadly similar to those in CCCC 383.
- Abbreviations: 'drihten' is abbreviated by a horizontal line indicating the omission of -en, which crosses through the ascender of h. This is also seen in CCCC 303.
- Punctuation:
- The punctus is used throughout.
- The positura consisting of two punctus and a comma arranged triangularly is used throughout the text up to fol. 92, then afterwards much less frequently.
- From fol. 92 the punctus versus, punctus elevatusand punctus interrogativus are employed.
- There are flat, medially-placed, hyphens at line-ends but, rather like the positura, these tend to cluster in specific scribal stints, or may be derived from characteristics of the exemplar.
- Ligatures: There are few st ligatures and only rare ctligatures (fol. 101r/24, for example).
Initials are metallic purple or green or both colours used together. The first letter of a sentence is filled with red and titles are in red rustic capitals (Ker 1957, p. 193). The enlarged, pen-filled initials (such as the green M at fol. 82v) have foliate terminals, and blobs at a medial point of the limbs. Angular shapes, rather like the teeth of a saw, decorate the oblique lines. These initials might be similar to those of manuscripts from Rochester and St Augustine's, Canterbury in the first half of the twelfth century.
Additional Information
Manuscript described by Elaine Treharne with the assistance of Hollie Morgan, Owen Roberson and Takako Kato (2010; 2013).
Digital surrogate: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_faustina_a_ix_fs001ar (accessed 18 July 2018)
Treharne, Elaine M., 'The Production and Script of Manuscripts containing English Religious Texts in the First Half of the Twelfth Century', in Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century, ed. by Mary Swan and Elaine M. Treharne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 42-45, facsimiles of fols 65v, 66, 82v and 92
History
Origin:
Unknown, but likely to be south-eastern, based on scribal and textual affiliations (for these, see Treharne 2000, and Teresi 2007, and the references therein).
Provenance:
Unknown.
Acquisition:
According to Ker 1957, the addition of a flyleaf (fol. 1) on which is written the sixteenth-century title 'Sermones angliCæ sive SaxoniCæ 36' and Joscelyn's notes 'show that this was one of the manuscripts used in Archbishop Parker's circle' (p. 193). 'Sum Guiliel. Bowyer 1565' is written on fol. 2, erased but visible under ultra-violet light (transcribed in Wanley 1705, p. 239). Part of the Cotton library: Thomas Cotton's name is written on fol. 2. Acquired by the British Museum along with the rest of the Cotton collection.
Southeast England
Assmann, Bruno, ed., Angelsächsischen Homilien und Heiligenleben, Bibliotek der angelsächsischen Prosa, 13 (Kassel: Wigand, 1889; repr. 1964)
Belfour, A. O., ed., Twelfth-Century Homilies in MS. Bodley 343, EETS, OS 118 (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1909)
Clemoes, Peter, ed., Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: The First Series. Text, EETS, SS 17 (London: Oxford University Press, 1997)
Godden, Malcolm, ed., Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: The Second Series, EETS, SS 5 (London: Oxford University Press, 1979)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 153
Müller, Ludwig C., Collectanea Anglo-Saxonica Maximam Partem Nunc Primum Edita et Vocabulario Illustrata (Hauniæ: Wahl, 1835; repr. Amsterdam: Rodophi, 1970)
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Teresi, Loredana, 'A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Spellings in Two Vernacular Manuscripts of the Transition Period: MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 302 and MS London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. ix', (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Manchester, 1998)
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---, 'The Production and Script of Manuscripts containing English Religious Texts in the First Half of the Twelfth Century', in Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century, ed. by Mary Swan and Elaine M. Treharne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 11-39
Wanley, H., Librorum Veterum Septentrionalium Catalogus (1705)
Willard, Rudolph, 'The Punctuation and Capitalization of Ælfric's homily for the First Sunday in Lent', The University of Texas Studies in English, 29.1 (1950), 1-32
---, Two Apocrypha in Old English Homilies, Beiträge zur englischen Philologie, 30 (Leipzig, 1935b)
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Elaine Treharne