London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius D. xvii
Vitellius D. xvii
General Information
222
406
Fols 4-92, a set of Homilies for saints' days, followed by a description of the resting places of the saints in England. Written in two hands, origin unknown (Ker 1957, p. 298). The manuscript is badly burned.
- Item: fols '23-27'
Title (B.1.2.8): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Fragment of 'Kalendas Ivlii Passio Aposolorum Petri et Pauli (Homily I, 26)
Incipit: (fol. '23') (beginning illegible) rst þam hunde. ˥ to langu fyrste næ (ending illegible)
Explicit: (fol. '27') (part illegible) nu sende he hundas to me forðon ðe he (ending imperfect)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '27-30'
Title (B.1.2.34): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: James and the Seven Sleepers [incomplete]
Incipit: (fol. '27') ˥ unaberendlice fornumene (part illegible) þurh | iacobes lare on crist gelyfdon. Namon þa (part illegible)
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fol. '30'
- Item: fols '36-37'
Title (B.1.2.21.3.1.EM): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Philip and James [incomplete]
Incipit: (fol. '36') (beginning imperfect) geare fæce æfter cristes ðroƿunga
Explicit: (fol. '37') geleaffullum mannum. ðam si ƿul | dor ˥ lof a to ƿorulde. amen
Text Language: English
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '37-38'
Title (B.1.2.21.3.2.EM): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Philip and James [incomplete]
Rubric (initial): (fol. '37' ) DE IACOBA APOSTOLO
Incipit: (fol'. '38') Ƿe ƿurdiað eac on ðissere freolstida
Explicit: (fol. '38') se ðe ana rixað on ecnysse | (beginning of line unclear) amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '38-42'
Title (B.1.1.34.3.EM): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Decollation of St John the Baptist [fragment]
Rubric (initial): (fol. '38' ) VIII KALENDAS SEPTEMBRIS NATALE SANCT BARTHOLOMEI. APOSTOLI
Incipit: (fol. '42' ) Ƿyrdƿiteras secgað þæt ðry beodscipas sind gehatene india
Explicit: (fols '') þæt he aidlige ealle ða hæðengyld (ending imperfect)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '43-48'
Title (B.1.2.41.1.EM): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Simon and Jude [fragment]
Incipit: (fol. '43' (lower fragment) ) babilonia ƿyrcen (rest illegible)
Explicit: (fol.'48' (lower fragment) ) Hƿæt þæt cild ða getingelice spræc
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fol. '48'
Title (B.1.2.41.2.EM): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Simon and Jude [second fragment]
Incipit: (fol '48' (upper fragment) ) dan heora æhta
Explicit: (fol '48' (upper fragment) ) on ealra ƿoruld amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '22, 48-50'
Title (B.1.3.16): Ælfric: Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Saint Mark
Rubric (initial): (fol. 22r) VII k MAI NATALE SANCTI MARCI. EVANGELISTA
Incipit: (fol. '48') Marcus se godspellere be godes dihte gefor to || egipta lande
Explicit: (fol. ' 50') ðam sy ƿuldor. ˥ lof a to ƿorulde. | amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '50-52'
Title (B.1.3.16): Ælfric: Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Saint Mark
Rubric (initial): (fol. '50') DE QVATVOR EVANGELISTARUM
Incipit: (fol. '50') Ƿe habbað nu gesæd sceorlice on ðysum geƿrite
Explicit: (fol. '52') (beginning illegible) geendiað þus ðas gesetnysse her
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '26, 52-65'
Title (B.1.2.3): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Stephen
Rubric (initial): (fol. 26r) vii. kalendas ianuarii | Natale Sancti stephani protomartyris
Incipit: (fol. ' 52' ) (beginning illegible) biscop spræc to his folce (part of text missing) andƿyrdon his frynd
Explicit: (fol. ' 65') Sy him ƿuldor . ˥ lof a on ecnys | se amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '56-61'
Title (B.1.1.4): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Stephen
Rubric (initial): (fol. '56') ITEM DE SANCTI STEPHANO
Incipit: (fol. '56') Ƿe rædað on þære bec þe is gehatan actus apostolorum | þæt ða apostolas gehadedon seofon diaconas
Explicit: (fol. '61') mid þam he ƿuldrað. ˥ blissað | a on acnysse amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '61-65'
Title (B.1.1.6): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Innocents
Rubric (initial): (fol. '61') IN NATALE INNOCENTIUM
Incipit: (fol. '61') (beginning illegible) dæg godes gelaþung geond ealne ymbhƿyrft (part illegible) oð þæt he gestod ofer hæ (part missing) rest þone ˥ steorran gesaƿon
Explicit: (fol. '65') se ðe leofað ˥ rixað a butan ende | AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '65-72'
Title (B.1.3.6): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Saint Sebastian
Rubric (initial): (fol. '65') xiiii, kalendas FEBRUARII NATALE SANCTI SEBASTIANI
Incipit: (fol. '65') Sebastianus hatte sum halig godes þegen (part missing) fare nu se ðe ƿille forð mid chro | matie ˥ ƿunige se ðe ƿille mid me on þyssere
Explicit: (fol. '72') eaðe secgende him betƿeonan þæt huru þa cristennan | becomon his lice (part missing) se ðe geƿylt ealle þing rixiende a on ecnysse eces ƿuldres cyning
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '72-82'
Title (B.3.3.30): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Sanctorale: Saint Pantaleon
Rubric (initial): (fol. '72') v. kalendas AVGVSTI PASSIO SANCTI PAN (end illegible)
Incipit: (fol. '72') Geherað nu men þa leofestan hƿæt her segð on þysum b (rest of incipit illegible)
Explicit: (fol. '82')
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '82-83'
Title (B.1.2.40): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Matthew
Rubric (initial): (beginning illegible) NATALE SANCTI MATHEI. APOSTOLI
Incipit: (fol. '82') Se godspellere matheus þe ƿe todæg ƿurðiað
Explicit: (fol. '83') sy him þæs | ƿuldor a on ecnysse amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '83-86'
Title (B.1.2.40.1.EM): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Matthew [his passion]
Incipit: (fol. '83') Ðes ylca apostol ˥ godspellere becom þurh godes | sande
Explicit: (fol. '86') Sy þæs gode lof a on ecnysse. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '86-96'
Title (B.1.2.12): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Benedict
Rubric (initial): (fol. '86') xii. kalendas APRILIS DEPOSITIO SANCTI BENEDICTI. ABBATIS
Incipit: (fol. '86') Benedictus se halga abbud on þisum andƿerdum dæge (part missing)
Explicit: (fol. '96') Sy him ƿuldor ˥ lof a on | ecnysse mid eallum his halgum se þe ana is unascegendlic god. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '96-101'
Title (B.1.2.42): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Martin
Incipit: (fol. '96') MARTINUS se ƿuldorfulla godes andete (part missing)
Explicit: (fol. '101') Sy ðam ƿuldor on ecere ƿorulde. þe leofað ˥ rixað | þurh hine sylfne god. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '101-05'
Title (B.1.2.10): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Gregory
Rubric (initial): (fol. '101') De SANCTI GREGORIO
Incipit: (fol. '101') Gregorius se halga papa engliscra | þeoden apostol (part missing)
Explicit: (fol. '105') on ðam he leofað mid gode ælmihtigum | a on ecnysse. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fol. '105'
Title (B.1.1.36): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Dedicatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis
Rubric (initial): (fol.'105') DE SANCTO MICHAELE ARCHANGELO
Incipit: (fol. '105') Manegum is cuð seo halige stoƿe sancte michaheles
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '108-09'
Title (B.1.2.22): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Invention of the Cross
Incipit: (fol. 108') (beginning missing) ƿe ƿurðiað þære halgan rode gemynd
Explicit: (fol. fol. '109') (beginning illegible) i ƿurðiað a for ƿurð | mynte cristes. se (part missing) life. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '109-10'
Title (B.1.2.23): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Alexander, Eventius, and Theodolus
Rubric (initial): (fol. '109') PASSIO SANCTERUM
Incipit: (fol. '109) On þisum dægpart illegible rƿurðe papa alexander geha | ten mid tƿam mæssepreostum
Explicit: (fol. '110') oð þisne andƿeardan dæg sy þam ælmihtigan lof. se ðe ana ricsiað | on ecnysse god. AMEN
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fol. '110'
- Item: fols '116-20'
Title (B.1.1.31): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Laurence
Incipit: (fol. '116') (beginning missing) geþylde heora ƿordum heorcnode.
Explicit: (fol. '120') mid cenum mode mænigfealde tintregu mid þam he | orsohlice on ecnysse ƿuldrað. amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '120-22'
- Item: fols '132-27'
Title (B.1.3.32): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Saint Cecilia
Incipit: (fol. '123') (beginning illegible) sƿylce to gebeorscipe (part illegible) ldan ƿe efstan to deaþe
Explicit: (fol. '127') oð þæt hi ealle cƿædon mid anre stemne þus. Ƿe gelu || (end illegible)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '127v-31'
Title (B.1.3.23): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Saint Apollinaris
Incipit: (fol. '127v') (beginning illegible) (top line gone) id petre sum arƿurðe gode (part illegible) appolin (part illegible) | haten þæs halgan apostoles
Explicit: (fol. '131') nu beo þu
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fol. '131'
- Item: fols '132-33'
Title (B.1.3.24.1.EM): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Saints Abdon and Sennes Alia Narratio [burnt]
Incipit: (fol. '132') Nu ƿe spræcon be cynegum. ƿe ƿillað þysne cƿide gelencgan (now lost)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '133-42'
- Item: fols '142v-44'
- Item: fols '144v-48'
- Item: fols '148-53'
- Item: fols '153-55'
- Item: fols '156-59'
- Item: fols '161-63'
- Item: fols '164-67'
- Item: fols '169-70'
Title (B.1.3.27): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Incipit: (fol. '169') (beginning missing) forþan ðe he ƿæs ˥sæte ealle (rest illegible)
Explicit: (fol. '170') stanas toburston (rest illegible)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '171-74'
Title (B.1.2.47): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Confessor [fragments]
Rubric (initial): (fol. '171) OMELIA
Incipit: (fol. '171') (everything before line 7 illegible) ge nyten on hƿilcere tide
Explicit: (fol. '174') se ana rixað on ecnysse Amen.
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fol. '174'
Title (B.1.2.45): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Apostles
Incipit: (fol. '174') Designauit dominus & alios septuaginto duos. & reliqua. | Se hælend geceas him to eacan þam tƿelf apostolas
Explicit: (fol. '174') þæt he asend ƿyrhtan to his geripe (ends imperfectly)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '178-80'
- Item: fols '180-81'
Title (B.1.2.49): Ælfric, Second Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies II]: Dedicatio ecclesiae
Rubric (initial): (fols '') IN DEDICATION (end illegible)
Incipit: (fol. '180') (beginning illegible) ƿe ƿyllað sume ti (rest illegible)
Explicit: (fol. '181') (explicit illegible)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fol. '189'
Title (B.1.3.31): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Passion of Saint Edmund
Incipit: (fol. '189') (top four lines gone) ƿican ða | (beginning of line illegible) ne ðone martyr mid menniscum
Explicit: (fol. '189') á mid his heofonlican fæder ˥ þam | halgan gaste
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '189-97'
Title (B.1.3.4): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Saint Basil
Incipit: (fol. '189') (beginning illegible) teah nan æþelborennysse nænne (part illegible) | ær ðam lange leornode æt gelæredum
Explicit: (fol. '197') to ƿoruld mid gode. Amen
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '197-201'
Title (B.1.1.29): Ælfric, First Series of Homilies [Catholic Homilies I]: Paul
Rubric (initial): (fols '197') kalendas IULII NATALE SANCTI PAVLI APOSTOLI
Incipit: (fol. '197') Godes ge (part illegible) rðað ðysne dæg. þam mæran ap (rest illegible)
Explicit: (fol. '201') þæt him mid him ˥ mid gode (end illegible)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fol. '201'
Title (B.1.3.25): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: The Maccabees
Rubric (initial): (fols '201') kalendas AUGUSTI. PASSIO SANCTOR MACABEORUM
Incipit: (fol. '201') Æfter ðan ðe alexander se e (rest illegible)
Explicit: (fol. '201') ðæs cyningas hæsum ˥ ƿoldon heora
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '204-11'
- Item: fols '211-12'
- Item: fols '213-16'
- Item: fols '217-20'
Title (B.1.3.9): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Saint Agatha [burnt]
Rubric (initial): (fols '217') Non Februari Passio Sactæ Agatha Virginis.
Incipit: (fol. '217') Agathes ƿæs geciged sum gesælig mæden on ðære scire Sicillianow lost
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '220-22'
- Item: fols '222-26'
- Item: fols '226-28'
Title (B.1.3.20.1.EM): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Passion of Saint Alban [burnt]
Incipit: (fol. '226') (text lost, based on Doane 2012 and Ker 1957) Sum hæðen Casere ƿæs gehaten Dioclitianus (now lost)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '228-29'
Title (B.1.3.20.2.EM): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Passion of Saint Alban [burnt]
Rubric (initial): (fols '228') De Iniostis
Incipit: (fol. '228') Is nu eac to ƿitan þæt man ƿitnað for oft (now lost)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
- Item: fols '230-31'
- Item: fol. '232'
Title (B.18.9): Lists of Kings, Saints, and Bishops: Resting places of the saints
Incipit: (fol. '232') Sanctus Albanus Martyr in Breotene. se resteð neah Ƿætlinga ceastre be þære ea ðe is genemmed Ƿearlame (now lost)
Explicit: (fol. '232') Ðonne resteð sanctus Cuðman æt Stænige on Suþsexum neah þær ea Bremre (now lost)
Text Language: English and Latin
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, pp. 292-98
Object Description
Form Codex
Hand Description
Additional Information
Administration Information Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Sanne van der Schee, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013). Transcription is based on Doane 2010 and Ker 1957, as the text is illegible on microfiche.
History
Unknown
Doane, Alger Nicolaus, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Renaissance Studies (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010), vol. 19: Saints’ Lives, Martyrologies, and Bilingual “Rule of St. Benedict” in the British Library
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 222
Owen Roberson