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040-002106235 Language English, Old

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII
Title:: Fragments of Canon Tables, the First Series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche; Gospel of Nicodemus; fragments of Cassiodorus Senator, Expositio Psalmorum
Scope & Content:: This volume includes three parts: ff. 2-3 are fragments of canon tables from a seventh- or eighth-century Gospel book, in Latin; ff. 4-218 contain an early copy (possibly written in the 990s) of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, in Old English; ff. 219-231 contain twelfth-cent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 700 to 2nd half of 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 4r-218v
Title:: Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, First Series
Scope & Content:: This item consists of the earliest known copy of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies. This copy lacks the prefaces found in later versions, and some of the homilies are imperfect (numbers i, xv, xx, xxiii, and xxiv in Catholic Homilies, ed. by Clemoes (1997), p. 1). The main text was ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1000
Extent:: 214 folios, part of a parchment codex

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