Old English homilies and other liturgy; the earliest Vita S Dunstani and a rhymed responsory for an office for Gregory the Great; history of the kings of Britain and England attributed to Peter of Ickham, with continuations
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three items which were bound together in the early modern period. The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-v: an early modern table of contents and a list; ff. 2r-58v: Old English homilies, a coronation oath, Ælfric's translation of the Pater Noster, and an Old English transl...
Old English Homilies, coronation oath, translation of the Pater Noster, and translation of the Apostles' Creed
Scope & Content:
These folios contain Old English homilies and liturgy in Old English, possibly created for Bishop Leofric and his cathedral at Exeter in about the 3rd quarter of the 11th century. ff. 2r–55v: Old English Homilies, included some from Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies, some from the Vercelli Book, and s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII (parchment codex)
Vita sancti Dunstani by B; rhymed responsory from an office for Gregory the Great
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the first Vita of St Dunstan (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2342), composed by an author known only as 'B'. This text does not include the prologue found in other copies of B's Vita. The text in these folios was probably copied at the beginning of the eleventh century. On...