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Cotton MS Faustina A IX
- Record Id:
- 040-001103858
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000053
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056023458.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Faustina A IX
- Title:
- Homilies, including Ælfric, Catholic Homilies (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A 16th-century title and notes.
f. 1v: A 16th-century copy of the beginning of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, incipit 'Iohannes se godspellere cwaeð...'
ff. 2r-11r: A continuation of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies (begins imperfectly), in a 12th-century hand.
ff. 11r-17v: A sermon for the third Sunday after Epiphany, from the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 17v-21v: Ælfric's letter to Sigefyrð.
ff. 21v-23v: An anonymous homily for the third Sunday after Epiphany (the rubric says the fifth Sunday), beginning 'Men ða leofestan ute gehyran hér godes word'.
ff. 23v-27v: An anonymous homily for the fourth Sunday after Epiphany (the rubric says the sixth Sunday), beginning 'Men þa leofestan ure driht[en] ælmihtig god ús singalice menegað'.
ff. 27v-31v: An anonymous homily for the fifth Sunday after Epiphany (the rubric says the seventh Sunday), beginning 'Men þa leofestan utan geþencan georne...'
ff. 31v-37v: A sermon for Septuagesima, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, beginning 'Drihten sǽde...'
ff. 37v-39r: A sermon for Septuagesima, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, beginning 'We willað...'
ff. 39r-44v: A sermon for Sexagesima, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 44v-50v: A sermon for quinquagesima, from the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 51r-55r: A sermon for the first Sunday in Lent, from the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies (begins imperfectly).
ff. 55r-59v: A sermon for the first Sunday in Lent, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 59v-63r: A sermon for the second Sunday in Lent, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 63r-69r: A sermon by Ælfric for the third Sunday in Lent, beginning 'Erat Iesus eiciens...'
ff. 69r-73r: A sermon for Mid-Lent Sunday in Lent, from the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 73r-82v: A sermon for Mid-Lent, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, beginning 'Men ða leofestan we rædað nu...'
ff. 82v-85v: Asermon for Mid-Lent, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, beginning 'Moyses 7 Aaron...'
ff. 85v-91v: De oratione Moysi, from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints. There is a blank, unfoliated leaf between ff. 89 and 90.
ff. 91v-99r: A sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 99r-102v: A sermon by Ælfric for the Friday after the fifth Sunday in Lent, beginning 'Collegerunt pontifices...'
ff. 102v-108r: A sermon for Palm Sunday, from the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies. A leaf is missing between ff. 102v and 103r.
ff. 108r-116v: A sermon for Palm Sunday, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies (with the rubric 'Feria II de passione domini').
ff. 116v-119v: An anonymous homily (Blickling Homily number 6).
ff. 119v-126r: An anonymous homily, beginning 'Segeð on þisum bocum...'
ff. 126r-131r: A sermon for Easter, from the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 131r-139r: A sermon for Easter, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, beginning 'Men þa leofestan...'
ff. 139r-141v: A sermon for Easter, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, beginning 'Hit is swiðe...'
ff. 141v-145r: A sermon for Easter Wednesday, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 145r-150v: A sermon for the first Sunday after Easter, from the second series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 150v-159v: A sermon for the second Sunday after Easter, from the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies. Ends imperfectly.
ff. 160r-162v: Ælfric's De doctrina apostolica. There is a blank, unfoliated leaf between f. 160v and 161r.
ff. 162v-165v: A sermon of Ælfric for the fourth Sunday after Easter, beginning 'Vado ad eu[m] qui me misit...'
ff. 165v-169v: A sermon of Ælfric for the fifth Sunday after Easter, beginning 'Sume men nyton gewis...'
ff. 169v-176v: A sermon on 'De fide catholica', from the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 176v-182v: A sermon on the Ascension, from the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 182v-186r: A sermon of Ælfric for the first Sunday after Ascension, beginning 'Cum autem venerit...'
ff. 186r-192v: A sermon on Pentecost, from the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies.
ff. 192v-196v: A sermon on Pentecost by Ælfric, beginning 'Si quis diligit me...'
Decoration:
Large initials in green and red, sometimes with penwork decoration (ff. 11r, 17v, 21v, 23v, 27v, 31v, 32r, 37v, 39r, 44v, 55r, 58v, 59v, 63r, 69r, 73r, 82v, 85v, 92r, 99v, 102v, 109r, 116v, 119r, 126r, 131r, 139r, 141v, 145r, 150v, 162v, 165v, 166r, 170r, 176v, 182v, 186r, 192v). Drawing of a face in an initial (f. 131r). Smaller initials in green or red (ff. 38r, 39r, 40r, 77r, 78r, 83v, 86r, 93r, 128r, 139r, 145v, 163r, 166v, 170r, 175r-v, 176v, 177v, 179r, 182v, 183r,192v, 193r, 195v). Rubrics in red. Letters highlighted in red and blue throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103858 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Faustina A IX : Homilies, including Ælfric, Catholic Homilies (imperfect) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1235]/040-001103858
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056023458.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: folios 230 x 155 mm (text space: 195 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 196 (where f. i is an early modern parchment endleaf + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 the end).
Script: Protogothic; 16th-century Italic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Southeastern England.
Provenance:
The manuscript is the work of a single scribe in the 1st half or the 1st quarter of the 12th century, although some aspects of the script change from f. 92r (see Treharne, 'Production' (2000), pp. 21-22).
?13th-century notes (ff. 103r-v, 104r-v, 105v, 106r; on the dating, see Treharne, 'Production' (2000), p. 27).
Later annotation (f. 132v).
William Bowyer (d. 1569/70), antiquary: inscribed 'Sum Guiliel. Bowyer 1565), but visible under ultraviolet light (f. 2r; transcribed by Wanley, Librorum Veterum Septentrionalium Catalogus (1705), p. 239).
John Joscelyn (b. 1529, d. 1603), Old English scholar and Church of England clergyman: his notes throughout (for example, ff. 17v, 131r, 134r, 136v-137r).
Henry Elsynge (d. 1635), parliamentary official and scholar: according to Joscelyn, acquired the manuscript from William Bowyer (see Cotton MS Vespasian D VII and Kleist, 'Anglo-Saxon Homiliaries' (2007), p. 478).
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: acquired from Elsynge in 1597 (see Kleist, 'Anglo-Saxon Homiliaries' (2007), p. 478). Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton.
Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet: his signature (f. 2r).
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Clemoes, Peter (ed.), Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: The First Series. Text, Early English Text Society, Special Series, 17 (London: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Da Rold, Orietta, and others, The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, electronic book (University of Leicester, 2010; last update 2013), [https://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.BL.Faus.A.ix.htm accessed 11 May 2017].
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), no. 382.
Godden, Malcolm (ed.), Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: The Second Series, Early English Text Society, Special Series, 5 (London: Oxford University Press, 1979).
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 153.
Kleist, Aaron J., 'Anglo-Saxon Homiliaries in Tudor and Stuart England', The Old English Homily: Precedent, Practice, and Appropriation (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 445-492 (p. 478).
Morris, Richard, ed., The Blickling Homilies, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 58, 63, 73 (London: Oxford University Press, 1874, 1876, 1880), no. 6.
[Planta, J.], A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Deposited in the British Museum (London, 1802).
Skeat, W. W. (ed.), Ælfric’s Lives of Saints, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 76, 82, 94, 114 (London and Oxford: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1881-1900; repr. as 2 vols, 1966).
Smith, Thomas, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Cottonianæ (Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1696), p. 150.
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).
Teresi, Loredana, 'Ælfric’s or Not? The Making of a Temporale Collection in Late Anglo-Saxon England', in The Old English Homily: Precedent, Practice and Appropriation, ed. by Aaron J Kleist, Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 17 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 284-310.
Thorpe, B. (ed.), The Sermones Catholici or Homilies of Ælfric, Ælfric Society, 2 vols (London: Ælfric Society, 1844-46).
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 219.
Treharne, Elaine, 'The Dates and Origins of Three Twelfth-Century Old English Manuscripts', in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage, ed. by Philip Pulsiano and Elaine M. Treharne (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 227-53 (pp. 233, 236).
Treharne, Elaine, '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 (pp. 11, 20-27).
Treharne, Elaine, ‘Reading from the margins: the uses of Old English homiletic manuscripts in the post-Conquest period’, in Beatus Vir: Studies in Early English and Norse Manuscripts in memory of Phillip Pulsiano, ed. by A. N. Doane and Kirsten Wolf (Tempe, AZ, 2006), pp. 329-58 (pp. 344–45, 348).
Wanley, H., Librorum Veterum Septentrionalium Catalogus (1705), p. 239.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.