Add MS 38010

HOMILIES on the Gospel-lessons for Sundays and a few of the principal Feasts throughout the year, beginning at Advent, with a prologue; in English octosyllabic verse. Imperfect, wanting half the first leaf, a leaf after f. 48, several leaves after f. 93, and several more at the end. A copy of the original collection in the Northern dialect, and closely allied to (but much more complete than) the Edinburgh MS. printed by J. Small, English Metrical Homilies, 1862. The first quire of another copy is in Add. MS. 30358, and a series of tales extracted from the homilies is in Harley MS. 2391, ff. 156b-230b; Add. MS. 22283, ff. 1-30b, contains part of a South-English paraphrase (complete in the Vernon MS. at Oxford), with additional homilies on the Gospels for Saints' days; and a later Northern version, with considerable variations, is in Harley MS. 4196, ff. 1-205b, and Cotton MS. Tib. E. vii. ff. 101 b-281 b. For detailed descriptions of these and of the present MS. see Cat. of Romances, iii. pp. 320-336, 714; see too C. Horstmann, Allenglische Legenden, Neue Folge, 1881, pp. Ivii.-lxxxix., and G. H. Gerould, The North-English Homily Collection, 1902. The first complete lines are: "Thow gafe hym gast and full of witt Swa qwaynt and crafty, mad pou itt." f. 1. These answer to 11. 17-18 of the prologue in Add. 30358, f. 2, and in Small's edition, p. 2. The MS. breaks off in the homily for the 20th Sunday after Trinity: "To pis bridale er pai calde For pai for cristen men er talde." f. 174 b. Paper; ff. i. + 174. 8¼ in. x 5½ in. Middle of xv. cent. Belonged in the 16th cent. to John, Laurence and Thomas Snawdon successively (see ff. 91 b, 125, 152, 154 b, 155). On the margin of f. 16 b is the name Anthony Teale, with date 1551, and on that of f. 111 b, is a late 16th cent. scribble, "To his well beloued freind Edmond Farebancke de Thronton [Thornton] in the countye of Yorke gentellman." Phillipps MS. 8254, entered in the folio cat. among the Heber MSS., and probably identical with lot 1090 in the salecat. of Richard Heber's library, pt. xi., 1836; Phillipps sale-cat. l910, lot 673.

Theology: Homilies on the Gospel-lessons, in verse.: 15th cent.: Engl.

Poetry: Homilies on the Gospel-lessons: 15th cent.

includes:

• f. 111 b Edmund Farebancke, of Thorntonn, county Yorkshire: Mentioned: late 16th cent.