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Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV, ff 4–169
- Record Id:
- 041-001103344
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x00039c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101145607.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV, ff 4–169
- Title:
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Collection of Homilies mainly by Ælfric.
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 4v-6v: Ælfric, First Series of Homilies, De initio creature. Beginning: 'An anginn is ealra þingen'. Ending: 'ac he ƿearð þurh deofles sƿicdome ut adræfd'.
f. 6v: Ælfric, Letter to Sigefyrð [imperfect]. Rubric: 'Emb Clænnysse þe gehadede mæn healden scylen'. Beginning: 'Ælfric abbod gret Sigefryð.ʹ freondlice'. Ending: 'gyf he godes riht drifð '.
ff. 7r-11v: Distichs of Cato. Beginning: 'Mann sceal þurh his modes snoternysse'. Ending: 'Ne nym þu medsceattes for heo ablændeð ƿisra manna geðancas. And ƿæn deð rihtƿisra ƿord'.
ff. 12r-13v: Ælfric, First Series of Homilies, Feria III de fide catholica. Beginning: 'An Scyppend is ealra þingen'. Ending: ' For þan þe heo hæfeð þry þing on hire untodælendlice ƿyrcende'.
ff. 13v-15r: Decalogum Moysi from Ælfric's letter to Archbishop Wulftsan [extract]. Rubric: 'Decalogum Moysi'. Beginning: 'ƿe sculen cunnen gemyndelice'. Ending: 'synden.ʹ æfter christes acænnednysse'.
ff. 15r-21r: Ælfric, De Duodecim Abusivis. Rubric: 'De .xii. abusivis secundum disputationem Sancti Cipriani Martyris'. Beginning: 'Nu synd tƿelf abusiua'. Ending: 'ƿuldor and ƿurðmynt. amen'.
ff. 21r-22r: Ælfric, De VIII principalibus viciis [extracts from the third series of Homilies]. Rubric: 'De VIII principalibus viciis'. Beginning: 'Nu syndon ehte heafodlehtres'. Ending: 'feoll ær þurh heo'.
ff. 22r-23v: Ælfric, De VIII principalibus virtutibus [extracts from the third series of Homilies]. Rubric: ' De VIII principalibus virtutibus'. Beginning: 'Nu synden ehte heafodmægna'. Ending: 'amid gode sylfen gyf þe sƿincað nu her'.
ff. 23v-25r: Ælfric, First Series of Homilies on St John the Baptist. Rubric: 'of Sanctus Iohanne Baptiste'. Beginning: Se Godspellere lucas aƿrat on cristes bech'. Ending: 'and oðre ƿaclice þing'.
f. 25r/v: Ælfric, First Series of Homilies on St Peter. Rubric: 'In festo Sancti Petri Apostoli'. Beginning: 'Venit Iesus in partes cesaree Philippi. Matheys se godspelere awrat on þære godspellice gesettnysse'. Ending; 'þæt byð unbunden on heofonen'.
ff. 25v-30r: Anonymous, Homilies, a translation of the Passio Sancti Jacobi. Rubric: 'Of Iacobe Iohannes broðer'. Beginning: 'Ðæt iudeissce folc brohte þan hundredes ealdren feo'. Ending: 'on ealra ƿurlde ƿurld. amen'.
ff. 30r-31v: Ælfric, on St James and the Seven Sleepers. Rubric: 'VI kl. Augusti. Sanctorum Septem Dormientium'. Beginning: 'We wylleð eow eac gereccen scortilce'. Ending: 'se þe leo fað and rixeð a on ecnysse. amen'.
ff. 31v-33r: Ælfric, second series of Homilies on St Peter and St Paul. Rubric: 'Kl. Augusti. ad Vincula Sancti Petri apostoli'. Beginning: 'Lucas se godspellere us sæde'. Ending: 'on þan andƿeardan dæge þe ƿe hateð hlafmæsse'.
ff. 33r-40r: Ælfric, First series of Homilies for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost. Rubric: 'Dominica .XI post Pentecosten'. Beginning: ' Cum appropinuaret Iesus Ierusalem'.
ff. 40r-48v: Ælfric, First series of Homilies for the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost. Rubric: 'Dominica .XII. post Pentecosten'. Beginning: 'Dixit Iesus ad quosdam qui in se confidebant tanquam iusti et aspernabantur ceteros parabola istam. Drihten sæde þiss bigspell beo sumen mannen'. Ending: 'lend crist to þussen life becom'.
ff. 48v-54v: Ælfric, First series of Homilies on the Assumption of the Virgin. Rubric: 'In Assumptione Sancte Marie'. Beginning: 'Ieronimus se halge sacred'. Ending: 'þone heofonlice deme hire agene sune'.
ff. 54v-57v: Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin. Beginning: 'Mænn þa leofeste hwilon ær we gerehten eow þone pistol'. Ending: 'heo rædeð ungeræde mæn'.
ff. 58r-60r: Second part of the Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin. Beginning: ' ƿe ƿylleð eoƿ gereccen beo geændunge'. Ending: 'halgen gaste on eallre ƿurlde ƿurld. Amen'.
ff. 60r-67r: Ælfric, Homily on St John the Baptist. Rubric: '.III. kl. Septembris. Passio Sancti Iohannis Baptiste'. Beginning: 'Misit Herodes et tenuit Iohannem. Marcus se godspellere awrat'. Ending: 'abuten ænde. amen'.
f. 67v: Ælfric, Homily on the Ascension. Beginning: 'Se helend cƿæð on his godspelle'. Ending: 'byð ƿyrse þone se deofel'.
ff. 68r-70r: Ælfric, Second series of Homilies on Matthew. Rubric: 'In .xi. kalendas octobres. De Sancto Matheo apostolo'. Beginning: 'Se godspellere matheus þe ƿe todæig ƿurðigeð'. Ending: 'Sy him þæs ƿuldor aa on ecnysse. Amen'.
ff. 70r-74v: Ælfric, First series of Homilies for St Michael's Church. Rubric: 'In III kl. Octobre'. Beginning: 'Accesserunt ad Ihesum discipuli dicentes. Quis putas maior est in regni celorum. Ðiss dægðerlice godspell cƿyðð þæt drihtenes leorningcnihtes'. Ending: 'se þe leofeð and rixeð a on ecnysse. amen'.
ff. 74v-75r: Excerpt from Homilies of St Augustine. Beginning: 'Augustinus sæde on his cƿiðbocan'. Ending: 'sƿa sƿa he sylf cƿæð on his godspelle'.
f. 75r-v: Ælfric, Letters: First Old English Letter for Archbishop Wulfstan. Beginning: 'Iohannes se godspellere on his gastlican gesihðe þone hælend geseh'. Ending: 'sƿa sƿa he sylf getæhte ær his þroƿunge'.
f. 75v: Addition of a year Prognosis. Beginning: 'Ðonne forme geaƿesdæig byð sunendæig'.
f. 76r/v: Text on the coming of Antichrist. Beginning: 'Hit sæigð on halgen bocan'. Ending: 'on manna bearnen'.
ff. 76v-82v: Ælfric, Homily for the second Sunday in Advent. Rubric: 'Dominica .ii. in adventu domini'. Beginning: 'Erunt signa in sole et luna et stellis. Et reliqua. Se godspellere lucas aƿrat on þyssen dæigðerlicen godspelle'. Ending: 'rixeð on eallra ƿurlda ƿurld. Amen'.
ff. 82v-86v: Ælfric, second part of the Homily on All Saints. Rubric: 'Secundum Mattheum'. Beginning: 'Videns turbas Iesus. Ðæt halige godspell þe nu lyttle ær'. Ending: 'mid þan halgen gaste a on ecnysse. Amen'.
f. 87r-v: Gospels: John 14 : 1-13. Beginning: 'Iohannes se godspellere aƿrat hƿu se hælend spæc to his leorningcnihten'.
ff. 87v-100r: Homilies on the Gospel of Nicodemus. Rubric: 'De resurectione Domini'. Beginning: 'Ðæs dæiges þe ure hælend'. Ending: ' deofle sarege. amen'.
ff. 100v-102r: The legend 'Vindicta Salvatoris'. Beginning: 'On Tiberies dagen þæs mycele caseres'. Ending: 'þan halgen gaste. aa buten ænde. Amen'.
ff. 102r-103v: The eschatological text 'Fifteen Days Before Judgement'. Beginning: 'On þan nexten fiftene dagen beforen domes dæge'. Ending: 'denearde ne belæfð naht unclænes gesene'.
f. 103v: Prognostic [brontology ] for the month of the year (prediction of thunder). Rubric: 'Emb þunre'. Beginning: 'On Ianuarius monðe gyf hit þunreð'.
ff. 104r-119r: Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis (translation of chapters 1-16). Rubric: 'De scientia'. Beginning: 'Ærest ealre þingen æighƿylce mæn is to secene hƿæt seo se soðe wisedom'. Ending: ' ƿyrde on ecere pine'.
ff. 119r-123r: Ælfric, Homily on Clement (abbreviated). Beginning: 'Oft hƿonlice gelefde mænn smegeð'. Ending: 'rixeð. abuten ænde. amen'.
ff. 123r-130v: Ælfric, Homily on Feria III in Letania Maiore Visio Fursei. Rubric: 'Sanctus Furseus gesihðe'. Beginning: ' Mæn þa leofeste. Paulus se apostel eallra þeode larðeaƿ aƿrat beo him sylfen'. Ending: 'se þe is ealre leode ƿealdend'.
ff. 131r-136r: Ælfric, Homily, Alia visio. Rubric: 'Of drihtelme'. Beginning: 'Beda ure larðeaw awrat'. Ending: 'gyf he þæt andgit understanden cann'.
ff. 136r-137r: Ælfric, Homily, In Letania Maiore (extract). Beginning: 'God spæc to anen ƿitege þe ƿæs Ionas gehaten'.
ff. 137r-139r: Ælfric, Homily on St Paul. Beginning: 'Soð is to secgene. þa þa wyreceð on godes ƿille'. Ending: 'mid gode þæt ece lif habben moten. Amen'.
ff. 139r-145v: Ælfric, Homlily for the first Sunday of September. Rubric: 'Forbisne of Iob'. Beginning: 'Mine gebroðre. ƿe rædeð | nu æt godes þenunge'.
ff. 145v-151r: Anonymous, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Sanctorale: Saint Neot. Rubric: 'Of Seinte Neot'. Beginning: 'Mæ þa leofeste. We wylleð eow cyðen beo sumen dæle'. Ending: 'o ecere reste becumen'.
ff. 151v-158r: Sanctorale: In Festis Sancte Mariae (translation of a Latin sermon by Ralph d'Escures). Rubric: 'Sermo in festis Sancte Marie virginis'. Beginning: 'Se godspellere Lucas sæigð on þyssen godspelle'.
ff. 158r-159r: The Age of the World. Beginning: 'We rædeð on bocan þæt Nabugodonosor 'ge' heregode Ierusalem'.
ff. 159r-163r: Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium (a translation of chapters 1-6 of book 2). Beginning: 'Sum mann sæigð þæt synne nis nan þing'. Ending: 'heo gebideð frofre and blisse'.
ff. 163v-165r: Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium (a translation of chapters 23-25 of book ). Beginning: 'hwy aƿas ure drihten /of deaðe\ þæs formeste dæges þære wucaʹ. Ending: 'þær pine þe heo þoligeð under ante criste'.
ff. 165r-166r: Ælfric, Homily, Feria III de dominica oratione. Beginning: 'Ne becymð nan mann to godes rice'.
ff. 166r-168r: Anonymous Homily on St John (the Homily of the Phoenix). Beginning: 'Sanctus Iohannes geseh ofer garseg swylc hit an land wære'.
ff. 168v-169r: Ælfric, Homily for the Annunciation. Beginning: 'Sum æwfest godes þeign ƿæs ge haten zacharias'.
f. 169v: Ælfric, a Homily for Quinquagesima. Beginning: 'Se hælend cƿæð on his godspelle. Iceam weig'. Ending: 'Hit gelimpð gelomlice þone se mann'.
Decoration:
Rustic initials in red and green with a slightly foliated decoration. Rustic capitals 'D' with a cross decoration. Letters highlighted in red. Rubrics are in red. Line fillers in red and green.
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- Western Manuscripts
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- Cotton Collection
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- 032-001101582
040-001103342
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Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV : A collection of Homilies; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma; Boethius, De consolatione philosophie (excerpts); Fides…
Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV, ff 4–169 : Collection of Homilies mainly by Ælfric. - Hierarchy:
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- Languages:
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Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1130
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- Mid 12th century-4th quarter of the 12th century
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 190 x 130mm (text space: 150 x 100mm).
Script: Late Anglo-Saxon minuscule.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, S. E (Rochester or Canterbury?).
The Benedictine Cathedral Priory of Saint Andrew, Rochester, according to the language, the orthography and the script (see Richard, 'On the date and provenance' (1973, ) or the Benedictine Cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury according to the contents of the volume which are closely connected to Christ Church. The manuscript could likely be a copy of a manuscript of Christ Church (Handley, 'British Museum MS. Cotton Vespasian D. xiv' (1974).
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Handley, Rima, ‘British Museum MS. Cotton Vespasian D. xiv’, Notes and Queries, 219, n.s. 21 (1974), 243–50.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 209.
Liuzza, Roy Michael, ‘Anglo-Saxon prognostics in context: a survey and handlist of manuscripts’, Anglo-Saxon England, 30 (2001), p. 221.
Planta Joseph, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, deposited in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1802), p. 476-477.
Richards Mary P., ‘On the date and provenance of MS Cotton Vespasian D XIV ff.4–169’, Manuscripta, 17 (1973), 31–35.
Treharne, Elaine M., ‘The form and function of the twelfth-century Old English Dicts of Cato’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 102 (2003), 465–85.
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