Catholic homilies [circa 1000-1025].

Description

Title: Catholic homilies [circa 1000-1025].
Creator: Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
Abstract: Two adjacent binding fragments from a homily for Palm Sunday. Manuscript, on parchment, in Anglo-Saxon minuscule, produced in England in the first quarter of the eleventh century
Description: In Old English.
Discovered by Dr. James Molloy in a lumber room containing part of the old presbytery library at Winchester, the strips were once used in the binding of a copy of the sermons of St. Augustine. The strips were cut from adjacent portions of text from the inner margin of a folio in a manuscript which originally contained Aelfric's Catholic Homilies and Lives of Saints.
The manuscript is from the "middle period" of Aelfric's productions of these texts, which lasted for about ten years after 992.
Fragments of the same manuscript exist in the Bodleian Library, Queen's College Library, Cambridge, and the Lilly Library of Indiana University.
Provenance: Sotheby's 1965 July 29 sale, lot 26. Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976.
Extent: 2 26 cm. x 4 cm. items ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Old (ca. 450-1100)

Genre: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham.
Subject (Topic): Christian literature, English (Old).
Manuscripts, English (Old).
Subjects: Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
Christian literature, English (Old).
Manuscripts, English (Old).
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Aelfric, Catholic Homilies. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.