• [Blickling Homilies].

Text language:
  • Homiletic texts in Old English. Calendar and gospels in Latin. Some English additions.
Publisher:
  • [England, late 10th or early 11th century]
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Binder:
  • Lahey, Marguerite Duprez, 1880-1958
Date:
  • 0971-1025
Extent:
  • 150 leaves : parchment ; 21 x 15 cm.
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
Language:
  • English, Old (ca.450-1100)
  • Latin
  • English
Abstract:
  • A composite manuscript (imperfect) consisting of three distinct parts. The main part consists of eighteen homilies in Anglo-Saxon for Sundays and Saints' days from the feast of the Annunciation to that of St. Andrew. The homilies were written by two scribes in England probably in the late 10th or early 11th century. Nine preliminary leaves contain a Sarum Kalendar for use at Lincoln (15th century) and sequences of the Gospels (16th century), both in Latin. The manuscript was used in the administration of oaths to municipal officials at Lincoln. It contains extensive marginalia, much of it concerning city government.
Description:
  • Manuscript codex.
  • Decoration: Penwork initials.
  • Origin: Written in England probably in the late 10th or early 11th century.
  • Foliated in pencil: xi, 139. Remnants of earlier foliation.
Binding note:
  • Rebound by Scott Husby in alum-tawed calfskin.
Former owner:
  • Pownall, William, fl. 1724
  • Ellys, Richard, Sir, approximately 1674-1742
  • Ellis, John Henry, 1840-1912
  • Lothian, Philip Henry Kerr, Marquis of, 1882-1940
  • Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field), 1870-1935
  • Ellis, John Henry, 1840-1912
Bookseller:
  • Rosenbach Company
Call number:
  • 30.2
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Subject:
  • Sermons, English (Old)
  • English language—Old English, ca. 450-1100—Texts
  • Manuscripts, English (Old)—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Sermons
  • Manuscripts—England—10th century
  • Manuscripts—England—11th century
  • Parchment
  • Morocco bindings (Binding)—20th century
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