St. Wulfstan's Homiliary, part 2

Title

St. Wulfstan's Homiliary, part 2

Shelfmark

MS. Hatton 114

Summary

St. Wulfstan's Homiliary, part 2, consisting originally of sixty sermons in Old English with Latin rubrics. This volume, which is apparently in the hand of the Worcester scribe Wulfgeatus (see MS. Junius 121), includes some sermons written by Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester (d. 1023), and seems to have been compiled for the use of his successor of the same name (1062-95). The interlinear and marginal Latin glosses are in the Worcester 'tremulous' hand (see MSS. Hatton 20, Hatton 76, Hatton 115-116, Junius 121). There are indexes by Dugdale, dated Aug. 12, 1644 and Aug. 5, 1644, at the end of each volume.

The first eight leaves are in a later hand and did not occur in the original MS. at this point. One or more leaves are missing after fol. 235.

Date

Written in the 11th century at Worcester

Language

Old English (ca. 450-1100)

Physical facet

On parchment, binding, brown leather on boards, 18th-century

Physical extent

250 Leaves

Custodial history

'These two volumes, with MSS. Hatton 115-116, were given to Bodley by sir Christopher Hatton in 1675, but are said to have been lent shortly afterwards by the Library to Thomas Marshall and by him to Francis Junius, on whose death they passed again to the Bodleian. (See Wanley's Catalogue, p. 43.)