Seven homilies in Old English, fragments of a larger collection; England, mid-11th century
MSS. Junius 85-6
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Seven homilies in Old English, fragments of a larger collection; England, mid-11th century
Shelfmark
MSS. Junius 85-6
Place of origin
English
Date
11th century, middle
Language
Latin
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Contents
Hands
Vernacular minuscule; Ker suggested two hands, the second on fols. 2v, 12r-16r, 25r-33v, 34r/1-4
Decoration
Initials and marginal ornaments. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 47)
Acquisition
Received by the Bodleian by 1677
Provenance
Early scribblings include teobaldus ade de richebor, fols. 43v, and odo de moteroil, fol. 20v, both c. 1200. Title pars psalterii greci, fol. 1 (13th cent.?) and parts psalterii saxonici, fols. 2, 36 (17th cent.)
Isaac Voss; his shelfmarks C.29 (MS. 85) and F.29 (MS. 86).
Franciscus Junius, 1589–1677
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