Volume X: The Blickling Homilies

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Volume X: The Blickling Homilies

This facsimile presents scholars with a much-needed opportunity, for the manuscript itself, formerly in the library of Blickling Hall, Norfolk, and now in private ownership in the United States, has never been much studied at first hand. It contains an ordered collection of Old English homilies, dated by its handwriting to the end of the tenth century or the beginning of the eleventh, accompanied by a mid-fifteenth-century calendar and early-fourteenth-century gospel passages used for the administration of oaths. It was in the possession of the City of Lincoln until 1724, and this ownership is witnessed by numerous civic marginalia recorded there between 1304 and 1623.

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ir-xiv Legal calendar?

18 homilies:

Annunciation 1r-6v

Lent 6v-49v

Easter 50r-58v

Rogationtide 59r-70r

Ascension 70v-80v

Pentecost 80v-86v

Assumption 84v-98v

The Nativity of St. John 98v-103r

St. Peter, St. Paul 104r-119v

St. Michael 120r-127r

St. Martin 127r-135v

St. Andrew 136r-139v

Endnote by Benjamin Thorpe (1843)