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Volume XVII: A Wulfstan Manuscript

The two component parts of this volume were bound together by 1580. The first, of mid-eleventh-century date, is a collection of laws in English ranging in date from the reign of Ine (688-726) to that of Canute (Liebermann’s MS G). It includes some codes drafted by Wulfstan, archbishop of York and bishop of Worcester. The second part of the volume, of the beginning of the eleventh century, is even closer to Wulfstan, for it was a handbook prepared for his use, being written presumably at either Worcester or York. Its miscellaneous contents, mostly in English, comprise mainly ecclesiastical institutes and laws. They include a number of his own works, the well known SERMO LUPI among them, as well as earlier texts of interest to him, with annotations in his own hand. Additional plates provide examples of his handwriting from eight other manuscripts.

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Part A.

A collection of laws

3r1-16r5 Laws of Cnut I

16r6-41r16 Laws of Cnut II

42r1-44v18 Laws of Edgar II and III

45r1-48r11 Capitula to the laws of Alfred and Ine

48r12-16 Peter's Pence

48r17-50v7 Judex

51r1-57v19 Introductory material to the laws of Alfred and Ine

Part B.

Ecclesiastical material connected to Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York

70r1-76v10 Fourteen chapters of Wulfstan's Institutes of Polity

    a. 70r1-70v21 Be cynge

    b. 70v22-71r12 be cynedome

    c. 71r13-71v15 Be cynestole

    d. 71v16-72r16 Be eorlum

    e. 72r17-23 Be sacerdan

    f. 72r24-73r4 Be gehadedum mannum

    g. 73r5-13 Be abbodum

    h. 73r14-22 Be munecan

    i. 73r23-73v3 Be mynecenan

    J. 73V4-13 Be preostan 7 be nunnan

    k. 73v14-74r8 Be laewedum mannum

    l. 74r9-19 Be wudewan

    m. 74r20-75v5 Be cryicean

    n. 75v6-76v10 Be eallum cristenum mannum

76v12-83v10 A Wulfstan homily "Be cristendome"

84r1-86v14 A Wulfstan homily "Be godcundre warnuge"

86v15-87v16 Laws of Athelstan I

87v17-24 Laws of Edmund I

88r1-89r2 Laws of Edgar III

89r3-92v15 Laws of Ethelred V

92v16-95v18 Laws after the style of Wulfstan

95v19-96v15 Laws of Ethelred VIII

96v176-24 Laws after the style of Wulfstan

97r1-97v1 Intitutes of Polity: Item de episcopis

97v2-98v6 Institutes of Polity: Item (de episcopis)

99r1-100r21 Incipit de sinodo

100v2-102r4 Admonition to the bishops

102r5-103v10 Institutes of Polity: Be sacerdan

103v11-22 Institutes of Polity: Be abbodum

103v23-104v24 Institutes of Polity: Be munecum

105r1-105v7 Institutes of Polity: Be gerefan

109r1-109v26 Institutes of Polity: Be [th]eodwitan

110r1-115r23 A Wulfstan Homily "Sermo Lupi ad anglos quando dani maxime persecuti sunt eos quod fuit anno millesimo XIIII ab incarnatione domini nostri iesu christi"

155v1-116r23 A Wulfstan Homily "Her is gyt rihtlic warnung 7 so[th]lic myngung theode to thearfe"

166v1-119v24 Laws of Ethelred V

120r1-6 Institutes of Polity: Be hefenlicum cyninge

120r7-23 Institutes of Polity: Be eor[th]licum cyninge

122r not legible

122v1-124r10 De ueneratio (ne sacerdotum)

125r11-125v23 Verba ezechielis prophete de pastoribus non recte agentibus

126r1-127r8 De pastore et predicatore

127r8-24 De clericis siue ecclesiasticis gradis

127v1-174v16 Incipit de canonibus (List of ecclesiastical canons)

    a. 127v1-148r3 Excerptiones Ecgberti ch.1-140

    b. 149v1-154r18 ch.146-163

    c. 154r19-155r7 ch. 164, De temperantia penitentium

    d. 155r8-155v19 ch. 165, Incipit de diversitate culparum

    e. 155v20-156r21 ch. 166, Item de remediis peccatorum

    f. 156r21-156v15 ch. 167, De incestuosis et homicidis

    g. 156v15-157r11 ch. 168, De exommunicatis qui inviti ad penitentiam provocantur

    h. 157r11-157v13 ch. 169, De impoviso iudicio secularium

    i. 157v14-158r16 ch. 170, Incipit exemplum de excommunicatio pro capitali crimine

    j. 158r17-159v7 ch. 171, De confesione et quadragesimali observatione

    k. 159v8-162v2 ch. 172, Sermo de reconciliatione post penitentiam

    l. 162v2-163v19 ch. 173, Quod nulli sit ultima penitentia deneganda

    m. 163v19-164r4 ch. 174, De his qui morientibus penitentiam denegant

    n. 164r4-165v20 ch. 175, De medicamento animarum

    o. 165v20-167v8 ch. 176, Item. De cotidianis operibus episcoporum

    p. 168r1-170v18 ch. 177, Qualiter quarta feria in capite ieiunii circa penitentes agatur

    q. 170v18-172v4 ch. 178, Qualiter penitentes in cena domini in ecclesiam introducuntur

    r. 172v4-173r8 ch. 179, Qualiter apud orientalis provincies Germanie atque Saxonie pro diversis criminibus penitentie observatur modus

    s. 173r9-174v16 ch. 180, De ieiuno quattour temporum