Homiliary
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Late twelfth century. Protogothic. The d presents a straight upward ascender. The et is ampersand.
General Information
Original Condition
a (recto)–b (verso)
Current Condition
The leaf shows signs of former use as book cover, with fold lines clearly visible. The side with the initial M corresponds with the external side of the cover and is the part that is most worn.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
4-line initial M in green with pen flourishing in red. Rubrics in red.
Content
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Content Item
- Persons
- Text Language Latin
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Content Description
Two incomplete homilies.
First homily: Bede on Matthew 15, 21–22. (ra) beginning acephalously, 'ille interius inspirando corrigat'. Homily 33 in Homilia in Evangelia, The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, by ed. by J. A. Giles, (London: Whittaker and Co., 1843), V, pp. 243–49.
Second homily: John Chrisostom, de Ioseph. (vb) Rubric: ‘Dominica tertia in Quadragesima. Sermo beati Iohannis de Ioseph'. Incipit: 'Mittitur a Iacob patre sanctissimo Ioseph sanctus fratres ad fratres qui’.
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- Secondary Literature Réginald Grégoire, Les Homéliaires liturgiques médiévaux (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 1980), pp. 423–78 (p. 429)
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Remarks
The fragment comes from a manuscript most probably containing the homiliary compiled by Paul the Deacon. The same paired homilies in the same sequence can be found in Cambridge, MS Peterhouse 130, fols 144r–145v.
Other available descriptions
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Sian Prosser, "Ripon Fragments", University of Leeds, 2011
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