Old English
delimiters are $ and %, thus OE aesc = $a% ; uppercase aesc = $A%
OE thorn = $p%; uppercase thorn = $P%
OE eth = $d%; uppercase eth = $D%
QUOTATIONS
HOMILIES
WULFSTAN
I. "To Eallum Folke" (Bethurum VIIa), 167-8
in MSS Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 201, page 23 = C;
Oxford Bodleian Junius 121, fols 64-65v = G; B.L. Cotton Tiberius
A.iii, fol. 92v.
C begins with first phrase of vernacular Credo. Text is from G,
variants from C and K follow (Bethurum, p 167). LATIN RUBRIC
PRECEDES VERNACULAR TEXT: 'CREDIMUS IN UNUM DEUM, PATREM ET FILIUM
ET SPIRITUM SANCTUM' (GK).
1 We gylyfa$d% on $a%nne God $a%lmihttigne $p%e ealle $p%ingc
2 gesceop 7 geworhte. And we gelyfa$d% 7 georne witan $p%$a%t
3 Crist Godes sunu to mannum com for ealles mancynnes $d%earfe.
4 And we gelyfa$d% $p%$a%t hine cl$a%ne m$a%den geb$a%re, Sancta
5 Maria, $p%e n$a%fre nahte weres gemanan. And we gelyfa$d% $p%$a%t
6 he mycel ge$d%olode 7 sti$d%lice $p%rowode for ure ealra neode.
7 And we gelyfa$d% $p%$a%t hine man on rode ahenge 7 hine to
8 dea$d%e acwealde 7 hine sy$d%$d%an on eor$d%an bebyrigde. And
9 we gelyfa$d% $p%$a%t he to helle ferde 7 $d%$a%rof gehergode eal
10 $p%$a%t he wolde. And we gelyfa$d% $p%$a%t he sy$d%$d%an of
11 dea$d%e arise. And we gelyfa$d% $p%$a%t he $a%fter $p%am to
12 heofonum astige. And we gelyfa$d% 7 georne witan $p%$a%t he on
13 domes d$a%g to $d%am miclan dome cym$d% and we gelyfa$d% $p%$a%t
14 ealle deade men sculon $p%onne arisan of dea$d%e 7 $p%one myclan
15 dom ealle gesecan. And we gelyfa$d% $p%$a%t $d%a synfullan
16 sculon $p%anon on an to helle faran 7 $d%$a%r a sy$d%$d%an mid
17 deoflum wunian on byrnendum fyre 7 on ecan forwyrde, 7 $d%$a%s
18 $a%nig ende ne cym$d% $a%fre to worulde. And we gelyfa$d%
19 $p%$a%t $d%a godan 7 wel cristenan $p%e her on worulde Gode wel
20 gecwemdon $p%onne on an sculon into heofonum faran 7 $d%$a%r
21 sy$d%$d%an wununge habban mid Gode sylfum 7 mid his englum
22 a on ecnesse, amen.
1: C gelif-; G $d%inc, K $p%incg
2: CK gescop; C -lifa$d%
3: K mann-
4: C -lifa$d%; C geb$a%re cl$a%ne m$a%den;
5: C -lifa$d%
6: CK micel
7: C OMITS And; C -lifa$d%; G aheng, K ahencge
8: G acwealdan; C si$d%$d%an; C -birigde, K -byride
9: C -lifa$d%; CK $p%arof
10: C -lifa$d%; CK si$d%$d%-
11: G aras; C -lifa$d%
12: G astah; C -lifa$d%; K OMITS 7 georne witan;
13: G d$a%ge, K d$a%ig; C micclan, K micele; *gelyfa$d% > C witan
14: K OMITS sceolon $p%onne....faran 7; C micclan;
15: *gelyfa$d% > C witan; C sin-, K -fulle
16: K sceolon; C $p%onne on an $p%anon; *on > K an; CK $p%ar; C a
si$d%$d%an, K OMITS;
17: *wunian > K drohtnian; K on ecan forwurde 7 on byrnendum fyre;
C birn-; C fire; G OMITS 7; C ecan forwyrde
18: *$a%nig > K nan; K cim$p%; K $a%fre ma; C worlde, K worolde;
*gelyfa$d% > C witan
19: G OMITS wel; C worlde, K worolde
20: *on an > K an(n)an, C an hi; K sceolan; *into > K to; CK $p%ar
21: CK si$d%$d%-; K -uncge; C silfum, K sylfan;
22: C aa, K OMITS amen.
"Se L$a%ssa Creda"; B.12.3.1; Thorpe II, 596.
in MSS CUL Gg.3.28, fol 261v-2v; BL Cotton Cleopatra B.xii, fol
58rv; BL Cotton Tiberius C.i, fol 159v; BL Cotton Vitellius A.xii,
fol 184v, col 2.
[conflated text by Thorpe]
"Ic gelyfe on God, F$a%der $A%lmihtigne, Scyppend heofenan and
eor$d%an; and ic gelyfe on H$a%lend Crist, his ancennedan Sunu,
urne Drihten, se w$a%s geeacnod of $d%am Halgan Gaste, and acenned
of Marian $p%am m$a%dene, ge$d%rowod under $d%am Pontiscan Pilate,
on rode ahangen, he w$a%s dead and bebyrged, and he ni$d%er-astah
to helle, and he aras of dea$d%e on $d%am $d%ridde d$a%ge, and he
astah up to heofenum, and sitt nu $a%t swi$d%ran Godes $A%lmihtiges
F$a%der, $p%anon he wyle cuman to demenne $a%g$d%er ge $d%am cucum
ge $d%am deadum. And ic gelyfe on $d%one Halgan Gast, and $d%a
halgan gela$d%unge, and halgena gem$a%nnysse, and synna
forgifennysse, and fl$a%sces $a%rist, and $p%$a%t ece lif. Sy hit
swa."
BLICKLING HOMILIES
I. "$P%isses Middangeardes Ende Neah Is". B.3.1.1. Morris 1874-80,
111.
in Scheide Library MS 71, pp 131-32.
[paraphrase quotation]: "we sceolan andettan $p%a so$p%an
geleaffulnesse urne Drihten H$a%lende Crist, & on his $d%one
acendan Suna & on $d%one Halgan Gast, se is efnece F$a%der & Sunu;
& we sceolon gehyhtan on Godes $p%a gehalgodan cyricean & on $d%a
riht-gelefedan, & we sceolan gelyfan synna forl$a%tnessa & lichoman
$a%ristes on domos d$a%g; & we sceolan gelefan on $p%$a%t ece life
& on $p%$a%t heofonlice rice $p%$a%t is gehaten eallum $p%e nu
syndan godes wyrhtan".
REFERENCES
WULFSTAN
I. "De Fide Catholica"; B.2.2.2; Bethurum VII, 157-61.
in MSS CCCC 419, pp 161-82; CCCC 201, pp 15-19; Oxford, Bodleian
Hatton 113, fols 10b-16.
II. "To Eallum Folke"; B.2.2.3; Bethurum VIIa, 166-8.
in MSS Oxford Bodleian Junius 121, fols 64-65v; B.L. Cotton
Tiberius A.iii, fol 92v.
III. "Dominica IIIIa Vel Quando Volueris"; B.2.2.4; Bethurum VIIIb,
172.
in MS CCCC 302, pp 40-42.
IV. "Sermo de Baptismate"; B.2.2.5; Bethurum VIIIc, 176, 178, 181,
182-3;
in MSS CCCC 419, pp 112-34; CCCC 201, pp 105-8; Oxford, Bodleian
Hatton 113, fols 16-21; Oxford, Bodleian Bodley 343, fols 132-3;
and a few lines in B.L. Cotton Otho B.x, fol 23.
V. "De Transitu Mariae AEgyptiace"; B.3.3.23 (not thought to be
AElfric); Skeat XXIIIB, vol. II, 46.
in MSS Gloucester Cathedral 35, fols 4-6v; B.L. Cotton Julius
E.vii, fols 122v-36; B.L. Cotton Otho B.X, fol '76v' [fragmentary].
VARIA
I. "In XL. de Penitentia"; B.1.9.6; Thorpe II, 604.
in MSS CUL Gg.3.28, fol 262v-3v; CCCC 198, fols 311v-16 [adapted];
CCCC 320, fol 117rv [extract].
II. "In Dedicatione Ecclesie". B.3.2.49. Brotanek 2, 1913, 25.
in MSS Paris, B.N. Latin 943, fol 169a; Lambeth 489, fols .
