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Anonymous Old English Homilies a Preliminary I ANONYMOUS OLD ENGLISH HOMILIES A PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCE STUDIES COMPILED FOR Fontes Arzglo-Saxonici AND Sources Of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture I BY Janet Bately Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies State University of New York at Binghamton ©1993 FOREWORD I should like here to give grateful acknowledgment to all those colleagues and research students who have in their various ways helped and encouraged me in this endeavour, in particular to Mr Andrew Horton, Dr Julie Coleman, and Professors Peter Clemoes, James Cross and Paul Szarmach. Also to collaborators in the Fontes project who generously donated offprints to the Anglo-Saxon Archive at King's College London and to members of ANSAXNET, for their speedy response to my request for bibliographical detail - a request which sparked off an animated debate on the propriety or desirability C!,f recording authors' first names. Invaluable published aids included Greenfield-Robinson, the annual bibliographies of The Year's Work in English Studies and ASE and the annual publications of the Old English Newsletter. My greatest debt, however, is to Dr Bill Griffiths, who over the last several years has patiently sifted through an enormous body of publications, collecting for the King's College Anglo-Saxon Archive Room copies of almost all materials of relevance to the study of the sources of Old English prose. Ci) Medieval c-J ~ studies () LibrarY~ ~ ~ <;:L.. Unspecified Occasions Listed under the Opening Words'. (Anonymous INTRODUCTION saints' lives - Cameron B.3.3: 'Sanctorale' - will be the subject of a This monograph is the first in a series of bibliographies to be prepared as separate monograph by Professor Jane Roberts.) Each anonymous homily is part of the FONTES ANGLO-SAXONICI project. The primary purpose of given the number, code and short title provided by Cameron, Plan, along the series is to aid the compilers of the 'Register of Written Sources used with details of the MS or MSS in which it has been preserved, following by Authors in Anglo-Saxon England', by providing details of potentially Ker, Catalogue. References to modern published works relating to these relevant publications already in the public domain. Since, in its final form, homilies (including Ker, Catalogue, where source-comment is provided the bibliography that is to be published with the Register will necessarily be within the catalogue entries) are given in date order. Where a work is highly selective, a second aim is to provide a snap-shot of scholarship since relevant to more than one homily, author and date only are given, the full source-studies first began, commemorating those early scholars who first title being printed in either section A (indicated by *) or section B (indicated blazed the trail for us in uncharted territories. (The oldest entry in this by **), arrangement here being alphabetically by author. Section A deals volume relates to the year 1705.) Some unpublished dissertations have been with four manuscript collections- Blickling, Bodley 343, Vercelli and included, since doctoral theses are now widely available in microfilm form Vespasian D.XIV, Section B with major modern collections of texts from a or through Inter-Library loan and are as deserving of recognition in a range of manuscripts and Section C with studies containing material relevant diachronic survey as published works. Also included are a handful of works to source-studies and to the line by line type of analysis undertaken by dealing primarily with motifs but making specific reference to listed texts or Fames. The cut-off point is 1990; however, this has been extended in to major collections. exceptional circunstances to 1992, and it is hoped to make regular updates. This volume is intended as a working document - like SASLC 1990 a For convenience a list of correspondences between well-established short 'Trial Version', a partial reference tool for researchers. It makes no claim titles and numbers (e.g. Vercelli 2, Belfour 11, Napier 49) and their for completeness. Trawling for publications in other areas will doubtless lead Cameron numbers is given in an appendix (I). A second appendix (II) gives to the identification of further items of relevance, and its author hopes that MS details from Ker, Catalogue, with Cameron equivalents. The Index is readers will send her suggestions, comments and additions for a future organised according to section and/or homily number, to facilitate merger updated version in paper or in electronic form. - with subsequent fascicles. PROCEDURE Material has been organised in several different ways. The body of the work is concerned with individual homilies from Cameron B.3.2: 'Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale', Cameron B.3.4: 'Homilies for Unspecified Occasions, Published', and Cameron B.3.5: 'Homilies for ii iii ABBREVIATIONS PBA Proceedings of the British Academy PMLA Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 1. PERIODICALS AND SERIES SN Studia Neophilologica TOES Toronto Old English Series ABR American Benedictine Review ZfdA Zeitschrift fiir deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur Archiv Archiv fiir das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 2. OTHER WORKS ASE Anglo-Saxon England SASLC. Sources ofAnglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. BaP Bibliothek der angelsachsischen Prosa Frederick M.Biggs, Thomas D. Hill and Paul E. Szarmach with the BeP Beitrage zur englischen Philologie assistance of Karen Hammond, MRTS 74 (Binghamton, 1990) CMCS Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies Toronto List. A Microfiche Concordance to Old English, The List of Texts EEMF Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile and Index of Editions, ed. Antonette diPaolo Healey and Richard L. EETS Early English Text Society Venezky, Publications of the Dictionary of Old English I (Toronto, ELN English Language Notes 1980, repr. with revisions 1985) ES English Studies Cameron, 'List'. Cameron, Angus, 'A List of Old English Texts', A JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology Plan for the Dictionary of Old English, ed. Roberta Frank and Angus JEL Journal of English Linguistics Cameron (Toronto, 1973), 29-267. JTS Journal of Theological Studies Cameron, 'Short Titles'. Cameron, Angus, 'Short Titles of Old English KCLMS King's College London Medieval Studies Texts', ASE 4 (1975), 207-21; 'Addenda and Corrigenda', ASE 8 LSE Leeds Studies in English (1979), 331-3. MIE Medium JEvum Greenfield-Robinson. Greenfield, Stanley B. and Robinson, Fred C., A MLA Modern Language Association of America Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature from the MLQ Modern Language Quarterly Beginnings to 1972 (Toronto and Manchester, 1980) MLR Modern Language Review Ker 1957. Ker, Neil R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon MP Modern Philology (Oxford, 1957). (Cited in MS lists as 'Ker', with item, article number, MRTS Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies etc. following the conventions adopted in that work) MS Medieval Studies Ogilvy. Ogilvy, Jack D. A., Books Known,ro the English, 597-1066 N&Q Notes and Queries (Cambridge, Mass., 1967). (Summarises and arranges under Latin NM Neuphilologische Mitteilungen iv v author headings the findings of key source-studies up to 1966. Not cited OLD ENGLISH ANONYMOUS HOMILIES: EDITIONS AND under separate homily entries below, but relevant passim.) SOURCE STUDIES A. MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS: 1. BUCKLING HOMILIES Facsimile:. Willard, Rudolph. The BUckling Homilies (The John H. Scheide Library, Titusville, Pennsylvania), EEMF 10 (Copenhagen, 1960). [*Willard 1960] Edition: Morris, Richard. The BUckling Homilies of the Tenth Century, EETS o.s. 58, 63, 73 (London, 1874-80, repr. with corrections, 1967). [*Moms 1874-80] 2. BODLEY 343 Editions: Belfour, Algernon 0. Twelfth Century Homilies in MS Bodley 343, I. Text and Translation, EETS o.s. 137 (London, 1909). [*Belfour 1909] Irvine, Susan E. A Critical Edition of Some Homilies in MS Bodley 343 (diss., Oxford, 1987). [*Irvine 1987] 3. VERCELLIHOMILIES Facsimiles: Forster, Massimiliano [Forster, Max]. Il Codice Vercellese con Omelie e Poesie in Lingua Anglosassone (Rome, 1913). [*Forster 1913a] Sisam, Celia. The Vercelli Book (Vercelli Biblioteca Capitolare cxvii), EEMF 19 (Copenhagen, 1976). [*Sisam 1976] vi 1 Editions: B. MAJOR MODERN COLLECTIONS Forster, Max. 'Der Vercelli-Codex CXVIT nebst Abdruck einiger Editions: altenglischer Homilien der Handschrift ', Festschrift jar Lorenz Assmann, Bruno. Angelslichsische Homilien und Heiligenleben, BaP 3 Morsbach, ed. Ferdinand Holthausen and H. Spies, Studien zur (Kassel, 1889; repr. Darmstadt, 1964, with a new introduction by Peter englischen Philologie 50 (Halle, 1913), 20-179. Also published Clemoes). [**Assmann 1889] separately (Halle, 1913). [*Forster 1913b] Bazire, Joyce and Cross, James E. Eleven Old English Rogationtide Forster, Max. Die Vercelli-Homilien zum ersten Male herausgegeben, I: Homilies, TOES 7 (Toronto, 1982; 2nd ed. KCLMS IV, 1989). I-VIII Homilie, BaP 12 (Hamburg, 1932, repr. Darmstadt, 1966). The [**Bazire-Cross 1982; **Bazire-Cross 1989] reprint omits the first ten lines of Homily IX. [*Forster 1932] Callison, Tolliver C. An Edition of Previously Unpublished Homilies in Peterson, Paul. The Unpublished Homilies of the Old English Vercelli Book MSS. CCCC 302 and Cotton Faustina A.ix (diss., Wisconsin-Madison, (diss., New York, 1951). [*Peterson 1951] 1973). [**Callison 1973] Pinski, Sr. M. Corfilia. Six Unpublished Homilies in the Vercelli Fadda, Anna Maria Luiselli. Nuove Omelie anglosassoni della rinascenza
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