Fontes Anglo-Saxonici

Comment:: Aelfric was possibly prompted by Augustine, but the wording is close to his own earlier text, based on Gregory; Alcuin uses Judas and Paul similarly.

Contributor:: M.R. Godden

Created:: 1994-12-31

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M.R. Godden, Aelfric: Catholic homilies 1.17, Clemoes 1997, 1994-12-31, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/, accessed 2026-01-24

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Contributor:	M.R. Godden
Text:	Aelfric: Catholic homilies 1.17
Edition:	Clemoes 1997
Reference:	C.B.1.1.19
Created:	1994-12-31
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-01-24

632C-637A

octo sunt … temperantia

Aelfric

Supplementary homilies 4

single immediate source

possible

gyfernyss … modignyss

250-251

Pope 1967-8

Contributor:: R. Jayatilaka

Created:: 1995-11-10

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Contributor:	R. Jayatilaka
Text:	Aelfric: Supplementary homilies 4
Edition:	Pope 1967-8
Reference:	C.B.1.4.4
Created:	1995-11-10
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-01-24

633-4

fornicatio est omnis … cupiditates

Aelfric

single immediate source

probable

se oðer … unstæððignys

500-505

Contributor:: M.R. Godden

Created:: 1997-12-04

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Contributor:	M.R. Godden
Text:	Aelfric: Catholic homilies 2.12
Edition:	Godden 1979
Reference:	C.B.1.2.13/14
Created:	1997-12-04
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-01-24

633AB

primum vitium est … arrogantia

Aelfric

M2a

multiple source (one of two or more immediate sources cited for the passage)

probable

and

se eahteoða … tala

531-41

Contributor:: M.R. Godden

Created:: 1997-12-04

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Contributor:	M.R. Godden
Text:	Aelfric: Catholic homilies 2.12
Edition:	Godden 1979
Reference:	C.B.1.2.13/14
Created:	1997-12-04
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-01-24

633CD

primum est corporale peccatum … ebrietas libido

Aelfric

single immediate source

probable

gifernys bið … æpples

493-500

Contributor:: M.R. Godden

Created:: 1997-12-04

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Contributor:	M.R. Godden
Text:	Aelfric: Catholic homilies 2.12
Edition:	Godden 1979
Reference:	C.B.1.2.13/14
Created:	1997-12-04
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-01-24

634B

avaritia est nimia … injusta judicia

Aelfric

single immediate source

probable

se ðridda … neadung

505-10

Contributor:: M.R. Godden

Created:: 1997-12-04

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Contributor:	M.R. Godden
Text:	Aelfric: Catholic homilies 2.12
Edition:	Godden 1979
Reference:	C.B.1.2.13/14
Created:	1997-12-04
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-01-24

634C

ira una est … injuriarum memoria

Aelfric

single immediate source

probable

se feorða … mansliht

510-13

Contributor:: M.R. Godden

Created:: 1997-12-04

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Contributor:	M.R. Godden
Text:	Aelfric: Catholic homilies 2.12
Edition:	Godden 1979
Reference:	C.B.1.2.13/14
Created:	1997-12-04
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-01-24

635AB

acedia est pestis … inaniloquia

Aelfric

single immediate source

possible

se sixta … fyrwitnysse

519-24

Contributor:: M.R. Godden

Created:: 1997-12-04

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Contributor:	M.R. Godden
Text:	Aelfric: Catholic homilies 2.12
Edition:	Godden 1979
Reference:	C.B.1.2.13/14
Created:	1997-12-04
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-01-24

635BC

tristitia duo sunt … desperatio

Aelfric

single immediate source

probable

se fifta … dædbote

514-19

Contributor:: M.R. Godden

Created:: 1997-12-04

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Contributor:	M.R. Godden
Text:	Aelfric: Catholic homilies 2.12
Edition:	Godden 1979
Reference:	C.B.1.2.13/14
Created:	1997-12-04
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-01-24

635D

vana gloria est … hypocrisis

Aelfric

single immediate source

possible

se seofoða … herunge

524-31

Contributor:: M.R. Godden

Created:: 1997-12-04

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Contributor:	M.R. Godden
Text:	Aelfric: Catholic homilies 2.12
Edition:	Godden 1979
Reference:	C.B.1.2.13/14
Created:	1997-12-04
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-01-24

636D

hi sunt octo … bellatores

Aelfric

M3a

multiple source (one of two or more immediate sources cited for the passage)

possible

and

hit is gecweden … adydde

488-92

Contributor:: M.R. Godden

Created:: 1997-12-04

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Contributor:	M.R. Godden
Text:	Aelfric: Catholic homilies 2.12
Edition:	Godden 1979
Reference:	C.B.1.2.13/14
Created:	1997-12-04
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-01-24

637A

isti vero bellatores … dei vincitur

Aelfric

single immediate source

probable

we sceolon … geearniað

548-59

Contributor:: M.R. Godden

Created:: 1997-12-04

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Contributor:	M.R. Godden
Text:	Aelfric: Catholic homilies 2.12
Edition:	Godden 1979
Reference:	C.B.1.2.13/14
Created:	1997-12-04
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-01-24

637B

naturae decus … morum pietas

Anon (OE)

Vercelli homily 20

SA1

single antecedent source

certain

se gyrla þæs gecyndes … and þæt gescead þæra þeawa

153-155

Scragg 1992