Fontes Anglo-Saxonici

Homilia (in Paris BN Lat.18296)

Manuscript:: Paris, BN lat. 18296 (s. X, provenance Corbie)
Comment:: The homilist develops the idea of Vercelli 11 that Rogationtide was intended to replace a pagan festival.
Bibliography:: Bazire and Cross 1982, xxi-xxii

Contributor:: M. Atherton

Created:: 1996-08-07

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Contributor:	M. Atherton
Text:	Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12
Edition:	Scragg 1992
Reference:	C.B.3.2.39
Created:	1996-08-07
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-08

single immediate source

possible

hinc et ipsa festa rogationum … insistamus

15.35-50

Anonymous

11-12

þonne wið þon gesette … þa halgan gangdagas þry

De Bruyne 1932

Old English homilies (Vercelli)

Manuscript:: Paris, BN lat. 18296 (s. X, provenance Corbie)
Comment:: The homilist develops the idea of Vercelli 11 that Rogationtide was intended to replace a pagan festival.
Bibliography:: Bazire and Cross 1982, xxi-xxii

Contributor:: M. Atherton

Created:: 1996-08-07

How to cite

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M. Atherton, Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12, Scragg 1992, 1996-08-07, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/, accessed 2026-03-08

Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	M. Atherton
Text:	Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12
Edition:	Scragg 1992
Reference:	C.B.3.2.39
Created:	1996-08-07
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-08

single analogue

mid fæstenum and mid gebedum … mid usse eaðmodlice gange

3-4

Anonymous

14-15

mid usse gedefelice gange … and mid halegum gebedum

Scragg 1992

Old English Rogationtide homilies

Contributor:: M. Atherton

Created:: 1996-08-07

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M. Atherton, Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12, Scragg 1992, 1996-08-07, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/, accessed 2026-03-08

Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	M. Atherton
Text:	Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12
Edition:	Scragg 1992
Reference:	C.B.3.2.39
Created:	1996-08-07
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-08

single analogue

we sceolon bletsian … wudu and ure ceap

112-113

Anonymous

32-33

and urne ceap and urne eard … we sculon gode bebeodan

Bazire and Cross 1982

Contributor:: M. Atherton

Created:: 1996-08-07

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	M. Atherton
Text:	Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12
Edition:	Scragg 1992
Reference:	C.B.3.2.39
Created:	1996-08-07
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-08

single immediate source

certain

138.17

Biblia Sacra

40-42

nimis honorati sunt amici … gestrangod is hira ealdordom

Comment:: Note the reading 'honorati' in Ps.138.17.
Bibliography:: Scragg 1992a, 231

Contributor:: M. Atherton

Created:: 1996-08-07

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	M. Atherton
Text:	Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12
Edition:	Scragg 1992
Reference:	C.B.3.2.39
Created:	1996-08-07
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-08

single immediate source

certain

18.2

Biblia Sacra

46-49

ubi sunt duo uel tres … ic bio symle on hira midlene

Mattheum

Comment:: The Latin of Mt.18.20 shows Irish influence as in the Rushworth gospels.
Bibliography:: Scragg 1992a, 231

Contributor:: M. Atherton

Created:: 1996-08-07

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	M. Atherton
Text:	Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12
Edition:	Scragg 1992
Reference:	C.B.3.2.39
Created:	1996-08-07
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-08

single immediate source

certain

110.1

Biblia Sacra

54-55

initium sapiente … snyttro fruma is dryhtnes egesa

Contributor:: M. Atherton

Created:: 1996-08-07

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	M. Atherton
Text:	Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12
Edition:	Scragg 1992
Reference:	C.B.3.2.39
Created:	1996-08-07
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-08

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

certain

110.1

Biblia Sacra

67-69

intellectus bonus … non deficient omni bono

Comment:: For 'ea' in Ps.110.10 the Roman version has 'facientibus eam', Gallican 'eum'; at line 69 though the Old English of the Vercelli MS. has 'hine'.
Bibliography:: Scragg 1992a, 231

Contributor:: M. Atherton

Created:: 1996-08-07

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	M. Atherton
Text:	Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12
Edition:	Scragg 1992
Reference:	C.B.3.2.39
Created:	1996-08-07
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-08

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

certain

33.10-11

Biblia Sacra

67-69

intellectus bonus … non deficient omni bono

Psalmi (Romanum)

Weber 1953

Bibliography:: Scragg 1992a, 231

Contributor:: M. Atherton

Created:: 1996-08-07

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M. Atherton, Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12, Scragg 1992, 1996-08-07, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/, accessed 2026-03-08

Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	M. Atherton
Text:	Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12
Edition:	Scragg 1992
Reference:	C.B.3.2.39
Created:	1996-08-07
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-08

single immediate source

certain

110.1

Biblia Sacra

69-70

god … wunað in worulda woruld

Comment:: The scribe misunderstood 'god' ('bonus') as 'God' and rewrites the passage.
Bibliography:: Scragg 1992a, 230-1

Contributor:: M. Atherton

Created:: 1996-08-07

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	M. Atherton
Text:	Anon (OE): Vercelli homily 12
Edition:	Scragg 1992
Reference:	C.B.3.2.39
Created:	1996-08-07
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-03-08

single immediate source

certain

33.10-11

Biblia Sacra

70-71

þa men þe him … ne springaað hie fram ænegum gode

Psalmi (Romanum)

Weber 1953