Fontes Anglo-Saxonici

Comment:: Aelfric uses similar phrases in a number of places.

Contributor:: Aaron Kleist

Created:: 2024-08-03

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Contributor:	Aaron Kleist
Text:	Aelfric: Napier De infantibus
Edition:	Napier 1888, 154-5
Reference:	C.B.3.4.51
Created:	2024-08-03
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-15

single immediate source

possible

Nu ne scyle … lange hæþene

106-7

Aelfric

4-6

Nu bidde … acennede beoð

Contributor:: Aaron Kleist

Created:: 2024-08-03

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	Aaron Kleist
Text:	Aelfric: Napier De infantibus
Edition:	Napier 1888, 154-5
Reference:	C.B.3.4.51
Created:	2024-08-03
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-15

single immediate source

certain

ignoratis quid erit in crastinum

4.14

Biblia Sacra

for þan þe … oð mærgen

Iacobi

Weber 1975

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Created:: 2024-08-03

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	Aaron Kleist
Text:	Aelfric: Napier De infantibus
Edition:	Napier 1888, 154-5
Reference:	C.B.3.4.51
Created:	2024-08-03
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-15

M2a

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

probable

and

for ðan þe … hæþene acwelað

107-8

Aelfric

6-9

ond þu dest … on ecnysse

Contributor:: Aaron Kleist

Created:: 2024-08-03

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Aaron Kleist, Aelfric: Napier De infantibus, Napier 1888, 2024-08-03, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/, accessed 2026-02-15

Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	Aaron Kleist
Text:	Aelfric: Napier De infantibus
Edition:	Napier 1888, 154-5
Reference:	C.B.3.4.51
Created:	2024-08-03
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-15

M2a

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

probable

and

and þa hæþenan cild on helle a wuniað

112

Aelfric

6-9

ond þu dest … on ecnysse

Contributor:: Aaron Kleist

Created:: 2024-08-03

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	Aaron Kleist
Text:	Aelfric: Napier De infantibus
Edition:	Napier 1888, 154-5
Reference:	C.B.3.4.51
Created:	2024-08-03
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-15

single immediate source

certain

ira Dei manet super eum

3.36

Biblia Sacra

13-14

for þan þe … þone hæþenan

Iohannem

Weber 1975

De peccatorum meritis et remissione et de baptismo paruulorum

Contributor:: Aaron Kleist

Created:: 2024-08-03

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Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	Aaron Kleist
Text:	Aelfric: Napier De infantibus
Edition:	Napier 1888, 154-5
Reference:	C.B.3.4.51
Created:	2024-08-03
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-15

SA3

single antecedent source

possible

Potest proinde recte … praedicat non futuros

1.16

Augustine

26-8

for þam þe … helle wite

CSEL, ed. C. F. Urba and J. Zycha, CSEL 60 (Vienna, 1913), pp. 1-151

Comment:: While Augustine's De peccatorum meritis et remissione et de baptismo pauulorum was a key precedent for this medieval doctrine, Aelfric may well have encountered the idea through an intermediary: De peccatorum meritis does not appear in Paul the Deacon, and one manuscript from Anglo-Saxon England is extant.

Contributor:: Aaron Kleist

Created:: 2024-08-03

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Aaron Kleist, Aelfric: Napier De infantibus, Napier 1888, 2024-08-03, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/, accessed 2026-02-15

Alternatively, please use the following information:

Contributor:	Aaron Kleist
Text:	Aelfric: Napier De infantibus
Edition:	Napier 1888, 154-5
Reference:	C.B.3.4.51
Created:	2024-08-03
Project Name:	Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register
Website:	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/
Date Accessed:	2026-02-15

single immediate source

certain

for þan þe … hæþene acwelað

107-8

Aelfric

28-9

ond hæfð … hæþen acwylð