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Manuscripts
ff. 1-120: [Hugh of St. Victor, Homilies on Ecclesiastes]: Prologue: Incipit prologus in omelias Magistri hugonis super ecclesiasten, Que de libro salomonis qui eccelesiastes dicitur nuper vobis coram disserui ... sed a vobis intellectu gaudeatis. Explicit prologus. Rubric: Incipit omelia prima. Verba eccelesiastes filii david regis iherusalem. Incipit: Titulus est libri iste in quo breviter et qualitas exprimitur ... Explicit: et utrum hec ipsam aliis post se profutura sint ignorant. Expliciunt omelie Magistri hugonis super ecclesiasten fideles utique et omni acceptione dignissime. In profesto beati Andree apostoli anno domini Mo cccco xliiio. [ff. 119v-120v blank].
mssHM 41761
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ff. 1-231v. [Northern homily cycle]. Incipit: //Narracio, A blak monk of an abby. Explicit: And vs and ham to blys lede. Amen./ Amen Amen I rede we syng/ For þare is Ioy without endyng/ Explicit/ þis boke wrot [end of line erased; in the 1930s tentatively read with the aid of a reagent:"William Thame"; now completely illegible]/ God kepe hym fro syn and schame/ And gyff hym þe grace so to spede/ þat he may haue heuyn to his mede/ I pray ȝow þat hyt may so be/ For hym say a pater noster and a Aue/ Celi regina sit scriptory medicina/ [2 lines erased]. English. Unexpanded version of the Northern Homily Cycle; see J. Small, English Metrical Homilies (Edinburgh 1862), M. Corbett,"An East-Midland Revision of the Northern Homily Cycle," Manuscripta 26 (1982) 100-07, and, for the expanded text, S. Nevanlinna, The Northern Homily Cycle: The Expanded Version in MSS Harley 4196 and Cotton Tiberius E. vii; I: from Advent to Septuagesima. Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 38 (1972). Text here beginning defectively: ff. 1-202, Temporale from the third Sunday of Advent through the 25th Sunday after Trinity; ff. 202v-231, Sanctorale.
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