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Homiliaries.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Collections of homilies or sermons, which are discourses usually delivered from a pulpit, based upon a text of scripture, with the goal of giving religious instruction or exhortation. Homiliaries are often arranged according to the ecclesiastical year for reading at services.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Homilies and other religious works, written in the fourteenth century., 14th century-16th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1902
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Gregory the Great, Homiliae xl in Evangelia ('Patrologia Latina' lxxvi, 1075-1312), preceded by a list of the Homilies, of which the beginning is missing. After folio 45, which is torn, leaves are missing, containing from the middle of Homily xviii to the middle of xxxiv; a hole is burnt through folios 24-29. (Folio 1.)(ii) Origen, Homilia i, in Matthaeum, i, 18-25 ('Patrologia Latina', xcv, 1162-1167). (Folio 84 verso.)...
Dates: 14th century-16th century.

Palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.8
Scope and Contents Underwriting: Such identification as has been achieved is due to N R Ker, in ‘Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions’, iii, 169 and what follows; and E A Lowe, ‘Codices Latini Antiquiares’, supplement. Ultra-violet photographs of folios 1 + 8, 4 + 5, 9 + 16, 28 + 31, 19 + 22, 3, 30 recto, and 26 + 33 are in MS.8494, folios 1-15.Folios of the manuscripts (i), (ii), (iv), and (v) have generally been turned sideways and folded to form sheets of the new volume;...
Dates: 8th century-11th century.