Number

941

Shelfmark

Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare, CXVII (the ‘Vercelli Book’)

Date

x2

Origin

SE England (Canterbury StA? Rochester?)

Provenance

[unknown]

Note

[and note two unpublished editions of Vercelli Homilies: Willard (1925), Vercelli Homilies I, IV, V, VII, VIII, XI, XII; and Peterson (1951), Vercelli Homilies XII, XIV, XVI-XXI]

Contents

• Homilies*, including part of the OE Life of St Guthlac
• OE poetry: Andreas**
• Cynewulf, Fates of the Apostles**
• Soul and Body I**
• Homiletic Verse Fragment**
• Dream of the Rood**
• Cynewulf, Elene**

Bibliography

MSS

• Förster (1913a) 21-32, 35-86
• Förster (1913b) 7-70
• Krapp (1932a) xi-xxxv
• K. Sisam (1953a) 109-18
• N.R. Ker (1957) no. 394
• Scragg (1971)
• C. Sisam (1976)
• Szarmach (1977b)
• Szarmach (1979)
• M. Martin (1978)
• Scragg (1979) 225-33, 267-77
• Szarmach (1981a) xix-xxi
• Scragg (1992) xxiii-xxv, lxxiv-lxxix
• Scragg (1994a)
• Scragg (1996) 209-10
• W. Schipper (2003) 161
• C. Bishop (2007b) 94-7
• Toswell (2007) 218
• Treharne (2007a) 253-5, 257-61, 264
• Zacher (2007) 175-7
• Treharne (2009b) 101-4
• R. Gameson (2012d) 363 and n. 77
• Gullick (2012) 294 n. 3
• Scragg (2009b) 62, 80-1
• Scragg (2012a) nos. 1032-5

DEC

• F. Wormald (1945) 120 n. 1, 134 [repr. F. Wormald (1984) 58-9, 73]
• E. Temple (1976) no. 28
• Brownrigg (1978) 240 nn. 5 and 6, 243 n. 3
• Ohlgren (1986) no. 116
• R. Gameson (1995b) 88, 94
• Werner (2011) 292

FACS

• Förster (1913b) [complete facsimile]
• C. Sisam (1976) [complete facsimile]
• Wülker (1894) [poetry only]
• E. Temple (1976) ills. 97-9 [fols. 112r, 49r, 49v (all details)]
• Scragg (1992) pl. I [fol. 80v]
• Owen-Crocker (2009) fig. 4.3 [fol. 104v]

LANG

• Förster (1913a) 32-5, 148-79
• K.R. Brooks (1961) xxxi-xxxix
• Scragg (1970)
• C. Sisam (1976) 32-6
• Gradon (1977) 9-15
• Hofstetter (1987) 172-82
• Scragg (1992) xliii-lxxiv
• C. Bishop (2007b) 95
• Scragg (2009a)

ST

• Erickson (1972)
• Pollard (1975) 158
• Greenfield—Robinson (1980) 22
• Fell (1981)
• Whitbread (1983)
• Roberts (1986)
• C.D. Wright (1993) 215-91
• Biggs et al. (2001) 246
• Treharne (2007a) 260-4
• Zacher (2007)
• Di Sciacca (2008) 77-104
• Scragg (2008b)
• Remley (2009) [comprehensive bibliography of studies on the Vercelli MS and its contents]
• Zacher (2009)
• Zacher—Orchard (2009)
• Scragg (2012b) 554-5