the context of English vernacular preaching in the late C12 and early C13

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London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 487

London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 487

Qui parce seminat . . . (2 Cor. 9: 6)

Sacra scriptura nomine seminis appellat tria, scilicet hominis progenituram Dei verbum opus bonum

Quatuor modis venditur elemosina et tunc inde populi favor emitur aut pudoris molestia deprimitur aut recompensatio rei temporalis adquiritur aut debiti beneficii solutio inpenditur

London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 487

Celia Sisam, ‘The Scribal Tradition of the Lambeth Homilies’ (1951)

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Group A (older, inc. material from Aelfric and Wulfstan)

Group B (newer, inc. material shared w. ‘Trinity Homilies’))

intermediate, prob. B (rhymed exposition of Pater noster)

a b? b a b

the content of Lambeth 487

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homilies including OE material

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material shared with Trinity B. 14. 52

a b? b a b

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London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 487

Lambeth 487: ‘On Ureisun of ure Louerde’

explicit

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