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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.669–70; Repertorium i.37–44; Wenzel, Macaronic pp. 34–40 and 140–56, and Wenzel, Latin pp. 136–9 and 415–23.
[A75]
[1]
ff. 121a–301vb
Collection of ninety-three sermons for Sundays and holy days, saints’ feasts and special occasions, many incomplete, with blank spaces for additional material left unfilled. Wenzel, Macaronic finds that thirty-three of these sermons contain some English material: some of the sermons are entirely in Latin, a few nearly entirely in English, and several in a mixture of both English and Latin. Although some of this material more properly belongs in Macaronic Index A, I have chosen to keep it all together here for the sake of convenience. Wenzel discusses some of the verses in Verses in Sermons: Fasciculus Morum and its Middle English Poems (Cambridge MA, 1978), but see now NIMEV which has 17 entries for this MS.
[2]
ff. 123b–25vb
Sermon for the Dedication of a Church. Wenzel, Macaronic B-079, Type C marginal; Wenzel, Latin B/2 no 3. Contains instances of Middle English verse throughout.
[3]
ff. 143vb–50a
Sermon for Passion Sunday or Good Friday. Wenzel, Macaronic B-088, Type C; Wenzel, Latin B/2 no 12. Contains several instances of Middle English verse, English words and phrases, scattered throughout. Edited (not from this MS) by Wenzel, Macaronic pp. 212–67.
Other texts: Wenzel notes 3 other copies: Oxf. Balliol Col 149 ff. 31–38v, not noted in the entry for that MS in IMEP 8; Oxf. Magdalen Col 93 ff. 152–157, indexed in IMEP 8 [A24] where the foliation is cited as f. 136; and Dublin, Trinity Col 277 pp. 185–98.
[4]
ff. 180va–84vb
Sermon for Quadragesima 1. Wenzel, Macaronic B-108, Type C marginal; Wenzel, Latin B/2 no 32. Contains some Middle English verse on f. 180vb and scattered English words and phrases, sometimes rhyming, often underlined in red, e.g. f. 183b ‘of helyng’, ‘þorwʒ annyntyng bathyyng plaster leyyng and þorwʒ swetyng’, f. 183va ‘trewloue’, f. 183vb ‘swetyng’, ‘of helyng’.
[5]
ff. 186vb–89a
Incomplete sermon for an unknown occasion. Wenzel, Macaronic B-111, Type C marginal; Wenzel, Latin B/2 no 35. Contains some Middle English verse on f. 187a, and scattered English sentences and phrases throughout, often underlined in red.
[6]
ff. 189b–93a
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