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"The second Book of Homilies, the several Titles whereof we have joined under this Article, doth contain a godly and wholsom Doctrine, and necessary for these Times, as doth the former Book of Homilies, which were set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth; and therefore we judge them to be read in Churches by the Ministers, diligently and ...
The manuscripts were produced as two volumes of a collection of Old English homilies. Most of these come from the late 10th-century Catholic Homilies by the monk and scholar Ælfric of Eynsham. To these were added 11 anonymous homilies, including 5 texts that also appear among the late 10th-century Vercelli homilies.
Of homilies on the gospel, two books Homilies In apostolum quaecumque in opusculis sancti Augustini exposita inueni, cuncta per ordinem transscribere curaui. On the Apostle, I have carefully transcribed in order all that I have found in St. Augustine's works. Collectaneum on the Pauline Epistles In Actus apostolorum libros II.
The core of the Old Norwegian Homily Book is a series of homilies ordered according to the church year, but it also contains material which is not homiletic in character, such as a complete translation of Alcuin’s De virtutibus et vitiis, as well as commentaries on the Lord’s Prayer and the service of the mass. [1]
On Marriage and Concupiscence (2 books). On the Soul and Its Origin (4 books). A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians (4 books). A Treatise on Grace and Free Will. Treatise on Rebuke and Grace. A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints. A Treatise on the Gift of Perseverance, Being the Second Book of the Predestination of the Saints.
Two expositions of works by Boethius; Two expositions of works by Proclus; Lesser tractates and disputations Five polemical works; Five expert opinions, or responsa; Fifteen letters on theological, philosophical, or political subjects; Ninety-nine Homilies Upon the Epistles and Gospels for Forty-nine Sundays of the Year
Little is known about the origin of the homilies or their intended audience. In the assessment of D. G. Scragg, the manuscript is in origin a collection, put together, perhaps over a period of time, from a number of sources ... the scribes took care to put together a book which followed a preconceived design, following the chronology of the church year, and they perhaps took individual items ...
The Vercelli homilies are a collection of twenty-three prose entries within the Vercelli book and exist as an important example of Old English prose structure, owing to the predominance of poetry within the pool of extant Old English literature. In keeping with the origins of the Vercelli manuscript in general, little is known about the exact ...