Ester daege spellum ... A sermon for Easter Sunday translated out of Latin written in the year of grace 460
By: by Archbishop AElfric into Anglo-Saxon about the year 996.
Contributors: Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Published: 1700
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Easter -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800.; Sermons, Latin -- Translations into English.; Sermons, Medieval -- England.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Translations into English.
Notes: Provenance: Baynes (bookseller, London); Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps ms. 25299); donated by family of Charles H. Slama.
Ms. on vellum; written in England.
Contains the Easter homily on the sacrifice from the 2d series of the author's Catholic homilies (completed in 992) The Anglo-Saxon text (with Latin caption: In die sanctae Pascae) is from an early ms. "found at the Reformation among the records and books in Exeter Cathedral."
Anglo-Saxon text and English translation on opposite pages.
On paper cover: An spellum gewendon of Latin on Anglo-Saxon bi Arcebyceop AElfric.