[12] Elfrici Homiliæ, edit. El. Elstob. (fol. Oxon. 1715.) Of this first attempt only thirty-six pages were printed. Her second attempt was under the title, "The English-Saxon Homilies of Ælfric, Archb. of Cant., who flourished in the latter end of the tenth century and the beginning of the eleventh. Being a course of Sermons collected out of the writings of the ancient Latin Fathers, containing the Doctrines, etc. of the Church of England before the Norman Conquest, etc. etc. Now first printed, and translated into the language of the present times by Eliz. Elstob. fol. Oxon. 1715." Of this only two leaves were printed. A copy of both is in the Brit. Mus. See Biogr. Brit. Lit. p. 493. Mrs. Elstob also published Ælfric's Homily on the birth-day of St. Gregory, with a translation. 8vo. 1709. Reprinted with some account of Mrs. Elstob in 1839.
[13] De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum, lib. iii.
[17] The handwriting, though very nearly alike, is not the same in the two parts of the MS.; they also occasionally differ in orthography, 'middangeard,' for instance, in the first part being in the second constantly written 'middaneard.'
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Page Præfatio ............................................... 1 Præfatio, Saxonice ..................................... 2 I. De Initio Creaturæ ..................................... 8 II. De Natale Domini ....................................... 28 III. Passio Beati Stephani Protomartyris .................... 44 IV. Assumptio S. Johannis Apostoli ......................... 58 V. Natale Innocentium Infantum ............................ 76 VI. Octabas et Circumcisio Domini .......................... 90 VII. Epiphania Domini ....................................... 104 VIII. Dom. III. post Epiphania Domini ........................ 120 IX. In Purificatione S. Mariæ .............................. 134 X. Dominica in Quinquagesima .............................. 152 XI. Dominica Prima in Quadragesima ......................... 166 XII. Dominica in Media Quadragesima ......................... 180 XIII. Annunciatio S. Mariæ ................................... 192 XIV. In Dominica Palmarum ................................... 206 XV. Dominica S. Pascæ ...................................... 220 XVI. Dominica Prima post Pasca .............................. 230 XVII. Dominica Secunda post Pasca ............................ 238 XVIII. In Litania Majore ...................................... 244 XIX. De Dominica Oratione ................................... 258 XX. De Fide Catholica ...................................... 274 XXI. In Ascensione Domini ................................... 294 XXII. In Die Sancto Pentecostes .............................. 310 XXIII. Dominica Secunda post Pentecosten ...................... 328 XXIV. Dominica Quarta post Pentecosten ....................... 338 XXV. Nativitas S. Johannis Baptistæ ......................... 350 { xiv} XXVI. Passio Apostolorum Petri et Pauli ...................... 364 XXVII. Natale S. Pauli Apostoli ............................... 384 XXVIII. Dominica XI. post Pentecosten .......................... 402 XXIX. Passio Beati Laurentii Martyris ........................ 416 XXX. De Assumptione Beatæ Mariæ ............................. 436 XXXI. Passio S. Bartholomæi Apostoli ......................... 454 XXXII. Decollatio S. Johannis Baptistæ ........................ 476 XXXIII. Dominica XVII. post Pentecosten ........................ 490 XXXIV. Dedicatio Ecclesiæ S. Michaelis ........................ 502 XXXV. Dominica XXI. post Pentecosten ......................... 520 XXXVI. Natale Omnium Sanctorum ................................ 538 XXXVII. Natale S. Clementis Martyris ........................... 556 XXXVIII. Natale S. Andreæ Apostoli .............................. 576 XXXIX. Dominica Prima in Adventum Domini ...................... 600 XL. Dominica II. in Adventum Domini ........................ 608 Notes .................................................. 621