Everyday Sermons from Worcester Cathedral Priory
Everyday Sermons from Worcester Cathedral Priory Edited and with commentary by Joan Greatrex, this book makes available for the first time in printed form the sermon manuscript, MS Q. At first glance…
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Everyday Sermons from Worcester Cathedral Priory
Edited and with commentary by Joan Greatrex, this book makes available for the first time in printed form the sermon manuscript, MS Q. At first glance this small, untidy quarto-size manuscript appears to be merely an unremarkable collection of early fourteenth-century Latin sermons. 18, which survives in its original home in the medieval cathedral library at Worcester.
18 is by contrast a home-grown production consisting only of homilies prepared by mostly anonymous members of the Worcester monastic community. However, unlike other surviving sermon manuscripts from cathedral priories and major Benedictine abbeys, which had sermons of notable figures like Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Bernard of Clairvaux, the Worcester MS Q. And they are a rare, if not unique, example of working copies of sermons, with the Latin text reworked, altered, and corrected by a number of monks, giving us a