This manuscript contains 73 texts, of which only one relates to law and is re-produced here. Sixty-three of the pieces are by Ælfric (c. 955 - c. 1010), abbot of Eynsham and a prolific writer of Old English homilies, while the remainder are anonymous. N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957) dated this manuscript to the first half of the twelfth century, though it was probably produced closer to the middle of the twelfth century. The origin of the manuscript is almost certainly Rochester Cathedral Priory. Nothing is known of its subsequent medieval history. The manuscript was in Archbishop Parker's possession after 1565 and he subsequently bequeathed it to Corpus Christi College in his Indenture of 1575.
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