ABSTRACT
Neil Ker defines Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162 as an ordered collection of homilies dating from the very beginning of the eleventh century, which opens with pieces for general occasions and continues with items for Sundays and feast days other than saints’ days from Epiphany to Advent. The manuscript has strong associations with the southeast of England, especially with St Augustine’s, Canterbury. On the face of it, this is a homiliary not unlike many which survive from the late Anglo- Saxon period. This chapter shows that the superficial impression is misleading. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 162 offers a valuable insight into the creation of a vernacular homiliary in the post-reform period. It is clearly a carefully constructed temporale, and would appear to draw in all the alternative items the compiler could find for the period up to Easter.
