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Documents
The first digit of each document’s number identifies the chapter whose
arguments it illustrates.
Documents Relating to Chapter 1: Mass Communication
1. 1. Marriage symbolism in the Bavarian Homiliary
This is one of the few examples found of a homily addressed apparently to
an ultimate lay audience containing marriage symbolism. It comes from a
collection of Bavarian origin, composed in the ninth century probably for
the churches of Salzburg and Augsburg, and relatively widely di·used as
homily collections of this period go.
MS Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 3833
Parchment manuscript, 192 folios, ‘in fol.’, two columns (unlike the
other sermon from the same manuscript, printed below as Document
1. 2), date c.1000 (the Staatsbibliothek catalogue dates it to the tenth
century, Barr‹e to the first half of the eleventh). The use of ‘@’ to mean
‘et’ within a word, the ‘ae’ as well as the ‘e caudata’, and the ‘cc’ type ‘a’,
as in ‘la@tificccr@’, p. 43, line 7, together with the absence of spacing
between some words, favour the earlier date, though these indications
are not decisive. According to the catalogue, the homiliary is preceded
by ‘capitula sermonum’.
Note. The ‘e caudata’ is here represented thus: ‘ae’.
Pp. 57 col. a–59 col. a:
Omelia. Lectionis eiusdem
1. In lectione quae nobis recitata est, fratres karissimi, audivimus Dominum
dicentem (Mt. 25: 1): ‘*Simile est regnum caelorum decem
virginibus quae accipientes lampades suas, exierunt obviam sponso et
All this from H. Barr‹e, Les Hom‹eliaires carolingiens de l’‹ecole d’Auxerre: authenticit‹e
— inventaire — tableaux comparatifs — initia (Studi e testi, 225; Vatican City,
1962), 26.
Description based on C. F. Halm et al.. Catalogus codicum Latinorum Bibliothecae
Regiae Monacensis (secundum Andreae Schmelleri indices), 2nd rev. edn. (2 vols.;
Munich, 1892–4), i/2, Codices num. 2501–5250 complectens (1894), 143; on Barr‹e,
Les Hom‹eliaires carolingiens, 26; and on microfilm printout of the homily.