Homiletic Fragment I

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Homiletic Fragment I is a brief Old English religious text preserved in the Vercelli Book, likely representing part of a lost sermon or homily.

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Homiletic Fragment II 1

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Old English religious text
homiletic fragment
sermon fragment
approximateDate 10th century
associatedWith Anglo-Saxon homiletic tradition NERFINISHED
Vercelli homilies NERFINISHED
contentNature didactic
religious instruction
countryOfOrigin England
culturalContext Anglo-Saxon England NERFINISHED
genre homily
sermon
language Old English
likelyPartOf lost homily
lost sermon
literaryPeriod Old English period NERFINISHED
manuscriptCollection Vercelli Book homilies NERFINISHED
manuscriptLocation Vercelli Book NERFINISHED
originalMedium parchment manuscript
preservationStatus survives in single manuscript
preservedIn Vercelli Book NERFINISHED
religiousContext Christian homiletic literature
religiousTheme Christian doctrine
moral exhortation
religiousTradition Christianity
scholarlyInterest Anglo-Saxon religious prose
Old English homiletic style
script Insular minuscule
studiedInDiscipline Old English studies
historical linguistics
medieval studies
philology
textType prose
textualStatus fragmentary
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Vercelli Book contains Homiletic Fragment I
Vercelli Book contains Homiletic Fragment I
this entity surface form: Homiletic Fragment II