The Cambrai Homily

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Old English homily
gptkbp:contains Latin glosses
gptkbp:dateWritten early 11th century
gptkbp:discoveredBy 1850s
gptkbp:genre sermon
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Cambrai Homily
gptkbp:language gptkb:Old_English
gptkbp:length about 200 words
gptkbp:manuscriptLocation gptkb:Cambrai,_France
gptkbp:manuscriptShelfmark gptkb:Cambrai,_Bibliothèque_municipale,_MS_528
gptkbp:notableFor early West Saxon dialect features
liturgical content
gptkbp:preservedIn single manuscript
gptkbp:referencedIn Anglo-Saxon studies
Old English literature scholarship
gptkbp:significance earliest known example of continuous prose in Old English
gptkbp:studiedBy gptkb:linguist
medievalists
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Easter
gptkb:Resurrection_of_Christ
gptkbp:writtenBy Insular minuscule
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Old_Irish
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5