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presented in three columns. The lists of the middle and right-hand
columns, following respectively the sequence of the apostles’ names of
Act. 1,13 and of the Roman Canon, are the lists which are found in
sermons expounding T, beginning either Peter, John, James, or Peter,
Paul (Andrew), Andrew, James.
The list in Burn’s left-hand column is the one attached to sermons
which expound R, beginning Peter, Andrew, James, as in our text, with
which it is identical up to the last three names, where the sequence is
Thaddæus, Simon, Matthias. Bum cites three sermons for his Roman
list, dating from the eighth/ninth to the twelfth century.
This list is also found attached to one of the most venerable
witnesses of the R text, Brit. Mus. MS Royal 2 A XX, f. 12r, in an
Anglo-Saxon hånd from the second half of the eighth century; here, a
tenth-century Anglo-Caroline hånd has added the apostles’ names
above the line: Petrus cwep, Andre cwep, and so on as in our list, up to
the last three names: Simon, Tatheus, Matheus (repeated from no. 8
instead of Matthias).1
So far, all the extant creeds, in Norwegian as well as in Icelandic
manuscripts, seem either to render, or to be built upon T. In the first
article of the Apostles’ Creed they always have the distinctive mark of
T, ‘creatorem cæli et terræ’. The only trace of R would seem to be the
‘Roman’ list of aposdes of the Icelandic Homiliu-Bok.
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The homily entitled Omnium sanctorum (Homiliu-Bok, ed. pp. 39-45,
ff. 18v-22r) runs parallel with that of the Old Norse homiliary,7 8 Gamal
norsk Homiliebok, pp. 143-47, as far as p. 43, line 18. This text is
mainly derived from Ps.-Bede, Horn. 71, PL 94, cols. 452 sqq.,
‘Legimus in ecclesiasticis historiis quod sanctus Bonifacius...’, the
usual homily for All Saints of the medieval breviaries, also found in
the Breviarium Nidrosiense 1519, pp. 840-42.
However, from f. 20v, line 13 (ed. p. 43, line 18) to the end, the
Icelandic homily adds so to say a second homily, chiefly an exhorta-
7 For a description of this manuscript, see N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts
Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford 1957), no. 248.
8 See T. Knudsen, op. cit., 662.