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it was used by the redactors of the fourteenth-century Bible translation
Stjorn (CCI 20, 1956).
Gregory’s homilies were also used as source-material by the authors
or compilers of the oldest extant homilies in the vernacular. In faet,
except for the Gospel lessons of Sunday, 7-9, these lessons from the
sixteenth homily have all been either incorporated or literally transla-
ted in the homily entitled In capite ieiunii of Gamal norsk homiliebok
(GNH) c. 1200-1220, pp. 73-77 in G. Indrebø’s edition,4 ff. 36r-38r
of the manuscript, AM 619 4°, which has been edited in faesimile by
T. Knudsen.5 This collection is believed to have been composed for
the Benedictine community of St. Michael’s (Munkeliv), Bergen. In the
following rendering of these lessons from AM 241b VI fol. and AM
241b IX fol., ff. 1-5, references to GNH have been added. See Plates
58-59, containing the beginning and the end of the GNH homily In
capite ieiunii.6
[DOMINICA PRIMA IN QUADRAGESIMA]
Lectio prima. Quia quadragesimæ tempus inchoamus. discutiendum
nobis est, cur hæc ipsa abstinentia per xl. dierum numerum [custodi-
tur], Moyses enim ut legem acciperet secundo. xl. diebus jejunauit.
Helias in deserto x[l] diebus abstinuit.
PL 76, col. 1137, 3-7; GNH, p. 73, 13-16.
Lectio secunda. Ipse auctor hominum, ad homines veniens, xl.
diebus nullum omnino cibum sumpsit. Nos quoque in quantum
possumus annuo quadragesimæ tempore carnem nostram per abstinen-
tiam affligere conemur.
PL 76, col. 1137,8-13; GNH, p. 74,2-4, the first period.
Lectio tertia. Cur ergo in abstinentia quadragenarius numerus
custoditur, nisi quia virtus decalogi per quatuor libros Sancti Evangelii
impletur.
PL 76, col. 1137,13-16; GNH, p. 74,34-p. 75,1.
4 Gamal norsk homiliebok. Ed. G. Indrebø (Oslo 1931).
5 Gammelnorsk homiliebok. Efter AM 619 qv. Intr. by T. Knudsen = CCN 4° Serie,
1 (1952).
6 On the sources of this homily, used together with Gregory’s sixteenth homily, see
Gammelnorsk homiliebok, a translation into modern Norwegian by Astrid Salvesen,
with introduction and comments by E. Gunnes (Oslo 1971), pp. 170-71.