A manuscript witness of the First Book of Official Homilies, executed by the calligrapher Robert Tyas. There is a hand-drawn title page (pen-and-ink) and decorated initials throughout. This is followed by a copy of the preface; according to the Christ Church Library online catalogue entry, this is taken from the 1559 edition of the Official Homilies. For the homilies themselves, the scribe appears to have retained the printed scriptural citations in the margins. This volume also contains a partial copy of Sternhold and Hopkins's Psalms. This manuscript appeared to remain in the possession of the Tyas family until it was bequeathed to Christ Church. It is part of the Western Manuscripts collection at Christ Church, Oxford.
Binding: Seventeenth-century cream leather with gilded ornamentation over wooden boards, sewn on five thongs.
Thomas Tyas (Tias), a descendant of Robert Tyas, donated this volume to Christ Church, Oxford in 1675.
Hannah Yip
Full title: Homelyes Appoynted to be Red by t[h]e Mynyster Vpon the Sondaies and Other Holy Days Throvghovt the Yeare.
A Short Declaracion of ye true, lyuely, & Christian faythe -- ff. 21r-28v
A Sermon of Good workes annexed to faythe -- ff. 28v-37v
Of Chrystian Love and Charitye -- ff. 37v-42r
Agay[n]ste Swering and periurye -- ff. 42r-47v
A Sermon How daungerouse a thynge it is to fall frome God -- ff. 48r-54v
An Exhortation agaynste the feare of Deathe -- ff. 54v-63v
A Sermon Agaynste whoredom & v[n]clennes -- ff. 72r-82v
A Sermon Agaynste brawlynge & contentyon -- ff. 83r-91v