Southwick Codex
Select Southwick Codex in 'Choose' to open the first collection of Cotton Vitellius A. xv. Use 'Goto' to select an opening in the book.
The name, the Southwick Codex, comes from a signature of ownership on the second recto of the Soliloquies.
The translation of the Soliloquies is attributed to King Alfred in an unfinished colophon.
'[H]ęr endiaš ža cwidas že ęlfred kining alęs of žęre bec že we hataš on....'
Gospel of Nicodemus (fragment)
As these facing pages from Nicodemus show, the texts in the Southwick Codex have suffered much less fire-damage than those in the Nowell Codex.
The beginning of the text was already lost before the fire. The fragment ends on fol. 83v14 with the word 'AMEN'.
The Debate of Solomon and Saturn begins in the next line, fol. 83v15, with the words 'Her kiš hu saturnus 7 saloman ...'.
St. Quintin Homily (fragment)
The fragment occupies only the last eleven lines of fol. 90v. It begins at line 7, but a large initial H was never written in the space provided for it at the start of the line.
St. Quintin ('se halga quintinus') is mentioned in line 16. Rustmarks from a previous binding on this page, the last in the Southwick Codex, show that the homily was already a fragment when Cotton Vitellius A. xv was compiled.
