MS. Bodl. 649

Twenty-five sermons of which 23 are macaronic Latin-English and 2 Latin. The English is introduced sparingly, but at any part of the sermons: on fol. 82 is a description, chiefly in English, of Blindman's buff, in a sermon on Confession. The first sermon begins

Ed. and tr. P. Horner, A Macaronic Sermon Collection from Late Medieval England: Oxford, MS. Bodley 649 (2006), with brief description of the manuscript, including a collation, at p. 3

Horner notes that four sermons are also found in MS. Laud Misc. 706, which belonged by John Paunteley, monk of Gloucester, and suggests that Pauntley may be the author of the present collection. The Summary Catalogue suggested an attribution to John Swetstock, monk of St. Albans, on the evidence of the 1602 catalogue (see Provenance), but Horner and Wenzel (cited below) suggest that Swetstock (whose name is also on fol. 48) may have been the scribe rather than the author.

Twenty sermon, in colloquial style, the first of which begins:

In these sermons there is little or no English in the text.