Blickling Homilies

The Blickling Homilies are the second largest collection of anonymous homilies written in Old English. The Blickling Homilies are written in prose and said to have been written down by possibly two different scribes before the end of the 10th century. This might be one of the oldest collection of homilies to survive.

The Blickling Homilies are incomplete. The majority of the study surrounding them has been focused on finding their origin, which is still mostly unknown. The dozens of anonymous homilies written in Old English are compared to one another to draw parallels in an attempt to find common origins or authors. Old English scholar D. G. Scragg has developed a manuscript sigla to organize, list, and evaluate the numerous collections of anonymous writings.