## Information on cmorm.po.m1

### PPCME2 information

> Text name | The Ormulum
> File name | cmorm.po.m1
> Manuscript | Junius 1 (SC 5113), Bodleian Library, Oxford
> Date | ?c1200 (C12b2)
> Dialect | East Midlands (Southwest Lincolnshire)
> Genre | Homilies, poetry
> Edition | Holt, Robert. 1878. The Ormulum, with the notes and glossary of Dr. R.M. White. Vols. I-II. Oxford: Clarendon.
> Sample | Dedication, Preface, Introduction; Vol. I, pp. 1-289; Vol. II, pp. 224-271
> Remarks | The Ormulum is an incomplete set of metrical homilies (20,000 lines) written by Orm, a monk at the Arroaisian House of SS Peter and Paul in Bourne, South Lincolnshire (Parkes). The poem is written in extremely regular 15-syllable unrhymed iambic lines with a caesura after the 8th syllable. The title is patterned on Speculum, a then popular title for works of this sort. This text is included in the Helsinki Corpus, but not in the PPCME1.