Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190: Penitential

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190: Penitential
Alternate Title:
Poenitentiale, etc. (Lat.-Sax.)
Language:
Latin and English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
Extent:
ff. 2 + 4 + 212 + 2
Dimensions:
285 Height (mm) and 185 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Provenance:
The book is from Exeter. At top of p. 1r (xvi) is: Ex ... us (probably for Exoniensis).
Table of contents:
  • Hymn for the consecration of the oils at the main Mass on Maundy Thursday
  • Contents list
  • Extract from Pope Gregory the Great
  • De initio creature
  • Poenitentiale pseudo-Theodori
  • Texts concerning ecclesiastics
  • Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection ('Excerptiones pseudo-Egberti', recension B, partial text)
  • Ex decretis sancti Gelasii papae
  • Old English charm for recovering stolen chattels
  • Decree of Pope Leo
  • Decree on jurisdiction over the clergy
  • Table of consanguinity
  • Texts on Christian warfare
  • Expositio officium sacre missae
  • Second Latin Pastoral Letter for Wulfstan
  • Homily VIIIa
  • Offices and related texts
  • Epistola 17
  • Epistola 114
  • Extracts from Sententiae, book 3, chapters 36-38 (perhaps taken from pseudo-Amalarius, Institutio canonicorum, book 1, chapters 20, 29, and 30), and related texts
  • Texts on ecclesiastical customs by Ælfric OSB, Hrabanus Maurus, Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and others
  • Liber scintillarum (extracts)
  • De ortu et tempore antichristi
  • Capitula of the Council of Winchester 1070
  • Capitula of the Council of Windsor 1070
  • Penitential articles issued after the Battle of Hastings
  • Letter to Wulfsige
  • Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Apostles
  • De ecclesiasticis gradibus
  • Preface to his Old English Letters to Wulfstan
  • First Old English Letter for Wulfstan
  • Second Old English Letter for Wulfstan
  • Second Old English Letter for Wulfstan (continued)
  • On the Mass: Celebration of Vigils
  • Anonymous Homily for Ash Wednesday
  • Anonymous Homily In Cena Domini
  • Canons on the punishment of sins
  • De filiis presbyterorum
  • Excommunication
  • Old English formula of confession and absolution
  • Confessionale pseudo-Egberti (Old English)
  • Regula canonicorum, chapter 83 (Old English version)
  • Confessionale pseudo-Egberti (Old English, extract)
  • Poenitentiale pseudo-Egberti (Old English)
  • Confessionale pseudo-Egberti (Additional section z)
  • Formulas and Directions for the Use of Confessors
  • Poenitentiale Theodori and Capitula d'Acheriana (partial)
  • Anglo-Saxon Laws Mirce, Að, and Hadbot
Description:
CCCC MS 190 is a very complex and interesting volume, with multiple layers of additions and alterations. It was made over the course of the eleventh century, with at least some parts written at Exeter, where it has later provenance. At its core is a version of the collection known as "Archbishop Wulfstan's Handbook", a miscellany on largely ecclesiastical matters which seems to have been compiled by Wulfstan (d. 1023), archbishop of York, for use in his composition of law codes and homilies. This occupies most of pp. 1-294, and has a contemporary contents list which does not, however, correspond precisely to the volume's actual contents. It is in Latin, and has a number of interesting additions like a text assigning penances to those who had fought at the Battle of Hastings (1066). The second part of the book has many Old English texts, including translations of some of the material which is found in the first part, and more ecclesiastical material of a similar nature, such as law codes. The manuscript was valued by Parker for its insights into the Anglo-Saxon church.
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