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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 044: Pontifical

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 044: Pontifical

Description

Alternative title
Pontificale (Canterbury—Ely)
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 1 + 201
Date created
[ca. 1000-1099]
Language
Latin, English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
Material
Vellum
Layout
20 lines to a page
Height (mm)
330
Width (mm)
245
Collation
1 flyleaf, 1(8) (wants 1, 2) 2(8)-6(8) (wants 2) | 7(8)-16(8) (gap) 17(8)-24(8) | 25(8) 26(4).
Writing
The original text is in a most magnificent round black script of the type which I associate with St Augustine's, Canterbury
Foliation
ff. a-b + pp. i-iv + 1-84 (85-94 missing) + 95-274 + 274a-b + 275-366 (367-368 missing) + 369-410 + ff. c-d
Provenance
It is probable to my mind from this (the hand reminiscent of St Augustine's, Canterbury) and from the invocations in the Litany that the book was written at Canterbury. But, as we shall see, it belonged in cent. xv to Ely.
Research
Wanley (p. 109) prints the end of this Preface, which ends on 2r.
The Coronation-service is used by Legg, Three Coronation Orders, p. xxxviii (pl. 3) and Liebermann, pp. xxi, 215, 365, 401, 416 (ordeals). He calls it Ce and assigns it to 1040-80.
See also Henderson, Liber pontificalis Eboracensis, p. xxi.
Additions
On the flyleaf (i), in the xvith cent. hand which reappears at the end, is: Index huius pontificalis. I do not think it is one of Parker's additions: it seems to me earlier.
The original hand begins 1r with a Preface in Anglo-Saxon. Two leaves are gone and the first page has been erased, but the text of it is probably recoverable.
In the lower margin of f. 189v (p. 386) is an erased inscription of cent. xv-xvi: Ely Iste liber pertinet ecclesie Eliensi. Above it an inscription of Parker's date erased (probably as being erroneous). I read the words: ... vocat(us?) The red book of ... This seems to show that the writer of the note confused this MS. with MS 422, which was really the Red Book of Derby; and that he or some one else realized the mistake and erased the note.
The writing is splendid throughout. The initials are perfectly plain, in green, blue or red.

Abstract/Contents

Summary
This handsome manuscript contains a Pontifical. On script grounds it has been attributed to Canterbury, probably St Augustine's rather than Christ Church; however its text has been held to show that it was made for use at Christ Church, Canterbury. The script of CCCC MS 44 shows it to have been written at some point during the middle two quarters of the eleventh century, but a more precise dating is arguably possible given the association of the coronation ordo it contains (the third recension of the second ordo) with William the Conqueror. This association is by no means generally accepted. The distinctive mark on f. 3 shows that the manuscript was at Ely in the later Middle Ages. It has been suggested that it might have been part of the treasure of Archbishop Stigand (1052-72), with which he fled to Ely shortly before his death in 1072; clearly this again depends on how one interprets the dating evidence of the manuscript's text.
Contents
Pontifical

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xi (and xvi)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:st522qc4476/MS_44.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:bn079gh0473/44.pdf
Contains
  • Pontifical. 2-386
    Rubric
    (2) Incipit ordo uel examinatio in ordinatione episcopi
    Incipit
    (2) Antiqua sanctorum patruum institutio
    Note
    (3) On the margin of p. 3 is the Ely mark<br />(3) In the lower margin an erasure<br />(3) Iste liber pertinet ecclesie ...
    Rubric
    (9) In nomine domini. Incipit ordo qualiter domus dei consecranda est
    Note
    (12) In the Litany we have: Apostles Petre ii, (p. 13) Martyrs: Stephane, Quiriace, Ælphege, Line, Clete, Clemens, Syxte, Laurenti, Vincenti, Apollonaris, Dionisii, Salui, Blasi, Mauricii, Georgii. Confessors: Benedicte II, Martine, Hieronime, Gregori, Augustine, Dunstane II, Audoene, Pauline, Byrine, Suuythune, Guthlace, Fursee. Virgins: Tecla, Iuliana, Margareta, (p. 14) Cristina, Eufemia, Agnes, Agatha, Lucia, Cecilia, S(c)olastica, Austroberhte, Ætheldrytha, Mildrytha<br />(22) In a second Litany, where three of each order are invoked, we have: Martyrs: Ælphege, (p. 23) Eaduuarde. Confessors: Benedicte, Augustine, Dunstane. Confessors: Tecla, Scolastica, Brigida<br />(47) Neumes occur first here [actually, first apear on p. 38]<br />(76) After f. 39v (p. 76) a leaf is missing
    Rubric
    (82) In consecratione altaris
    Note
    (100) Consecratio Ciborii
    Rubric
    (103) Consecratio pauimenti aecclesiae
    Note
    (alphabet not given)
    Rubric
    (105) Incipit benedictio ad uestimenta sacerdotalia<br />(108) Consecratio episcopalis tunicae<br />(110) Oratio ad offertorium lintheamen<br />(111) Benedictio corporalis<br />(114) Oratio ad patenam<br />(115) Oratio ad calicem<br />(117) Prefatio eucharistialis uasculi<br />(118) Benedictio turibuli<br />(119) Benedictio uel consecratio thimiamatis siue incensi<br />(124) In benedictione sanctae crucis<br />(138) Benedictio ad imaginem sanctae mariae
    Note
    (et Iohannis)<br />(138) [Anglo-Saxon glosses occur on pp. 138, 140]
    Rubric
    (143) Benedictio uexillorum<br />(146) Ad scrinium uel arcam<br />(151) Prefatio consecrationis capsarum<br />(157) Ad signum aecclesiae (bell)<br />(165) In consecratione cymiterii<br />(174) In reconciliatione altaris<br />(186) Oratio in consecratione baptisterii<br />(188) Oratio ad benedicendum librum<br />(190) Benedictio ad generalem cultum aecclesiae<br />(190) Benedictio super munus<br />(192) Ad nouam capillaturam incidendam<br />(192) Oratio ad clericum faciendum<br />(200) Incipit ordo nouem ad aecclesiasticorum graduum<br />(243) Incipit ordinatio episcopi
    Note
    (258) A gap after p. 258
    Rubric
    (272) Missa in consecratione archyepiscopi<br />(274a) Ad processionem archypresulis de roma uenienti palliumque offerenti<br />(278) Incipit consecratio regis<br />(301) Finit consecratio regis quam sequitur consecratio reginae<br />(308) Incipit ordinatio monachi
    Note
    (310) Litany, Petre ii, (p. 311) Martyrs: Stephane, Ælfhege, Eadƿarde. Confessors: Benedicte II, Augustine, Dunstane II. Virgins: Tecla, Scolastica, Mildryȝa
    Rubric
    (329) Incipit consecratio abbatis<br />(341) Orationes ad ordinandum decanum<br />(346) Benedictio super uestimentum uirginis<br />(347) Benedictiones dicendae super uirginem<br />(356) Incipit benedictio uestis uidue<br />(357) Benedictio uidue<br />(360) Benedictio super nouum uestimentum<br />(361) Benedictio ciuitatis<br />(362) Benedictio ferri, ab episcopo danda<br />(365) Incipit exorcismus aquae ad iudicium dei demonstrandum<br />(379) Incipit adiuratio ferri uel aquae feruentis ad iudicium<br />(384) Incipit exorcismus panis ordeacii et casei
    Note
    The original hand ends here at p. 386 in the middle of a prayer<br />(387) The end is supplied in a hand of cent. xvi early which is meant to imitate the original<br />(389) The same hand adds Adiuratio aquae. Exorcismus satis and exorcisms for a possessed person<br />ff. 196v-197v blank<br />On 198r-199v the same hand has added in a much smaller script<br />(403) Qualiter concilium agatur prouinciale prima secunda et tertia die<br />(405) Benedictio super regem tempore sinodi<br />(405) Benedictio super regem cotidiana<br />(405) Benedictio ab archiepiscopo in dissolutione sinodi
TJames
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Stanley
I. 1
Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/sx200wv7668
MS 044
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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