Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 146: The Samson Pontifical

IIIF Drag-n-drop purl.stanford.edu/wy783rb3141
Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 146: The Samson Pontifical
Alternate Title:
Pontificale (Winchester—Worcester)
Language:
Latin, English, English, Old (ca. 450-1100), and Greek, Modern (1453- )
Extent:
ff. 31 + 129 + 7
Dimensions:
310 Height (mm) and 190 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 900 A.D. - 1199]
Provenance:
Pp. 1-60 (nos. 1-12) are Worcester, written for Bishop Samson (1096-1112). Nos. 13-21 Winchester. Items 22, 23 Worcester supplements.
Table of contents:
  • Professions and absolution
  • Blessings and excommunication
  • Order for a provincial Council
  • Reconciliation of an altar
  • Service of Ash Wednesday
  • Additions to the benedictionalAdditions to ordination services
  • Service of Maundy Thursday
  • Service of Maundy Thursday cont.
  • Additional collect for the consecration of a church
  • Ordinand's oath to Bishop Samson
  • Interrogatories to an abbot
  • Oblatio pueri and music for the consecration of a church
  • Monastic profession, end of erased Index, and material for the consecration of a church
  • Consecrations, reconciliations, and blessings
  • Ordination services
  • Ordination of an abbot or abbess
  • Ordination of a bishop
  • Coronation service
  • Professions of monks, virgins, widows
  • Benedictional
  • Exorcism
  • Exorcism
  • Blessings
  • Curses
Description:
This manuscript is known as the Samson Pontifical because it contains an added formula for professing obedience in the presence of Samson, bishop of Worcester 1096-1112. The main part of the manuscript, a Pontifical and Benedictional, was made at the Old Minster, Winchester, in the early eleventh century. It contains a version of the second English coronation ordo. The manuscript had moved to Worcester by the second half of the eleventh century, where it received many additions and alterations. Scribes reponsible for these also worked on CCCC MSS 391 and 9. Hemming of Worcester, sub-prior in the time of Archbishop Wulfstan (1062-1095), also added text to CCCC MS 146.
More details »