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

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

Description

Alternative title
Pontificale (Winchester—Worcester)
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 31 + 129 + 7
Date created
[ca. 900 A.D.-1199]
Language
Latin, English, English, Old (ca. 450-1100), Greek, Modern (1453- )
Material
Vellum
Layout
mostly 27 lines to a page
Height (mm)
310
Width (mm)
190
Collation
1(4) 2(8) 3(4) 4(8) 5(8) (8 canc.) || 6(8)-16(8) (+1) 17(8)-21(8) || 22(8) (wants 8).
Writing
very finely written in a good many hands
Foliation
ff. a-b + i + pp. 1-332 + ff. c-d
Provenance
Pp. 1-60 (nos. 1-12) are Worcester, written for Bishop Samson (1096-1112). Nos. 13-21 Winchester. Items 22, 23 Worcester supplements.
Research
The origin of the two portions of the book has been pointed out by Henderson, York Pontifical 1875, Surtees Society (Introd.), nos. iv and xiii. See also W. H. Frere, Alcuin Club Collections, English Pontifical Services 1901 I p. 93. He says The Benedictional seems to belong to Winchester and to the xith century: it is possible that some of the preceding part of the Corpus is older. But the Winchester portion is undoubtedly the oldest part of the book. Liebermann Gesetze p. xxi calls it Ci and uses it for Coronation oath, Ordeals, and Excommunication forms pp. 215, 401, 435. L. G. W. Legg, Coronation records, prints the Coronation-service (p. 12).
Additions
Various notes in red by Parker on flyleaf.

Abstract/Contents

Summary
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.
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

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
x-xi, xii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gx734hw5834/MS_146.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gc206dk2852/146.pdf
Contains
  • Professions and absolution. 1-2
    Nasmith
    Profectiones subjectionis papae Romano ab episcopis et abbatibus electis faciendae. 1-2
    Note
    In two hands<br />(1) a. Profession of obedience to the Archbishop of Canterbury
    Incipit
    (1) Ego .N. Wigornensis ecclesie electus
    Note
    (1) b. Another hand. Profession of obedience to the pope<br />(1) c. Profession of an abbot<br />(2) Form of Absolution
    Incipit
    (2) Ipse dominus Ihesus Christus equalis patri
    Rubric
    (2) Benedictio generalis pro cunctis fidelibus defunctis
  • Blessings and excommunication. 3-6
    Nasmith
    Benedictiones perae et baculi et imaginum, et excommunicatio eorum qui ecclesiam Wigorniensem violaverint. 3-6
    Rubric
    (3) Benedictio pere et baculi
    Note
    (3) Hand like that of item 1a (1)
    Rubric
    (4) Benedictio super imagines
    Note
    (4) Later hand<br />(5) Excommunicatio
    Incipit
    (5) Ex auctoritate patris etc. ... et Sancti Oswaldi archiepiscopi etc.
    Note
    (5) A new hand<br />(5) Preces and Collect for Washing of Feet<br />(5) Larger later hand<br />p. 6 blank
  • Order for a provincial Council. 7-11
    Nasmith
    Qualiter concilium agatur provinciale prima secunda et tertia die. 7-11
    Note
    In the same hand as items 4 and 5<br />Neumes. Initials plain red and green
  • Reconciliation of an altar. 11-16
    Nasmith
    Reconciliatio altaris vel sacri loci seu cymiterii, qui fuerit pollutus. 11-16
    Note
    In the same hand as items 3 and 5<br />Neumes. Initials plain red and green
  • Service of Ash Wednesday. 16-22
    Nasmith
    Qualiter quarta feria in capite jejunii circa penitentes agatur. 16-22
    Note
    In the same hand as items 3 and 4<br />Neumes. Initials plain red and green
  • Additions to the benedictional. Additions to ordination services. 23-30
    Nasmith
    Recapitulatio benedictionum diversarum secundum ordinem Romanum scriptarum. 23-30
    Note
    In a very pretty upright round hand<br />The rubrics, after that given by Nasmith, are
    Rubric
    (24) In consecratione uel restauratione altarium benedictio aquae<br />(26) Benedictio Byxis uel alius uasis in quo seruetur eucharistia<br />(26) Consecratio altaris et calicis et patenae corporalisque<br />(27) Oratio ad Reconciliationem clericorum<br />(27) Benedictio imaginis Sancti Johannis Evangelistae
    Note
    (two forms)<br />(29) Ordination
    Rubric
    (29) Archidiaconus sine casula procedens et nomina clericorum qui ordinandi sunt (re-written) pre manibus habens humiliter in Episcopum et his eum uerbis alloquitur
    Note
    (30) Hand changes on p. 30<br />Rubrics in this section are in capitals
  • Service of Maundy Thursday. 31-37
    Nasmith
    Qualiter penitentes in cena Domini in ecclesiam introducuntur. 31-37
    Note
    In the hand of items 3-5<br />Marginal additions of cent. xii-xiii
  • Service of Maundy Thursday cont. 37-50
    Nasmith
    Benedictio olei et chrismatis. 37-50
    Note
    In the hand of items 3-5<br />Marginal additions of cent. xii-xiii
  • Additional collect for the consecration of a church. 51-51
    Nasmith
    Dedicatio ecclesiae. 51-51
    Note
    Another hand
  • Ordinand's oath to Bishop Samson. 52-52
    Nasmith
    Professio subjectionis ab ordinandis. 52-52
    Note
    Hinc ex nomine Sampsonis episcopi Wigorniensis colligimus hanc partem codicis exaratam fuisse circa annum 1100<br />A large hand<br />(52) The words in presentia domini SAMSONIS episcopi occur
  • Interrogatories to an abbot. 53-56
    Nasmith
    Qualiter ad abbatem electus praelatione episcopali sit examinandus et consecrandus. 53-56
    Note
    A hand which has not appeared before. Wigornensis ecclesia is mentioned: one form of profession on p. 53 re-written
  • Oblatio pueri and music for the consecration of a church. 56-62
    Nasmith
    Benedictio pueri in monachum. 56-62
    Note
    In two hands<br />On p. 60, in a good small round hand: part of the office for dedication of a church with neumes
  • Monastic profession, end of erased Index, and material for the consecration of a church. 61-62
    Nasmith
    Benedictio pueri in monachum. 61-62
    Note
    At p. 61 the original book, of cent. x-xi?, begins. The upper part of the page has been erased and re-written (xi) with a paragraph
    Rubric
    (61) De professione clericorum. Gregorius Petro subdiacono sicilie
    Incipit
    (61) Ante triennium subdiacones etc.
    Note
    and a suffrage
    Explicit
    (61) Ut hos fratres nostros ad sacros ordines promouendos in sacra religione conseruare digneris T. R.
    Note
    The rest of the page has its original writing, a table of contents beginning (imperfectly)
    Incipit
    (61) Benedictio super regem cotidiana. Item alia Item alia lxxiiii
    Note
    ending with
    Explicit
    (62) Benedictio fonti in quo aliqua neglegentia contigerit xcix
    Note
    This gives the contents of the present pages 282 to 298. The Roman numbers refer to items, not pages<br />Followed by a later paragraph
    Incipit
    (62) Hec sunt que ante dedicationem preparanda sunt
    Note
    Then in the original hand
    Rubric
    (62) Missa pro edificante ecclesiam
    Note
    The hand of this part of the book is very fine. Rubrics in alternate lines of red and green. Neumes. Initials in blue, red, green, some with simple ornament
  • Consecrations, reconciliations, and blessings. 63-108
    Nasmith
    Ordo ad consecrandam domum Dei omniaque sacra utensilia et vestimenta. 63-108
    Note
    The Greek alphabet is at top of p. 67<br />(104) Some marginal additions (xi)<br />Blessing of paten and chalice mostly re-written (xi)
  • Ordination services. 108-123
    Nasmith
    Ordinatio psalmistae, ostiarii, lectoris, exorcistae, accoliti, subdiaconi, diaconi et presbiteri. 108-123
    Note
    In ordination of priests part of p. 121 re-written<br />The items are numbered in Roman up to xviii. Benedictio uestis uiduae
  • Ordination of an abbot or abbess. 123-128
    Nasmith
    Ordinatio abbatis et abbatissae. 123-128
  • Ordination of a bishop. 129-138
    Nasmith
    Ordinatio episcopi. 129-138
  • Coronation service. 138-150
    Nasmith
    Consecratio regis et reginae. 138-150
  • Professions of monks, virgins, widows. 150-159
    Nasmith
    Benedictio monachorum et sanctimonialium. 150-159
  • Benedictional. 159-301
    Nasmith
    Benedictiones episcopales per totum annum. 159-301
    Note
    Proper of Time begins
    Rubric
    (159) Dominica IIII. ante natale Domini nostri Iesu Christi
    Note
    (159) Red and blue initial<br />(204) A handsome red and blue initial (Easter)
    Rubric
    (229) Finiunt Dominicales Benedictiones<br />(229) Benedictio de Sancta Trinitate<br />(230) Benedictio cotidie ad matutinum etc.
    Note
    Ending with
    Rubric
    (238) Benedictio scrinii uel arce
    Note
    (239) Proper of Saints
    Rubric
    (239) Benedictio in natalem Sancti Stephani protomartiris
    Note
    (239) Green and blue initial<br />Includes Elphege Episcopus, Cuthbert, Ætheldrytha, Natalis Sancti Suuithuni, Translatio Sancti Suuithuni, Atheluuoldus (two), Translatio Atheluuoldi, Denis, Iustus, Birinus
    Rubric
    (275) Finiunt Benedictiones in nataliciis sanctorum
    Note
    (275) Common of Saints<br />After Benedictio in Anniversario festo aecclesiae (p. 280) a small blank was left at the bottom of the page. In this a rather later hand has written
    Rubric
    (280) Orationes ad libros benedicendos
    Incipit
    (280) Descendat quesumus
    Rubric
    (280) Alia oratione
    Note
    (280) Initial A and one line written, then erased. It is completed on p. 323
    Rubric
    (281) Benedictio super regem tempore sinodi
    Note
    The last is
    Rubric
    (300) Benedictio salis et aquae ad pecora sananda
  • Exorcism. 301-312
    Nasmith
    Exorcismus aquae tum gelidae tum ferventis ad judicium Dei demonstrandum. 301-312
    Note
    On p. 303 Halsung in Anglo-Saxon: others on pp. 304 and 308, 309. See Liebermann, Gesetze 401<br />Cameron B12.1.2, B12.1.3
  • Exorcism. 312-319
    Nasmith
    Exorcismus panis ordeacei uel casei. 312-319
    Note
    (314) Form of Exorcism for a possessed person begins on p. 314 without proper title<br />(318) The old portion of the book ends in this, imperfectly, with p. 318<br />(319) The text is completed on p. 319 in a hand like that of items 3-5 (but not the same, I think)
  • Blessings. 319-328
    Nasmith
    Benedictio sponsi et sponsae. 319-328
    Note
    (319) In this same hand, ending on p. 322<br />(322) At the bottom of this page is the first line of the prayer (ad libros benedicendos) which was begun on p. 280. It is completed on p. 323 by a pretty round hand which continues with
    Rubric
    (323) Benedictio sanctorum Confessorum Ecgwini ac Oswaldi<br />(324) Benedictio nuptialis<br />(325) ad lectum
    Note
    and one erased<br />On p. 326 another similar hand appears, no title
    Incipit
    (326) Inclina domine aurem tuam ad me
    Note
    (326) At bottom, the following words, in a small hand with neumes
    Incipit
    (326) Alleluia. Uox exultationis et salutis in tabernaculis iustorum
    Note
    On p. 327 a hand like that of item 6 writes (Apoc. xxi. 3)
    Incipit
    (327) In diebus illis uenit angelus et locutus est mecum
    Explicit
    (328) scripti sunt in libro uitae
    Note
    (328) A Collect in a large hand
  • Curses. 329-331
    Nasmith
    Maledictiones. 329-331
    Note
    Probably in the hand of p. 327<br />Two forms of cursing a thief<br />(331) On the last page (xv-xvi): Mem. þat ther be lefte at mr northeleys xxxij bokes<br />It is evident that the four leaves pp. 323-330 were at one time meant to be inserted after p. 280
TJames
34
Stanley
D. 3
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 146

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