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Alternative title:

Pontificale (Winchester—Worcester)

Language:

Latin, English, English, Old (ca. 450-1100), Greek, Modern (1453- )

Date created:

[ca. 900 A.D.-1199]

Type of resource:

Mixed material

Extent:

ff. 31 + 129 + 7

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

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

M.R. James Date:

x-xi, xii

Collection:

Parker Manuscripts

Contains:

• Professions and absolution. 1-2

  Nasmith:

  Profectiones subjectionis papae Romano ab episcopis et abbatibus electis faciendae

• Blessings and excommunication. 3-6

  Nasmith:

  Benedictiones perae et baculi et imaginum, et excommunicatio eorum qui ecclesiam Wigorniensem violaverint

• Order for a provincial Council. 7-11

  Nasmith:

  Qualiter concilium agatur provinciale prima secunda et tertia die

• Reconciliation of an altar. 11-16

  Nasmith:

  Reconciliatio altaris vel sacri loci seu cymiterii, qui fuerit pollutus

• Service of Ash Wednesday. 16-22

  Nasmith:

  Qualiter quarta feria in capite jejunii circa penitentes agatur

• Additions to the benedictional. Additions to ordination services. 23-30

  Nasmith:

  Recapitulatio benedictionum diversarum secundum ordinem Romanum scriptarum

• Service of Maundy Thursday. 31-37

  Nasmith:

  Qualiter penitentes in cena Domini in ecclesiam introducuntur

• Service of Maundy Thursday cont. 37-50

  Nasmith:

  Benedictio olei et chrismatis

• Additional collect for the consecration of a church. 51-51

  Nasmith:

  Dedicatio ecclesiae

• Ordinand's oath to Bishop Samson. 52-52

  Nasmith:

  Professio subjectionis ab ordinandis

• Interrogatories to an abbot. 53-56

  Nasmith:

  Qualiter ad abbatem electus praelatione episcopali sit examinandus et consecrandus

• Oblatio pueri and music for the consecration of a church. 56-62

  Nasmith:

  Benedictio pueri in monachum

• Monastic profession, end of erased Index, and material for the consecration of a church. 61-62

  Nasmith:

  Benedictio pueri in monachum

• Consecrations, reconciliations, and blessings. 63-108

  Nasmith:

  Ordo ad consecrandam domum Dei omniaque sacra utensilia et vestimenta

• Ordination services. 108-123

  Nasmith:

  Ordinatio psalmistae, ostiarii, lectoris, exorcistae, accoliti, subdiaconi, diaconi et presbiteri

• Ordination of an abbot or abbess. 123-128

  Nasmith:

  Ordinatio abbatis et abbatissae

• Ordination of a bishop. 129-138

  Nasmith:

  Ordinatio episcopi

• Coronation service. 138-150

  Nasmith:

  Consecratio regis et reginae

• Professions of monks, virgins, widows. 150-159

  Nasmith:

  Benedictio monachorum et sanctimonialium

• Benedictional. 159-301

  Nasmith:

  Benedictiones episcopales per totum annum

• Exorcism. 301-312

  Nasmith:

  Exorcismus aquae tum gelidae tum ferventis ad judicium Dei demonstrandum

• Exorcism. 312-319

  Nasmith:

  Exorcismus panis ordeacei uel casei

• Blessings. 319-328

  Nasmith:

  Benedictio sponsi et sponsae

• Curses. 329-331

  Nasmith:

  Maledictiones

Original James Record:

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gx734hw5834/MS_146.pdf

TJames:

34

Stanley:

D. 3

Repository:

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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