Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 146: The Samson Pontifical
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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- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
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- Professions and absolution. 2-Jan
- Nasmith
- Profectiones subjectionis papae Romano ab episcopis et abbatibus electis faciendae. 2-Jan
- Note
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In two hands
(1) a. Profession of obedience to the Archbishop of Canterbury - Incipit
- (1) Ego .N. Wigornensis ecclesie electus
- Note
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(1) b. Another hand. Profession of obedience to the pope
(1) c. Profession of an abbot
(2) Form of Absolution - Incipit
- (2) Ipse dominus Ihesus Christus equalis patri
- Rubric
- (2) Benedictio generalis pro cunctis fidelibus defunctis
- Blessings and excommunication. 6-Mar
- Nasmith
- Benedictiones perae et baculi et imaginum, et excommunicatio eorum qui ecclesiam Wigorniensem violaverint. 6-Mar
- Rubric
- (3) Benedictio pere et baculi
- Note
- (3) Hand like that of item 1a (1)
- Rubric
- (4) Benedictio super imagines
- Note
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(4) Later hand
(5) Excommunicatio - Incipit
- (5) Ex auctoritate patris etc. ... et Sancti Oswaldi archiepiscopi etc.
- Note
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(5) A new hand
(5) Preces and Collect for Washing of Feet
(5) Larger later hand
p. 6 blank
- Order for a provincial Council. 11-Jul
- Nasmith
- Qualiter concilium agatur provinciale prima secunda et tertia die. 11-Jul
- Note
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In the same hand as items 4 and 5
Neumes. Initials plain red and green
- Reconciliation of an altar. 16-Nov
- Nasmith
- Reconciliatio altaris vel sacri loci seu cymiterii, qui fuerit pollutus. 16-Nov
- Note
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In the same hand as items 3 and 5
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
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In the same hand as items 3 and 4
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
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In a very pretty upright round hand
The rubrics, after that given by Nasmith, are - Rubric
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(24) In consecratione uel restauratione altarium benedictio aquae
(26) Benedictio Byxis uel alius uasis in quo seruetur eucharistia
(26) Consecratio altaris et calicis et patenae corporalisque
(27) Oratio ad Reconciliationem clericorum
(27) Benedictio imaginis Sancti Johannis Evangelistae - Note
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(two forms)
(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
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(30) Hand changes on p. 30
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
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In the hand of items 3-5
Marginal additions of cent. xii-xiii
- Service of Maundy Thursday cont. 37-50
- Nasmith
- Benedictio olei et chrismatis. 37-50
- Note
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In the hand of items 3-5
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
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Hinc ex nomine Sampsonis episcopi Wigorniensis colligimus hanc partem codicis exaratam fuisse circa annum 1100
A large hand
(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
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In two hands
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
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This gives the contents of the present pages 282 to 298. The Roman numbers refer to items, not pages
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
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The Greek alphabet is at top of p. 67
(104) Some marginal additions (xi)
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
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In ordination of priests part of p. 121 re-written
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
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(159) Red and blue initial
(204) A handsome red and blue initial (Easter) - Rubric
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(229) Finiunt Dominicales Benedictiones
(229) Benedictio de Sancta Trinitate
(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
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(239) Green and blue initial
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
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(275) Common of Saints
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
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On p. 303 Halsung in Anglo-Saxon: others on pp. 304 and 308, 309. See Liebermann, Gesetze 401
Cameron B12.1.2, B12.1.3
- Exorcism. 312-319
- Nasmith
- Exorcismus panis ordeacei uel casei. 312-319
- Note
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(314) Form of Exorcism for a possessed person begins on p. 314 without proper title
(318) The old portion of the book ends in this, imperfectly, with p. 318
(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
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(319) In this same hand, ending on p. 322
(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
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(323) Benedictio sanctorum Confessorum Ecgwini ac Oswaldi
(324) Benedictio nuptialis
(325) ad lectum - Note
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and one erased
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
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Probably in the hand of p. 327
Two forms of cursing a thief
(331) On the last page (xv-xvi): Mem. þat ther be lefte at mr northeleys xxxij bokes
It is evident that the four leaves pp. 323-330 were at one time meant to be inserted after p. 280
- Professions and absolution. 2-Jan
- TJames
- 34
- Stanley
- D. 3
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/wy783rb3141
- MS 146
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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