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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.

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

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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