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Alternative title

Regula S. Benedicti. Martyrologium Abbendoniense. Smaragdi Diadema Monachorum

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 162

Date created

[ca. 900 CE-1099]

Language

Latin, English, Old (ca. 450-1100)

Material

Vellum

Layout

27 lines to a page

Height (mm)

323

Width (mm)

252

Collation

1(8) (8 supplied)-3(8) (3 and 6 supplied) 4(8) 5(10) (wants 9, 10) 6(8)-9(8) 10(2) 11(8)-13(8) (wants 5, 6) 14(8)-16(8) 17(10) 18(8)-21(8).

Writing

in a very beautiful flat-topped hand

Foliation

ff. i-ii + 1-163 + iii-iv

Provenance

From Abingdon, as will appear.

Research

See Napier, Old English Glosses, p. xxii.

Additions

f. 1r is covered with paper.

On the verso (1v) a remark of Parker's date and an old title: Regula S. Benedicti et martilogium et diadema monachorum ac etiam quidam tractatus qui docet qualiter monachi in monasterio debent conuersari et est post regulam S. Benedicti.

Decoration

Initials in red: some green, usually quite plain. Many smaller initials in black are filled with yellow. Headings of sections etc. uniformly in fine plain red capitals.

Summary

CCCC MS 57 is a witness to the intellectual interests of the Benedictine Reform movement in tenth-century England. It contains a collection of Benedictine texts, including the Rule, and a version of Usuard's Martyrologium with Abingdon additions. It was written in Square minuscule at the end of the tenth century or the start of the eleventh either at Canterbury, since its texts are related to Canterbury manuscripts of similar material, or at Abingdon, where it has certain early provenance. The additions to the Martyrology provide a large number of obits of people connected with the monastery of Abingdon; unfortunately they have been badly damaged by a later binder's trimming. In the eleventh century some damage to the manuscript was repaired by a scribe writing an imitiation of the original Square minuscule script.

Contents

Regula Sancti Benedicti -- Admonition -- Memoriale qualiter, part 1 -- Memoriale qualiter, part 2 -- De festiuitatibus anni (= canon 36 of the Council of Mainz, 813) -- Collectio capitularis of (probably) 818 x 819 -- Martyrologium, with Abingdon additions -- Diadema monachorum (incomplete)

M.R. James Date

x-xi

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mn635jv8751/MS_57.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qj751pg3448/57.pdf

Contains

• Regula Sancti Benedicti. 2r-32v

  James

  Regula S. Benedicti. 2r-32v

  Incipit

  (2r) Obsculta o fili precepta magistri

  Note

  (2r) (green initial, red capitals)
  (2r) A line of writing at the top is mostly cut off
  Many words are glossed, in two hands of cent. xi?
  The first Anglo-Saxon gloss occurs on f. 3r: there are very few of them. They have been printed by Napier, Old English Glosses, p. 231
  Prol. ends

  Explicit

  (3v) mereamur esse consortes

  Rubric

  (3v) Incipiunt capitula Regulae (lxxiii)
  (4v) Explicit capitulatio
  (4v) De generibus monachorum vel uita et conversatione eorum qui volunt caelestia scandere regna

  Note

  (4v) (red capitals)

  Incipit

  (5r) Quatuor genera esse monachorum

  Note

  (5r) (large red capitals)
  f. 8r-8v is supplied in a very fine English hand of cent. xi
  Also ff. 19r-19v, 22r-22v
  Ends f. 32v

  Explicit

  (32v) deo protegente peruenies. Facientibus haec regna patebunt aeterna

  Rubric

  (32v) Finit Regula Beati Benedicti

• Ambrosius Autpertus (pseudo-Fulgentius), Admonition. 32v-32v

  Author

  Ambrosius Autpertus (pseudo-Fulgentius)

  Incipit

  (32v) Dicebat uero sanctus Fulgentius iuxta regulam patrum uiuere semper stude etc.

  Explicit

  (32v) perducunt ad celi palatia

• Memoriale qualiter, part 1. 33r-34v

  Rubric

  (33r) Memoriale qualiter in monasterio conversari debemus

  Incipit

  (33r) Nocturnis horis cum ad opus diuinum de lectulo surrexerit frater

  Note

  (P. L. LXVI 927)

  Explicit

  (34v) dicant. Misereatur noster omnipotens deus. Amen

  Note

  By Benedict of Aniane (see Miss Bateson, English Historical Review 1894, p. 693)

• Memoriale qualiter, part 2. 34v-37v

  Rubric

  (34v) Incipit epitoma Lothwici Imperatoris super Regulam beati Benedicti

  Note

  (Miss Bateson, English Historical Review 1894, pp. 694-695)

  Incipit

  (34v) A kalendis autem Octobris usque in pascha hora nona

  Note

  Sketch of a beast at top of f. 37r: of an initial on f. 38r

• De festiuitatibus anni (= canon 36 of the Council of Mainz, 813). 37v-37v

  Rubric

  (37v) De festivitatibus anni

  Explicit

  (37v) in una quaque parrochia sancta corpora requiescunt

• Collectio capitularis of (probably) 818 x 819. 37v-40v

  Rubric

  (37v) Item adbreviatio eius qui supra

  Incipit

  (37v) Anno dominice incarnationis DCCC.XVII. imperii uero gloriosissimi principis lodouuici IIIIto vi idus iulii etc.

  Note

  Ends

  Incipit

  (40v) Ut uolatilia etc.

  Explicit

  (40v) in ipsorum maneat arbitrio

• Usuard, Martyrologium, with Abingdon additions. 41r-94v

  James

  Martyrologium. 41r-94v

  Author

  Usuard

  Rubric

  (41r) Kalendae Mensis Ianuarii

  Note

  (red capitals)

  Rubric

  (41r) Circumcisio domini nostri Iesu Christi

  Note

  (black capitals)

  Incipit

  (41r) Rome natale Sancti almachii etc.

  Note

  There are many additions to the text, most of which have been mutilated by the binder's plough. I think it will be useful if I note them in a slightly abbreviated form, since I cannot discover that they have been printed

  Rubric

  (40r) III Non. Ianuarii

  Note

  (41v) (Obi)tus fratris nostri ƿufhelmi / (mona)chi et diaconi

  Rubric

  (41v) II Non. Ian.

  Note

  (41v) (Obitu)s fratris nostri Alfgari / (d)iaconi nostre congregationis

  Rubric

  (42r) VII Id. Ian.

  Note

  (42r) Obitus fratris nostri ƿulfheahi monachi ac sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (42r) IIII Id. Ian.

  Note

  (42r) Eodem die translatio beati / Iudoci sacerdotis egregii

  Rubric

  (42v) III Id. Ian.

  Note

  (42v) (Obitus) fratris nostri kynrici / (mona)chi ac sacerdotis (nostre) congregationis

  Rubric

  (42v) II Id. Ian.

  Note

  (42v) (Ob.) fratris nostri briht / ... monachi ac diaconi nostre congregationis

  Rubric

  (43r) XVII Kal. Feb.

  Note

  (43r) Ob. eadƿini / ...

  Rubric

  (43v) XIII Kal. Feb.

  Note

  (43v) fratris nostri brihtmæri / ... sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (44r) XI Kal. Feb.

  Note

  (44r) Obitus fratris nostri eust / ... monachi ac sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (44r) X Kal. Feb.

  Note

  (44r) Obitus fratris nostri b ... / helmi monachi ac sacerdotis / . et depositio æ / militis. et depositio o ... / abb.

  Rubric

  (44v) VIII Kal. Feb.

  Note

  (44v) fratris nostri brihtnoði (mo)nachi

  Rubric

  (44v) VI Kal. Feb.

  Note

  (44v) fratris nostri Alfƿoldi / sacerdotis et deposit / ... thi (echi). monachi ac sacerdotis / ... fratris nostri brihtgeti / ... sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (45r) IIII Kal. Feb.

  Note

  (45r) Obitus fratris nostri ky ... / monachi ac sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (45r) III Kal. Feb.

  Note

  (45r) Depositio aeþ... / episcopi

  Rubric

  (45v) Kalendae Februarii Mensis

  Note

  (45v) fratris nostri eadƿig monachi nostre congregationis
  (45v) (f.) nostri aeþelƿardi monachi ac diaconi (n.) congregationis

  Rubric

  (45v) III Non. Feb.

  Note

  (45v) fratris nostri Leonis sacerdotis nostre congregationis

  Rubric

  (46r) VI Id. Feb.

  Note

  (46r) Obitus fratris nostri (obliterated) (... monachi ac sacerdotis ... congregationis)

  Rubric

  (46v) III Id. Feb.

  Note

  (46v) fratris nostri ƿynsini
  (46v) Deposicio baldgari sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (46v) II Id. Feb.

  Note

  (46v) ... lfstani ep.
  (46v) (Deposicio) æþelgari presulis

  Rubric

  (47r) XVI Kal. Martii

  Note

  (47r) Obitus ƿulfmæri monachi nostre congregationis

  Rubric

  (47v) XIII Kal. Mar.

  Note

  (47v) fratris nostri æþel ... sacerdotis nostre congregationis

  Rubric

  (47v) XII Kal. Mar.

  Note

  (47v) fratris nostri ælfrici sacerdotis nostre congregationis

  Rubric

  (48r) VIII Kal. Mar.

  Note

  (48r) Hic obiit fratris nostri s ... diaconis nostre congregationis

  Rubric

  (48v) V Kal. Mar.

  Note

  (48v) ... us æþelƿini abb.

  Rubric

  (49v) VI Non. Mar.

  Note

  (49v) Ipso die depositio sancti ceddae episcopi et confessoris

  Rubric

  (49v) IIII Non. Mar.

  Note

  (49v) [Obit]useaduuini ... fratris nostri sa ... dotis

  Rubric

  (49v) III Non. Mar.

  Note

  (49v) [Obi]tusfreoðegari abbatis
  (49v) Afnoði monachi
  (49v) alfgari pueri subdiaconi

  Rubric

  (50r) II Non.

  Note

  (50r) Obitus fratris nostri ... monachi ac sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (50r) VIII Id. Mar.

  Note

  (50r) Obitus fratris nostri ea ... monachi ac diaconi

  Rubric

  (50r) VI Id. Mar.

  Note

  (50r) ... mon. sac. aelfr ...

  Rubric

  (51r) XVI Kal. Apr.

  Note

  (51r) ... ri monachi

  Rubric

  (51r) XV Kal. Apr.

  Note

  (51r) Eodem die Sancti eadƿeardi reg. et m.
  (51r) Obitus fratris nostri ƿigbrihti monachi ac

  Rubric

  (51v) X Kal. Apr.

  Note

  (51v) aeþelrici diaconi

  Rubric

  (52r) VI Kal. Apr.

  Note

  (52r) Rogin ... et monachi

  Rubric

  (52v) IIII Kal. Apr.

  Note

  (52v) aeþestanus obiit / ... venerabilis abba / (Que)m deus in celi / (cul)mine constituat

  Rubric

  (53r) Non. Apr.

  Note

  (53r) ... monachi ac sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (53v) IIII Id. Apr.

  Note

  (53v) (Ob)iit aelfƿinus monachi et l.cognominatus hocking

  Rubric

  (53v) III Id. Apr.

  Note

  (53v) brihtƿig episcopi

  Rubric

  (53v) II Id. Apr.

  Note

  (53v) ... godus monachi

  Rubric

  (54r) XVII Kal. Mai.

  Note

  (54r) bri ... monachi ac sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (54v) XV Kal. Mai.

  Note

  (54v) ... adƿini abb. Another entry gone

  Rubric

  (55r) XIII Kal. Mai.

  Note

  (55r) Eodem die passio sancti aelfeahi archiepiscopi et martyris

  Rubric

  (55r) XII Kal. Mai.

  Note

  (55r) aelf ... monachi a sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (55r) X Kal. Mai.

  Note

  (55r) briht ...

  Rubric

  (55v) IX Kal. Mai.

  Note

  (55v) ... eþelredi regis
  (55v) ... eagi comitis et fratris
  (55v) ... noði monachi et subdiaconi
  (55v) alfgari (mon.)

  Rubric

  (56r) VII Kal. Mai.

  Note

  (56r) aelfƿini ... subdiaconi

  Rubric

  (56r) IIII Kal. Mai.

  Note

  (56r) obliterated

  Rubric

  (57r) Kalendae Mensis Maiae

  Note

  (57r) eadƿig militis

  Rubric

  (57r) VI Non. Mai.

  Note

  (57r) sidemanniet sororis nostre aels ...

  Rubric

  (57r) V Non. Mai.

  Note

  (57r) Ipso die eleuatio et translatio secunda corporis sanctissimi confessoris Christi et abbatis Bertini

  Rubric

  (57v) V Non. Mai.

  Note

  (57v) Obitus Erenberti militis bononiensis

  Rubric

  (57v) III Non. Mai.

  Note

  (57v) ƿulfgari monachi

  Rubric

  (58r) VIII Id. Mai.

  Note

  (58r) bv ... monachi ac sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (59r) II Id. Mai.

  Note

  (59r) aelfsini episcopi
  (59r) beorst ... (mon.)

  Rubric

  (60r) XIIII Kal. Iun.

  Note

  (60r) Eodem die dormiuit sanctus Dunstanus archiepiscopus in Christo

  Rubric

  (60v) XII Kal. Iun.

  Note

  (60v) Siƿardi monachi ac sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (60v) X Kal. Iun.

  Note

  (60v) aelfredi mon. ac sacerdotis brihtegi subdiaconi

  Rubric

  (61r) VI Kal. Iun.

  Note

  (61r) Item in ead. brittanie insula dep. uener. bede presbyteri confess. et doctoris

  Rubric

  (61r) V Kal. lun.

  Note

  (61v) osgari abb.

  Rubric

  (61v) IIII Kal. Iun.

  Note

  (61v) aelfƿini monachi ƿulfƿii diac.

  Rubric

  (61v) III Kal. Iun.

  Note

  (61v) aelfƿii monachi

  Rubric

  (62r) II Kal. Iun.

  Note

  (62r) eadgifu abbatiss(e). brihtmaeri diac.

  Rubric

  (62v) II Non. Iun.

  Note

  (62v) depos. S. petroci C.

  Rubric

  (63v) II Id. Iun.

  Note

  (63v) ... requiescit in hoc poliandro
  The ends of six elegiac lines
  (63v) ... omine clarisono
  (63v) ... aderat ceu mistica lampas
  (63v) ... us moribus egregius
  (63v) ... iunii carnalia liquit
  (63v) ... s. scandit ad astra poli

  Rubric

  (63v) II Id. Iun.

  Note

  (63v) Lifingi episcopi

  Rubric

  (64r) XVII Kal. lul.

  Note

  (64r) dep. s. eadburg. V.

  Rubric

  (64r) XVI Kal. Iul.

  Note

  (64r) inuentio corporis Sancti Bertini Abbatis et confessoris

  Rubric

  (64v) XV Kal. Iul.

  Note

  (64v) botulfii abbatis

  Rubric

  (65r) X Kal. Iul.

  Note

  (65r) In ciuitate cestrensi S. Werburge V.

  Rubric

  (65r) VIII Kal. Iul.

  Note

  (65r) godef ... monachi

  Rubric

  (66r) IIII Kal. Iulii

  Note

  (66r) brihtrici monachi ac sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (66v) VI Non. Iul.

  Note

  (66v) depositio Sancti Sƿiþuni

  Rubric

  (67r) III Non. Iul.

  Note

  (67r) aelfsta ... abb.

  Rubric

  (67r) II Non. Iul.

  Note

  (67r) dep. S. Sexb(urge) sororis sancte adeldride

  Rubric

  (67v) Non. Iul.

  Note

  (67v) dep. beati Hedde pontificis (de quo) uenerabilis Beda presbiteri in gestis etc.
  (67v) transitus ... elburge u. sororis S. edeldride

  Rubric

  (67v) VIII Id. Iul.

  Note

  (67v) Deposicio eadgari
  (67v) Dep. Sancti Grimbaldi

  Rubric

  (67v) VII Id. Iul.

  Note

  (67v) Godrici monachi ac sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (68r) IIII Id. Iul.

  Note

  (68r) Idibus qui quar ... dimisit ponders ... Presbiter aelfr ... frater et ipse bon(us)

  Rubric

  (68r) III Id. Iul.

  Note

  (68v) Sancte Mildride V.

  Rubric

  (68v) Idus Iulii

  Note

  (68v) Transl. Sancti Sƿiðuni
  (68v) Deusdedit archiepiscopi

  Rubric

  (68v) XVII Kal. Augi.

  Note

  (68v) Translatio prima ... Sancti Bertini

  Rubric

  (68v) XVI Kal. Aug.

  Note

  (69r) Sancti Kenelmi
  (69r) Sancti Alexii
  (69r) Obitus aeðelƿardi monachi ac sacerdotis

  Rubric

  (69r) XV Kal. Aug.

  Note

  (69r) Transl. Sancte edburge V.
  (69r) electio Sancti eadƿeardi regis

  Rubric

  (69r) XIII Kal. Aug.

  Note

  (69r) Sancte Margarite V. M.

  Rubric

  (71r) Kalendae Mensis Augusti

  Note

  a.
  (71r) hic presentis uite (terminum?) et supernae lucis (principium ?) beatus pater aþ(elƿoldus) episcopus sortitus est
  b.
  (71r) In anglia ciuitate (uuenta-) na. natalis S. adelƿo(ldi ep.) sanctitate ac miraculis (admi-) randi qui primum abbe(ndonien-) sium monachorum pas(tor) et abba extitit. dei(nde uero) eadgaro piissimo (rege) compellente pontific(alem) cathedram in prephat(a) urbe adeptus est

  Rubric

  (74v) IX Kal. Sep.

  Note

  (74v) Bartholomew

  Rubric

  (77r) Non. Sep.

  Note

  (77r) in monasterio dictum (!) sithdiu depositio Sanctissimi Bertini confessoris et abbatis

  Rubric

  (79r) XVI Kal. Oct.

  Note

  (79r) monast(erio) ƿyltunensi Sancte (ead)giðe uirginis

  Rubric

  (80v) II Kal. Oct.

  Note

  (81r) Dep. S. hon(orii) archiepiscopi etc.

  Rubric

  (83r) III Id. Oct.

  Note

  (83r) Uilfridi ep.

  Rubric

  (83v) XIIII Kal. Nov.

  Note

  (83v) ... reoðesƿyðe (uirg)inis

  Rubric

  (84r) X Kal. Nov.

  Note

  (84r) In ciuitate (rotoma)go nat. (S. Ro)mani a ...

  Rubric

  (85v) Kalendae Mensis Novembris

  Note

  (85v) ignulfus mon. sac.

  Rubric

  (86v) VIII Id. Nov.

  Note

  (86v) brihtnoðus sac.

  Rubric

  (86v) VI Id. Nov.

  Note

  (86v) Depositio domni ... ƿini abbatis

  Rubric

  (88v) XII Kal. Dec.

  Note

  (88v) Eadmundi regis et martyris

  Rubric

  (88v) XI Kal. Dec.

  Note

  (88v) Columbani

  Rubric

  (90r) III Non. Dec.

  Note

  (90v) Depositio Sancti birini

  Rubric

  (91r) VI Id. Dec.

  Note

  (91r) Obiit Math. filia uuilelm.

  Rubric

  (91v) Id. Dec.

  Note

  (91v) In pago pontiuo Sancti Iudoci confessoris xiicim ℞
  Ends

  Explicit

  (94r) Retiarie sancti ermetis exorciste

  Note

  (94v) At top a monogram of A and ω
  Then two formulae (xi) to announce death
  a.

  Incipit

  (94v) † Domnus abba N. totaque Abbandoniensis coenobii caterua etc.

  Note

  (for a priest's death)
  b.

  Incipit

  (94v) † Karissimo domno æþelstano et cunctis fratribus Abbanduniensis monasterii. Nouerit uestra fraternitas quendam leuitam nomine N.

  Note

  (94v) Below this is a faint sketch of an angel facing R. and pointing upwards: in very good Anglo-Saxon style
  One or two other scribbles occur

• Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Diadema monachorum (incomplete). 95r-163v

  James

  Smaragdidiadema monachorum. 95r-163v

  Author

  Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel

  Note

  (P. L. CII)

  Rubric

  (95r) Hunc modicum libellum Smaragdus De (di)versis virtutibus collegit. et ei nomen Diadema monachorum inposuit. quia sicut diadema regis gemmis. ita et hic liber fulget virtutibus

  Note

  (95r) (good red capitals)

  Incipit

  (95r) Hunc modicum operis nostri libellum

  Explicit

  (95r) capitulum ponimus primum

  Rubric

  (95r) Explicit prologus

  Note

  (95v) Capitula (100)

  Rubric

  (97r) Incipit liber diadema monachorumPrimitus de oratione

  Incipit

  (97v) Hoc est remedium eius qui uitiorum temptamentis exaestuat

  Note

  (97v) This has a very good initial of fine interlaced work with dragons' heads
  Sketch of a man's bust on f. 108v: of rough interlaced ornament (in dry point) on f. 112v
  There are some glosses but, I think, none in Anglo-Saxon
  Ends imperfectly in c. 84

  Explicit

  (163v) Conscientiam nostram ab operibus mortuis i. a peccatis

  Note

  (163v) Note (xvi early)
  (163v) Hic deest totus quaternio

TJames

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Stanley

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Repository

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Location

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