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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 057: Abingdon Benedictine Collection with Martyrology

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 057: Abingdon Benedictine Collection with Martyrology

Description

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.

Abstract/Contents

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)

Bibliographic information

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
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 057

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