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• Résumé : This manuscript is a miscellany from Worcester containing extracts from a very large number of texts, mostly relating to ecclesiastical observance and penance. Pp. 1-268 constitute a version of "Wulfstan's Handbook", a compilation made for the use of a confessor, and include an Old English form of confession. This compilation is associated with Wulfstan the homilist (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York, advisor and legislator for both Æthelred the Unready and Cnut. The bulk of the manuscript is eleventh-century, but it was added to into the twelfth century and beyond. It also contains a twelfth-century copy of Hugh of Fleury OSB (d. 1128/35), Historia ecclesiastica siue Chronicon, here given the attribution to Ivo which is usual in its manuscript transmission. Pp. 551-4, the end flyleaves, are taken from a grand thirteenth-century Pontifical written in high-grade textualis.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais

  
  

  3-4 - Admonitio spiritualis doctrinae || Ammonitio spiritualis doctrinae

  Note : Text begins p. 3 in a very fine upright round hand, 26 lines to a page. Titles in red capitals. The first hand continues to p. 207

  rubric : (3) Incipit ammonitio spiritalis doctrine

  incipit : (3) Exalta in fortitudine

  Note : Not identified: consists of short extracts from named sources and resembles pseudo-Theodore chapter 2 Thorpe = MS 190, p. 169 Nero A, I, f. 126a

  
  

  4-7 - Admonitio episcopalis uitae || Admonitio episcop.' vit.'

  rubric : (4) Admonitio episcopalis vitae

  incipit : (4) O karissime frater corde tenus

  explicit : (7) Amen. vale

  Note : Partly in MS 190, p. 100 (De electione sacerdotalium ordinum)

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Alcuin - author

  7-13 - Letter from Alcuin to Æthelheard || Epistola Albini levitae [a] Æþelheaꞃðum archiepiscopum

  Note : Alcuin to Ethelheard=MS 190, p. 173

  Note : Collated by Dümmler

  
  

  13-17 - Letter from Alcuin to Eanbald || Epistola Alcwini ad Eanbaldum archiepiscopum

  Note : Alcuin to Eanbald=MS 190, p. 179

  Note : Collated by Dümmler

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Isidore of Seville - author

  17-20 - Isidore of Seville, Sententiae (excerpts from book 3, chapters 36-38) || De doctrina et exemplis praepositorum

  rubric : (17) De doctrina et exemplis prepositorum

  Note : =MS 190, p. 183

  rubric : (18) De his qui bene docent et male uiuunt

  rubric : (18) De exemplis prauorum sacerdotum

  Note : =Isidore or Amalarius Regula Canonicorum I 20, 29, 30 (Isidore Sent. III 35, 37, 38). P. L. CV

  rubric : (19) De variis obseruationibus episcopi

  Note : (19) Canons of Conc. Carthag. IV, fifteen short extracts in one paragraph

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Gerbald of Liège - author

  20-22 - First Capitulary of Gerbald of Liège || Jura quae sacerdotes debent habere || Iura quae sacerdotes debent habere

  Note : In 21 chapters

  rubric : (20) Hec sunt iura que sacerdotes vebent habere

  Note : Bateson, p. 714: 'Long believed to be by Archbishop Egbert, and since shown by Lord Selborne to be identical with a group of sacerdotal laws to which he would ascribe a date not earlier than 813 (but which are now believed to be earlier).' See Selborne op. cit. 42

  
  

  Intervenants :

  pseudo-Egberti - author

  22-37 - Excerptiones pseudo-Egberti, recension A || Excerptiones ex libris canonicis sive collectio canonum conciliorum et sanctorum patrum || Excerptiones Egberti

  Note : Plerumque concordant cum compilatione Echberto Eboracensi attributa in primo tomo conciliorum magnae Britanniae

  Note : Excerptiones Egberti, so-called (102 extracts)

  rubric : (22) Incipiunt excerptiones ue (sic) libris canonicis. Augustinus Aurelianensis episcopus dicit

  Note : Many excerpts missing in pp. 20-37 are supplied in other parts of the MS. See below on p. 60

  
  

  37-121 - Ecclesiastical extracts || Excerptio de canonibus catholicorum patrum, vel penitentia, vel ad remedium animarum domini Echberti archiepiscopi Eboracae civitatis

  Note : Omnino discrepat haec compilatio ab illa sub eodem fere titulo edita a Cl. Wilkins inter concilia M. B. ab alio codice hujus bibliothecae. Ut jam innui difficile est varia in hoc codice contenta propriis titulis insignire; et multus dubito utrum subsequentia inter partes hujus penitentialis sint numeranda

  Note : pp. 37-50 Egbert's Penitential

  Note : (37) α. Ordo confessionis sancti Hieronimi, qualiter confiteri debeat christianus peccata sua, Saxonice. Ex canonibus sub Edgaro rege editis

  Note : (37) The work known as the genuine Penitential of Egbert

  Note : pp. 50-51 Extract from pseudo-Theodore of Tarsus, Penitential

  rubric : (50) De egris qui ieiunare non possunt

  Note : a passage resembling pseudo-Theodore XXXV (2nd paragraph)

  Note : pp. 51-58. Passages from Theodulf's second letter to his clergy

  Note : pp. 58-69 Extracts on marriage and penance

  Note : pp. 60-72 are thus analysed by Miss Bateson:

  Note : (60) Thorpe, Excerpts 113, 114, 127, 123. Part of the 10th Canon of the first Synod of Arles followed by another sentence. Then, quotations from the Shepherd of Hermas (Mand. IV 1)Thorpe, Excerpts 122 and 120 (1st sentence)Sermon on marriageExcerpt 121 (part): extracts from Paul and Augustine containing Excerpt 119Excerpts 120 (last part, with a sentence added), 124, 125

  Note : (66) Excerpt 128 (first part): pseudo-Theodore (Wasserschleben) chapter v §§ 12, 11, and a sentence of § 19

  Note : (66) Table of prohibited degrees. Excerpts 132, 133 (and an added sentence), 131, 121 (a sentence), a sentence from Augustine on Hagar

  Note : pp. 69-71 Penitential extracts

  Note : (69) A passage analogous to Excerpts 131, 134, differing in the terms of years prescribed for penance

  Note : (70) Halitgar's Penitential IV 16, 17, 18, 19. Excerpt 126. Theodore, Penitentiale X § 1-3 (Wasserschleben, p. 211)

  Note : pp. 71-72 Extracts from the Capitula of the council of Aachen, 816

  Note : (71) Capitulary of Louis of 817 (called here Laws of Charles) chapters 10-12 (MGH. Leges I 207). Ansegisus, lib. II, cap. 34

  Note : pp. 72-83 The Old English Handbook for the use of a Confessor (Cameron B11.4.2)

  Note : (72) Ordo confessionis. Latin and Anglo-Saxon. Thorpe 402. MS 201, p. 114

  Note : pp. 83-91 Extracts from Ansegisi capitularium collectio

  Note : (83) Passages which occur in chapters 58-76 of Ansegisus' Capitulary of 827 (MGH. Leges I 278)

  Note : followed by a passage:

  rubric : (91) Incipit de regula canonicorum

  incipit : (91) Legibus institutis

  Note : which occurs again on p. 158. It is from the last chapter of the Reg. Canon. of Amalarius (I 145. P. L. CV 932)

  Note : (94) β. Qualiter sacerdos suscipere debeat penitentem

  Note : Penitential passages from diverse sources, beginning:

  rubric : (94) Incipit qualiter sacerdos

  Note : Then the opening sentences of the Penitentiale pseudo-Romanum (Wasserschleben, pp. 360-1), changing after the word statim

  Note : Then a passage De penitent' closely resembling the Penitentiale Cummeani on the means by which a powerful man may buy freedom from penance

  Note : Then pseudo-Theodore cap. IV with a slight change; a passage resembling the Latin of IV 26 of the so-called Anglo-Saxon Penitential of Egbert in four books: four unidentified passages on penance resembling Excerpts 131, 134: a passage resembling pseudo-Theodore I § 28, 29

  Note : (96) Irish Canons, including: Thorpe's Egbertine excerpts 74, 79, two resembling 62, and others not printed. Three Irish Canons printed by Miss Bateson, p. 721

  rubric : (98) Synodus

  Note : pseudo-Theodore III § 5-8 Wasserschleben 569 adding prices of homicides

  Note : pseudo-Theodore III § 1-4

  rubric : (99) Interrogat

  Note : Egbert, Dialogi quaestiones 1, 2, 12. Haddan and Stubbs III 403

  Note : (100) γ. Excerpta de libris Romanorum et Francorum

  Note : Canones Wallici, extracts called Excerpta de libri(s) Romanorum et Francorum

  Note : Martene, Nov. Thes. col. 135. This MS. gives chapters 5-8, 10-15, 17, 19, 20, 26-34, 37-57

  Note : Thorpe, Egbert. Excerpts 152, 153 (1st halves of each)

  Note : Canon Patricii 6 (1st part), H. & S. II pt ii, p. 328

  Note : (105) δ. Exempla Saxonica accastigationis hominum

  Note : (105) Excerpts printed by Miss Bateson, p. 724-727

  Note : (110) Formulae printed, ibid. 728-730

  Note : On p. 112 margin are a few words glossed in Anglo-Saxon

  Note : (113) ε. Decreta et epistolae Romanorum pontificum aliorumque

  Note : (113) Selections from the collection of Rodolph of Bourges (P. L. CXIX 703) preceded by titles omitted are chapters 2 (part), 5 (part), 3, 4, 6, 7 (part), 9 (part), 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17 (part), 22, 23 (part), 24

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Theodulf of Orléans - author

  121-160 - Theodulf of Orléans, Capitula || Epistola Theodulphi Aureliensis episcopi ad parochiam suam

  Note : Theodulf's first letter to his clergy (P. L. CV 191) preceded by capitula

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Ælfric OSB - author

  160-173 - Ælfric OSB, Pastoral Letters 2 || Sermo Elfrici episcopi ad clericos || Sermo Elfrici ad clericos

  Note : Matrimonium clericorum condemnat, et ad castitatem hortatur: non autem inquit cogimus violenter vos demittere uxores vestras, sed dicimus vobis quales esse debetis, et si non vultis, nos erimus securi et liberi a vestris peccatis, quia diximus vobis canones sanctorum patrum.

  Note : =MS 190, p. 188

  
  

  174-180 - Ælfric OSB, Pastoral Letters 3 || Sermo ejusdem ad sacerdotes || Idem ad sacerdotes

  Note : In quo haec notatu digniora;- infantibus baptizatis statim debetis dare communionem: - non licet celebrare missam cum solo vino nec cum sola aqua, quia vinum significat nostram redemptionem per sanguinem Christi, et aqua significat populum Dei pro quo ipse passus est. - De eucharistia, non fit tamen hoc sacrificium corpus ejus in quo passus est pro nobis, nec sanguis ejus quem pro nobis effudit, sed spiritualiter corpus ejus efficitur et sanguis, sicut manna quod de caelo pluit et aqua quae de petra fluxit. Ultimum hunc locum a papista quodam olim abrasum e veteri libro Exoniensis bibliothecae fuisse restitutum testatur in margine quidam neotericus

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Wulfstan - author

  180-198 - Wulfstan, Homily VIIIa, ecclesiastical extracts || De baptismo et missa [quae sola dicuntur sacramenta] ordinibus ecclesiasticis, &c. || De Baptismo

  incipit : (180) Primo necesse est

  Note : =MS 190, p. 159. Napier, Wulfstan no. IV

  Note : (182) De officio et mysterio missae =MS 190, p. 163

  Note : (185) De gradibus ecclesiasticis

  incipit : (185) Actenus de primordiis

  Note : cf. MS 190, p. 204

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (197) atque in eius laudibus pariter exultantes

  Note : (197) A little head well sketched in the margin

  incipit : (198) GregoriusMaximiniano

  
  

  199-208 - Ecclesiastical extracts || Alii canones sumpti e Gregorio et Adriano papa

  Note : List of titles of canons in two columns, followed by the text. Apparently from the Dionysio-Hadriana (P. L. LXVII 141)

  Note : The titles and text do not coincide in all particulars. First come nine titles, ending

  rubric : (199) Expliciunt Capitula Niceni

  Note : These are capp. 8, 17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 29, 42, 48 of Dionysius' Apostolical Canons issued by Clement

  Note : In the titles follows the rubric

  rubric : (199) Incipit Concilium eiusdem

  Note : Then 7 titles of which the first is the title of the first chapter of the text, and is the first of Dionysius' Canones Niceni Concilii xx (slightly different and imperfect). Then (not represented in the list of titles) chapters 17 and 20 of the same

  Note : The next title is that of chapter 8 of Silvester's Conc. Rom. (325 A.D. : P. L. VIII 835), this is given in the text and is followed by part of chapter II (not represented in the list of titles). Five more titles follow, the first two not represented in the text: these are Dionysius' Ancyran collection chapters 29, 30, 40: the last two are his chapters 45 (Neo-Caesarea) and 51 (Nicene)

  Note : The titles then have the rubric

  rubric : (199) Incipit Sinodus Gangrensis

  Note : and the titles of Dionysius chapters 71, 75. In the text these are preceded by his chapter 60 without separate rubric

  Note : The titles then proceed with a number taken from his African collection; these agree with the text and are those of his chapters 3, 4, 5, 7, 16, 17, 25, 32, 33, 70, 102, 109, 115. Here the table of contents ends

  Note : The first hand continues to p. 207

  Note : In the text there follow in another good hand the rubric

  rubric : (207) De capitulis beati pape Adriani et Angilramni episcopi

  Note : and chapters 71, 72 of Angilram's spurious collection (P.L. XCVI 1067)

  Note : (208) Last comes a passage from Concilium Toletanum IV 28 (P. L. LXXXIV 374)

  
  

  209-210 - Ecclesiastical extracts || Benedictio post absolutionem

  Note : (209) A paragraph in another xith cent. hand

  incipit : (209) Ex illorum consortio quidam rebelles sancte christianitati existentes corde amente in capite sancti quadragessimalis ieiunii terram beate marie adierunt que æt Christes hala alioque uocabulo æt ontelaƿe uocatur illamque combusserunt. homines quoque quosdam flagris adfecerunt. quosdam occiderunt substantiamque omnium terre illius habitatorum secum asportauerunt et adhuc in sua perseuerantes malitia ad penitentiam uenire dedignantur

  Note : (209) A cross in the margin refers to the excommunication form on p. 211, where is a like cross

  Note : (209) On the same page in a hand of cent. xii is a formula

  rubric : (209) Post absolutionem

  incipit : (209) Absoluti et benedicti sitis a patre

  Note : p. 210 blank but for a rudiment of a map, thus

  
  

  211-215 - Excommunication || Excommunicatio contra contemptores legis Domini et inimicos sanctae Dei ecclesiae post lectionem sancti Evangelii a pulpito per diaconum legenda; cum forma reconciliationis et absolutionis penitentium

  Note : Excommunication form referred to by Liebermann, p. xx

  Note : The excommunication form p. 211 sqq. is in a smaller script than the paragraph on p. 209 but probably by the same hand. On p. 215 there is a change of hand

  
  

  216-236 - Laws, Eadgar IV || Statutum Edgari regis de decimis solvendis, et alix leges ejusdem, Latine et Saxonice

  Note : Edidit Wilkins inter leges Anglo-saxonicas sub titulo supplementi L. L. Edgari regis

  Note : The same hand (of pp. 211-214) resumes on p. 216 and continues to p. 231 at least

  Note : (216) Laws of Eadgar

  Note : (216) Liebermann p. 207. Latin version of Eadgar's laws IV Prol.

  Note : (222) Liebermann p. 206. Eadgar IV Prol. Anglo-Saxon (Cameron B14.18)

  Note : pp. 228-231 in red ink

  incipit : (228) Feria .U. caene domini. Primo mane custodes ecclesie

  Note : Ends unfinished

  explicit : (231) perficiatque exorcismum audientibus tantum qui secus altare stant ministris. minime dicens. Dominus uobiscum. Neque oremus. Sed ita directe

  Note : pp. 232-236 are blank

  
  

  237-268 - Ælfric OSB, Letter to the monks of Eynsham || Excerpta ex institutionibus monasticis Ethelwoldi episcopi Wintoniensis compilata in usum fratrum Egneshamnensium per Elfricum abbatem

  Note : pp. 237-268 are in a very similar hand (to that on pp. 216-231)

  incipit : (237) Ælfricus abbas egneshamnensibus

  Note : Printed by Miss Bateson in Kitchin's Obedientiary Rolls of Winchester (Hampshire Record Soc.), p. 171

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Amalarius of Metz - author

  269-298 - Amalarius of Metz, Liber officialis (excerpts) || Libellus ecclesiastici ordinis, in quo de discretione vestimentorum divinorum et de omnibus ritibus in missa celebranda

  Note : The division of hands in the next section seems to be: (1) pp. 269 to about 279 (2) pp. 279 to 305. In these portions are some pretty initials

  rubric : (269) De discretione uestimentorum diuinorum

  incipit : (269) Amictus est primum

  explicit : (298) sed precipue in finem

  rubric : (298) Finit libellus Aecclesiastici ordinis

  Note : =Amalarius, de Ecclesiasticis officiis Lib. II chapters 17, 18, 25, 22, 20, 21, 19, 23, 24, 26; III 5, 6 (part), 7-22, 27, 32, 34, 35

  
  

  298-305 - Pontifical (Romano-Germanic) (excerpt) || Ordo processionis ad ecclesiam sive ad missam secundum Romanos

  rubric : (298) Ordo processionis ad ecclesiam siue ad missam secundum Romanos

  incipit : (298) Denuntiata statione diebus festis

  Note : (298) The text has a pretty initial in red, green and purple

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (305) mansionarii intrant in secretarium

  Note : Apparently = Ordo Romanus II, Mabillon, Museum Italicum II 42

  
  

  305-319 - Pontifical (Romano-Germanic) (excerpt) || Ordo missae a sancto Petro apostolo institutus, seu potius expositio totius missae ex concordia divinarum scripturarum

  Note : The division of hands in the next section seems to be: pp. 305 to 329. In these portions are some pretty initials

  rubric : (305) Ordo missae a Sancto Petro apostolo institutus

  incipit : (305) Missa pro multis causis celebratur

  explicit : (306) iusti ab iniustis separabuntur

  Note : ed. Hittorp, De divinis Catholicae Ecclesiae Officiis, p. 582

  rubric : (306) Incipit expositio totius missae ex concordia diuinarum scripturarum

  incipit : (306) Introitus missae cui conuenit? Patriarcharum prophetarumque preconiis

  explicit : (319) erant in templo laudantes et benedicentes dominum

  Note : Hittorp, l. c. with the last tract

  
  

  319-323 - Pontifical (Romano-Germanic) (excerpt) || Alia expositio totius missae

  rubric : (319) Incipit alia expositio totius missae

  rubric : (319) Introitus missae quare dicitur?

  incipit : (319) Eo quod per eum introitus ad eius officium

  explicit : (323) in choro clerus. extra chorum populus

  
  

  324-326 - Pontifical (Romano-Germanic) (excerpt) || Ordo processionis quando episcopus festivis diebus missam celebrare voluerit

  incipit : (324) Ordo processionis si quando episcopus festiuis diebus missam celebrare uoluerit

  explicit : (326) adhibentem manum episcopo osculetur eam

  Note : (not complete)

  Note : ed. Hittorp, p. 6-7, col. I

  
  

  326-329 - Pontifical (Romano-Germanic) (excerpt) || Qualiter quaedam orationes et cruces in TE IGITUR agendae sunt

  rubric : (326) Incipit qualiter quedam orationes et cruces in Te igitur agende sunt

  incipit : (326) Te igitur clementissime pater usque ad habeas et benedicas. hic signat oblationem

  Note : Mabillon, Ordo Romanus IV, Museum Italicum II 61, imperfect. P.L. CV 1330 at end of Eclogae of Amalarius. Hittorp, p. 588

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Amalarius of Metz (attrib.) - author

  329-367 - Amalarius of Metz (attrib.), Eclogae de ordine Romano || Eglogae de ordine Romano et de IIII orationibus episcoporum sive populi in missa

  Note : After p. 329 the hands (of which there may be two or three) are of a distinctly larger and rather coarser type. They continue to p. 442

  rubric : (329) Incipiunt Aeglogae

  Note : =Eclogae of Amalarius. P. L. CVI 315

  Note : A MS. of the second class: see M. Flicoteaux' article in Revue bénédictine 1908, p. 304

  Note : On p. 363 is an insertion of cent. xii, describing order of offices at Rome in Holy Week and Easter Week

  incipit : (363) Die cene consecrauit papa crisma in ecclesia saluatoris lateranis. et fuerunt ibi vi uasa uitrea plena oleo. In missa dixit prefationem. Qui corporali ieiunio etc. Dictum est ibi Agnus dei sicut solet

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (364) Distribuit papa agnos nouellos quos dicunt de cera et crismate anni preteriti cum deuotione maxima confectos esse et in specie agni utrobique impressos esse

  Note : pp. 365-367 blank

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Bernold of Constance - author

  368-442 - Bernold of Constance, Micrologus de ecclesiasticis obseruationibus || Ordo celebrandi missam per totum annum

  Note : pp. 368-371 in double columns. The hand is large, round and black, the vellum somewhat smaller. pp. 391-442 have 31 lines to a page

  Note : (368) Table of chapters. i. De introitu ad missam

  Note : (369) lxii. De dominicali officio non facile pretermittendo

  Note : Text

  incipit : (369) Presbiter cum se parat ad missam

  Note : =Micrologus. Hittorp, p. 436. P. L. CLI 979

  Note : (440) Two chapters follow chapter 62 viz

  rubric : (440) de ordine missae

  incipit : (440) Missam beatus petrus primum celebrasse fertur antiochie

  rubric : (442) De antyphonis

  incipit : (442) Ignatius antiochie sirie tertius post petrum

  Note : (Occurs in Tonarius of Regino. Coussemaker, Scriptores II 1)

  Note : Ending

  explicit : (442) et ex hoc ad cunctas transiit ecclesias

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Hugh of Fleury OSB - author

  443-554 - Hugh of Fleury OSB, Historia ecclesiastica siue Chronicon || Excerpta Ivonis venerabilis episcopi Carnotensis; in primis de gestis quorundam regum Assyriorum, et gestis omnium Romanorum imperatorum, et ad ultimum de Karolo magno rege Francorum et ejus filio Ludovico pio

  Note : In a fine small hand of cent. xii, 46 lines to a page

  Note : At upper R. corner (xiii):

  rubric : (443) cronica yuonis

  incipit : (443) Assiriorum igitur rex potentissimus fuit olim ninus

  Note : Ends p. 550 (on Ludouicus pius)

  Note : (P. L. CLXIII 629)

  explicit : (550) Porro ludouico imperatori quattuor successere filii quorum lotharius ... Karolus uero pius franciam burgundiam et aquitaniam optinuit solus

  rubric : (550) Explicit de omnibus imperatoribus romanis quorum quidam reges francorum fuerunt usque ad tempus uidelicet Ludouici pii Karoli magni filii qui ludouicus ultimus rex francorum et imperator romanorum fuit. Anno scilicet incarnationis dominice dccc xiiii intronizatus

  Note : Then follows title as in Nasmith

  rubric : (550) Incipiunt excerpta Iuonis, etc.

  Note : But the first four words are re-inked, and Incipiunt may have been Expliciunt. Some pen-trials follow

  Note : Pontifical

  Note : (551) The flyleaves are from a magnificently written Pontifical, 18 lines to a page, in a large hand of cent. xiii

  Note : (551) Begins in the Blessing of incense

  rubric : (552) Benedictio peregrinorum

  rubric : (553) Benedictio baculi et pere