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• Résumé : 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.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais, anglais, grec

  
  

  2-Jan - Professions and absolution || Profectiones subjectionis papae Romano ab episcopis et abbatibus electis faciendae

  Note : In two hands

  Note : (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

  Note : (1) c. Profession of an abbot

  Note : (2) Form of Absolution

  incipit : (2) Ipse dominus Ihesus Christus equalis patri

  rubric : (2) Benedictio generalis pro cunctis fidelibus defunctis

  
  

  6-Mar - Blessings and excommunication || Benedictiones perae et baculi et imaginum, et excommunicatio eorum qui ecclesiam Wigorniensem violaverint

  rubric : (3) Benedictio pere et baculi

  Note : (3) Hand like that of item 1a (1)

  rubric : (4) Benedictio super imagines

  Note : (4) Later hand

  Note : (5) Excommunicatio

  incipit : (5) Ex auctoritate patris etc. ... et Sancti Oswaldi archiepiscopi etc.

  Note : (5) A new hand

  Note : (5) Preces and Collect for Washing of Feet

  Note : (5) Larger later hand

  Note : p. 6 blank

  
  

  11-Jul - Order for a provincial Council || Qualiter concilium agatur provinciale prima secunda et tertia die

  Note : In the same hand as items 4 and 5

  Note : Neumes. Initials plain red and green

  
  

  16-Nov - Reconciliation of an altar || Reconciliatio altaris vel sacri loci seu cymiterii, qui fuerit pollutus

  Note : In the same hand as items 3 and 5

  Note : Neumes. Initials plain red and green

  
  

  16-22 - Service of Ash Wednesday || Qualiter quarta feria in capite jejunii circa penitentes agatur

  Note : In the same hand as items 3 and 4

  Note : Neumes. Initials plain red and green

  
  

  23-30 - Additions to the benedictional. Additions to ordination services || Recapitulatio benedictionum diversarum secundum ordinem Romanum scriptarum

  Note : In a very pretty upright round hand

  Note : The rubrics, after that given by Nasmith, are

  rubric : (24) In consecratione uel restauratione altarium benedictio aquae

  rubric : (26) Benedictio Byxis uel alius uasis in quo seruetur eucharistia

  rubric : (26) Consecratio altaris et calicis et patenae corporalisque

  rubric : (27) Oratio ad Reconciliationem clericorum

  rubric : (27) Benedictio imaginis Sancti Johannis Evangelistae

  Note : (two forms)

  Note : (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

  Note : Rubrics in this section are in capitals

  
  

  31-37 - Service of Maundy Thursday || Qualiter penitentes in cena Domini in ecclesiam introducuntur

  Note : In the hand of items 3-5

  Note : Marginal additions of cent. xii-xiii

  
  

  37-50 - Service of Maundy Thursday cont. || Benedictio olei et chrismatis

  Note : In the hand of items 3-5

  Note : Marginal additions of cent. xii-xiii

  
  

  51-51 - Additional collect for the consecration of a church || Dedicatio ecclesiae

  Note : Another hand

  
  

  52-52 - Ordinand's oath to Bishop Samson || Professio subjectionis ab ordinandis

  Note : Hinc ex nomine Sampsonis episcopi Wigorniensis colligimus hanc partem codicis exaratam fuisse circa annum 1100

  Note : A large hand

  Note : (52) The words in presentia domini SAMSONIS episcopi occur

  
  

  53-56 - Interrogatories to an abbot || Qualiter ad abbatem electus praelatione episcopali sit examinandus et consecrandus

  Note : A hand which has not appeared before. Wigornensis ecclesia is mentioned: one form of profession on p. 53 re-written

  
  

  56-62 - Oblatio pueri and music for the consecration of a church || Benedictio pueri in monachum

  Note : In two hands

  Note : On p. 60, in a good small round hand: part of the office for dedication of a church with neumes

  
  

  61-62 - Monastic profession, end of erased Index, and material for the consecration of a church || Benedictio pueri in monachum

  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

  Note : 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

  
  

  63-108 - Consecrations, reconciliations, and blessings || Ordo ad consecrandam domum Dei omniaque sacra utensilia et vestimenta

  Note : The Greek alphabet is at top of p. 67

  Note : (104) Some marginal additions (xi)

  Note : Blessing of paten and chalice mostly re-written (xi)

  
  

  108-123 - Ordination services || Ordinatio psalmistae, ostiarii, lectoris, exorcistae, accoliti, subdiaconi, diaconi et presbiteri

  Note : In ordination of priests part of p. 121 re-written

  Note : The items are numbered in Roman up to xviii. Benedictio uestis uiduae

  
  

  123-128 - Ordination of an abbot or abbess || Ordinatio abbatis et abbatissae

  
  

  129-138 - Ordination of a bishop || Ordinatio episcopi

  
  

  138-150 - Coronation service || Consecratio regis et reginae

  
  

  150-159 - Professions of monks, virgins, widows || Benedictio monachorum et sanctimonialium

  
  

  159-301 - Benedictional || Benedictiones episcopales per totum annum

  Note : Proper of Time begins

  rubric : (159) Dominica IIII. ante natale Domini nostri Iesu Christi

  Note : (159) Red and blue initial

  Note : (204) A handsome red and blue initial (Easter)

  rubric : (229) Finiunt Dominicales Benedictiones

  rubric : (229) Benedictio de Sancta Trinitate

  rubric : (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

  Note : 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

  Note : 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

  
  

  301-312 - Exorcism || Exorcismus aquae tum gelidae tum ferventis ad judicium Dei demonstrandum

  Note : On p. 303 Halsung in Anglo-Saxon: others on pp. 304 and 308, 309. See Liebermann, Gesetze 401

  Note : Cameron B12.1.2, B12.1.3

  
  

  312-319 - Exorcism || Exorcismus panis ordeacei uel casei

  Note : (314) Form of Exorcism for a possessed person begins on p. 314 without proper title

  Note : (318) The old portion of the book ends in this, imperfectly, with p. 318

  Note : (319) The text is completed on p. 319 in a hand like that of items 3-5 (but not the same, I think)

  
  

  319-328 - Blessings || Benedictio sponsi et sponsae

  Note : (319) In this same hand, ending on p. 322

  Note : (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

  rubric : (324) Benedictio nuptialis

  rubric : (325) ad lectum

  Note : and one erased

  Note : 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

  
  

  329-331 - Curses || Maledictiones

  Note : Probably in the hand of p. 327

  Note : Two forms of cursing a thief

  Note : (331) On the last page (xv-xvi): Mem. þat ther be lefte at mr northeleys xxxij bokes

  Note : It is evident that the four leaves pp. 323-330 were at one time meant to be inserted after p. 280