Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 44

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • MS 044
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 44
    • CCCC MS 44
    • Parker Library MS 44
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin, English, Old (ca.450-1100)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1000 - 1099
  • Script :
    • The original text is in a most magnificent round black script of the type which I associate with St Augustine's, Canterbury
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 1 + 201
  • Dimensions :
    • 245 x 330
  • Codicological details :
    • 20 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + pp. i-iv + 1-84 (85-94 missing) + 95-274 + 274a-b + 275-366 (367-368 missing) + 369-410 + ff. c-d
    • 1 flyleaf, 1(8) (wants 1, 2) 2(8)-6(8) (wants 2) | 7(8)-16(8) (gap) 17(8)-24(8) | 25(8) 26(4).

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Contents

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : This handsome manuscript contains a Pontifical. On script grounds it has been attributed to Canterbury, probably St Augustine's rather than Christ Church; however its text has been held to show that it was made for use at Christ Church, Canterbury. The script of CCCC MS 44 shows it to have been written at some point during the middle two quarters of the eleventh century, but a more precise dating is arguably possible given the association of the coronation ordo it contains (the third recension of the second ordo) with William the Conqueror. This association is by no means generally accepted. The distinctive mark on f. 3 shows that the manuscript was at Ely in the later Middle Ages. It has been suggested that it might have been part of the treasure of Archbishop Stigand (1052-72), with which he fled to Ely shortly before his death in 1072; clearly this again depends on how one interprets the dating evidence of the manuscript's text.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais


    2-386 - Pontifical

    rubric : (2) Incipit ordo uel examinatio in ordinatione episcopi

    incipit : (2) Antiqua sanctorum patruum institutio

    Note : (3) On the margin of p. 3 is the Ely mark

    Note : (3) In the lower margin an erasure

    Note : (3) Iste liber pertinet ecclesie ...

    rubric : (9) In nomine domini. Incipit ordo qualiter domus dei consecranda est

    Note : (12) In the Litany we have: Apostles Petre ii, (p. 13) Martyrs: Stephane, Quiriace, Ælphege, Line, Clete, Clemens, Syxte, Laurenti, Vincenti, Apollonaris, Dionisii, Salui, Blasi, Mauricii, Georgii. Confessors: Benedicte II, Martine, Hieronime, Gregori, Augustine, Dunstane II, Audoene, Pauline, Byrine, Suuythune, Guthlace, Fursee. Virgins: Tecla, Iuliana, Margareta, (p. 14) Cristina, Eufemia, Agnes, Agatha, Lucia, Cecilia, S(c)olastica, Austroberhte, Ætheldrytha, Mildrytha

    Note : (22) In a second Litany, where three of each order are invoked, we have: Martyrs: Ælphege, (p. 23) Eaduuarde. Confessors: Benedicte, Augustine, Dunstane. Confessors: Tecla, Scolastica, Brigida

    Note : (47) Neumes occur first here [actually, first apear on p. 38]

    Note : (76) After f. 39v (p. 76) a leaf is missing

    rubric : (82) In consecratione altaris

    Note : (100) Consecratio Ciborii

    rubric : (103) Consecratio pauimenti aecclesiae

    Note : (alphabet not given)

    rubric : (105) Incipit benedictio ad uestimenta sacerdotalia

    rubric : (108) Consecratio episcopalis tunicae

    rubric : (110) Oratio ad offertorium lintheamen

    rubric : (111) Benedictio corporalis

    rubric : (114) Oratio ad patenam

    rubric : (115) Oratio ad calicem

    rubric : (117) Prefatio eucharistialis uasculi

    rubric : (118) Benedictio turibuli

    rubric : (119) Benedictio uel consecratio thimiamatis siue incensi

    rubric : (124) In benedictione sanctae crucis

    rubric : (138) Benedictio ad imaginem sanctae mariae

    Note : (et Iohannis)

    Note : (138) [Anglo-Saxon glosses occur on pp. 138, 140]

    rubric : (143) Benedictio uexillorum

    rubric : (146) Ad scrinium uel arcam

    rubric : (151) Prefatio consecrationis capsarum

    rubric : (157) Ad signum aecclesiae (bell)

    rubric : (165) In consecratione cymiterii

    rubric : (174) In reconciliatione altaris

    rubric : (186) Oratio in consecratione baptisterii

    rubric : (188) Oratio ad benedicendum librum

    rubric : (190) Benedictio ad generalem cultum aecclesiae

    rubric : (190) Benedictio super munus

    rubric : (192) Ad nouam capillaturam incidendam

    rubric : (192) Oratio ad clericum faciendum

    rubric : (200) Incipit ordo nouem ad aecclesiasticorum graduum

    rubric : (243) Incipit ordinatio episcopi

    Note : (258) A gap after p. 258

    rubric : (272) Missa in consecratione archyepiscopi

    rubric : (274a) Ad processionem archypresulis de roma uenienti palliumque offerenti

    rubric : (278) Incipit consecratio regis

    rubric : (301) Finit consecratio regis quam sequitur consecratio reginae

    rubric : (308) Incipit ordinatio monachi

    Note : (310) Litany, Petre ii, (p. 311) Martyrs: Stephane, Ælfhege, Eadƿarde. Confessors: Benedicte II, Augustine, Dunstane II. Virgins: Tecla, Scolastica, Mildryȝa

    rubric : (329) Incipit consecratio abbatis

    rubric : (341) Orationes ad ordinandum decanum

    rubric : (346) Benedictio super uestimentum uirginis

    rubric : (347) Benedictiones dicendae super uirginem

    rubric : (356) Incipit benedictio uestis uidue

    rubric : (357) Benedictio uidue

    rubric : (360) Benedictio super nouum uestimentum

    rubric : (361) Benedictio ciuitatis

    rubric : (362) Benedictio ferri, ab episcopo danda

    rubric : (365) Incipit exorcismus aquae ad iudicium dei demonstrandum

    rubric : (379) Incipit adiuratio ferri uel aquae feruentis ad iudicium

    rubric : (384) Incipit exorcismus panis ordeacii et casei

    Note : The original hand ends here at p. 386 in the middle of a prayer

    Note : (387) The end is supplied in a hand of cent. xvi early which is meant to imitate the original

    Note : (389) The same hand adds Adiuratio aquae. Exorcismus satis and exorcisms for a possessed person

    Note : ff. 196v-197v blank

    Note : On 198r-199v the same hand has added in a much smaller script

    Note : (403) Qualiter concilium agatur prouinciale prima secunda et tertia die

    Note : (405) Benedictio super regem tempore sinodi

    Note : (405) Benedictio super regem cotidiana

    Note : (405) Benedictio ab archiepiscopo in dissolutione sinodi

Provenance

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • It is probable to my mind from this (the hand reminiscent of St Augustine's, Canterbury) and from the invocations in the Litany that the book was written at Canterbury. But, as we shall see, it belonged in cent. xv to Ely.

Notes

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Research: Wanley (p. 109) prints the end of this Preface, which ends on 2r.
  • Research: The Coronation-service is used by Legg, Three Coronation Orders, p. xxxviii (pl. 3) and Liebermann, pp. xxi, 215, 365, 401, 416 (ordeals). He calls it Ce and assigns it to 1040-80.
  • Research: See also Henderson, Liber pontificalis Eboracensis, p. xxi.
  • Additions: On the flyleaf (i), in the xvith cent. hand which reappears at the end, is: Index huius pontificalis. I do not think it is one of Parker's additions: it seems to me earlier.
  • Additions: The original hand begins 1r with a Preface in Anglo-Saxon. Two leaves are gone and the first page has been erased, but the text of it is probably recoverable.
  • Additions: In the lower margin of f. 189v (p. 386) is an erased inscription of cent. xv-xvi: Ely Iste liber pertinet ecclesie Eliensi. Above it an inscription of Parker's date erased (probably as being erroneous). I read the words: ... vocat(us?) The red book of ... This seems to show that the writer of the note confused this MS. with MS 422, which was really the Red Book of Derby; and that he or some one else realized the mistake and erased the note.
  • Additions: The writing is splendid throughout. The initials are perfectly plain, in green, blue or red.

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