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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 146

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  • MS 146
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  • 0900 - 1199
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  • Latin
  • English
  • Old English
  • Greek
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 146: The Samson Pontifical
    • Professions and absolution || Profectiones subjectionis papae Romano ab episcopis et abbatibus electis faciendae
    • Blessings and excommunication || Benedictiones perae et baculi et imaginum, et excommunicatio eorum qui ecclesiam Wigorniensem violaverint
    • Order for a provincial Council || Qualiter concilium agatur provinciale prima secunda et tertia die
    • Reconciliation of an altar || Reconciliatio altaris vel sacri loci seu cymiterii, qui fuerit pollutus
    • Service of Ash Wednesday || Qualiter quarta feria in capite jejunii circa penitentes agatur
    • Additions to the benedictional. Additions to ordination services || Recapitulatio benedictionum diversarum secundum ordinem Romanum scriptarum
    • Service of Maundy Thursday || Qualiter penitentes in cena Domini in ecclesiam introducuntur
    • Service of Maundy Thursday cont. || Benedictio olei et chrismatis
    • Additional collect for the consecration of a church || Dedicatio ecclesiae
    • Ordinand's oath to Bishop Samson || Professio subjectionis ab ordinandis
    • Interrogatories to an abbot || Qualiter ad abbatem electus praelatione episcopali sit examinandus et consecrandus
    • Oblatio pueri and music for the consecration of a church || Benedictio pueri in monachum
    • Monastic profession, end of erased Index, and material for the consecration of a church || Benedictio pueri in monachum
    • Consecrations, reconciliations, and blessings || Ordo ad consecrandam domum Dei omniaque sacra utensilia et vestimenta
    • Ordination services || Ordinatio psalmistae, ostiarii, lectoris, exorcistae, accoliti, subdiaconi, diaconi et presbiteri
    • Ordination of an abbot or abbess || Ordinatio abbatis et abbatissae
    • Ordination of a bishop || Ordinatio episcopi
    • Coronation service || Consecratio regis et reginae
    • Professions of monks, virgins, widows || Benedictio monachorum et sanctimonialium
    • Benedictional || Benedictiones episcopales per totum annum
    • Exorcism || Exorcismus aquae tum gelidae tum ferventis ad judicium Dei demonstrandum
    • Exorcism || Exorcismus panis ordeacei uel casei
    • Blessings || Benedictio sponsi et sponsae
    • Curses || Maledictiones
    • see more
Description

  • Summary: 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.


    Contents :


    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

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