Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 415

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1000 - 1199

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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 415: The Norman Anonymous
Summus pontifex
Equalitas ecclesiarum et unitas ecclesie
De peccatis et de penis eorum
Episcopus a solo Deo iudicandus
Abbas episcopo suo subditus est
In necessitate licet leges pretermitti
Iudex secundum Deum iudicet
De mercenarii sententia
De iusticia christiana
Sacerdotis auctoritas
De diversitate penarum
De primatu ecclesie Hierosolimitane
Electio et consecratio episcopi
De malestate baptismi
De nuptiale sacramento
De ordine sacerdotis (I)
De ordine sacerdotis (II)
De consecratione sacerdotis
De ordine et de oficiis Christi
De duobus gladiis
De bonitate Dei et nature
De ordinatione filiorum sacerdotum
De equalitate apostolorum
De immolatione corporis Christi
De consecratione pontificum et regum (I)
De consecratione pontificum et regum (II)
'Laicus' nomen est ignominie
De potestate ligandi atque solvendi
De sacerdotum matrimonio
De Fiscannensi ecclesia
De Romano pontifice
De primato Anglie
De ecclesia Sathane in Roma
De sanctorum communione
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Summary: CCCC MS 415 contains the unique text of an author once universally known as 'The York Anonymous' but now thought to have been written by a Norman ecclesiastic, probably from Rouen, and hence its modern appellation as 'The Norman (or 'Rouen') Anonymous'. The manuscript, which was copied in the late eleventh or early twelfth century, consists of a number of tracts which have as their broad theme the relationship between the spiritual and temporal power. It has special significance because it was written shortly after the Investiture Controversy; this controversy was over the power of lay princes to invest and receive homage from abbots and bishops, which was forbidden by Pope Gregory VII in 1075. Although frequently discussed in the literature of the history of the relationship between the medieval church and state, the unique private nature of the text makes it highly unlikely that the complex ideas expressed in it ever gained a wide readership.

Contents :

1-2 - Summus pontifex

Note: (1) [Late title]

rubric: (1) [An summus Pontifex sit iuditio subiectus]

incipit: (1) Decretum est in sacris canonibus

explicit: (2) nullatenus debet iudicari de ordine

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche 436

3-15 - Equalitas ecclesiarum et unitas ecclesie

rubric: (3) [De una ecclesia]

incipit: (3) Auctoritate sanctorum patrum didicimus quod sancta ecclesia toto orbe diffusa una sit ecclesia una sponsi columba

Note: A section begins in capitals at p. 11

incipit: (11) Ecclesia quippe Sathane non sacrificabat uni deo

explicit: (15) cum quo unus est spiritus

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, 437

16-38 - De peccatis et de penis eorum

incipit: (16) Cum de homine negat petrus in filium negauit hominis

explicit: (38) sed utrum recte an perperam sapientium iudicio derelinquimus

Note: Not printed: see Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 179

39-49 - Episcopus a solo Deo iudicandus

rubric: (39) [Quod Rothomagensis ecclesia non est subiecta Romanae]

incipit: (39) Interrogetur romanus pontifex quibus de causis reprehendit et condempnat rothomagensem archiepiscopum

explicit: (49) Ne meliorum uita deteriorum prelatorum corrumpatur exemplo

Note: MGH., Libelli de Lite III 656

50-53 - Abbas episcopo suo subditus est

Note: Change of hand

rubric: (50) [De priuilegiis peculiaribus]

incipit: (50) Precipit apostolus immo per apostolum Christus ut omnis anima sullimioribus potestatibus subdita sit

explicit: (53) gratie igitur est ut una ecclesia huic pene subiaceat

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 449

53-55 - In necessitate licet leges pretermitti

rubric: (53) [De temperandis legibus]

incipit: (53) Oportet leges aliquando temperari propter misericordiam

explicit: (55) ullo crimine reos teneri

Note: Not printed

55-56 - Iudex secundum Deum iudicet

incipit: (55) Cum aliquis in iudicio de crimine reus conuincitur

explicit: (56) per misericordiam

Note: Not printed

56-57 - De mercenarii sententia

incipit: (56) Si mercennarius et qui non est pastor

explicit: (57) nec tenenda est sententia

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 452

57-85 - De iusticia christiana

incipit: (57) Omne iudicium aut in ecclesiasticis situm est negotiis aut in secularibus

Note: At p. 72 an initial, but no break in the text

explicit: (85) si ergo hec propter eum facitis nobis illi pocius facitis quam nobis qui potens est retribuere uobis. Amen

Note: Not printed

85-86 - Sacerdotis auctoritas

incipit: (85) Duo sunt quibus hic mundus principaliter regitur sacerdotalis auctoritas et regalis potestas

explicit: (86) sed et hoc dicendum quia sancte ecclesie rex filius est non presul. discipulus non magister. subditus non

Note: [breaks off]

Note: Not printed

86-92 - De diversitate penarum

rubric: (86) [De Canonibus et Decretis]

incipit: (86) Si omnia precepta canonum paria essent idest equalis dignitatis

explicit: (92) Hos per omnia imitari nos oportet

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 453

93-99 - De primatu ecclesie Hierosolimitane

rubric: (93) [De ecclesia Romana et Hierosolimitana]

incipit: (93) Videamus de romana et hierosolimitana ecclesia. que rectius alteri preferri debeat

explicit: (99) quos plenos fuisse gratia diuina loquuntur testimonia

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 457

100-102 - Electio et consecratio episcopi

rubric: (100) [De electione Pontificis]

incipit: (100) Pontifex aut dei tantum electione debet constitui aut hominum tantum aut simul dei et hominum

explicit: (102) Rectene id an perperam ipsi uiderint qui inuenerunt

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 462, nos. xiii a, xiii b

102-107 - De malestate baptismi

rubric: (102) [De Baptismo et Eucharistia]

incipit: (102) Si queritur quid melius sit atque prestantius baptismus an sacerdotium

explicit: (107) quales ab eterno non sunt scripti uel electi uel predestinati

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 464

108-112 - De nuptiale sacramento

rubric: (108) [De nuptiis]

incipit: (108) Si christiana nubit iudeo uel ethnico

explicit: (109) peccato idolatrie comparatur

Note: Not printed

Note: The lower part of p. 109 is cut off and replaced by new vellum: a fragment of text (for which see the Addenda) survives, pasted over, on p. 110: the whole of pp. 111, 112 are a newer leaf, and blank (p. 112 not blank, contains later rubric)

Note: (110) The fragment of text on p. 110, now pasted over with newer vellum, runs as follows

Note: (110) nec ea que in mundo sunt diligant. ut omnia sua etiam uxores propter deum relinquant. et cetera celestis doctrine mandata obseruant. si hec inquam implere satagunt uxoribus alligari non debent. quia qui uxoribus alligantur hec implere non ualent. et qui non implent irritum faciunt quantum in ipsis est christianitatis nomen. Si coniunctio consanguineorum abhominabilis esset apud deum et incestus reputa-

112-114 - De ordine sacerdotis (I)

rubric: (112) [De deposicione sacerdotis]

Note: The first two lines are a slip cut off from a previous page and pasted on the top of p. 113

incipit: (112a) Sacerdotem ab ordine deponi nichil aliud esse puto quam eidem ordinem suum auferri

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 469

114-114 - De ordine sacerdotis (II)

incipit: (114) Diuina benedictio cuius iustus maior esse

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 470

114-118 - De consecratione sacerdotis

incipit: (114) Si uerba quibus consecratur corpus

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 470

118-119 - De ordine et de oficiis Christi

incipit: (118) Christus factus est sacerdos diaconus subdia(co)nus

Note: Unfinished

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 473

120-120 - De duobus gladiis

incipit: (120) In passione domini duo fuisse gladii

explicit: (120) in sanctorum commentariis queri debent

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 474

121-127 - De bonitate Dei et nature

incipit: (121) Si deus omnia regit et moderatur et omnem rationalem creaturam regit et moderatur

explicit: (127) Idem enim est adipisci summam bonitatem et summam essentiam et idem est adipisci bonum esse quod esse

Note: ? Not printed

128-139 - De ordinatione filiorum sacerdotum

incipit: (128) Apologia pro filiis sacerdotum et concubinarum quos nunc quidam iudicant ad sacros ordines non debere admitti

explicit: (139) sin autem correpctionem libenter excipimus

Note: Another copy at p. 247

Note: MGH. Libelli de Lite III 649

139-142 - De equalitate apostolorum

rubric: (139) [De equalitate ministrorum]

incipit: (139) Diuina institutione nullus inter apostolos maior fuit

explicit: (142) ut inter uicarios eorum talis etiam regula seruaretur

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 475

142-142 - De immolatione corporis Christi

incipit: (142) Agnus dei qui cotidie immolatur in altari aut tollit peccata mundi

explicit: (142) Neque enim pro diabolo et membris eius offertur corpus Christi

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 477

143-204 - De consecratione pontificum et regum (I)

Note: Change of script

rubric: (143) [De consecratione Pontificum et regum]

incipit: (143) Due in ueteri testamento persone pontificis scilicet et regis olei sancti unctione consecrate

Note: Between pp. 158 and 159 should be placed pp. 173-188 (quire 12)

incipit: (164a) Nunc inseramus consecrationem sacerdotis et uideamus si adeo excellens est ut consecratio regis. Talis quippe est pontificis consecratio. Domine sancte pater

Note: The office follows

Note: On p. 169, after the inthronization collect (Domine Ihesu Christe tu preelegisti apostolos tuos ut doctrina sua nobis preessent etc.) follows what must be the king's oath

incipit: (169) Hec tria populo Christiano et mihi subdito in Christi promitto nomineIn primis ut ecclesia et omnis populus christianus ueram pacem nostro arbitrio in omni tempore seruet, etc.

Note: The text continues with the coronation office. On p. 171 in the Consecratio regis (omnipotens sempiterne deus creator ac gubernator celi et terre) is the formula

Note: (171) super hunc famulum tuum N quem supplici deuotione in regnum anglorum siue saxonum pariter elegimus

Note: After p. 172 is the misplaced quire 12

Note: The office continues at p. 189 and ends p. 194 with the prayer

incipit: (194) Benedic domine fortitudinem principis

explicit: (194) quia ascensor celi auxiliator suus in sempiternum fiat

Note: (194) A series of paragraphs on the attributes of a king follows headed

rubric: (194) De Nomine Regni

incipit: (194) Isidorus ait. Regnum a regibus dictum est, etc.

Note: In the following paragraphs the authorities quoted are:Prouerbia Grecorum. These passages are printed by S. Hellmann, Sedullius Scottus, p. 129 (1906, in Traube's Quellen u. Untersuchungen I) together with a series of 74 quotations from Prouerbia Grecorum found in the Collectaneum of Sedulius Scottus in the Cues MS., and two other passages from them cited in the Carlsruhe MS. of the Irish Canons, and in a letter of the Anglo-Saxon Cathvulf to Charlemagne. They have evidently passed through Celtic hands: their origin is uncertain.

Note: Other authorities named are:Hieronimus. Patricius (the tract de xii abusiuis, quoted twice as his), Liber sapientie, Ambrose, Gregory

Note: (199) Item paulus pandit: quicunque adulari uoluerit aut pro necessitate aut pro adulatione benigne reuelat. Item paulus. Si hominibus placuissem seruus dei non essem

Note: (200) Sinodus romana

Note: (201) Orosius. Augustine

Note: Ends

incipit: (204) De sermone regis aut ducis protegente inimicum

explicit: (204) unde quidam ait. Utinam sermo regis dissoluisset me et liberaret me ut soluit ioseph. Et ut danielem liberauit de lacu leonum et ut mardocheum de angustia sua

Note: Parts of this are printed in MGH. Libelli de Lite III 662, where also are parts of the next tract

204-235 - De consecratione pontificum et regum (II)

Note: (204) The text continues in a rougher hand

incipit: (204) Sancta ecclesia sponsa Christi est qui est uerus rex et sacerdos

Note: pp. 205-208 are markedly large in script

Note: On p. 209 this script becomes small and neat again, but there seems to be no break in the sense

Note: This is a second copy, with some changes, of the tract no. 24.1. It ends just before the point where the former copy inserts the Coronation office. (See above on no. 24.1)

Note: This second copy ends p. 235

explicit: (235) quoniam et ipse summus pontifex est in quantum rex est

Note: On the first copy p. 163* these words are followed by Nunc inseramus consecrationem sacerdotis

235-236 - 'Laicus' nomen est ignominie

Note: (235) No title

incipit: (235) Laicus et christianus hec duo nomina aut equalia sunt in dignitate aut alterum altero est dignius

explicit: (236) alterum ignominie id est laicus

237-238 - De potestate ligandi atque solvendi

incipit: (237) Dominus noster Iesus Christus si petro soli contulit claues regni celorum

explicit: (238) sed humano intuitu et preconio intruduntur

239-247 - De sacerdotum matrimonio

Note: Large script

rubric: (239) [An liceat sacerdotibus inire matrimonia]

incipit: (239) Scire uelim quis primus instituit ne sacerdotes christiani inire deberent matrimonia. Deus an homo

explicit: (247) In quibus uero uerbum nuptiarum seminat ipsi facere nuptiarum fructum appetunt

Note: Printed by Bp Hall, Works I 756 (The honor of the married clergie) MGH. Libelli de Lite III 645

247-264 - De sacerdotum matrimonio

incipit: (247) Apologia pro filiis sacerdotum et concubinarum

Note: A first sketch of no. 22 (p. 128): hand changes at p. 255

explicit: (264) sin autem correctionem libenter accipiamus

264-265 - De Fiscannensi ecclesia

incipit: (264) Sanctorum patrum autoritas-ordinauit ut rothomagensis ecclesia caput esset et mater fiscannensis ecclesie et ipsa membrum ipsius esset et filia

Note: (265) Nunc uero uice uersa in contrarium pro his bonis. fiscannensis mala retribuit rothomagensi

explicit: (265) non est potestas nisi a deo

265-279 - De Romano pontifice

rubric: (265) [De Romano Pontifice]

incipit: (265) Romanus pontifex ideo apostolicus cognominatur quod apostolorum uice et officio fungi creditur

explicit: (278) qui ergo inter has scisma facere conatur id efficit ut etiam sacerdotalis auctoritas subruatur

Note: (279) Ends

Note: MGH. Libelli de Lite III 679

279-284 - De primato Anglie

rubric: (279) [De obediendo Romano Pontifice: more correctly, against the subjection of York to Canterbury]

incipit: (279) Cum multe sint ecclesie in romana ciuitate aut omnibus equaliter debemus obedire aut quibusdam tantum

Note: The script of the following pages is larger and rougher

explicit: (284) si ergo eboracensis archiepiscopus istis uult exibere obedientiam non debet nisi cogatur de is respondere archiepiscopo cantuariensi que potius iure debet ecclesie londoniensi

Note: MGH. Libelli de Lite III 686. Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 478

284-284 - De ecclesia Sathane in Roma

Note: A paragraph

incipit: (284) Considerandum est de romana ecclesia unde sit dignior ex eo quod romana est an ex eo quod ecclesia

explicit: (284) in caritate non in exactione. propter deum non propter seculi fastum. Amen

285-302 - De sanctorum communione

rubric: (285) (De Charitate et Obedientia)

Note: In the hand of no. 1

incipit: (285) Dignitas peculiaris et propria est et a patre collata filio dei et hominis quod est iudex uniuersorum

Note: Ends p. 302 (on suficit diei malitia sua)

explicit: (302) catia (=κακία) enim que latinus uertit in malitiam apud grecos duo significat et malitiam et afflictionem. quod cacos grece dicunt et hic pro malitia magis transferri debuit

Note: Böhmer, Staat und Kirche, p. 481

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