Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 190

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  • 1000 - 1099
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  • Latin
  • Old English
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    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190: Penitential
    • Hymn for the consecration of the oils at the main Mass on Maundy Thursday
    • Contents list
    • Extract from Pope Gregory the Great
    • De initio creature
    • Poenitentiale pseudo-Theodori
    • Texts concerning ecclesiastics
    • Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection ('Excerptiones pseudo-Egberti', recension B, partial text)
    • Ex decretis sancti Gelasii papae
    • Old English charm for recovering stolen chattels
    • Decree of Pope Leo
    • Decree on jurisdiction over the clergy
    • Table of consanguinity
    • Texts on Christian warfare
    • Expositio officium sacre missae
    • Ælfric OSB, Second Latin Pastoral Letter for Wulfstan
    • Wulfstan, Homily VIIIa
    • Offices and related texts
    • Alcuin, Epistola 17
    • Alcuin, Epistola 114
    • Isidore of Seville, Extracts from Sententiae, book 3, chapters 36-38 (perhaps taken from pseudo-Amalarius, Institutio canonicorum, book 1, chapters 20, 29, and 30), and related texts
    • Texts on ecclesiastical customs by Ælfric OSB, Hrabanus Maurus, Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and others
    • Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum (extracts)
    • Adso Dervensis OSB, De ortu et tempore antichristi
    • Capitula of the Council of Winchester 1070
    • Capitula of the Council of Windsor 1070
    • Penitential articles issued after the Battle of Hastings
    • Ælfric OSB, Letter to Wulfsige || Epistola de canonibus Saxonice [scilicet Ælfrici ad sacerdotes]
    • Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Apostles || Homelia Saxonica
    • De ecclesiasticis gradibus || De ecclesiasticis gradibus, Saxonice
    • Ælfric OSB, Preface to his Old English Letters to Wulfstan || Prologus venerabilis Ælfrici abbatis ad Wulstanum archiepiscopum, Latine
    • Ælfric OSB, First Old English Letter for Wulfstan || Prima epistola Anglice exposita
    • Ælfric OSB, Second Old English Letter for Wulfstan || Secunda epistola quando dividis crismam
    • Ælfric OSB, Second Old English Letter for Wulfstan (continued) || Sermo in cena Domini, et VI feria et sabbato sancto, Saxonice
    • On the Mass: Celebration of Vigils || De officio missae in vigilia pascae, Saxonice
    • Anonymous Homily for Ash Wednesday || Sermo in capite jejunii, Saxonice
    • Anonymous Homily In Cena Domini || Sermo in cena Domini ad penitentes, Saxonice
    • Canons on the punishment of sins
    • Serlo of Bayeux, De filiis presbyterorum || Invectivum in damnantes conjugia sacerdotum
    • Excommunication
    • Old English formula of confession and absolution || Liber confessionalis Ecgberti Eboracensis archiepiscopi, Saxonice, qui olim ex se conficiebat unum volumen; quod tandem vero una cum aliis diversis tractatibus in hunc librum compingebatur
    • Confessionale pseudo-Egberti (Old English)
    • Chrodegang, Regula canonicorum, chapter 83 (Old English version)
    • Confessionale pseudo-Egberti (Old English, extract)
    • Poenitentiale pseudo-Egberti (Old English)
    • Confessionale pseudo-Egberti (Additional section z)
    • Formulas and Directions for the Use of Confessors
    • Poenitentiale Theodori and Capitula d'Acheriana (partial)
    • Anglo-Saxon Laws Mirce, Að, and Hadbot
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Description
  • Summary: CCCC MS 190 is a very complex and interesting volume, with multiple layers of additions and alterations. It was made over the course of the eleventh century, with at least some parts written at Exeter, where it has later provenance. At its core is a version of the collection known as "Archbishop Wulfstan's Handbook", a miscellany on largely ecclesiastical matters which seems to have been compiled by Wulfstan (d. 1023), archbishop of York, for use in his composition of law codes and homilies. This occupies most of pp. 1-294, and has a contemporary contents list which does not, however, correspond precisely to the volume's actual contents. It is in Latin, and has a number of interesting additions like a text assigning penances to those who had fought at the Battle of Hastings (1066). The second part of the book has many Old English texts, including translations of some of the material which is found in the first part, and more ecclesiastical material of a similar nature, such as law codes. The manuscript was valued by Parker for its insights into the Anglo-Saxon church.


    Contents :


    ii-ii - Hymn for the consecration of the oils at the main Mass on Maundy Thursday

    Note: On the verso of the flyleaf is a hymn (for the hallowing of the Chrism) with neumes

    Note: (ii) Antiphon

    incipit: (ii) O redemptor sume carmen temet concinentium

    Note: (see p. 259 of the MS.)

    Note: (ii) Uersus

    incipit: (ii) Audi iudex mortuorum una spes mortalium

    explicit: (ii) ne senescat tempore. O redemptor

    Note: Added (without neumes)

    Note: (ii) Hoc ecclesia fundatur. Credentes glori(ficat ?). Sit hoc crisma benedictum. cunctis saluberrimum.


    iii-xii - Contents list

    Note: (iii) The first four leaves contain the Table with titles in red capitals

    Note: The headings are: capitula de penitentium (i-lxiii), de canonibus (but no capp. follow), de sacerdotali Iure Egcberti Archiep. (i-xcviiii), de libro scintillarum. Ending lxxii. de Anticristo


    xii-xii - Extract from Pope Gregory the Great


    1-12 - De initio creature


    12-94 - Poenitentiale pseudo-Theodori

    Note: Old English gloss on p. 17 is Cameron C89.2


    94-110 - Texts concerning ecclesiastics


    111-130 - Wulfstan's Canon Law Collection ('Excerptiones pseudo-Egberti', recension B, partial text)

    Note: continued on pp. 134-138

    Note: (134) The text continues with Thorpe cxxxii, cxxxiii and then passes to Thorpe cxlvii-clx

    Note: This comprises xxxv-xxxvii (part) of the capitula of Nasmith


    130-130 - Ex decretis sancti Gelasii papae

    rubric: (130) Ex decretis Sancti Gelasii Papae

    Note: fine round hand

    incipit: (130) Quod in unaquaque ecclesia cui episcopus preest tam de reditibus quam de fidelium oblationibus quattuor debeant fieri portiones etc.


    130-130 - Old English charm for recovering stolen chattels

    Note: (130) Charm. Smaller black hand

    incipit: (130) Gyf feoh sy under fangen. Gyf hit sy hors sing on his feteran

    explicit: (130) for þam hi hyt forhelan ne mihtan

    Note: Cockayne, Leechdoms, I 392

    Note: Cameron B23.1.4


    131-131 - Decree of Pope Leo

    rubric: (131) Ex decretis Sancti leonis papae

    Note: hand like 5

    incipit: (131) Ut nullus episcopus seruum alterius ad officium clericatus promoueat etc.

    Note: Smaller hand

    rubric: (131) Theodorus dicit

    incipit: (131) Si quis in seculari habitu uota uouerit

    Note: (followed by Theodore II ix § 1, 2)


    131-131 - Decree on jurisdiction over the clergy

    Note: Rather smaller hand

    Note: (a)

    rubric: (131) xxviiii. De eo quod non iudicandi sunt etc.

    Note: (Canon. Hibern. XXI 29, ed. Wasserschleben)

    incipit: (131) Constantinus rex ait ad episcopos

    Note: (b)

    incipit: (131) Non oportet iudices ecclesie habere timorem hominum etc.

    Note: (Hibern. XXI 12, part)

    rubric: (131) Ut nullus accusati sedem usurpet episcopi

    Note: (Conc. Sardic. cap. 4)

    incipit: (131) Gaudentius ep. dixit, addendum si placet

    explicit: (131) episcopi romani determinata


    132-133 - Table of consanguinity

    Note: (132) De consanguinitate, a diagrammatic table extending over two pages 132, 133

    Note: This table is not in Thorpe


    138-143 - Texts on Christian warfare

    Note: Follows

    rubric: (138) De magna Synodo

    Note: De militia et victoria Christianorum etc. to De tribulationibusThe text of this is conjecturally ascribed to Alcuin by Miss Bateson, and printed by her Eng. Hist. Rev. 1895, p. 731., p. 142, which ends

    explicit: (143) Dei est quippe et adiuuare et in fugam uertere


    143-151 - Expositio officium sacre missae

    rubric: (143) Incipit Expositio officium sacre missae

    incipit: (143) Missarum uero officium constat ex introitu

    Note: (xliv in capitula) ending p. 151 (lxi de quinquagesima)

    explicit: (151) ieuinium sacratissimum adimpleuit


    151-159 - Ælfric OSB, Second Latin Pastoral Letter for Wulfstan

    rubric: (151) Sermo ad sacerdotes

    incipit: (151) O sacerdotes domini

    Note: Anglo-Saxon at p. 336

    Note: (lxii)


    159-162 - Wulfstan, Homily VIIIa

    rubric: (159) Incipit de baptismo

    incipit: (159) Primo necesse est ut paganus catecuminus sit

    Note: ( = MS 265, p. 180)

    Note: Printed by Napier, Wulfstan, No. IV, p. 2


    162-173 - Offices and related texts

    rubric: (162) Incipit super electos ad catecuminum faciendum etc.

    rubric: (163) De officio et mysterio missae

    incipit: (163) Officium quidem misse magna ex parte ad solum pertinet sacerdotem

    Note: (MS 265, p. 182)

    rubric: (164) Benedictio salis (et aquae)

    rubric: (169) Item benedictio salis et aquae

    Note: two forms

    rubric: (169) Incipit admonitio spiritalis doctrine

    incipit: (169) Exalta in fortitudine uocem tuam

    Note: (=MS 265, p. 3)

    rubric: (171) Admonitio episcoporum utilis

    incipit: (171) O karissime frater corde tenus perspice

    Note: (= MS 265, p. 4)


    173-179 - Alcuin, Epistola 17

    rubric: (173) Epistola Albini leuite ad ÆðELNARDUMApparently altered from ÆðELDARDUM archiep.

    incipit: (173) Pio patri et sancte sedis presuli æþelhardo

    Note: (=MS 265, p. 7)


    179-183 - Alcuin, Epistola 114

    rubric: (179) Item Epistola Alcuini ad Eanbaldum archiepiscopum

    incipit: (179) Ecce karissime fili

    Note: ( = MS 265, p. 13)

    Note: These two letters, which occur again in MS 265, have been collated by Dümmler

    Note: (lxvi)


    183-188 - Isidore of Seville, Extracts from Sententiae, book 3, chapters 36-38 (perhaps taken from pseudo-Amalarius, Institutio canonicorum, book 1, chapters 20, 29, and 30), and related texts

    rubric: (183) De doctrina et exemplis prepositorum

    incipit: (183) Tam doctrina quam uita etc.

    Note: (= MS 265, p. 17) to Nasmith lxix


    188-264 - Texts on ecclesiastical customs by Ælfric OSB, Hrabanus Maurus, Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and others

    rubric: (188) Sermo Episcopi ad clericos

    incipit: (188) Ego uobis clericis mihi subditis

    Note: Anglo-Saxon on p. 320

    Note: ( = MS 265, p. 160)

    Note: (lxx)

    rubric: (201) Incipit de septem ecclesiasticis gradibus

    incipit: (201) Hostiarii sunt idem et ianitores

    rubric: (204) Item de Sacerdotibus

    Note: The section Item de Sacerdotibus, p. 204, = beginning of MS 265, p. 185. See also MS 265, pp. 188, 194

    Note: Old English gloss on p. 246 is Cameron C82.2

    rubric: (253) Qualiter penitentes in cena domini in ecclesiam introducuntur

    Note: (252) In the form Qualiter penitentes in cena domini in ecclesiam introducuntur, p. 252, neumes occur

    incipit: (253) Vere fratres karissimi

    Note: The sermon (p. 253) Vere fratres karissimi By Abbo of St Germain: D'Achery, Spicil. I 337 is in Anglo-Saxon on p. 354. Other portions also occur in Anglo-Saxon (see post). More neumes on pp. 258 and 259

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (264) et clamante diacono Ite missa est pergat unusquisque ad sua


    264-281 - Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum (extracts)

    rubric: (264) Incipiunt excerptiones ex libro scintillarum (72). In primis de caritate

    incipit: (264) Dominus dicit, Maiorem caritatem etc.

    Note: There are a good many Anglo-Saxon interlinear glosses

    Note: Ends

    rubric: (281) De breuitate huius uitae

    explicit: (281) finiatur uita cum culpa

    Note: (P. L. LXXXVIII 597)

    Note: Old English gloss on pp. 265-266 is Cameron C60


    281-291 - Adso Dervensis OSB, De ortu et tempore antichristi

    rubric: (281) Epistola Adsonis Monachi ad Gerbergam reginam de Anticristo (ci 1291)

    incipit: (281) Excellentissimo ac regali dignitate pollenti

    Note: (289) Hand changes

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (291) que fueritis dignata imperare


    292-292 - Capitula of the Council of Winchester 1070

    Note: (292) A round hand like that on p. 130 appears

    Note: Titles in black, rubricated

    rubric: (292) Celebrati capitula concilii apud uuintoniam

    incipit: (292) Quod nulli liceat duobus episcopatibus presidere

    explicit: (292) quod calices non sint cerei

    Note: Wilkins, Concilia I 365. A copy in MS 117. 4 is described as being from a Worcester MS.


    292-292 - Capitula of the Council of Windsor 1070

    rubric: (292) Capitula concilii apud uuindlesora celebrati in pentecosten

    incipit: (292) De introitu episcoporum et abbatum per symoniacam heresim

    explicit: (292) qui hec non fecerit anathema sit

    Note: I do not find this text in Wilkins


    293-294 - Penitential articles issued after the Battle of Hastings

    rubric: (293) De penitentia in bello homines occidentium

    incipit: (293) Hec est penitentie institutio secundum decreta normannorum presulum auctoritate summi pontificis confirmata per legatum suum ermenfredum episcopum sedunensem

    explicit: (294) ut neque ipsi uendant neque alii emant

    Note: Wilkins, Concilia I 366

    Note: The lower part of p. 294 has been written upon, the writing erased, and the Latin Epistola de CanonibusThorpe, 8vo, II 342 (Ælfric to Wulsin) written on it in cent. xvi (Wanley, p. 5). The old title is still decipherable as ABSOLUTIO


    295-308 - Ælfric OSB, Letter to Wulfsige || Epistola de canonibus Saxonice [scilicet Ælfrici ad sacerdotes]

    Note: cui premissa est epistola nuncupatoria ad Wulfinum episcopum, Latine et manu recenti

    Note: Cameron B1.8.1

    rubric: (295) Be preoste synoðe

    incipit: (295) Ic secge eoƿ preostum

    Note: Thorpe, 8vo, II 342. The Canons of Ælfric

    incipit: (304) Ic bidde eoƿ þæt ge gymon eoƿra sylfra

    Note: Thorpe, 8vo, II p. 358


    308-314 - Ælfric OSB, Catholic Homilies, Second Series, Apostles || Homelia Saxonica

    Note: Cameron B1.2.45

    rubric: (308) Sequentia Sancti Euuangelii secundum Lucam

    incipit: (308) In illo tempore. Designauit Dominus et alios

    incipit: (308) Se hælend gecéas hi to eacan

    Note: Thorpe, Homilies, II 528


    314-319 - De ecclesiasticis gradibus || De ecclesiasticis gradibus, Saxonice

    Note: Cameron B13.3

    rubric: (314) De eclesiasticis gradibus

    incipit: (314) Heah hadas syndon to healdenne

    Note: Also in MS 201, p. 108 and Junius, 121, f. 35v


    320-320 - Ælfric OSB, Preface to his Old English Letters to Wulfstan || Prologus venerabilis Ælfrici abbatis ad Wulstanum archiepiscopum, Latine

    Note: (320) Fine round hand

    Note: Wanley, p. 22, from a Bodleian MS.


    320-336 - Ælfric OSB, First Old English Letter for Wulfstan || Prima epistola Anglice exposita

    Note: Cameron B1.8.2

    incipit: (320) Vs bisceopum gedafenað

    Note: Latin on p. 188

    Note: Thorpe, fol. 452, 8vo, II 364 (Ælfric's Pastoral Epistle)


    336-337 - Ælfric OSB, Second Old English Letter for Wulfstan || Secunda epistola quando dividis crismam

    Note: Cameron B1.8.3

    incipit: (336) Eala ge mæsse preostas

    Note: Latin on p. 151

    Note: Thorpe, 8vo, II 390 (quando dividis chrisma) from this MS.


    337-349 - Ælfric OSB, Second Old English Letter for Wulfstan (continued) || Sermo in cena Domini, et VI feria et sabbato sancto, Saxonice

    Note: Cameron B1.8.3 cont.

    incipit: (337) In cena domini et in parasceue et in sancto sabbato. On þyssum þrym sƿigenihtum ge sceolan singan æt gædere

    Note: Nos. 25, 26 seem not to have been printed


    349-350 - On the Mass: Celebration of Vigils || De officio missae in vigilia pascae, Saxonice

    Note: Cameron B12.9

    rubric: (349) De officio Missae etc.

    incipit: (349) On þone haligan easter æfen gange man to nones

    Note: Latin, p. 221

    rubric: (350) De officio missae in vigilia pentecosten

    Note: Latin, p. 226

    Note: Nos. 25, 26 seem not to have been printed


    351-353 - Anonymous Homily for Ash Wednesday || Sermo in capite jejunii, Saxonice

    Note: Cameron B3.2.9

    Note: At this point a large hand appears

    incipit: (351) Gehyrað broðru þa leofestan ƿe mynegiað eoƿ

    Note: Latin, p. 247

    Note: Copied for Professor Napier; apparently only here


    353-360 - Anonymous Homily In Cena Domini || Sermo in cena Domini ad penitentes, Saxonice

    Note: Cameron B3.2.23

    Note: Latin, p. 253

    Note: Copied for Professor Napier; apparently only here


    360-360 - Canons on the punishment of sins

    Note: (360) Followed on p. 360 by Latin extracts from Canons in a later hand

    incipit: (360) Excommunicati si perdurant in pristinis criminibus etc.


    361-363 - Serlo of Bayeux, De filiis presbyterorum || Invectivum in damnantes conjugia sacerdotum

    Note: (361) In two columns, cent. xii

    incipit: (361) Lex inmortalis quam longo tempore talis

    explicit: (361) atque coheredem patrie reuocauit ad edem

    Note: Th. Wright, Anglo-Latin Satirists, II 208 (another text, called Versus Seltonis), also Mon. Germ. Hist. Libelli de lite, III 580, with a facsimile of the MS.

    Note: pp. 362, 363 blank


    364-364 - Excommunication

    Note: (364) An Excommunication form in fine large hand

    Note: Liebermann, Gesetze, p. 434


    365-365 - Old English formula of confession and absolution || Liber confessionalis Ecgberti Eboracensis archiepiscopi, Saxonice, qui olim ex se conficiebat unum volumen; quod tandem vero una cum aliis diversis tractatibus in hunc librum compingebatur

    Note: Cameron B11.9.1

    Note: (365) The first page (365) is in a large hand and contains an Anglo-Saxon Confession and Absolution

    incipit: (365) Ic andette þe drihten aelmihtig god etc. Gemyltsige eoƿ se aelmihtiga god etc.

    Note: Wanley, p. 111


    366-418 - Confessionale pseudo-Egberti (Old English)

    Note: Cameron B11.1.1

    Note: (366) Title in red capitals

    rubric: (366) Her onginnað ðisse boce capitulas ðe ƿe hatað scrift boc

    Note: This MS. is taken by Thorpe as the basis of his text (folio edn, p. 343: 8vo II 128)

    Note: After Confessionale 41 (Thorpe) is the chapter (p. 384)

    incipit: (384) Þeodorus se mæra bisceop ge sette þas rædinge to bysene

    explicit: (386) mid teara agotennysse

    Note: (Thorpe, II. 132)

    Note: (387) Thorpe's Poenitentiale Liber I begins p. 387a

    Note: (390) Liber II

    Note: (399) Liber III

    Note: (404) Liber IV

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (418) fæste x gear

    Note: (Thorpe, II. 170-230)


    384-384 - Chrodegang, Regula canonicorum, chapter 83 (Old English version)

    Note: Cameron B10.4.2


    384-386 - Confessionale pseudo-Egberti (Old English, extract)

    Note: Cameron B11.2.1


    387-413 - Poenitentiale pseudo-Egberti (Old English)

    Note: Cameron B11.3.1


    413-414 - Confessionale pseudo-Egberti (Additional section z)

    Note: Cameron B11.2.2


    414-416 - Formulas and Directions for the Use of Confessors

    Note: Cameron B11.10.1


    416-418 - Poenitentiale Theodori and Capitula d'Acheriana (partial)

    Note: Cameron B11.5


    418-420 - Anglo-Saxon Laws Mirce, Að, and Hadbot

    Note: Cameron B14.48, B14.49, B14.50

    Note: On pp. 418-420 in a smaller hand are the texts of Be Mercena lage, Be gehadendra aðe 7 be hadbote printed by Liebermann, Gesetze, 462 sqq.

    Note: Flyleaves blank

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