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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 163

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  • MS 163
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Date
  • 1000 - 1099
Language
  • Latin
  • Greek
Title
  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 163: Pontifical (Romano-Germanic)
  • Pontifical (Romano-Germanic)
Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 163 contains a Pontifical of the Romano-Germanic type. It was written in the second half of the eleventh century, probably at Worcester, although the Old Minster and the Nunnaminster at Winchester have both also been suggested. In text it is closely related to London, BL MS Cotton Vitellius E. XII, and may even have been directly copied from it. The Romano-Germanic Pontifical originated in Germany in the tenth century and spread rapidly because it brought together a comprehensive set of texts for performing the duties of a bishop. These two English copies seem to descend from a Cologne manuscript, and it has been suggested that the line of transmission was Bishop Ealdred's visit to Cologne in 1054. Ealdred, bishop of Worcester and later archbishop of Canterbury, was sent by Edward the Confessor on a diplomatic mission to Henry III, probably leading to the return to England of Edward the Exile in 1057, and it seems likely that he acquired a text of the Romano-Germanic pontifical on this occasion. MS 163 contains four ordines for the consecration of women while omitting all those for abbots and monks, and may therefore have some connection with a nunnery.


    Contents :


    1-296 - Pontifical (Romano-Germanic)

    rubric: (1) Incipit ordo catholicorum librorum qualiter in ecclesia ponendi sunt

    rubric: (1) In uigilia natalis domini leguntur lectiones tres de esaia

    Note: On p. 43 the Traditio symboli in Greek (Latin letters): with neumes

    Note: On p. 83 sqq. are Benedictiones Ambrosianae for the oil etc. on Maundy Thursday

    Note: The ordo ends on p. 149, running from Christmas Eve to Christmas Eve

    Note: (149) Extracts from Decreta and Councils

    rubric: (149) Quod clerus et populus firmare debet de electo episcopo

    rubric: (155) Ordo qualiter episcopus in Romana ecclesia ordinatur

    rubric: (156) Incipit examinatio in ordinatione episcopi secundum Gallos

    rubric: (182) Ordo qualiter ordinetur Romanus pontifex

    rubric: (182) Ordo quando pallium datur archiepiscopo

    rubric: (185) Incipit ordo ad regem benedicendum

    rubric: (194) Incipit ordo Romanus ad benedicendum imperatorem

    rubric: (195) Item Benedictio ad ordinandum imperatorem secundum occidentales

    rubric: (197) Benedictio regine

    rubric: (199) Canon de edificanda ecclesia. Nemo ecclesiam edificet etc.

    rubric: (201) Ordo ad dedicandam ecclesiam

    Note: (202) The Litany has

    Note: (202) Martyrs: Pancrati Vite Maurici Gereon Victor DyonisiConfessors: Galle Seuerine Euergisile Cuniberte HeriberteVirgins: Brigida Walburgis Gerdrudis

    Note: Evidently Cologne

    Note: (209) Greek alphabet

    Note: The offices for dedication of all ornaments, and for reconciliation of a church, continue to p. 257

    rubric: (257) Consecratio sacre uirginis que in epiphania uel in secunda feria pasche aut in apostolorum nataliciis celebratur

    Note: (263) Et dicat episcopus benedictionem mathei apostoliThis is the blessing uttered by St Matthew over the princess Ephigenia in the Latin apocryphal Acts (Abdias, Hist. Apost. VII 13; Fabricius, Cod. Apoc. N. T. 1 662) super eam. Deus plasmator corporum etc.

    rubric: (266) Ad diaconissam faciendam

    rubric: (268) Consecratio vidue

    rubric: (270) Ordo qualiter in Romana ecclesia sacri ordines fiunt

    Note: Rubrics end on p. 283, but the same hand continues

    Note: (283) Form for dedication of an image of St Peter

    Note: (285) Form for dedication of an image of St Swithin

    incipit: (285) Oremus fratres dilectissimi rerum omnium conditorem

    explicit: (286) Ergo presentem dilectissimi serui tui et beati patris nostri SǷIÐVNI effigiem

    Note: In smaller script

    rubric: (286) Benedicat nos diuina maiestas domini

    incipit: (286) Gloria uictori sit christo laude perhenniQui super astra manet, cuius uictoria pollet

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (287) Presulibus nostris subiectis cum sibi totisAngligenis turmis concedat dona salutisQui superNostro pontifici cuius sumus in diocesiDa regnum uite qua scandat et ipse superneGloria uictori

    Note: (287) Benedictio perae et baculi

    rubric: (290) Exhortation preliminary to office of the dead

    incipit: (290) Quando celebramus dies fratrum defunctorum

    explicit: (294) pro bonis operibus premia consequamur

    Note: (294) Office in smaller script

    incipit: (294) Qui Lazarum

    Note: A few neumes inserted

    Note: Ends at top of p. 296

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