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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 93

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UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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  • MS 093
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Date
  • 1400 - 1425
Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 093: Ordinal and Martyrology of Exeter
  • Ordinal and Martyrology of Exeter || Iohannes de Grandisson Ordinale et Martyrologium Exoniense
Description

  • Summary: The Ordinal of Exeter Cathedral is preserved in two manuscripts of the fifteenth century, Exeter, Cathedral Library MS 3502 and CCCC MS 93. This copy is of c. 1400-25, but some of the border decoration has been added in the second half of the fifteenth century. The Ordinal contains the directions for the church services for the Mass and the Divine Office. The liturgical use of Exeter was an adaptation for that diocese of the Use of Sarum which from the mid-thirteenth century onwards spread over most parts of England. The book also contains a Martyrology of Exeter which compares with that of Exeter, Cathedral Library MS 3518. These copies of the Ordinal reveal the extent of difference from Sarum. MS 93 has fine illuminated borders with the monogram WS at the main divisions of the text.


    Contents :


    7r-176r - Ordinal and Martyrology of Exeter || Iohannes de Grandisson Ordinale et Martyrologium Exoniense

    Note: The following list of the contents, drawn up by the Rev. Chr. Wordsworth in 1896, will be of interest. I add some details to it

    Note: ff. 7r-12v. Kalendar of Exeter use (in blue, red and black)

    Note: In the Kalendar I note

    Note: (7r) January 7. Brannoci Abbatis C.

    Note: (8r) March 1. David, Episcopi Exoniensis 2. Cedde Episcopi 5. Kerani Exoniensis

    Note: (9r) May 7. Iohannis de beuerlaco

    Note: (9v) June 4. Petroci Confessoris 16. Translatio S. Richardi Episcopi [a later note: Exon. nihil set SS. Ciriaci et Iulitte MM.]

    Note: (10r) July 1. Octava Sancti Johannis Baptiste Memoria tantum Exoniensis 2. Visitatio beate marie virginis in red 7. Translation of Thomas erased 15. Translatio Sancti Swithuni Episcopi ix lectiones unius episcopi et confessoris non plurimorum ut Sarum propter Wodebury

    Note: I find no entry of S. Sativola, but she is mentioned on f. 18r, col. 2 between Margaret and Invention of Stephen, and in the Martyrology f. 154v on 2 August

    Note: (11r) September

    rubric: 7. Prima feria secunde istius mensis fiat festum S. Gabrielis Archangeli maius duplex

    Note: (11v) October 1. Melori 2. Thome Herfordensis Episcopi 5. Raphaelis in red

    Note: (12r) November 3. Wenefrede added 21. Dedicatio ecclesie beati Petri Exoniensis maius duplex; in blue with octave

    Note: (12v) December 4. Depositio S. Osmundi Episcopi 29. Thomas of Canterbury erased

    Note: ff. 13r-20r Consuetudines generales of Exeter Cathedral Church (relating to Dean, Precentor, Chancellor, Treasurer, Archdeacons, Succentor, Sub-treasurer, Clerk of St Mary's, Residence, Priest-vicars, Choristers, Behaviour, Colours of vestments, Rulers of Choir, Books: cap. I-XXXI)

    Note: f. 13r has initial and feather-ornament. A note of Parker's time is at the foot of the page, giving an extract from Bishop Grandisson's will

    Note: f. 20v blank

    Note: (21r) Exeter ordinale diuini officii (choir service)

    Note: (21r) de Tempore

    Note: (Advent, etc.)

    Note: (21r) f. 21r is fully bordered. Portions of the decoration, consisting of roses and other flowers, in a bright hard style, seem to me to have been added late in cent. xv. At each angle is a monogram (original) of the letters WS. These may stand for William Steele, who was Archdeacon of Totnes about 1370 (Oliver, Lives of Bishops of Exeter, p. 291)

    Note: (74v) de Dedicatione Ecclesie

    Note: (Anniversary)

    Note: (75r) de proprio Sanctorum

    Note: (St Andrew, etc.)

    Note: (102v) de communi sanctorum

    Note: Exeter ordinale

    rubric: (106r) de Missa

    Note: (Altar service)

    Note: (106r) de Tempore

    Note: (106r) f. 106r has border on three sides

    Note: (121r) de Dedicatione Ecclesie

    Note: (121r) de Proprio Sanctorum

    Note: (129r) de Communi Sanctorum

    Note: (130r) de Commemoracione Beate Marie [hebdomadali]

    Note: (130v) de Commemoracione Sancti Crucis [hebdomadali]

    Note: (130v) Missa salus populi pro fratribus et sororibus [votiua]

    Note: (130v) Missa Da pacem pro pace

    Note: (130v) Missa pro serenitate aeris

    Note: (130v) Missa in quacumque tribulacione

    Note: (130v) De Alleluya in pleno seruicio Beate Marie

    Note: (130v) Misse pro Defunctis

    Note: (132r) Martilogium ad usum Exoniensem per Johannem de Grandisson dispositum

    Note: It does not contain the Exeter obits

    Note: (132r) f. 132r, full border with monogram of WS at each corner

    incipit: (172r) Ad sciendum quod (quando?) Kyrie uel Gloria in excelsis uel Sanctus uel Agnus debent dici in choro

    rubric: (174v) Incipit ordinale officiorum Beate Virginis Marie in capella

    Note: (arranged by Grandisson in order to keep a weekly memory of the Seven Joys)

    Note: (175r) Benedicciones dicende [ad lecciones]

    Note: ff. 176r-178v blank

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