Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 163: Pontifical (Romano-Germanic)
Abstract/Contents
- 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
- Pontifical (Romano-Germanic)
Description
| Alternative title | Ordo Servitii. Ordinale etc. |
|---|---|
| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 148 + 1 |
| Date created | [ca. 1000 - 1099] |
| Language | Latin; Greek, Modern (1453- ) |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | 25 lines to a page |
| Height (mm) | 301 |
| Width (mm) | 201 |
| Collation | 1 flyleaf, 1(8)-11(8) 12(6) (5, 6 canc.) 13(8)-19(8). |
| Writing | in two very beautiful hands. The second of these begins at p. 145 |
| Foliation | ff. a-b + i + pp. 1-296 + ff. c-d |
| Provenance | Apparently a Winchester book, from a Continental archetype of Cologne diocese. |
| Research | The book is not in W. H. Frere's list of English Pontificals (Alcuin Club Collections 1900). |
| Decoration | On the flyleaf is pasted a full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion, on vellum, from a Missal (as in MS 162). |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xi |
|---|---|
| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
|
| TJames | 94 |
| Stanley | I. 3 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/dw493fs0065 |
| Location | MS 163 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- Images courtesy of The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For higher resolution images suitable for scholarly or commercial publication, either in print or in an electronic format, please contact the Parker Library directly at parker-library@corpus.cam.ac.uk
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC).
Collection
Parker Manuscripts
Loading usage metrics...