Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 465: Ordinal of Norwich

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Summary
Although CCCC MS 465 is frequently described as the Customary of the Benedictine Cathedral priory of Norwich, the content is that of the Ordinal rather than the Customary. An Ordinal contains directions for the liturgical services throughout the Church year. The dating of the main text is 1258-65, but the calendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory at the beginning of the book was added 1278-88. The pressmark of the priory is on the flyleaf, and an inscription recording it as the 'Ordinale fratris R. de Lok.'.
Contents
Kalendar of Norwich -- Customary of Norwich

Description

Alternative title Consuetudines Norwicenses
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 1 + 162
Date created [ca. 1300 - 1325]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout 25-26 lines to a page
Height (mm) 167
Width (mm) 110
Collation 1 flyleaf, 1(8) 2(12)-4(12) (10 canc.) 5(12) (8 canc.) 6(12)-14(12).
Writing very well written, with additions of cent. xiv
Foliation ff. a-b + i + 1-162 + c-d
Provenance From Norwich Priory. On f. ir and iv the mark J. III: also Ordinale fratris R. de Lok.
Additions Blomefield's mark is on f. ir. On f. ir two notes (xiv late): a. Item quando homini religioso (?) imponitur silence ... b. A. d. mo ccco lxxo per N. priorem ordinatum fuit ... quod ... non ibunt in villam nisi cum capis, etc. On f. iiv some dicta and verses. It is part of a waste leaf: the writing runs vertically. On f. 1r notes for Holy Week. On ff. 1v-2v are supplementary orders like those on f. ir and mostly in the same hand.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xiv early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kg714dw2782/MS_465.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gd089sx8216/465.pdf
Contains
Title
Kalendar of Norwich. 3r-8v
Note
(3r) Kalendar in red and black
(3v) February 19 Obiit Nicholas prior
(4r) March 16 Obiit Mabilie de Lakenham 24 Passio Sancti Willelmi Martyris
(5r) May 20 Ethelberti Regis et Martyris
(5v) June 17 Botulphi red 23 Etheldrede
(6r) July 31 Neoti Abbatis Germani Episcopi red
(6v) August 11 Taurini Episcopi red 16 Obiit Thomas Episcopus
(7r) September 16 Translacio Reliquiarum red. Pandulfus Episcopi 24 Dedicatio ecclesiae Norwyc. red, with octave
(7v) October 6 Fidis Virginis, red 7 Oside Virginis Martyris 12 Eborard Episcopus 17 Translatio Sancte Etheldrede, red 18 Iohannes Episcopus 21 Obiit henricus de lakenham prior Norwyci 22 Elyas prior
(8r) Nov Both Edmunds in red
(8v) December 16 Antiphoni quomodo fiet
Title
Customary of Norwich. 9r-162v
Rubric
(9r) Incipiunt consuetudines ecclesie Norwyc. per annum
Incipit
(9r) Sabbato aduentus domini
Rubric
(131r) Incipit ordo lectionum ad prandium per totum annum
(132r) De lectione ad collacionem
(132r) Ad mandatum
(133r) De prephationibus
Incipit
(134r) Quibus diebus dicatur Credo
Rubric
(134r) De commemoratione Sancte Marie per totum annum
(136v) De processi(oni)bus in ecclesia ad vesperas et ad matinas
(138r) Incipit ordo processionum claustralium dominicis diebus
Note
(146v) Of responses, of incense, etc., ending with
Rubric
(146v) De presente defuncto, etc.
(147v) De necgligentia corporis et sanguinis domini nostri Ihesu Christi
(151v) Officium ad professionem faciendam
Note
(152v) Versiculi. Benedictiones. Antiphons
In smaller hands
Rubric
(159v) Obseruancie in sepultura monachi
Note
(160v) Miscellaneous supplementary ordinances (1351, 1379 are named)
TJames 200
Stanley N. 36
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/hj164fb1760
Location MS 465
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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