A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Corpus

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CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS
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55. In die depositionis Beati Augustini anglorum doctoris.
M. ft. 1. pe pillaS sume gereccednysse cySan embe |>yses.
This is in another hand and only fifteen lines of text are
written, ending:
paet he heonon geceas haligra maenigu. Sume pseron
heahfaederan healice.
Apparently only in this MS.
p. 564 is blank. A line of text at top is erased.
This is seemingly not one of the Worcester books ; pp. 139-160 are an
insertion made by Parker from a Worcester MS. The rest of the volume
may very well have been one of those sent to Parker by Bp Scory from
Hereford.
163.
ORDO SERVITII.
ORDINALE, ETC.
f I. 3
\ T. James 94
Vellum, HT^X 8^, ff. 148+1, 25 lines to a page. Cent, xi, in two
very beautiful hands. The second of these begins at p. 145.
Apparently a Winchester book, from a Continental archetype of
Cologne diocese.
Collation: I flyleaf, i 8 -ii 8 I26 (5, 6 cane.) I38-I98.
The first nine quires are in a beautiful round hand: the rest in an
equally good hand but less remarkably beautiful.
On the flyleaf is pasted a full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion, on
vellum, from a Missal (as in 162).
On the verso is a Parkerian list of contents.
The book is not in W. H. Frere's list of English Pontificals (Alcuin
Club Collections 1900).
Contents:
Inc. ordo catholicorum librorum qualiter in ecclesia ponendi sunt . p. i
In uigilia natalis domini leguntur lectiones tres de esaia.
On p. 43 the Traditio symboli in Greek (Latin letters): with
neumes.
On 83 sqq. are Benedictiones Ambrosianae for the oil etc. on
Maundy Thursday.
The ordo ends on p. 149, running from Christmas Eve to
Christmas Eve.
Extracts from Decreta and Councils
149
Quod clerus et populus firmare debet de electo episcopo.
Ordo qualiter episcopus in Romana ecclesia ordinatur
.
.
155
Inc. examinatio in ordinatione episcopi secundum Gallos .
.
156
Ordo qualiter ordinetur Romanus pontifex
182
Ordo quando pallium datur archiepiscopo
182
Inc. ordo ad regem benedicendum
185
Inc. ordo Romanus ad benedicendum imperatorem
.
.
.
194
Item Benedictio ad ordinandum imperatorem sec. occidentales .
195
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CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE
369
Bened. regine
Canon de edificanda ecclesia. Nemo ecclesiam edifice! etc.
Ordo ad dedicandam ecclesiam
The Litany, 202, has :
.
p. 197
199
201
Martyrs. Pancrati Vite Maurici Gereon Victor Dyonisi.
Conf. Galle Seuerine Euergisile Cuniberte Heriberte.
Virg. Brigida Walburgis Gerdrudis.
Evidently Cologne.
Greek alphabet p. 209.
The offices for dedication of all ornaments, and for reconciliation
of a church, continue to p. 257.
Consecratio sacre uirginis que in epiphania uel in secunda feria
pasche aut in apostolorum nataliciis celebratur .
.
.
.
p. 263 et dicat episcopus benedictionem mathei apostoli1 super
earn. Deus plasmator corporum etc.
Ad diaconissam faciendam
Consecratio vidue
Ordo qualiter in Romana ecclesia sacri ordines fiunt .
.
.
Rubrics end on p. 283, but the same hand continues:
Form for dedication of an image of St Peter
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Form for dedication of an image of St Swithin .
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Oremus fratres dilectissimi rerum omnium conditorem
...Ergo presentem dilectissimi serui tui et beati patris nostri
SpiDVNi effigiem.
In smaller script :
Benedicat nos diuina maiestas domini .
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257
266
268
270
283
285
286
Gloria uictori sit xpisto laude perhenni
Qui super astra manet, cuius uictoria pollet
Ends : Presulibus nostris subiectis cum sibi totis
Angligenis turmis concedat dona salutis
Qui super.
Nostro pontifici cuius sumus in diocesi
Da regnum uite qua scandat et ipse superne.
Gloria uictori.
Bened. perae et baculi
Exhortation preliminary t o office o f t h e dead
.
Quando celebramus dies fratrum defunctorum
—pro bonis operibus premia consequamur.
Office in smaller script
Qui Lazarum.
A few neumes inserted.
Ends at top of p. 296.
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287
290
294
1
This 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. I 662).