I(A-D) ‘Codex Oxoniensis Posterior’, Cornwall (?), Wales (?), s. x; II Penitential and canonical collection, N. E. France (?), s. ix1

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Title

I(A-D) ‘Codex Oxoniensis Posterior’, Cornwall (?), Wales (?), s. x; II Penitential and canonical collection, N. E. France (?), s. ix1

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 572

Place of origin

English, Cornwall (?) or Wales (?)

English, Cornwall (?)

English, Cornwall, probably St Germans / Lanalet

French, North-east (?)

English, Cornwall (?), or Wales (?)

Date

10th century

10th century (before 981?)

11th century

9th century, first or second quarter

Language

Old Cornish

Latin

Old Welsh

Old English (ca. 450-1100)

MS. Bodl. 572 – Part I (fols. 1–50)

MS. Bodl. 572 – Part I.A (fol. 1)

1. (fol. 1r–v) Missa propria Germani episcopi

MS. Bodl. 572 – Part I.B (fols. 2–25)

1. (fols. 2r–13v) Expositio missae ‘Dominus vobiscum’

(fols. 14r–25v) Tobit

With three Cornish glosses (fols. 14r, 23v, 25r).

MS. Bodl. 572 – Part I.C (fols. 26–40)

1. (fols. 26r–36r) Augustine Epistula ad Probam de orando deo (ep. 130)

2. (fols. 36v–39v) Caesarius of Arles (Ps.-Augustine) De igne purgatorio

Added texts:

(fol. 39v) Antiphons, added in several hands probably at St Augustine's, Canterbury, early twelfth century:

Incipit: Dilectus hic pollet tuus sanctissimum nostrum decus

Incipit: Laurenti martyr inclite . Celo terris mirifice

Incipit: O uirgo mater inclicis . pręlata summis ciuibus

Incipit: Augustine fidelium . Salus te deprecantium

Incipit: Mildretha uirgo celebris . Potens ope miraculis

(fol. 40r) Forms of benediction for use at the distribution of funeral-food, at manumissions, and at the blessing of crops, each preceded by a rubric in Old English; printed Haddan and Stubbs, Councils, I.697–8; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 376–7 (Old English only). Main text and third dated by Ker to the tenth century, first two rubrics (in red ink) to the first half of the eleventh century (with query).

(fol. 40r) Key to cryptographic writing, with two Old English cryptograms, pr. Ker p. 377; dated by him to the mid-eleventh century. Both cryptograms also occur in BL Cotton Vitellius E. xviii (Winchester, s. xi med). Scragg, Conspectus, nos. 855–7, suggests (with query) that the items on fol. 40r were added at Winchester New Minster.

(fol. 40v) Table showing the possible dates of Lent (from 8 Feb. to 14 March); the week of the year (from 5 to 11) in which these fall; the concurrent; and the corresponding date of Easter; keyed to a 532-year table covering 836–1367; a possible faint mark in the rectangle for 981 may perhaps indicate the date of writing.

MS. Bodl. 572 – Part I.D (fols. 41–50)

(fol. 41v) Now blank except for runes and runic alphabet (cf. S. Gwara, Education in Wales and Cornwall (2003–4), 13 and n. 37). Erased text, perhaps a text on the Harrowing of Hell; cf. partial transcription by E. W. B. Nicholson, now pasted on fol. i.

1. (fols. 41v–47r) A Latin colloquy, with glosses in Old English, Latin, and Brittonic (Welsh and Cornish), both interlinear and embedded in the text (see S. Gwara, Education in Wales and Cornwall, passim). Text and glosses pr. Scott Gwara, De raris fabulis (Cambridge, 2002).

De aliquibus raris fabulis

Glosses

(fols. 47r–49v) Liturgical and other additions.

(fols. 47r–48v) Incipit: Auctor salutis hominum iesu nostrum refugium

(fols. 48v–49r) Incipit: Misericordissime deus uniuerse carnis

(fol. 49v) Incipit: Huius regine stantis a dextris imperiali

(fol. 49v) Incipit: Ut tuo propitiatus

(fol. 49v) ‘Benedicamus domino’ with neums; added, late 11th century.

(fol. 49v) Incipit: Presul almus hodie inuitatus

(fol. 49v) Incipit: ⟨V⟩irginis matris annua

MS. Bodl. 572 – Part II (fols. 51–106)

1. (fols. 51r–83r) Penitential and canon law collection

Chs. 2–16 (fols. 51r–70r) comprise Excarpsus Cummeani siue Poenitentiale pseudo-Cummeani, in the order cc. 3 (= c. 2 here); 1–2 (c. 2, here c. 4, ends at section 21 ‘Qui semen dormiens...’), 4–14 (here 6–16), as pr. E. Wasserschleben, Die bussordnungen der abendländischen kirche (1851), pp. 473–5, 465–71, 475–493

Ch. 17 (fols. 70r–76v) comprises a canonical collection. Fols. 70r-73r22 (as pointed out by Asbach, Poenitentiale Remense, 57–9) are paralleled by the collection in København, Kongelike Bibliothek, Ny Kgl. Saml., 58 8º, fols. 35r-43r, also following a text of the Excarpsus. Most, but apparently not all, of the material on fols. 73r22–76v is also found in the Vetus Gallica collection (Asbach, op. cit., pp. 61–64).

(fols. 70r8–73r4) Rubric: TITULUS DE CANNONES QUOD PRESBYTERI IN PARROCHIIS DOMINICIS DENUNTIARE DEBENT DE CONDITIONES INLICITES QUID DEBEANT CAUERE

(fol. 73r4–73r10) Incipit: Si quis presbyter aut diaconus gulae atque ebrietate deseruiens

(fol. 73r11–73r18) Incipit: Clericus cume extranea muliere non habitet

(fol. 73r18–73r22) Incipit: Si quis episcopus aut presbyter non trinam mersionem

(fol. 73r22–73v14) Incipit: Si quis ex saecularibus hanc institutionem uel communionem

(fol. 73v15–73v22) Incipit: Rogationes Idest laetanias ante ascensionem domini

(fol. 73v22–74r2) Incipit: Placuit etiam universis fratribus ut in prima ebdomada

(fol. 74r3–74r6) Incipit: Offerre not licet ad altare praeter spicas nouas

Incipit: (fol. 74r7–74r18) Monachis nisi abbatis sui aut permisso aut uoluntate ad alterum

(fol. 74r19–74v11) Incipit: Abbatis prohumilitate religionis in episcoborum potestate

(fol. 74v12–74v22) Incipit: Unde necesse est ut iam tertia uel quarta generatio fidelium licenter sibi iungi debeant. Mulieres consuetam menstruatam patitur

(fol. 74v22–74v23) Incipit: Monacho uti orario in monasterio uel

(fols. 74v23–75v5) Incipit: De abbatibus uero uel monachis (fol. 75r) ltare conueniat ut quicquid cannones

(fol. 75v5–8) Incipit: Si quis in monasterio nutritus

(fol. 75v9–14) Incipit: Si quis susciperit monachum alterius

(fol. 75v15–19) Incipit: Statuimus atque decernimus ut nullus monachum alterius

(fol. 75v19–24) Incipit: Clerici sine commendaticiis epistolis

(fols. 75v24–76r9) Incipit: Puer usque ad xv annos

(fol. 76r10–20) Incipit: GREGRORIUS AIT tam piscis in terra

(fol. 76r20–76v2) Incipit: Alibi scriptum est. Quicquid monasterio de rebus saecularis superabundet

(fol. 76v2–5) Incipit: Sanctae moniales quamlibet una eorum

(fol. 76v5–9) Incipit: Episcopus presbyter aut diaconus uel clerici horis (?) praeteritis

(fol. 76v10–15) Incipit: Ad faciendas missas qui ingressi fuerint

(fol. 76v15–21) Incipit: ANASTASIUS DIXIT Cottidie martyres fiunt martyr enim testis interpretatur

Pseudo-Hormisdas (Caesarius of Arles) Canon ‘Ecce manifestissme’

Rubric: INQUISITIO SANCTI HIERONIMI PRESBITERI

Ps.-Jerome Inquisitio de paenitentia

Rubric: DE DIUITE UEL PO\ten/TE QUOMODO SIBI REDEMAT DE CRIMINALIBVS CULPIS

2. (fols. 83r–86r) Treatise on penitance

Rubric: INCIPIT ORDO NUMERUM ANNORUM INDICTA PAENITENTIA PER CONSILIUM SACERDOTIS

Rubric: DE POTO DICIMUS

Rubric: DE CARITATE PRECANDA DICIMUS

Rubric: ITEM UNDE SUPRA

Rubric: ITEM UT SUPRA

Rubric: DE COMMUNIONE ALTARIS DICTURI SUMUS

Rubric: DE HORA AUTEM MANDUCANDI DICTURI SUMUS

Rubric: DE INFIRMO QUI TOTUM PAENITERE NON POTEST CONSILIUM DICIMUS

3. (fols. 86r–88r) Gregory the Great Augustine of Canterbury Libellus responsionum

4. (fols. 88r–90r) Ecgberht of York Poenitentiale

(fol. 90v) Collects, secrets, and postcommunions for two masses (the second with the marginal heading ‘xxv’); the first five texts only are associated with the 21st and 22nd Sundays after Trinity.

Incipit: Delicta nostra quibus aduersa dominantur

Incipit: Familiam tuam quesumus domine continua pietate custodi

5. (fols. 91r–106v) Pirmin De singulis libris canonicis scarapsus

Acquisition

Given by him in 1606 ( Summary Catalogue I.93).

Provenance

The additions relating to St Augustine’s, Canterbury (fols. 39v, 49v) suggest that fols. 1–50 had reached that institution by the late 11th century at the latest.

Fols. 1–50, but not certainly fol. 51–105, identifiable as BA1.129 in the 15th-century St Augustine’s library catalogue: ‘Textus Thobie cum A 2º fo et quando et In eodem Exposicio canonis dist’ 1 Gª. 3º’.

Ralph Barlow (1572/3–1631).

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