Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 265

pp. 72-83: Directions for a confessor, as in Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 8558-63 beginning 'Ðæt sceal geþencan se þe bið manna sawla læce';
pp. 222-27: The set of laws known as IV Eadgar, which according to Ker 1957 agrees closely with that of Nero E. i;
pp. 30-112: Glosses in several hands to the Ecgberht Poenitentiale and the Penitentiale Theodori (Ker 1957, pp. 92-94). From the script Ker 1957 suggests that the manuscript was copied in Worcester. A s. xi² hand writes 'domno presule uulstano presente'. Ker 1957 notes: ' the reference must be to Bishop Wulfstan II (1062-95)'.

Digital Surrogate

https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/nh277tk2537

Manuscript Items

Item: pp. 72-73
- Title (B.11.4.3.1.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor [Ordo Confessionis. Latin and Anglo-Saxon]
  Incipit: (p. 72) Ðæt sceal geþencan se þe bið manna saƿle læce
  Explicit: (p. 73) Ælc dæde to sceade man ƿærlice for godeondfor ƿorulde
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Thorpe 1840, p. 260
Item: pp. 73-79
- Title (B.11.4.3.2.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor
  Incipit: (p. 73) Ðas þeaƿas man hældeð begeondan sæ.
  Explicit: (p. 79) oððehuru on earde be þam deoppestan bete þe he æfre acuman mæge sƿa sƿa him man tæce.
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
Item: p. 79
- Title (B.11.4.3.3.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor
  Incipit: (p. 79) On ƿisum scrifte bið sƿiðe forðgelang
  Explicit: (p. 79) ondsumum ealle lif dagas
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Thorpe 1840, p. 278
Item: p. 80
- Title (B.11.4.3.4.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor
  Incipit: (p. 80) Se læca þe sceal sare ƿunda ƿel gehælab
  Explicit: (p. 80) ondhis sylfes geornfulnesse
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Thorpe 1840, p. 278
Item: pp. 80-81
- Title (B.11.4.3.5.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor
  Incipit: (p. 80) Deoplic dædbot biðþætlæƿde man
  Explicit: (p. 81) þæt he ƿið god gebetanne mæge aginne he hit georne
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Thorpe 1840, p. 280
Item: pp. 81-82
- Title (B.11.4.3.6.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor
  Incipit: (p. 81) Dædbota syndgedihteon mistlice ƿisan
  Explicit: (p. 82) þænne bioð his synna sona þe leohtran
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Thorpe 1840, 282
Item: pp. 82-83
- Title (B.11.4.3.7.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor
  Incipit: (p. 82) Ænne dom mid scrifte geþeahte
  Explicit: (p. 83) þæthe tihte to eacan himsylfumælcne man to rihte sƿa he geornost mæge
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Thorpe 1840, p. 284
Item: p. 83
- Title (B.11.4.8.EM): Handbook for the Use of a Confessor
  Incipit: (p. 83) Her cyðon hu seoc man mot his fæstan alysan.
  Explicit: (p. 83) ondæfre georne gesƿican
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Thorpe 1840, p. 284
Item: pp. 222-27
- Title (B.14.18): IV Eadgar: Prol. Anglo-Saxon
  Rubric (initial): (p. 222) Ualete feliciter in cristo
  Incipit: (p. 222) Her is gesƿutelod onþisumgeƿrite hu eadgar cyncg ƿæs smeagende
  Explicit: (p. 227) ondeoƿeallumsƿyðe bliðe eom forði þe ge sƿa georne ymbe frið syndon
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Liebermann 1903, p. 206
Item: p. 30
- Title: Excerptiones ue libris canonicis
  Addition: (p. 30) þeh he beo sƿiðesgebeden
  Note: OE gloss to the words 'maxime cum petatur'
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Thorpe 1840, p. 110
Item: p. 39
- Title (C.62): Gloss to Ecgberht, Poenitentiale
  Addition: (p. 39) gerim
  Note: OE gloss to the word 'compotum'
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Haddan and Stubbs 1969-71, p. 417
Item: p. 41
- Title (C.62.1.EM): Gloss to Ecgberht, Poenitentiale
  Addition: (p. 41) Be mæislæhte ond broðerslælte
  Note: OE gloss to the words 'De paricidiis et fratricidiis. Gloss written in rustic capitals, possibly by Coleman. For information on the hand, see Ker 1949, p. 29.
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Ker 1949
  Haddan and Stubbs 1969-71, p. 419
Item: p. 54
- Title (C.89.3.1.EM): Gloss to Theodore, Egbert, Theodulf of Orleans
  Addition: (p. 54) Tƿihæmed. þætis se þe tuƿa ƿifað; þryhæmed se þe þriƿa ƿifað
  Note: OE gloss to the words 'Bigamus' and 'Trigamus'
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
Item: p. 60
- Title (C.89.3.2.EM): Gloss to Theodore, Egbert, Theodulf of Orleans: Part of the tenth canon of the first Synod of Arles
  Addition: (p. 60) ortryƿða
  Note: OE gloss to the word 'desperatio'
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Thorpe 1840, p. 60
Item: p. 61
- Title (C.89.3.3.EM): Gloss to Theodore, Egbert, Theodulf of Orleans: Quotations from the Shepherd of Hermas
  Addition: (p. 61) se ceorl
  Note: OE gloss to the word 'maritus'
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
Item: p. 63
- Title: Item sermo de coniugio
  Addition: (p. 63) untymende; unfægr; stincende; ƿac; ƿeamod; unƿis; gifre; teonful; yfelƿyrde
  Note: OE glosses to the words: 'sterilis', 'deformis', 'fetida', 'temulenta', 'iracunda', 'fatua', 'gulosa', 'iurgatrix', 'maledicta'
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Thorpe 1840, p. 115
Item: p. 112
- Title: Exempla Saxonica accastigationis hominum
  Addition: (p. 112) fæder; ealda fæder; þridda fæder; Feorða fæder; Fifta fæder; Sixta fæder
  Note: OE glosses to the words: 'Pater', 'Auus', 'Proauus', 'Abauus', 'Attauus', Tritauus'. These are marginalia unrelated to the text.
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
Item: p. 122
- Title (C.89.3.4.EM): Gloss to Theodore, Egbert, Theodulf of Orleans
  Addition: (p. 122) sylting ƚ werednys ƚ lucrum
  Note: OE gloss to the word: 'condimentum'.
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
Item: p. 136
- Title (C.89.3.5.EM): Gloss to Theodore, Egbert, Theodulf of Orleans
  Addition: (p. 136) profectionibus þeonde; circumdatus of þryht
  Note: OE glosses to the words: 'exhibitionibus' and 'obsitus'.
  Bibliography:
  Ker 1957, item 53
  Napier 1916, p. 107

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Manuscript described by Hollie Morgan and Owen Roberson with the assistance of Johanna Green, with reference to published scholarship; ed. by Takako Kato (2010; 2012). Bibliography updated by Georgia Henley (2018).

Surrogates

Digital surrogate: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/nh277tk2537 (accessed 18 July 2018)

History

Provenance

Worcester

Bibliography

Elliot, Michael D., 'Wulfstan's Commonplace Book revised: the structure and development of €œblock 7€ù, on pastoral privilege and responsibility', Journal of Medieval Latin: A Publication of the North American Association of Medieval Latin 22 (2012) 1-48

Haddan, Arthur West, and William Stubbs, Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, 3 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1869)

Jones, Christopher A., 'Ælfric's pastoral letters and the episcopal Capitula of Radulf of Bourges', Notes and Queries, n.s. 42:2 (1995) 149-55

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 53

---, 'Old English Notes Signed "Coleman"', Medium Ævum, 18 (1949), 27-30

Liebermann, F., ed., Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, 3 vols (Tæbingen: Niemeyer, 1903), vol. I: Text und Ãœbersetzung

Napier, Arthur S., ed., The Old English Version of the Enlarged Rule of Chrodegang together with the Latin Original; and An Old English Version of the Capitula of Theodulf together with the Latin Original; An Interlinear Old English Rendering of the Epitome of Benedict of Aniane, EETS, 150 (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Træbner, 1916)

Ryan, Martin, 'Archbishop Ecgberht and his Dialogus', in Leaders of the Anglo-Saxon Church: From Bede to Stigand, ed. Alexander R. Rumble, Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, 12 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2012), pp. 41-60

Thorpe, B., ed., Ancient Laws and Institutes of England (London: George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1840)

Catalogue Entry Authored By

Hollie Morgan and Owen Roberson