Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 422
422
General Information
70
110, 111
A fragment of Solomon and Saturn , pp. 1-6, 13-26, Part A. Part B, pp. 27-504, Notes computus for Lent, Easter etc. as well as headings in a missal. The two parts are copied by two hands. Unknown origins, but the 'calendar of part B (pp. 29-40) is of Sherborne use' (Ker 1957, p. 121).
Digital Surrogate
Item: pp. 1-26
Title (A.13): Solomon and Saturn
Incipit: (p. 2) leofre ðon eall ðeos (text in p. 1 is very unclear as it was once pasted to the front cover)
Explicit: (p. 26) to him middes
Note: Ker notes: 'The text on p. 14 has been erased and replaced with a Latin form of excommunication s. xiii. Three leaves are missing in total: after pp. 12, 18 and 22.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Menner 1941, p. 83-104
Kemble 1845-48, p. 176
Dobbie 1942, p. 31
Item: p. 27
Title (B.20.6): Computus: Rules for Finding the Age of the Moon
Incipit: (p. 27) Luna. gimeneu[...] on aest her hit [...]
Explicit: (p. 27) Luna. N. onest bona his hit her god tima
Note: top right corner of p. 27 has been cut away and blank parchment sown back into place; text is therefore lost.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Henel 1934-35, p. 334
Item: p. 28
Title (B.20.2.6): Computus: On Epacts
Incipit: (p. 28) Gif ðu ƿille ƿitan hu fela epacta
Explicit: (p. 28) Gif ðu ƿile giman ðises trametes þonne byst þu ðe cleawra on gerimcræfte
Note: Repeated on p. 47 of the manuscript
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Henel 1934, p. 49
Item: pp. 29-40
Title (B.20.14): Computus: On the Number of Days in the MonthNotes on the calendar of the solar and lunar length of each month etc.
Rubric (initial): (p. 29) Ianuariushabet dies .XXXI. luna
Incipit: (p. 29) Ðes monoð hæfð anond.XXX. da[ga]
Explicit: (p. 40) Seo niht hæfð .XVIII.eahtatidaondse dæg .VI. To underneondto none .XVII. fotgemetuondto middæge . XI. fotgemetu
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Wormald 1934, no. 14
Henel 1934 , p. 17 and p. 59
Meritt 1945, no. 63
Item: pp. 42-43
Title (B.20.1.6): Computus: Rules for Finding Moveable FeastsRules for finding Septuagesima, Lent, Easter
Incipit: (p. 42) Gif ðu ƿille ƿitan hƿænne septuagessima beon sceole
Explicit: (p. 43) Se byð easterdæg geƿirlice
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Henel 1934 , pp. 40-42
Item: pp. 46-47
Title (B.20.1.1): Computus: Rules for Finding Moveable Feastsember days, epacts, concurrents and the age of the moon
Incipit: (p. 46) Gif ðu ne cunne understandan on ðis ledene þe her beforan aƿriten is þonne loca ðu her hu þu scealt þin gear rihtlice gefadian
Explicit: (p. 47) sƿa þu miht ƿitan þeah þu ƿille bundred geara ðæs monan ryne
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Henel 1934 , pp. 42-43, 45-46, 61, 47, 48, 49 and 55
Item: p. 47
Title (B.20.11.1): Computus: On the Three Fridays for Fasting: Ðis synd þa þry frigedægas þe man sceal fæstan
Addition: (p. 47) Ðis synd þa þry frigedægas þe man sceal fæstan on tƿelf monðum ðonne ne cymð næfre his saul on helle þæt is se æresta fridæg on kalendarismaius ond se oþer æfter PENTECOSTENondse þridda onkalendrisiulius þæt is se fyrmesta friedæg
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Henel 1934, p. 64
Item: p. 48
Title (B.20.18.2): Computus: De diebus festis
Incipit: (p. 48) Fram middanƿintra byð to sancta MARIAN mæssan
Explicit: (p. 48) ondþæs ymbe .IIII. niht byð middesƿintres mæssedæg
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Henel 1934, p. 71
Item: p. 49
Title (B.20.12.1): Computus: On the Length of a Shadow
Addition: (p. 49) On tƿelf monðum byð þreo hund dagaond.V.ondsyxtig dagaondþæra ƿucena synt tƿaondfiftigondþæra tida eahta þusendaondeahta hund syxtig tida
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Henel 1934, p. 67
Item: p. 133
Title: Missa pro temptatione carnis (gloss)
Incipit: (p. 133) for flæsccostunge þæt is idellust
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Warren 1883, p. 182
Item: p. 171
Title: Missa speciale pro rege (gloss)
Incipit: (p. 171) for þone kyning
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Warren 1883, p. 179
Item: p. 280
Title (B.24.27.EM): Miscellaneous Additional Notes: Bletsung
Rubric (initial): (p. 280) Bletsung Benedictio
Note: Rubric is the only Old English in this text
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Item: p. 330
Title (B.14.41.1.EM): Judicia Dei IV-VIIIHalsige man ðonne man her
Incipit: (p. 330) Ic eoƿ halsie þurh ðonne fæder
Explicit: (p. 330) ondto ðisson ƿe ofode negan gif ge þis dydon þe ge beogenne syndon oððe ƿison hƿa hit dide
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Liebermann 1903, p. 415
Item: pp. 330-32
Title (B.14.41.2.EM): Judicia Dei IV-VIIIÞis is oþer halsung
Incipit: (p. 330) Ic halsie ðe man
Explicit: (p. 332) ondrixast mid fæderondmid halgam gaste on ƿoruld a ƿoruld a butan ende. Amen.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Liebermann 1903, p. 415
Item: pp. 367-412
Title (B.12.5.3.2.4): Rubrics and Directions for the use of Prayers: Baptismal office and Blessing of the Font
Incipit: (p. 400) Æfterþisumcollectan bige se preost
Explicit: (p. 412) Uton ƿe nu gemænelice biddan mideallummode urne drihten hælend cristþæthe þysne his mettruman geneosnige to ðearflicere andetnisse
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Fehr 1921, pp. 48-63
Item: pp. 429-35
Title (C.82.3.1): Gloss to Liturgical Pieces [In agenda mortuorum]
Incipit: (p. 429) Her ongingð seo endebyrdnyss hu man sceal embe þonne untruman don þanne man gesyhþþæthu ge endung genealæceð. Þonne onginnon þa geleaffullanondþa gastlican gebroðru tosynganne hyra seofon sealmas.ondletaniaondrædeman syððan cristes þroƿunge ofer hineondoþre halie geƿritu oð þonne fyrst þe seo saul fram þam lichaman acirred beo. Þonne on ginne se mæssepreost þysne antifen þe her æfter geƿriten is.
Explicit: ( p. 435) ondþonne hit man ferian ƿilleþonnesingeman þisne repsondoþre sƿilce þu ƿille.þonneman cume neah cirican duru þær hit to sceal þonne singe man þisne dritifen ðe her is gemearcod.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Fehr 1921, pp. 65-67
Item: p. 444
Title (B.12.5.3.3): Rubrics and Directions for the use of Prayers: Burial Service, heading
Rubric (initial): (p. 444) Bletsung ofer þære byrgene syððan þæt lic bið on eorþan
Note: Heading at the conclusion of the burial service. Rubric constitutes the entire Old English text.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Item: pp. 508-38
Title (B.12.5.3): Rubrics and Directions for the use of Prayers: For Common of Saints, headings
Addition:
- p. 512: Ræd
- p. 513: Rædinc
- p. 518: Ræd
- p. 519: Ræd
- p. 521: Rædinc
- p. 521: Ræd
- p. 524: Rædinc
- p. 525: Ræd
- p. 534: Ræd
- p. 537: Ræd
Note: Headings of 'Ræd' or 'Rædinc' to the lectons of the common of Saints.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 70
Object Description
Form Codex
Hand Description
Additional Information
Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Johanna Green, with reference to published scholarship; ed. by Takako Kato (August 2010; 2013).
Digital surrogate: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/fr610kh2998 (accessed 18 July 2018)
History
Unknown
Dobbie, Elliott van Kirk, ed., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 6 (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1942)
Fehr, Bernhard, 'Altenglische Ritualtexte für Krankenbesuch, heilige Ölung und Begräbnis', in Texte und Forschungen zur englischen Kulturgeschichte, Festgabe für Felix Liebermann (Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1921), pp. 20-67
Henel, Heinrich, Studien zum altenglischen Computus , Beitrage zur englischen Philologie (leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1934)
---, 'Altenglische Mönchsaberglaube', Englische Studien, 69 (1934-35), 329-49
Kemble, John M., Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, 6 vols (London: Sumptibus Societatis, 1839-48)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 70B
Liebermann, F., ed., Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, 3 vols (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1903), vol. 1: Text und Übersetzung
Menner, R. J., ed., The Poetical Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, Monograph Series, xiii (New York and London: Modern Languages Association of America, 1941)
Meritt, Herbert Dean, Old English Glosses, The Modern Language Association of America, General Series, xvi (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1945)
Warren, F. E., The Leofric Missal as used in the Cathedral of Exeter During the Episcopate of its First Bishop, A.D. 1050-1072. Together with some account of the Red Book of Derby, the Missal of Robert of Jumièges, and a few other Early Manuscript Service Books of the English Church (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1883)
Wormald, Francis, ed., English Kalendars before A. D. 1100, Henry Bradshaw Society, 72 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1934)
Owen Roberson