London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius C. i

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Tiberius C. i

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Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

196, 197

Gnuess/Lapidge

376

Summary

A composite manuscript made up of two distinct parts which were joined together under the direction of Robert Cotton (Ker 1959, p. 262).

Part 1 (fols 2-42) is in turn made up of two parts: Part 1a (fols 2-17), written in Peterborough between 1122 and 1135, originally formed part of a scientific manuscript belonging with Harley 3667, as indicated by the similarities of script and quire signatures (Wilcox 2000, p. 30). Part 1b (fols 18-42), probably also produced at Peterborough in the 1120s (Ker 1938, p. 32), contains illustrated astronomical material.

Part 2 (fols 43-203) contains a pontifical written by two scribes in Germany around s. ximed. Between 1070 and 1100, thirteen scribes writing in England added material on blank spaces and additional leaves (Wilcox 2000, p. 30).

Instances of Old English:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Digital Surrogate

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Manuscript Items

  1. Item: Fol.1r

    Title: Table of Contents

  2. Item: Fol. 2r

    Title: On determining the limits of Septuagesima, Quadragesima, Easter, and Rogationtide

    Incipit (Latin): SI uis scire ter minum. LXXle. scias quota sit luna

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Red and green frame to text. Blue frame to table. The lines of the table are in yellow, red, blue or green.

    Bibliography:

    Henel 1934, pp. 44-45.

  3. Item: Fol. 2va/1-27

    Title: Bede, De temporibus, Chapter 13

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): Continentia circuli paschalis

    Incipit (Latin): PASchalis ciclus octo est lineis communitus

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Lacks ending.

    Decoration: Initials in alternating red and green.

    Bibliography:

    Jones 1980, pp. 596-97

  4. Item: Fol. 2vb/28-2vb/1

    Title: Bede, De temporibus, Chapter 11

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): De circulo decennouenali

    Incipit (Latin): PRopter. XIIII. lunas paschales circulum

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Large initials in alternating red and green.

    Bibliography:

    Jones 1980, pp. 593-94

  5. Item: Fol. 2vb/3-9

    Title: Eugenius Toletanus, Monosticha recapitulationes septem dierum

    Incipit (Latin): PRimus in orbe dies lucis primordia sumpsit

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Large initials in alternating red and green.

    Bibliography:

    Vollmer 1905, p. 67

  6. Item: Fol. 2vb/10-18

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): De. viii. tramitibus cycli decennouenalis.

    Incipit (Latin): LINEA christe tuos prima est que continet annos

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Rest of column b is blank except for British Museum stamp.

    Decoration: Large initials in alternating red and green.

  7. Item: Fol. 3

    Title: Easter tables

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Two eight-columned Easter tables for the years 988-1025, with marginal annals on fol. 3r.

    Decoration: The table on fol. 3r has alternating red and green arches at the top and red and metallic red lines. The table on fol. 3v is made up of red, green and yellow lines.

    Bibliography:

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 421, no. 31

  8. Item: Fol. 3v/34-42

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): Argumentum inueniendi regulares minores in martio. or iiii. & aprili. vii.

    Incipit (Latin): Si uero hoc auidus calculandi inquisitor artis peritiam

    Text Language: Latin

  9. Item: Fol. 4r

    Note: Circular diagram for the six kinds of year (fol. 4v blank). The leaf is 230 mm wide, as it was not trimmed by the binder.

    Decoration: Diagram in red, green and gold. The green has run and soaked into the surroundings of the lines.

    Bibliography:

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 427 no. 55

  10. Item: Fol. 5r

    Note: Circular diagram of the Zodiac, prophets, four elements, four cardinal directions, four letters of Adam's name, etc.

    Decoration: Diagram in red, green and gold. The green pigment has run and spread to the surrounding area.

  11. Item: Fol. 5v/1-12

    Incipit (Latin): Duodenarius perfectus est numerus. & in suis partibus constat diuisus

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Followed by a circular diagram based on ALFA.

    Decoration: The outer circles and crosses are in red, with the inner circles in green and gold.

    Bibliography:

    Henel 1934, pp. 1-2

  12. Item: Fol. 6r/1-5

    Incipit (Latin; in red ink): Videtur nobis con gruum ut supputationes ebdomadarum dierumque

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Followed by a table which seems to be incomplete, as the space provided inside the table is much greater than the contents.

    Bibliography:

    Table described by Henel 1934, p. 28

  13. Item: Fols 6v/1-7r/3

    Title: Isidore, De natura rerum, Chapter 11

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): De partibuus mundi

    Incipit (Latin): PArtes mundi .iiior.sunt lignis. aer. aqua. terra

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Followed by a diagram.

    Decoration: The diagram is made up of geometric shapes in red, green, gold and purple.

    Bibliography:

    Fontaine 1960, p. 213

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 26, no. 48

  14. Item: Fol. 7r/1-3

    Title: Egyptian Days (Dies aegiptiaci)

    Incipit (Latin): Isti quoque dies obseruandi sunt in singulis | mensibus. in quibus diebus maledictus est populus | ęgyptiorum cum pharaone

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Followed by a table and a large circular diagram.

    Decoration: The diagram is in red, yellow, green and purple.

  15. Item: Fol. 7r/22-37

    Title: Macrobius, In Somnium Scipionis, Book 1, chapter 22. 11-13

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): RATIO MACRO | BII DE SITV ORBIS

    Incipit (Latin): FIT enim spera cui asscripta. a. b. | c. d.

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Followed by a smaller circular diagram.

    Decoration: Diagram is in red, green and purple.

    Bibliography:

    Willis 1970, p. 93

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 426, no. 49

  16. Item: Fol. 7v/1-21

    Title: Sphere of Pythagoras

    Incipit (Latin): Ratio spere pitagori philosophi quem apuleius scripsit

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Two circular diagrams with the text

    Decoration: The first diagram is in red and green, the second in red and yellow. Some writing is in red.

    Bibliography:

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 427, no. 54

  17. Item: Fols 8r-v

    Note: Calendrical tables

    Decoration: Tables have red, green or gold lines with headings in red and alternating purple and green arches at the top.

  18. Item: Fol. 9r

    Note: Rotary menology (diagram)

    Decoration: Red writing in the centre. Yellow outer frame with red and yellow lines within.

    Bibliography:

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 422, no. 36

  19. Item: Fol. 9v

    Note: Circular diagrams on the sun and the moon (fol. 10r/1-13 blank). Table in the margin.

    Decoration: Headings are in red.

    Bibliography:

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 424, no. 41

  20. Item: Fols 10r/14-10v/2

    Title: Isidore, De natura rerum, Chapter 4

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): Lectio de mensibus Secundum Antiquos

    Incipit (Latin): MENSIS est luminis lunaris circuitus

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Followed by a circular diagram and rectangular table

    Decoration: The circular diagram has red lines, and the table has red, green and yellow lines.

    Bibliography:

    Fontaine 1960, p. 186

    On the months see Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 425, no. 44

  21. Item: Fol. 11r/1-20 
    Title (C.74.3.EM): Gloss to Isidore, De natura rerum [Chapter 37]

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DE NOMINIBVS VENTORVM

    Incipit (Latin): VENTORVM primus cardinalis septentrio

    Text Language: Latin with Old English glosses

    Note: Followed by a circular diagram of the winds, with Old English translation added as glosses to the Latin names. The ruling on this leaf does not match the prick marks.

    Decoration: Red headings in diagram.

    Bibliography:

    Fontaine 1960, p. 245

    Logeman 1889, pp. 103-05

    Henel 1934, pp. 104-06

    Pulsiano 1994

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 426, no. 52

  22. Item: Fol. 11v/1-19

    Title: Isidore, De natura rerum, Chapter 10

    Incipit (Latin): IN definitione autem mundi circulos aiunt philosophi. v.

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Followed by a circular diagram.

    Decoration: Purple outer circle. The inside is flower- shaped in red, yellow and green.

    Bibliography:

    Fontaine 1960, p. 209

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 426, no. 50

  23. Item: Fol. 11v/12-24 margin

    Title: Isidore, Etymologiarum, Book 13, Chapter 6.2-5

    Incipit (Latin): Articos dicitur eo quod intra eum | arcturum

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Right margin.

    Bibliography:

    Lindsay 1911

  24. Item: Fol. 11v/29-44

    Incipit (Latin): Ignius & alíí astro | logi ferunt quod. v. sunt zonę | cęli

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Schematic diagram of the five zones of the heavens with earth in the centre. A reader of the manuscript, at an unknown date, has circled the title to the diagram.

    Decoration: Red outer circle and purple inner circle.

  25. Item: Fol. 12r/1-7

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): De concordia mensium

    Rubric (medial; in red ink): HOROLOGIVM VIATORVM

    Incipit (Latin): Ianuarius cum decembrio in | horarum mensura concordat

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Followed by a large circular diagram (second rubric is for this diagram), and six small circular diagrams.

    Decoration: Diagrams in red, green, purple and yellow.

    Bibliography:

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 425, no. 45

  26. Item: Fol. 12v/1-39

    Title: Isidore, De natura rerum, Chapter 23

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DE POSITIONE SEPTEm STELLARVm ERRANTIVm

    Incipit (Latin; in red ink): IN ambitu quippe. vii. cęlestium orbium

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Followed by circular diagram on the positions of the planets.

    Decoration: Diagram has red lines.

    Bibliography:

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 425, no. 46

  27. Item: Fol. 13r

    Title: Pseudo-Bede text

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ARGVMENTVM AD NANCISENDVM FERIAM SECVNDVM ANTIQVOS

    Rubric (medial; in red ink): AD INCENIENDVM FERIAM SECVNDVM DIONISIVM ABBATEM

    Rubric (medial; in red ink): ITEM SECVNDVM VICTORIVm. VEL SECVNDVM BEDAM

    Incipit (Latin): Si uis scie hocuel illo die | quota sit feria

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: A table follows the text, with two rubics as noted above.

    Decoration: The table is in red, green, yellow and purple.

    Bibliography:

    Migne 1844-55, 90: 702

  28. Item: Fols 13v-14r

    Note: Calendrical tables.

    Decoration: Tables in red, green and blue.

  29. Item: Fols 14v-15r/40

    Title: Acrostic verses by Abbo of Fleury

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ARDVA CONEXĘ .LIBAT SACRARIA FORMAE

    Incipit (Latin): Compotus uulgaris qui dicitur ęphemerida abbonis...

    Addition: QVONIAM breitatem semper obscuritas comitatur

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Arranged in a table, with each letter in an individual cell. Some letters are in red, and all lines are red except for the outer frame in black/brown.

    Bibliography:

    Migne 1844-55, 90: 729-0

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 418, no. 23

  30. Item: Fols 15v-16r

    Note: Perpetual calendar.

    Decoration: Red and green large letters, red and black/brown smaller letters.

    Bibliography:

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 419, no. 24

  31. Item: Fol. 16v

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): AD LUNAM INVENIENDAM PER UNDECIM EPACTAS

    Note: Lunar letters.

    Decoration: Red lines and numbers.

    Bibliography:

    Baker and Lapidge 1995, p. 419, no. 25

  32. Item: Fols 17r-v

    Note: Calendrical tables. At the top is a key to Greek letters used within the tables.

    Decoration: Red and green lines and red headings.

  33. Item: Fol. 18v

    Note: Arithmetical table.

    Decoration: Red lines.

  34. Item: Fols 19r/1-21r/5

    Title: Astronomica

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DE DVODECIM SIGNIS. PRIMITVS DE ARIETE

    Incipit (Latin): REGIONEM .xiiam. cęli in quam sol cursum suum dirigit

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Initials in purple, green or red. Rubric in metallic red.

  35. Item: Fols 21r-36r

    Title: Aratea

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): (fol. 21v/1) Ex opere ci'ce'ronis de astronomia

    Incipit (Latin): E quibus hinc subter | possis cognoscere fultum

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Includes the following outline drawings filled with text, most of them surrounded by red dots that would appear to indicate the constellations, although they do not always seem to fulfill this role.

    Bibliography:

    • Fol. 21r: Aries: a sheep with red dots and the text are set at 90 degrees to the orientation of the page.
    • Fol. 21v: Deltoton: a triangle with a red dot at each corner. The first initial is green with red flourishes.
    • Fol. 22r: Pisces: two fish with red dots. The first initial is green. The text is set at 90 degrees to the orientation of the page.
    • Fol. 22v: Perseus: Perseus holding a head. Red dots. Red rubric and first initial E.
    • Fol. 23r: Pliades: separate floating heads. Green initial A.
    • Fol. 23v: Lir: outline of a horned head with red dots. Green initial I.
    • Fol. 24r: Cignus: a swan. The text is set at 90 degrees to the orientation of the page. Red flourished initial A.
    • Fol. 24v: Aquarius: figure with lance. Red dots along the lance. Red initial I.
    • Fol. 25r: Capricornus: a goat. The text is set at 90 degrees to the orientation of the page. Red dots along the outline.
    • Fol. 25v: Sagittarius: a centuar with red dots. Red initial A.
    • Fol. 26r: Sagitta: a banner. The text follows the contours of it. Green initial A and red rubrics.
    • Fol. 26v: Aquila: an eagle with an arrow above it. The text follows the contours. Green initial A, red rubrics.
    • Fol. 27r: Delphinus: a ferocious-looking dolphin with its head pointing to the bottom of the page.
    • Fol. 27v : Orion: the figure of Orion surrounded by red dots standing inside a house made out of the text that surrounds him. This is the only figure that does not contain any text.
    • Fol. 28r: Syrius: a dog with red dots. Green first initial.
    • Fol. 28v: Lepus: a hare surrounded by red dots. The text follows the contours of the picture. Green first initial.
    • Fol. 29r: Argo: a boat with red dots.
    • Fol. 29v : Cetus: a monster with two feet and a tail. Red initial E.
    • Fol. 30r : Eridanus: a man surrounded by red dots. Green initial.
    • fol. 30v: Piscis magnus: a fish eating something with red dots.
    • Fol. 31r: Ara: stacked blocks with red fire on top. Metallic red initial A.
    • Fol. 31v: Centaurus: a centaur holding a dead hare with a creature leaping behind him. Text follows the contours of the picture.
    • Fol. 32r : Ydra with Coruus and Crater: a river with a crow and a goblet. Red dots.
    • Fol. 32v: Anticanis: a dog with red furry ears. Red first initial. Text set at 90 degrees to the orientation of the page.
    • Fol. 33r: Heads of the five planets: heads surrounded with text arranged into diamond-shapes.
    • Fol. 34v: Sun and Moon as chariots: four winds and four figures at the top of the page and the sun and moon riding horse-drawn chariots. The reigns, lances and the sun's rays in red.

    Buesu 1966

  36. Item: Fols 36r/20-36v/4

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): De concordia solaris cursus et lunaris

    Incipit (Latin): NOVEM horis in luna pro quinque diebus

    Text Language: Latin

  37. Item: Fol. 36v/4-11

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DE CONCORDIA MARIS ET LVNE

    Incipit (Latin): | VNIVS semper horę dodantre & semuntia transmissa

    Text Language: Latin

  38. Item: Fols 36v/11-38r/23

    Title: Pliny, Naturalis historia, Book 18, Chapters 78-90. 342-65

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DE PRESAGĺĺS TEmPESTATVm PRESAGIA SOLIS.

    Incipit (Latin): PVrus oriens atque | non feruens; serenum diem nuntiat

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Initials in red, green or metallic red. Rubrics in red.

    Bibliography:

    Rackham 1940, pp. 402-16

  39. Item: Fols 38r/23-39r

    Title: Macrobius, In somnium Scipionis, Book 1, Chapter 20. 14-32

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): AMBROSĺĺ MACROBĺĺ THEODOSĺĺ DE MENSVRA ET MAGNI | TVDINE TERRĘ ET CIRCULI PER QVEM SOLIS ITER EST.

    Rubric (medial): (Fol. 38v/29) ITEM DE MENSVRA ET | MAGNITVDINE SOLIS

    Incipit (Latin): | IN omni orbeuel spera medietas centrum uocatur

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Initials in red, green and metallic red. At line 25/26, a pointing hand extends from the outer edge of the margin, drawn above an erased hand pointing to just below.

    Bibliography:

    Willis 1970, pp. 81-84

  40. Item: Fols 39r/27-39v/12

    Title: Martianus Capella, De nuptiis 8.858, 860

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): FELICIS CAPELLĘ DE MenSVRA LVNĘ

    Incipit (Latin): LVNA item circuli sui sescentesimam optinet portionem

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Initials in red, green or metallic red.

    Bibliography:

    Willis 1983, pp. 325/2, 326/5

  41. Item: Fol. 39v/12-31

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): EIVSDEM | ARGVMENTVm QVO MAGNITVDO TerRĘ DEPREHENSA Est

    Incipit (Latin): | ERathostenes philosophus | idemque geometra subtilissimus

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Initials in red, green or metallic red.

  42. Item: Fols 39v/31-40r/24

    Title: Exerpt from Pliny, Naturalis historia, Book 2, Chapter 6. 32-44

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DE POSITIONE | ET CVRSV .VII. STELLARVM.

    Incipit (Latin): INTER cęlum& terrum certis | | discreta spatíís

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Initials in red, green or metallic red.

    Bibliography:

    Rackham 1938, pp. 188-96

  43. Item: Fol. 40r/24-33

    Title: Exerpt from Pliny, 'Naturalis historia', Book 2, Chapters 19-20. 83-4

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DE INTERVALLIS EARVM

    Incipit (Latin): INterualla eorum a terra multi indagare temptarunt

    Text Language: Latin

    Bibliography:

    Rackham 1938, pp. 226-28

  44. Item: Fol. 40v

    Note: Circular diagram of the planets.

    Decoration: Writing in red.

  45. Item: Fols 40v/22-41r/24

    Title: Exerpt from Pliny, Naturalis historia, Book 2, Chapters 12-13.59-64

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DE ABSIDIBVS EARVM.

    Incipit (Latin): TRES autem quas supra solem diximus

    Text Language: Latin

    Bibliography:

    Rackham 1938, pp. 206-12

  46. Item: Fols 41r/24-41v/32

    Title: Exerpt from Pliny, Naturalis historia, Book 2, Chapter 13.66-67

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DE CVRSV EARVM PER | ZODIACVM CIRCVLVM

    Incipit (Latin): CVR enim magnitudines suas & colores mutent

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Initials green or red

    Bibliography:

    Rackham 1938, pp. 212-14

  47. Item: Fols 41v/32-42r/8

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): Dimensio cęlestium spatiorum sEcundum quosdam

    Incipit (Latin): ATerra ad lunam tonum esse ednuntiant

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Initials green and red.

  48. Item: Fols 42r/8-42v/19

    Title: Macrobius, In somnium Scipionis, Book 2, Chapter 11.5-17

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): De mundano anno...

    Incipit (Latin): ANNVS non is solus quem nunc communis omniumusus | appellat

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Fol. 42v/20-32 blank.

    Decoration: A hand is pointing to fol. 42r/26.

    Bibliography:

    Willis 1970, pp. 128-30

  49. Item: Fol. 43r/1-6

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): BENEDICTIO ANULI

    Incipit (Latin): Creator and conseruator humani generis dator

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Brown ink with large initials in black.

    Bibliography:

     Wilson

  • Item: Fol. 43r/7-11

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): BENEDICTIO BACULI

    Incipit (Latin): Deus sine quo nihil potest

    Text Language: Latin

    Bibliography:

     Wilson

 1910, p. 206

  • Item: Fol. 43r/12-26

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): AD CONFIRMANDVM

    Incipit (Latin): Spiritus sanctus superueniat [corrected from superueniet] in te [nos interl.] & uirtus altissimi custodiat

    Text Language: Latin

    Bibliography:

     Wilson

 1910, p. 178

  • Item: Fols 43v/3-45r/19

    Title: Orders for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Holy Week, excluding the Reconciliation of Penitents on Thursday (see 51a-j)

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ORDO IN CENA DOMINI. HOC EST IN .V. FERIA | MAIORIS. EBDOMADĘ

    Incipit (Latin; in red ink): Feria quinta maiores ebdomadę eadem | nocte surgunt ad uigilias hora noctis | octaua

    Decoration: The text is bright red with the rubric in black. Some capitals are also in black.

  • Item: Fols 45r/19-51v/16

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): BENEDICTIO. IGNIS.

    Incipit (Latin; in red ink): Deus qui per filium tuum angularem scilic& | lapidem

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Text alternates between red and black.

    Bibliography:

     Wilson

 1910, p. 169

  • Item: Fols 51v/17-55v/22

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ORDO DE CONSECRATIONE PRINCIPALIS | CHRISMATIS

    Incipit (Latin): E xpectante uero in sede sua | pontifice

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: 53r is blank.

    Decoration: The text alternates between red and black ink.

  • Item: Fols 55v/23-59r/7

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): INCIPIT EXORCISMVS OLEI. QVO VNGVENDI | SVNT CATECVMINI

    Incipit (Latin): Descendente autem | ampulla cum chrismate

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: The text alternates between red and black ink. Initils are black outlined with red.

  • Item: Fols 59r/8-59v/10

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ORDO DE NOCTE PARASCEVES

    Incipit (Latin): In nocte parasceue temporarie. id est | media nocte paruum ligneum signum | sonetur

    Text Language: Latin

  • Item: Fols 59v/11-62r/12

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ORDO DE .VI. FERIA PARASCEVES.

    Incipit (Latin; in red ink): Feria sexta parasceues. quę & sexta | sabbati

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Writing in red with black/brown rubrics.

  • Item: Fols 62r/12-62v/2

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ORDO DE SanCTO SABBATO IN NOC | TE

    Incipit (Latin): In sabbato sancTo ad uigilias media | nocte surgendum est

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Text alternates between red and black/brown.

  • Item: Fols 62v/2-65r/18

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ITEM. ORDO. DE DIE SABBATI.

    Incipit (Latin): Primum qualiter catezyzantur infantes

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Text alternates between red and black/ brown.

  • Item: Fols 65r/19-68r/15

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ITEM ALIA

    Incipit (Latin): DOMIne sancTe pater omnipotens aetermae deus. | in nomine tuo

    Text Language: Latin

  • Item: Fols 68r/15-77r/12

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): REQVIRE BENEDICTIO | EIVS CĘRE IN PVRIFICATIO SanCTAE MARIAE.

    Incipit (Latin; in red ink): In octua uero paschę

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Parts printed from other witnesses by Hittorpius 1610: cols 54-56 and 61-84; 56-61; 140-43; 170-76; 33 [fols 52r/23-52v/16, 66r/10- 66v/2, 66v/8- 68r/1, 69r/20- 69v/9 neumed].

    Decoration: Red text up to fol. 69r, when it changes back to black/ brown. At fol. 71r/21 and 71v/23 two shapes filled with red are in the margin.

  • Item: Fol. 77r/13-25

    Incipit (Latin; in red ink): In gestis pontificalibus legitur quod siluester papa

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Supplement to the order of baptism on Easter eve on fols 69v-77r. [fol. 77v blank except for British Museum stamp and two scribbled words].

    Decoration: Red text until line 24, then black ink.

  • Item: Fols 78r/1-v/8

    Title: Texts concerned with the making and consecration of chrism on Thursday in Holy Week, as a supplement to fols 43v-55v (see 53a-d):

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DE AUCTORITATE APOSTOLICA. | QUAm HABEMUS DE OLEO INFIR | MORUM

    Incipit (Latin): D E hoc oleo. quo unguntur | infirmi

    Text Language: Latin

  • Item: Fols 78v/8-81r/5

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): SERMO GENERALIS | DE CONFECTIONE CRISMATIS

    Incipit (Latin): M Agnum diuinę bonitatis est indicum fratres mei

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: From 79v the initials are in black.

  • Item: Fols 81r/5-83r/11

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ITEM SERMO | DE CRISMATE

    Incipit (Latin): C Rismate ungendum | primum moyses

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: After the first initial C, the other enlarged initials are in black.

  • Item: Fols 83r/11-84r/17

    Title: Extract from Amalarius, De ecclesiasticis officiis

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DE EO. CVR | AMPVLLA QVIBVSDAM NVDA. | QUIBVSDAm VERO COOPERTA | AD SALUTANDVm DEFERATVR

    Incipit (Latin): D Icit libellus romani ordinis de con | secratione crismatis

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: All other enlarged initials in black except one red initial E, fol. 84r.

    Bibliography:

    Migne 1844-55, 105: 1016-17

  • Item: Fols 84r/17-v/17

    Title: Four prayers 'ad salutandam sanctam crucem' on Friday in Holy Week (see 54a-d)

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ORATIO | AD SALVTANDAm SanCTAM CRUCEm

    Incipit (Latin): DOMINE IESU christe. deus uerus. de deo uero

    Text Language: Latin

  • Item: Fols 84v/18-85r/11

    Incipit (Latin): DeuS qui famulo tuo moysi in uia squalentis

    Text Language: Latin

  • Item: Fol. 85r/11-21

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ALIA

    Incipit (Latin): DOMIne IESU christe. qui nos per crucis passionem

    Text Language: Latin

    Bibliography:

    First three prayers as Hittorpius 1610, pp. 73-74

  • Item: Fols 85r/22-85v

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ALIA

    Incipit (Latin): DOMIne IESU christe. qui mundum proprio | sanhuine redemisti

    Text Language: Latin

  • Item: Fols 86r/1-87v/8

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DE OFFICIIS SEPTEm GRADUUM

    Rubric (medial): (fol. 87r/7) CANON SanCTI THEODORI EPISCOPI | DE SACRIS ORDINIBVS

    Incipit (Latin): Ostiarium oportet percutere cimbalum

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Followed by capitula ascribed to Zosimus, Leo and Gregory.

    Decoration: Initials and rubrics in faded metallic red.

    Bibliography:

    as Hittorpius 1610, pp. 95-96

    Thorpe 1840, 1.307, ll. 1-10

  • Item: Fol. 87v/9-20

    Title: Allocutio at the benediction of an abbot.

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ALLOCVTIO DE ABBATE

    Incipit (Latin): Eclesiae nostrae fratres karissimi pater electus

    Text Language: Latin

    Bibliography:

    as Hittorpius 1610, p. 155

  • Item: Fols 88r/1-89v/20

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): PREDICATIO DE ORATIONE DOMINICA

    Incipit (Latin): Volumus fratres dilectissimi paruam uobis ammonitionem

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Sermon.

  • Item: Fols 89v/21-93r/17

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): Incipit benedictio ad ordinatio abbatissam

    Incipit (Latin): [C]REATOR OMNIVM CREATVRVm DOMINATOR | dOMIne

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Black ink, but some initials, rubrics and phrases are filled with red.

    Bibliography:

    Fourth prayer printed from another manuscript by Frere 1901, pp. 74-75

  • Item: Fols 93r/18-95r/10

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): OBLATIO PARENTVM

    Incipit (Latin): [E]GO FRATER. N. offero hunc puerum

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Order of benediction of a monk.

    Bibliography:

     Wilson

 1910, pp. 79-81

  • Item: Fol. 95v/1-24

    Title: Prudentius Liber Cathemerinon (5.1-3, 7, 34-41), hymn sung at the blessing of the Paschal Candle

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): YMNVS PRVDENTII

    Incipit (Latin): INUENTOR RVTILI | dux bone luminis qui certis uicibus tempora diuidis

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Neumed.

    Decoration: Fol. 95v/13: Enlarged capital O has a face drawn in it in red ink. Initials in metallic red.

    Bibliography:

    Cunningham 1966, pp. 23-24

  • Item: Fols 96r/1-97v/25

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): BENEDICTIO IGNIS IN PVRIFICA | TIONE SanCTĘ MARIAE

    Incipit (Latin): DOMIne sancTe pater

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Benediction of candles at Candlemas.

    Decoration: Initials in red.

  • Item: Fols 98r/1-98v/22

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): FERIA .IIII. IN CAPITE IE | IVNII

    Incipit (Latin): Exaudi nos dOMIne. quoniam benigna | est misericordia tua

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Benediction of ashes on Ash Wednesday.

  • Item: Fols 98v/23-102v/24

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): BENEDICTIO FaLMORUM [recte PALMORUM] SIVE FRONDIVm; | DOMINICA INDVULGENTIAE. | SIVE IN PALMIS

    Incipit (Latin): Omnipotens sempiterne deus. flos mundi | odor suauitatis

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Benediction of palms on Palm Sunday.

  • Item: Fols 102v/25-03r/20

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): BENEDICTIO AGNI IN PASCHA

    Incipit (Latin): DeuS uniursę camis creator

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Benediction of the Paschal Lamb.

    Decoration: Large initials in red.

    Bibliography:

    Hittorpius 1610, p. 87

  • Item: Fols 103r/21-04v/20

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ORatio AD CAPILLOS TONDENDOS

    Incipit (Latin): QUIS dOMIne. qui paruulis

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Prayers at the making of a clerk.

  • Item: Fols 105r/1-09r/21

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): (Fol. 108v/1) PREFatio. AD CONSECRANDAS CAPSAS | VEL SCRINIOLA

    Incipit (Latin): Oremus dilectissimi | nobis deum patrem omnipotentEm

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: of shrine and altar canopy and benediction of the Cross.

    Bibliography:

    First as Hittorpius 1610, pp. 134-36

  • Item: Fols 109v/2-11v/21 
    Title (B.3.2.50): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Temporale: Dedication of a Church

    Incipit: Venite filii audite me timorem dOMIni docebo uos. | Menn þa léofan ic clypige eow tó mid þam | wórdan dauides

    Text Language: Old English with Latin incipit

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1959, pp. 272-75, no. 1

  • Item: Fols 111v/22-12v/7

    Title: Penitential

    Incipit (Latin; in red ink): HEC EST PENITENTIE INSTITUTIO SECunDuM DECRETA NORMAN | norum

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Penitential articles promulgated after the Battle of Hastings.

    Decoration: Red initials. The ink of the text varies between black and brown.

    Bibliography:

    Morton 1975

    Whitelock and others 1981, pp. 581-84, no. 88

  • Item: Fols 112v/8-13v/20

    Title: Abbot

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): In abbatis ordinatione

    Incipit (Latin): Aecclesię .N. pater electus

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Order of benediction of an abbot.

    Decoration: Initials in red or black.

    Bibliography:

     Wilson 1910, pp. 81-83

  • Item: Fols 113v/20-15v/13

    Title: Virgin

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): Incipit consecratio uirginis quę in diebus solennibus facienda est

    Incipit (Latin): DeuS aeternorum bonorum fidelissime

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Consecration of a virgin.

    Decoration: Initials in red or black, with one E in red with black decoration.

    Bibliography:

     Wilson 1910, pp. 84-87

  • Item: Fols 115v/114-16v/13

    Title: Abbess

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): INCIPIT BENEDICTIO ABBATISSAA

    Incipit (Latin): Exaudi dOMIne pREces nostras

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Benediction of an abbess.

    Decoration: Large initials in black.

    Bibliography:

     Wilson

 1910, pp. 87-89

  • Item: Fol. 116v/14-19

    Incipit (Latin): DeuS honorem omnium. deus omnium dignitatum

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Prayer.

    Bibliography:

    Wilson 1910, pp. 77-78

  • Item: Fols 116v/19-17r/7

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ORatio

    Incipit (Latin): OMniPotenS pater sancTe. deus ęterne

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Prayer.

    Bibliography:

    Wilson 1910, pp. 77-78

  • Item: Fol. 117r/7-10

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ALIA ORATIO

    Incipit (Latin): DOMIne ieSu christe tu pREelegisti apOSTOlos tuos

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Prayer.

    Bibliography:

    Wilson 1910, pp. 77-78

  • Item: Fol. 117r/11-21

    Title: Bishop

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): BENEDICTIO EIVSDEm EPISCOPI

    Incipit (Latin): Populus te honor &. adiuuet te deus

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Benediction at the enthronement of a bishop.

    Bibliography:

    Wilson 1910, pp. 77-78

  • Item: Fols 118r/1-21v/14

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): DECRETVm QVOD CLERVS ET POPV | LVS FIRMARE DEBET DE ELECTO | EPISCOPO

    Incipit (Latin; in red ink): Dominis patribus illE. illE. uenerabilibus | scilicet epISCOPis

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Decree confirming election and form of examination of a bishop.

    Bibliography:

    Mostly as Hittorpius 1610, pp. 104-09. Final passage ed.

    Henderson 1875, p. xxix

  • Item: Fols 121v/15-34r/3

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): PRO REDEVNTIBUS DE ITINERE

    Incipit (Latin; in red ink): Saluum fac seruum tuum

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Prayers and on special occasions.

    Decoration: Large initials in red.

    Bibliography:

    Franz 1909

  • Item: Fols 134r/3-40v/7

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): EXORCISMVS OLEI AD | VNGENDVm ENERGVMINVm SIVE | INFIRMVm

    Incipit (Latin): IN tuo nomine omnipotens deus. & in | ieSu christi filii tui dOMIni nostri signo

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Forms of exorcism and prayer to be said over those possessed by devils.

    Bibliography:

    Martene 1702, pp. 517-20

  • Item: Fols 140v/8-42v, 146v/19

    Title: Order

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): INCIPIT ORDO CONFESSIONIS

    Incipit (Latin; in red ink): Cum uenerit aliquis ad sacerdotem

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Fol. 143 misplaced, fol. 146v/20-25 blank.

    Decoration: Blocks of text in alternating red and black.

  • Item: Fol. 147r/1-20

    Title: Fasting

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ARGVMenTVm. CVR QUINQUAGESIMA | ET SEXAGESIMA...

    Incipit (Latin; in red ink): Qui uero sex epdomades obseruantes obseruantes se | abstinentię tradunt

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Whole item rubricated. Refers to the apocryphal constitutions of Popes Telesphorus and Militiades on the duration of the pre-Easter fast.

  • Item: Fols 147v/21-48v/14

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): CONFESSIO INFIRMI

    Rubric (medial): (Fol. 148v/3) REMISSIO SVPER INFIRNVm

    Incipit (Latin): Confiteor dOMIno & omnibus sancTis eius

    Addition: DOMIne ieSu christe uita & salus

    Text Language: Latin

    Decoration: Large initials in red.

  • Item: Fols 148v/15-49v/20

    Title: Councils

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): CAPITVLA DE GENERALIBus CONCILIIS

    Incipit (Latin): Canones generalium conciliorum a temporibus | constantini ceperunt

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Brief note on the four general councils.

  • Item: Fol. 150r/1-24

    Title: Years & Ages

    Incipit (Latin): DOMInus noster iesus christe de natiuitate sua usque ad | passionem

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Years of the world and the Six Ages of man.

  • Item: Fols 151r/19-51v/25

    Title: Canon 2 of the Council of Chalcedon (ed. Pitra 1864 pp. 522-23), followed by a reference to Gregory on simony (Migne 1844-55, 76:1091)

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): Capitulum ex concilio calcidonese | quod non debeant officia ecclesiasti | ca per pecunias ordinari

    Incipit (Latin): Si quis episcopus per pecuniam fuerit ordina | tus

    Text Language: Latin

  • Item: Fols 143r/1-v/25, 152r/1-59r/22

    Title: Order

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ORDO. QUALITer SACERDOTES...

    Incipit (Latin): Mensis primi. quarti .vii. & .x. sabbatorum | die in .xii. lectionibus

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Fol. 143 misplaced; marginal additions at fols 152v, 154v, 156v.

    Decoration: The text colour alternates between red and black. At fol. 158 the red ink has bled into the parchment.

  • Item: Fol. 159v/1-6 
    Title (B.12.4.1): Pater Noster

    Incipit: Ðu ure fæder ðe eart on heofonum

    Text Language: Old English

    Bibliography:

    Logeman 1889, pp. 100-02

  • Item: Fol. 159v/6-20 
    Title (B.12.3.1): Se læssa creda: Old English Creeds

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): Se læssa | creda

    Incipit: Ic gelyfe on god fæder ælmihtigne

    Text Language: Old English

    Bibliography:

    Logeman 1889, pp. 100-02

  • Item: Fols 159v/21-60r/7 
    Title (B.12.4.3.4): Confessional Prayers

    Incipit: Ic bidde ðe min drihten on ðæs acennedan godes | naman

    Text Language: Old English

    Bibliography:

    Logeman 1889, pp. 100-02

  • Item: Fols 160r/8-61r/12 
    Title (B.11.9.4): Forms of Confession and Absolution

    Incipit (Latin): Ic eom þe ealra andettende. ˥ þinum englum mid | hreowe

    Text Language: Old English

    Bibliography:

    Logeman 1889, pp. 100-02

  • Item: Fols 161r/13-61v/13 
    Title (B.11.9.4.1.EM): Forms of Confession and Absolution [second part]

    Incipit: OE: Ic andette þe drihten ælmihtig god. ˥ sancTa marian | þinre haligan moder

    Text Language: Old English

    Bibliography:

    Logeman 1889, pp. 100-02

  • Item: Fols 161v/16-62v/22 
    Title (B.3.5.7): Anonymous Homilies [for unspecified occasions, listed under the opening words]: Ic eow bidde 7 eadmodlice lære. þæt ge þis halige længenfæsten rihtlice healdan. mid ælmessum

    Incipit: Ic eow bidde ˥ eadmodlice lære þæt ge þis halige længten fæsten | rihtlice healdan

    Text Language: Old English

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1959, pp. 277-79, no. 3

  • Item: Fols 163v/1-71r/20

    Title: Orders

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): INcipit reconciliatio pęnitentum in cęna dOMIni...

    Incipit (Latin): Adest o uenerabilis pontifex tempus acceptum. | dies

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Order for the reconciliation of penitents on Thursday in Holy Week

    Decoration: Red and black sections of text. Rubrics and large initials in red. On fol. 171r the red ink has bled into the parchment.

  • Item: Fol. 171v/1-25

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): AD PROBANDVM RELIQVIAS:-

    Incipit (Latin): DOMIne labia mea aperies

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Office. Ends imperfectly due to loss of the remainder of the quire. Fol. 171v/11-29 neumed.

    Decoration: Some letters are in red ink.

  • Item: Fols 172r/1-73v/15

    Title: Sermons

    Incipit (Latin): [F]RATRES KARISSIMI. | habemus a dOMIno dEo nostro exemplum uerę humiliationis

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Sermon for Palm Sunday.

  • Item: Fols 173v/17-76v/20

    Incipit (Latin): [R]EVERNETIA huius diei testatur pietatem ieSu christi

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Sermon for Holy Thursday at the Reconciliation of Penitents.

  • Item: Fols 176v/22-77v/13

    Incipit (Latin): [S]PLENDOR hodiernę solempnitatis omnes fideles | illustrat

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Sermon for Easter.

  • Item: Fols 178v/1-79v/24

    Incipit (Latin): [P]OPULE | ieSu christi. oues pascuae dEi. beneficiis suis nos pietas | christi praeuenit

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Sermon for Rogationtide.

  • Item: Fols 180r/1-83v/9

    Title: Order

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): ORDO AD SIGNVm AECCLesiAE BENEDICENDVM

    Incipit (Latin): Imprimis dicatur letania

    Text Language: Latin (Greek marginal alphabet at fol. 180r)

    Note: Order for the blessing of a bell. Neumed at fols 182v/5-7 and 183r/9-12.

  • Item: Fol. 182r margin

    Title: Antiphon

    Addition: In ciuitate domini clare sonant

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Neumed antiphon.

    Bibliography:

     Wilson

 1910, pp. 145-6

  • Item: Fols 183v/10-94v/25

    Title: Order

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): INCIPIT ORDO QVALITer AGATVR ConCILIVM. | prouinciale

    Incipit (Latin): P rima die. & secunda. & | tercia. omnEs ante missam sequantur crucem

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Order for a provincial synod.

    Decoration: Blocks of text are in alternating red and black ink.

  • Item: Fol. 195r/1-24

    Title: Notes

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): Item de quatuor temporibus ieiuniae mensis | primi .iiii.ti .vii.mi & .x.mi

    Incipit (Latin): In primo mense id est | marcii

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Note on the Ember days.

    Decoration: Rubric in brownish ink filled with perhaps faded metallic red.

  • Item: Fols 195v/1-97r/5

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): Excommunicatio leonis papę

    Incipit (Latin): Leo episcopus seruus seruorum dEi

    Text Language: Latin

  • Item: Fols 197r/5-99r/25

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): Qualiter | episcopus excommunicare infideles christianos | debeat ...

    Incipit (Latin): Nouerit karitas uestra fratres kARISSImi quod quidam | uir nomine .N.

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Marginal addition at fol. 199r.

  • Item: Fol. 199v/1-25

    Title: Vespers

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): VESPERAS DE RESVRRECTIONE DOMINI CANTANDE.

    Incipit (Latin): Kyrieleyson .iii. Christeleyson .iii. Kyrieleyson .iii.

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: Vespers and Matins.

  • Item: Fols 200r/1-02r/9 
    Title (B.11.10.4): Formulas and Directions for the Use of Confessors

    Incipit: O homo indicabo tibi quid sit bonum. | Ðu man þe god sécst 7 me hæfst ge | soht on godes willan

    Text Language: Old English

    Note: Homiletic address for Lent.

    Bibliography:

    Ker 1959, pp. 275-77, no. 2

  • Item: Fols 202r/10-v/17

    Title: Decrees of the Council of Winchester 1070

    Rubric (initial; in red ink): Capitula concilii apud uuintoniam | celebrati

    Incipit (Latin): Quod nulli liceat duobus | epISCOPatibus

    Text Language: Latin

    Bibliography:

    Whitelock and others 1981, pp. 574-76, no. 86

  • Item: Fol. 202v/8-13

    Incipit (Latin): Fundamenta. Pater noster. Et ne nos. Post partum uirgo

    Addition: Prayer: Omnipotens sempiterne deus edificator & custos ierusalEm

    Text Language: Latin

    Note: fol. 202v/14-25 blank except for a scribble: '?amat'.

  • Item: Fols 203r-v 
    Title (B.28.9.EM): English names

    Text Language: Latin and Old English

    Note: A litany of the saints in four columns on fol. 203r and two columns on fol. 203v. The only English saints are Swithun (fol. 203rc/2) and Edith (fol. 203r/10).

    Bibliography:

    Lapidge 1991, pp. 178-78, no. 19

Object Description

Form

Form: Codex

Support: The parchment is well-prepared, although Quires 9 and 15 (added at Salisbury) are of a lower quality and Quire 21 is made up of mended parchment.

Extent: iv + 202 +iii

  • 292 mm x 196 mm (dimensions of Part 1, except fols 4 and 5 - size of leaves)
  • 292 mm x 208 mm (dimensions of fols 4, 5 - size of leaves)
  • 227 mm x 159 mm (dimensions of Part 1a Quire 1 - size of written space)
  • 230 mm x 158 mm (dimensions of Part 1a Quire 2 - size of written space)
  • c. 213 mm x 136 mm (dimensions of Part 1 b - size of written space)
  • 292 mm x 199 mm (dimensions of Part 2 - size of leaves)
  • c. 225 mm x 126 mm (dimensions of Part 2 - size of written space)

Foliation and/or Pagination:

The complete manuscript has been foliated twice. The earlier foliation, in ink, does not incorporate the table of contents. It has been crossed out and replaced with a pencilled foliation, which runs one higher. Wilcox (2000) suggests that the present foliation dates to the inspection of April 1884, which is recorded in pencil in the endleaves (p. 32) . [i-iii]. [1], 2-203, [204-6].

Collation:

  • Quires:
     

     

    • Collation of Part 1: 16, fols 2-7, 210, fols 8-17, 38, fols 18-25, 58, fols 26-33. fols 27, 32 are singletons, 58, fols 34-42.
    • Collation of Part 2: 1-48, fols 43-74, four stubs show between fol. 50 and fol. 51, 58, fols 75-88, a quire of 6 with four inserted bifolia, fols 78- 85, four stubs show before fol. 75. 66, fols 89-94, 710, fols 95-104, four stubs show before fol. 95. 88, fols 105-12, 95, fols 113-17, four stubs show before fol. 113. 108, fols 118-25. 98 + 1, fols 126-34, fol. 130 is a half-size slip [147 x190] attached to fol. 129v. 128 + 1, fols 135-43, fol. 143 is a misplaced singleton which should open Quire 14. 138, fols 144-51, 148-1, fols 152-58, fol. 143 has been misplaced. 154, fols 159-62, 168, fols 163-70, 171, fol. 171, 18-218, fols 172-203.
  • Signatures: Modern quire signatures are marked in ink at the beginning of each quire, running from 'a' to 'z' (less 'i' and 'u') to 'AA' and 'B'. Quires 1 and 2 are marked '.vi.' and '.vii.' at the end of each quire in the same medieval hand that signed Harley 3667 as Quire '.xxi.'.

Condition:

In Part 1 many leaves are cropped, although fols 4 and 5 resisted cropping because their diagrams go near the edges of the pages.

The first three flyleaves and the three endleaves are paper. The fourth opening flyleaf is unruled parchment with an early modern table of contents.

Note:

Layout description:

  1. Layout:
    • Layout type: LO15
    • Columns: 1, except fol. 2v which has 2
    • Overview: fols 2, 3, 6 and 7 are ruled in drypoint with 43 horizontal lines, with top and bottom lines extending across the leaf, and 22 vertical lines unevenly spaced with a gap in the middle. Prick marks are visible at the top and bottom of the page but the ruling is not generally true to the pricks. See diagram.
  2. Layout:
    • Layout type: LO15
    • Overview: Ruled in drypoint for 44 horizontal lines and 22 vertical lines. Pricking is visible at the top and bottom and outer margins. See diagram.
  3. Layout:
    • Layout type: LO11
    • Columns: 1
    • Overview: Ruled in drypoint for 25 lines. Double bounding lines in each margin and the first two and last two lines extend across the leaf, except for Quire 18 where only the single bottom line extends all the way across. Ruled on the flesh side. See diagram.

Hand Description

Hand
  • Number of hands: 4 in Old English
  • Summary: One instance of Old English occurs in Part 1 of the manuscript. Three scribes are responsible for the Old English additions to Part 2.
  • Hand: Glosses to Item (21)
    • Scope: Minor
    • Script: Vernacular Insular Minuscule
    • Ker reference: Ker 196 SC1
    • Description: Glosses to 21. Item: (21) Fol. 11r/1-20. . Nearly contemporary to the hand of the main text.
    • Summary of the characteristics of the hand: Special letter-forms are retained.
    • ð is retained.
    • þ is retained.
    • ƿ is retained.
    • Language: Old English
  • Hand: Items (67), (105), (108)
    • Scope: Minor
    • Script: Caroline Minuscle
    • Ker reference: Ker 1959 SC3

    • Description: A very large hand. Ker calls this hand 'a particularly monumental example of the type of English caroline minuscule in vogue about the time of the conquest' (1959, p. 264).

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    • Summary of the characteristics of the hand:
    • a is usually insular.
    • d is insular, with a large bowl and a very short ascender which flicks up.
    • The insular e is not always used.
    • f is insular.
    • g is insular. The descender is usually closed but occasionally open.
    • h is insular.
    • The descender of p does not curve to the left.
    • r is insular.
    • s is insular. Long or low, the low s is always used in final position.
    • y is dotted. It has a large upper portion and a relatively short descender which ends in a finishing-stroke.
    • ƿ is used. Its lobe is narrower than that of p.
    • ascenders are clubbed.
    • descenders curve to the left, except p.
    • accents are on both long and short vowels.
    • Punctuation:
    • hyphens are on a level with the base-line.
    • Language: Old English
  • Hand: Item (86)
    • Scope: Minor
    • Script: Vernacular Insular Minuscule
    • Ker reference: Ker 1959 SC4
    • Description: 102. Item: (86) Fol. 159v/1-6. .
    • Summary of the characteristics of the hand: A fairly large hand. Ker(1959) says that scribe 4 'wrote ill' (p. 267). The letters do not always rest on the line of writing. This scribe only writes for three lines.
    • a is Caroline.
    • g is insular. The scribe seems to have some difficulty forming the g, as it is a different shape each time.
    • r is insular.
    • s is almost Caroline. Long and low s are used interchangeably.
    • ð is used.
    • þ is used.
    • ƿ is used.
    • There is an accent on the u in 'us' (line 3).
    • Language: Old English
  • Hand: Items: (86)-(91)
    • Scope: Minor
    • Script: Vernacular Insular Minuscule
    • Ker reference: Ker 1959 SC5

    • Description: The hand becomes much larger towards the end of the final confessional text on fol. 161v, then much smaller and slightly neater in the homily which follows.

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    • Summary of the characteristics of the hand: 'Still only mediocre', according to Ker (1959, p. 267). The lines are not always exactly parallel to each other.
    • æ often varies, as if the scribe has difficulty forming the letter.
    • d is the same shape as ð but the ascender is slightly shorter than that of ð.
    • Insular g is used. The tail leans further to the right in the homily (fols 161v-162v) than in the preceding texts.
    • Both forms of r are used
    • Long s sometimes has a looped top.
    • The descender of y has a finishing-stroke. The y is more compact in the homily (fols 161v-162v) than in the preceding texts.
    • descenders vary in length. They are very long on the last lines of fol. 160r.
    • Language: Old English
Decoration Description

Part 1:

  • Rubrics are written in red.
  • Enlarged initials are written in red, green, blue and purple.
  • The diagrams use red, green, yellow, blue and purple.'

Part 2:

  • Rubrics and capitals are in red or black ink.
  • In Quire 18 space has been left for coloured initials at the start of each homily and at important divisions, but the initials were never supplied.

See individual item descriptions for more detail.

Additions

s. xvi: An early modern table of contents was added on fol. 1r, written in ink on parchment between pencil bounding lines, probably under Robert Cotton. At the bottom of fol. 151v on the righ hand side in pencil is the instruction 'fol. 143 follows here'.

Binding Description

Modern binding in brown leather with gilt edges and a gold crest. The spine reads 'ASTRONOMICA | VARIA | PONTIFICALE | MUS. BRIT | BIBLE COTTON | TIBERIUS C I'. The edges of the leaves have been coloured gold.

Accompanying Material

There is no accompanying material.

Additional Information

Administration Information

Described by Hollie Morgan (May 2010).

Surrogates

Digital surrogate: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_tiberius_c_i_f002r (accessed 18 July 2018)

EM Project facsimile

Wilcox, Jonathan, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000), vol. 8

History

Origin

  • Origin:

    Part 1a was written in Peterborough between 1122 and 1135, perhaps around 1122. This is indicated by the annals in Harley 3667, which refer to events between these dates occurring in Peterborough (Wilcox 2000, p. 69).

    Part 1b was probably produced in Peterborough in the 1120s, as is suggested by similarities in script and decoration (Ker 1938, p. 132).

    Part 2 was written in Germany, probably in the middle of the eleventth century (Ker 1959, p. 263).

  • Provenance:

    Part 1a was probably still part of the larger manuscript in Peterborough in the late fourteenth-century, as it is probably the book mentioned by James (1926, p. 34).

    Provenance of Part 1b is unknown.

    Part 2 was extended by eight quires (fols 89-151) written between 1070 and 1100, first in Sherborne and then Salisbury, where the episcopate moved in 1075. The manuscript was the enriched with texts written in the blank spaces of the pontifical and enlarged by the addition of four bifolia (fols 78-85) into Quire 5. Quire 18 contains the hand of an unlocalised scribe of the late eleventh century.

  • Acquisition:

    Probably bound together under the direction of Robert Cotton. Acquired by the British Museum along with the rest of the Cotton collection in 1701.

Provenance

Peterborough;Sherborne;Salisbury

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Catalogue Entry Authored By

Hollie Morgan

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