Miscellany, including Pontificals, a Benedictional, Law Codes, documents, and miniatures
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a compilation, containing parts of three separate Pontificals copied between late 10th or early 11th and 12th centuries (two of which include coronation ordos); some records pertaining to Christ Church which were originally copied into the Gospel-book in Cotton Tiberius A II be...
This folio contains a miniature labelled 'Dunstani archiepiscopi'. It depicts a figure (presumably St Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury) seated in a building, with two figures kissing his feet and another figure, a monk, kneeling between them. The entire image is framed with an inhabited, foliate...
This folio, copied in the 1st quarter of the 12th century, contains papal letters. Like ff. 2r-7v, it was excised from Cotton Tiberius A II, a Gospel-book which belonged to Christ Church by the mid-10th century. It includes: f. 9*r: the end of a letter, which mentions 'frater Bertualdus Cantua...
Miniature of a man seated at a writing-desk and medieval memoranda
Scope & Content:
This folio includes: f. 30r: a miniature of a man (Burchard of Worms?) seated at a writing-desk, created in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century; f. 30v: medieval memoranda, including a verse inscription and a Greek alphabet, some of which were copied in the middle of the 12th century and som...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
These folios contain a series of documents pertaining to Christ Church which originally formed part of a Gospel-book which belonged to Christ Church (Cotton MS Tiberius A II). All the documents are in Latin, apart from those on ff. 4r-6r, and they were copied in the 11th century. They include: ...
These folios, along with ff. 87-105, contain part of a Pontifical, copied between the second quarter and third quarter of the 11th century. This Pontifical includes a litany and the second English Coronation ordo.
Third English Coronation Order (‘Claudius Pontifical III’)
Scope & Content:
These folios describe the coronation of Henry I of England and include his Coronation Ordo and were copied in the 12th century. It may originally have been part of a Pontifical. A later medieval image depicting a coronation was added to the top of f. 19r.
Thureth; Anglo-Saxon lawcode VI Æthelred, in Latin and Old English
Scope & Content:
These folios, copied between 1008 (when the lawcode was issued) and 1023 (when Wulfstan, archbishop of York, who may have annotated it, died), contain: f. 31v: Thureth, an Old English verse preface written from the point of view of a 'halgungboc' (a benedictional or pontifical); ff. 32r-35r: ...
These folios contain fragment of the Pontifical which may have been owned by Wulfstan (d. 1023), bishop of Worcester and archbishop of York. These folios and ff. 106r-136v formed part of the same Pontifical, which was originally bound with the poem, law codes, and Benedictional found on ff. 31v-3...