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Add MS 15222
- Record Id:
- 032-002086925
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002086925
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x000204
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055970836.0x000001
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 15222
- Title:
- A collection of Ordines Romani including Angilram of Metz, De cantorum et lectorum ordinatione and a series of oaths held before the archbishop of Besançon
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of a pontifical for a bishop built around a collection of Ordines Romani ('Orders of the Romans') originating in the 8th-century, including the Decretum Gelasianum de libris recipiendis et non recipiendis (The Decretal of Gelasius: On Books to Be Admitted and not to Be Admitted) and the unique witness of the De cantorum et lectorum ordinatione (On the Regulation of Singers and Readers) of Angilram of Metz (d. 791) regulating the fees of the cantores (clerks in charge of the liturgical chant) and the lectores (clerks in charge of reading the liturgical texts). This collection (ff. 4v-86v) was written during the first half of the 11th century. The first quire (ff. 1r-4r) includes later oaths written by several 11th-century and 12th-century hands.
The Ordines are numbered in Roman numerals, according to Andrieu's edition, Les Ordines Romani (1931).
Contents:
ff. 1r-4r: A series of oaths for obedience held before the archbishop of Besançon by bishops and some abbesses, written by several 11th-century and 12th-century hands, the earliest dated to 1019 (Hugh of Lausanne); a unique copy of an edict of Rudolf II of Burgundy giving Besancon permission to ordain bishops for Lausanne, Belley and Sion.
ff. 4v-27v: Ordo Romanus XXXV, beginning: 'In nomine Dei summi ordo quomodo in sancta romana ecclesia lector ordinatur'.
ff. 27v-42v: Ordo Romanus I, beginning: 'Incipit Ordo ecclesiastici romanae ecclesiae vel qualiter missa celebratur'.
ff. 42v-51v: Ordo Romanus XI, beginning: 'Incipit ordo vel denuntiatio scrutinii ad electos quod tertia ebdomada in quadragesima second feria initiatur'.
ff. 51v-63v: Ordo Romanus XXVII, beginning: 'De officiis divinis in noctibus a cena domini usque in pascha'.
ff. 63v-65v: Ordo Romanus XLII, beginning: 'In nomine Dei summi ordo quomodo in sancta romana ecclesia reliquie reconduntur'.
ff. 65v-70v: Ordo Romanus XXXIV, beginning: 'In nomine Domini ordo quomodo in romana ecclesia acolitus ordinetur'.
ff. 70v-73r: Angilram of Metz, De cantorum et lectorum ordinatione, beginning: 'Anchilramnus presul dum summum conscendit honorem'.
ff. 73r-79v: Pseudo-Gelasius, Decretum Gelasianum de libris recipiendis et non recipiendis, beginning: 'Incipit decretum Gelasii papae quem in urbe Roma cum LXX eruditissimis episcopis conscripsit'.
ff. 79v-81v: Ordo Romanus XIII, beginning: 'In Christi nomine incipit ordo librorum catholicorum qui in ecclesia romana ponuntur in anno circulo'.
ff. 81v-83v: Extracts from the Statuta Ecclesiae Antiqua (The Ancient Statutes of the Church).
ff. 84v-86v: Instructions on marriage, beginning: 'Secundum Mattheum. Dico autem vobis: quicumque dimiserit uxorem suam', imperfect at the end.
Decoration:
Initials and rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002086925
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002086925
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055970836.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 11th century-12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 175 x 110 mm (text space: 150 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 86 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Besancon, Eastern France.
The Cathedral Church of St John, Besancon, founded in the 4th century: a series of oaths held before the archbishop of Besançon by bishops (notably Bishops of Lausanne and Basle) and abbesses (ff. 1r-4r), added in the 11th and 12th century; notes in the upper margin, perhaps also added in the 12th century (ff. 6v, 18r).
An unknown 16th-century owner: 16th-century notes (ff. 11v, 74v, 76v-77r).
Benjamin Heywood Bright (b. 1787, d. 1843), antiquary: his sale, Sotheby's, 18 June, 1844, lot 172; purchased by Thomas Rodd the Younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller, on behalf of the British Museum for £10.10.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p. 113.
G. Waitz, 'Obedienzerklärungen. Burgundischer und Französischer Bischöfe', Neues Archiv für Ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde, 3 (1878), 195-203.
Ernst von Dobschütz, Das Decretum Gelasianum: De libris recipiendis et non recipiendis. In Kritischem Text (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1912), p. 153
Michel Andrieu, 'Règlement d'Angilramne de Metz (768-793) fixant les honoraires de quelques fonctions liturgiques', Revue des Sciences Religieuses, 10:3 (1930), 349-69.
Michel Andrieu, Les Ordines Romani du haut Moyen Âge, 4 vols (Louvain: Peeters, 1931), I, pp. 142-44.
Donald A. Bullough, Carolingian Renewal: Sources and Heritage (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991), pp. 259-60.
Marie-Hélène Jullien and Françoise Perelman, Clavis des auteurs latins du Moyen Âge: Abbon de Saint-Germain-Ermold le Noir (Turnhout: Brepols, 1994), p. 180.
Roger E. Reynolds, 'The Subdiaconate as a Sacred and Superior Order', in Clerics in the Middle Ages, ed. by Roger E. Reynolds (Aldershot: Variorum, 1999), pp. 1-39 (p. 8).
Donald A. Bullough, Alcuin: Achievement and Reputation. Being Part of the Ford Lectures Delivered in Oxford in Hilary Term 1980 (Leiden: Brill, 2004), p. 172.
Emma Hornby, Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis. Words and Music in the Second-Mode Tracts (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009), p. 119.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
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This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.