Add MS 39677

PONTIFICAL of Mende use, compiled by Gulielmus [Durandus], Bishop [1285-1296] of Mende, in the province of Bourges, author of the Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, etc. : see below, art. 1 (e), (f), (l), art. 3 (q), art. 4, colophon ; also Hist. Litt. de la France, xx (1842), p. 489. See also J. Catalano, Pontificale Romanum Clementis VIII et Urbani VIII (Paris, 1850-1852), who gives, in notes, etc., a collation of a 15th cent. MS. of the Durandus recension (Vat. lat. 4744). After the table of contents (f. 1), imperf. at beg., the MS. contains:-

1. " Prima pars." (a) Confirmation, f. 1 b;- (b) "De psalmista faciendo. " f. 3 ;- (c) " De clerico faciendo " (tonsure). f. 3 ;- (d) " De vii ordinibus clericorum " (the four minor orders). f. 4 b ;- (e) " De sacris ordinibus " : the litany in the ordination of sub-deacon, including (ff. 9, 9 b) SS. Privatus, Fredaldus, and Ylerius, Bishops of Mende. f. 8 b;- (f) " De examinatio[ne], ordinatione, et consecratione episcopi," with a profession of obedience (f. 34 b) " beato S[tephano] sancteque Bituricensi [Bourges] ecclesie et uobis domino meo S[imoni de Beaulieu] dei gratia eiusdem ecclesie archiepiscopo [1281-1297]." f. 21 b ;-

(g) " Missa in anniuersario die consecrationis episcopi." f. 36 b ;-

(h) " Ordo Romanus ad Romanum pontificem ordinandum." f. 37 b;-

-(i) " De monacho uel alio religioso faciendo." f. 39;-

(k) "De professione nouiciorum." f. 40 b;-

-(1) " De confirmatione et benedictione regularis abbatis," with demand for obedience (f. 42) " sancte matri ecclesie Mimatensi [Mende] michique eiusdem episcopo. " f. 41 b ;-

(m) " De bene - dictione abbatisse." f. 47 ;

(n) " De ordinatione dyachonisse," De benedictione et consecratione uirginum. " f. 48 -(o) " Alia tam uirginis quam uidue uestis benedictio." f. 50 b ;-

(p) " De benedictione uidue." f. 61 ;-

(q) "Ordo Romanus ad benedicendum et " inungendum regem uel reginam in imperatorem uel imperatricem coronandos. " f. 61 b ;-

(r) " De benedictione et coronatione aliorum regum et regina[ru]m." f. 67 b ;-

(s) " De benedictione principis siue comitis palatini," and " noui militis," f. 73 b.

2. " Secunda pars." (a) " De benedictione et impositione primarii lapidis in ecclesie fundatione." f. 75 (b) Dedication of church and consecration of altar. ff. 77, 88 ; - (c) Consecration of altar " que fit sine ecclesie dedicatione." f. 98; - (d) of portable altar. f. 112 ;-

(e) " De cimiterii benedictione." f. 117 b;-

(f) " De ecclesie ac cimiterii reconciliatione." f. 121 ;-

(g) " De reconciliatione cimiterii per se sine eccelesie reconciliatione." f. 127 ;-

(h) "De patena (sic) et calicis consecratione," ib. ;-

(i) Benedictions, viz. of vestments, f. 128 ; altar-cloths and corporals, f. 129 ; " noue crucis seu tabule in qua crucifixus est depictus," f. 129 b ; images of the Virgin and saints, ff. 133, 134 ; thurible, pyx, reliquary, etc., f. 13; b " ciborii seu umbraculi altaris," f. 136 ; altar-piece, " baptisterii siue lapidis foncium," f. 136 b ; bell, f. 137 ;" muneris quod in ecclesia offertur," " panis populo in ecclesia uel in festo ascentionis distribuendi," f. 139; " agni et aliarum carnium," " casei, lactis et mellis," at Easter, f. 140 ; " uuarum ... in festo transfigurationis Domini," "nouorum fructuum," and "benedictio et impositio cilicii," f. 140 b; " De benedictione et impositione crucis proficiscencium in subsidium terre sancte," f. 141 ; pilgrim's staff and scrip, f. 142 ; "De officio quod agitur eis qui redeunt de peregrinatione," f. 143 ; " De benedictione noue domus," "nauis," " noui putei," "aree noue," "in peste animalium," " salis quod datur animalibus ipsis," "armorum", " uexilli bellici," and " Benedictio generalis ad omne quod uelis," ff. 143 b-145.

3. " Tercia pars, in qua quedam ecclesiastica officia inseruntur " : (a) "Ordo feria iiii ^a in capite ieiuniorum." f. 145 ;-

-(b) " in v ^a feria cene Domini." f. 148 ;-

(c) " Feria sexta in parasceue." f. 163 b ;-

(d) " Ordo in sabbato sancto." f. 165;-

(e) " Secundum usum ecclesie Romane mensa benedicitur hoc modo." f. 171 ;-

(f) " Ordo ad consilium seu synodum celebrandum." f. 172;-

(g) "Ordo suspensionis, reconciliationis, et dispensationis, depositionis, degradationis, et restitutionis sacrorum ordinum." f. 175;-

(h) " Ordo excommunicandi et absoluendi." f. 177 b ;-

(i) " ad reconciliandum apostatam, scismaticum, uel hereticum." f. 180;-

(k) " ad itinerandum." f. 181 b ;-

(l) "contra auram leuatam." f. 182;-

(m) "ad ui[si]tandum parrochias." f. 183; -(n) " ad recipiendum processionaliter prelatum uel legatum," " regem uel principem," " reginam uel principissam." ff. 184-185 b; -(o) " pro liberatione terre sancte a fidei inimicis." f. 185 b;-

(p) Directions for celebration of Mass by or before a bishop. ff. 186-195 ; -(q) " Quibus coloribus in diuinis officiis sit utendum," with note " Rationes autem de premissis singulis in nostro rationali in parte tercia poteris reperire " at end (see Durandus, Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, lib. iii, cap. 18). f. 195 ; -(r) Occasions for use of pastoral staff, sandals, mitre, and pallium. ff. 196-197 ;-

(s) " Benedictio in vigiliis apostolorum," in natalicii[s] apostolorum," etc., ff. 197-198 b.

4. (Following art. 3 without a break.) " Hic incipiunt benedictiones pontificales in dominicis diebus per circulum anni," f. 198 b; " in festantatibus (sic) sanctorum per anni circulum," f. 214 , " in uigiliis apostolorum," etc, (an almost exact repetition of ff. 197-198 b), f. 221 ; " in dedicatione ecclesie," " in anniuersario dedicatione (sic) ecclesie," "in sollempnitate reliquiarum," etc., ff. 22- 224 b. Colophon : " Expliciunt benedictiones sollempnes episcopales a uenerabili patre domino Guillermo episcopo Mimathensis ordinate." Followed by benedictions " in die sancte Trinitatis" and "de corpore Christi," ff. 224 b-225.

Vellum; ff. v + 225. 11 5/8 in. x 9 1/2 in. Early XIV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (i wants lst leaf, last ¹⁰), remains of catchwords on ff. 95b, 155b. Margins cropped. Historiated initials, illustrating the various ceremonies, with partial borders, neatly executed in S. French style, but mostly injured by damp, and the borders mutilated. Flourished initials in blue and red. On f. 97b is a 15th cent. inscription, " Io. Warionni clericus Virdunensis." On ff. iii, iv b are pencilled notes by the Rev. E. S. Dewick, on the contents of this MS. and an Elne Pontifical in Paris (Bibl. Nat. lat. 957). Bound in dark blue morocco, gilt-tooled (circ. 1900).

Mende, France: Pontifical of the recension of Durandus, Bishop of: early 14th cent.

Liturgies LATIN: Pontifical of the recension of G. Durandus: early 14th cent.

Gulielmus Durandus, the elder, Bishop of Mende; author of ' Rationale Divinorum Officiorum.': Pontifical compiled by: early 14th cent.

Bindings ENGLISH: Dark blue morocco, gilt-tooled: circ. 1900.

Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: Pontifical (of the recension of Durandus, Bp. of Mende) : initials and borders: early 14th cent.

includes:

• f. iv b City of Paris: Note of Bibl. Nat. MS. lat. 957: 20th cent.
• f. iv b Elne, France: Note on Pontifical of: 20th cent.
• ff. iii., iv b Reverend Edward Chisholm Dewick, lecturer and author: Notes on pontificals by.
• f. 97 b Johannes Warionni, clerk, of Verdun: Name inscribed: 15th cent.