- Record Id:
- 040-002105809
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000396
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100101103325.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 2 A XX
- Title:
- Royal Prayerbook
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This manuscript consists of a decorated prayerbook with extracts from the Gospels, liturgy, apocrypha, and glosses. Its text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Harley MS 2965 (the Book of Nunnaminster), Harley 7653 (the Harley Prayerbook), and Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ll.1.10 (the Book of Cerne). Several of the prayers pertain to the body, physical ailments, or healing. In the mid- to late tenth century, a series of collects were added in the margins of the text which metion Benedict of Nursia and seem to pertain to a monastic community.
The manuscript contains:
ff. 2r-11v: extracts from the Gospels;
f. 11v: the Lord's Prayer;
f. 12r: the Apostle's Creed;
f. 12r-v: an apocryphal letter of Christ to Abgar, king of Edessa;
f. 13r-v: two short prayers, beginning 'Deus omnipotens et dominus noster Iesus Christus', and 'Benedicat me dominus et custodiat';
f. 13v: the Magnificat;
f. 14r: Benedictus (Song of Zachariah);
f. 14v. 'Canticum trium puerorum': the longer form of the Benedicite, Daniel iii. 52-90;
f. 16v: a charm against bleeding;
f. 17r: a prayer, 'Oratio sancti Hugbaldi abbatis';
ff. 18r- 25r: various prayers;
f. 25: a prayer that draws on extracts from the parables of the Prodigal Son and Pharisee and Publican;
f. 26: Litany;
f. 27: a prayer of praise, beginning ' Benedictus dominus et pater domini nostri Iesu Christi';
f. 28: ' Hymnus angelicus', with an added Greek gloss in Latin characters;
f. 28: the opening clauses of the creed of S. Damasus;
f. 28v: a prayer, beginning ' Domine deus omnipotens pater qui es omnium rerum creator';
ff. 29-38: 24 abecedarial prayers;
f. 39: a prayer in elegiac verse, possibly lacking leaves at the beginning;
f. 40r: 'Versus Cud de sancta Trinitate';
f. 40r: a brief confession;
f. 40v: 'Precatio ad sanctam Mariam et sanctum Petrum et ad ceteros apostolos';
ff. 42-45v: various prayers;
ff. 45v: an exorcism, partly in Greek (in Latin characters), partly in Latin;
ff. 46-47v: various prayers;
f. 49r: a charm against bleeding with some corrupt Greek words;
ff. 50- 51: hymns in abecedarial (alphabetical) order;
f. 52: charms against sleeplessness and to stop bleeding, in a 12th century hand.
In the margins:
ff. 7v, 10v, 12v, 13v, 14v, 16v, 23v, 30v, 37v, 38v, 39v, 41v, 42v, 43v: collects and prayers, including several pertaining to St Benedict of Nursia.
Decoration: 2 large zoomorphic initials, 1 in gold and silver (f. 2r) and 1 in colours with animal, animal head terminals, and interlace (f. 17r). Smaller initials filled with colours and outlined with red dots. Marginal drawings of figures with pointed fingers or animals (ff. 2v, 5r, 6v, 15r, 32v, 33r, 40v), and dedication crosses (e.g., ff. 18v, 19v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
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- 032-002105724
040-002105809
- Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 2 A XX : Royal Prayerbook
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- File
- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Greek, Ancient
Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0790
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- late 8th to 12th century
- Era:
- CE
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Materials: Parchment and ink.
Dimensions: 240 x 180 mm.
Foliation: ff. 52 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end; ff. 1, 52 are medieval parchment flyleaves).
Script: Insular hybrid minuscule, Insular minuscule, Anglo-Saxon square minuscule, Anglo-Caroline minuscule, Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Kingdom of Mercia (now western and central England), late 8th or early 9th century. Its script and decoration resemble Mercian charters and artworks according to Brown, Book of Cerne (1996), p. 164-68. Some of the prayers' focus on healing and bodily ailments may indicate that the book was made for a physician: see Brown, Book of Cerne (1996), p. 152. The text contains only masculine pronouns and endings, but its focus on cures for female bleeding may indicate that it was made for a double house or a female community: see Sims-Williams, Religion (1990), p. 280.
Provenance:
Added annotation symbol resembling a rune-like dotted 'Y', dating from the Anglo-Saxon period, also found in Harley 7653, indicating a probable shared provenance.
Added interlinear glosses (ff. 11v-15, 19, 22, 24, 45v), titles to a series of prayers (ff. 29-38), and marginal notes (ff. 12v, 44) in Anglo-Saxon square minuscule, 10th century.
? Ædulf aelteow: name inscribed and erased (ff. 10v, 24v).
? Maere Berhtelm, Ælfwynne, and his daughter Brynhild: names inscribed and erased (f. 13v).
Added marginal collects from the late tenth century which emphasize St Benedict, apparently written for a monastic community.
The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: an addition mentioning the Seven Sleepers, Blasius, and Cassius by a 12th-century Worcester scribe (f. 52); perhaps to be identified with the 'Precationes quaedam charactere saxonico quarto' in Young's catalogue of Worcester manuscripts (Young, Catalogus (1944), no. 309).
John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: inscribed with his name 'Ioannes Theyer', with a dated note of 1649 (f. 11v); his monogram (f. 42r), and numerous annotations; perhaps to be identified with 'Liturgia antiquissima' in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer (see (Bernard, Catalogi librorum (1697), II, no. 6393).
? Charles Theyer (b. 1651): inherited (Bernard, Catalogi librorum (1697), II, no. 6393).
Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer's manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 160.
Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, ed. by A.N. Doane and others, 1 (Binghamton, New York, and Tempe, Arizona, 1994), no. 283.
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6393.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II Latin, p. 60.
A. B. Kuypers, The Prayer Book of Aedeluald the Bishop (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902), pp. 200-25.
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, pp. 33-36.
M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), pp. 476-77.
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), no. 215.
Patrick Young, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Wigorniensis, Made in 1622-1623, ed. by Ivor Atkins and N. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944), no. 309.
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 248.
D. H. Turner, 'The Prayer-Book of Archbishop Arnulf of Milan', Revue Bénédictine, 70 (1960), 360-92 (p. 366).
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 207, 362.
Curt F. Bühler, 'Prayers and Charms in Certain Middle English Scrolls', Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 39 (1964), 270-78 (p. 271, n. 11).
Alphons A. Barb, 'Die Blutsegen von Fulda und London', in Fachliteratur des Mittelalters: Festschrift für Gerhard Eis, ed by G. Keil and others (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1968), pp. 485-93 (p. 485, pls. 1, 2).
J. J. G. Alexander, Insular Manuscripts: 6th to the 9th Century, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 1 (London: Harvey Miller, 1978), no. 35.
Charles M. Atkinson, 'O Amnos Tu Theu: The Greek Agnus Dei in the Roman Liturgy from the Eight to the Eleventh Century', Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch, 65 (1981), 7-30 (p. 10).
Charles M. Atkinson, 'Zur Entstehung und Überlieferung der Missa Romana', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 39 (1982) 113-45 (pp. 118, n. 26, 121).
David Dumville, 'English Square minuscule script: the background and earliest phases', Anglo-Saxon England, 16 (1987), 147-79 (p. 149).
J. Morrish, 'Dated and Datable Manuscripts Copied in England During the 9th Century: A Preliminary List', Medieval Studies, 50 (1988), 512-38 (pp. 518-22, 525, 526, 537).
Fake? The Art of Deception, ed. by Mark Jones, Paul Craddock, and Nicolas Barker (London: British Museum, 1990), no. 61 [exhibition catalogue].
Michelle P. Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London: British Library, 1990), pl. 18.
Anglo-Saxon Litanies of the Saints, ed. by Michael Lapidge, Henry Bradshaw Society, 106 (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1991), no. 26.
Michelle P. Brown, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1991), pl. 139.
The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse (Toronto University Press, 1991), no.163. (exhibition catalogue)
Richard Gameson, 'The Decoration of the Tanner Bede', Anglo-Saxon England, 21 (1992), 115-159 (p. 118, n. 12).
David N. Dumville, English Caroline Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism, A.D. 950-1030 , Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, 6 (Suffolk: Boydell, 1993), pp. 76-77, 143, pl. 1.
Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, 1, ed. by A. N. Doane, P. Pulsiano and R. E. Buckalew, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (New York: Binghamton, 1994), no. 283.
Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian, ed. by Bernhard Bischoff and Michael Lapidge, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 10 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 146, 169-71.
Bernhard Bischoff and Michael Lapidge, Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 169-70.
David Dumville, 'English Square minuscule script: the mid-century phases', Anglo-Saxon England, 23 (1994), 133-64 (p. 150).
Michelle P. Brown, The Book of Cerne: Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England (London: British Library, 1996), pp. 15, 21, 20, 42, 50, 110, 119, 130, 131, 135, 137, 140, 141, 151-54 passim, 157, 158, 168, 169, 171, 172, 175, 178, 179, 181, pl. 9.
Alice Correa, 'The Liturgical Manuscripts of Oswald's Houses', in St Oswald: life and influence ed. by Nicholas Brooks and Catherine Cubitt (London: Leicester University Press, 1996), 285-324 (pp. 288-92, 311-18) [includes partial edition].
Richard Gameson, ‘Book Production and Decoration at Worcester in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries’, in St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. by Nicholas Brooks and Catherine Cubitt, Studies in the Early History of Britain, The Makers of England, 2 (London: Leicester University Press, 1996), pp. 194-243 (p. 238).
Joseph Crowley, 'Greek Interlinear Glosses from the Beginnings of the Monastic Reform in Worcester: B.L. Royal 2.A.XX.' Sacris Erudiri, 37 (1997), 133-39.
Michelle P. Brown and Patricia Lovett, The Historical Source Book for Scribes (London: British Library, 1999), pl. on p. 61.
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999) no. 883.
Joseph Crowley, 'Anglicized Word Order in Old English Continuous Interlinear Glosses in British Library, Royal 2.A.XX.' Anglo-Saxon England, 29 (2000), 123-51.
Michelle P. Brown, 'Female Book-Ownership and Production in Anglo-Saxon England: The Evidence of the Ninth-Century Prayerbooks', in Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts, ed. by C. J. Kay and L. M. Sylvester (Amsterdam, 2001), pp. 45-67.
Michelle P. Brown, ‘Mercian Manuscripts? The ‘Tiberius’ Group and Its Historical Context’, in Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. by Michelle P. Brown and Carol A. Farr (London: Leicester University Press, 2001), pp. 281-91 (pp. 282, 288).
D. C. Skemer, 'Amulet Rolls and Female Devotion', in Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 55 (2001), 197-227 (p. 211).
The Leofric Missal I, ed. by Nicholas Orchard, Henry Bradshaw Society, 113 (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 2002), p. 69.
Michelle P. Brown, Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels (London: British Library, 2003), p. 46.
Treasures of the British Library, ed. by Nicolas Barker and others (London: British Library, 2005), p. 36.
David Howlett, Insular Inscriptions (Chippenham: Antony Rowe, 2005), pp. 1145-148.
Joseph Crowley, 'Latin Prayers added into the Margins of the Prayerbook British Library, Royal 2 A.xx at the Beginnings of the Monastic Reform in Worcester', Sacris Erudiri, 45 (2006), pp. 223-303 [includes partial edition].
Michelle P. Brown, Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 47.
Sacred: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their Sacred Texts (London: British Library, 2007), p. 185 [exhibition catalogue].
C. Cain, 'Sacred Words, Anglo-Saxon Piety, and the Origins of the Epistola Salvatoris in London, British Library, Royal 2 A.XX', Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 108 (2009), 168-89.
Barbara Raw, ‘Anglo-Saxon Prayerbooks’, in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-2012), I: 400-1100 (2012), ed. by Richard Gameson, pp. 460-67 (pp. 460-63).
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 450.
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From George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, pp. 33-36:
'LITURGICAL and devotional collections in Latin, with later Anglo-Saxon and other glosses. Descriptions of the MS. are in Cat. of Ancient MSS. in the Brit. Mus., 1884, pt. ii, p. 60; W. de G. Birch, An Ancient MS. belonging to Newminster, 1889, app. A, p. 101; F. E. Warren, Antiphonary of Bangor, 1895, Pt. ii, app., P. 97; and the whole of the original Latin text (without the glosses and additions) is printed in the appendix to the Book of Cerne, ed. A. B. Kuypers, 1902. The history of this private prayer-book is by no means certain, but the nature of the ornament and various liturgical points show so much Celtic influence as to make it probable that it was written in Mercia or Northumbria, while added collects prove it to have belonged in the 10th or 11th cent. to some Benedictine monastery. Contents:-
i. Lections from the Gospels, sc. (a) Rubric effaced, Matt. i. i; (b) 'Alia secundum [Matthaeum?]', Matt. i. 18; (c) 'Ubi supra(?)', Matt. xxviii. 16-end; (d) 'Secundum Marcum', Mark i. 1-3; (e) 'Alia', Mark xvi. 15-18; (f) 'Item alia', xvi. 19, 20; (g) 'Euangelium sec. Lucan Luke i. 5, 6; (h) 'Sec. Lucam', Luke xxiv. 48--end; (i) 'Euangelium [sec. Iohannem?]', John i. i-5; (k) 'In natale sancti Iohannis baptistæ', John i. 6-I4; (1) 'Ubi supra', john iii. 16, 17; (m) John xiv. 1-4, 6 (part-'Creditis ... uita'); (n) 'See. Iohannem', John xv. 12-16; (o) 'Item', John xvi. 33-xvii. II; (P) 'Sec. Iohannem', john xvii. 11-13; (q) 'Sec. Matthaeum', Matt. iv. 23, 24; (r) Matt. viii. 1-4; (s) Matt. viii. 5-13; (t) Rubric illegible, Matt. viii. 14, 15; (u) Matt. viii.16, 17; (v) Matt. viii. 23-27; (W) Matt. ix. 1, 2; (x) Matt. ix. 18-26; (y) 'Sec. Matthaeum Matt. ix.27-31; (z) Matt. ix. 32, 33; (aa) Matt. ix. 36-x. i; (bb) 'De martyribus', Matt. xii. 46-50; (cc) 'In natale sancti Petri secundum Mattheum', Matt. xvi. 13-19. Of these the first nine or ten are perhaps only chosen to give the beginning and end of the Gospels. The principle upon which the rest are chosen is doubtful. In the case of (bb) the rubric corresponds to the list of lections in the Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS. Nero D. iv), a use which Mr. Edmund Bishop and Dom G. Morin have shown to be of Neapolitan origin. Others of the pericopae here given, however, are difficult to reconcile either with the Lindisfarne table or the Roman 'comes'. For the affinities of text of the lections see Kuypers, op. cit. p. 23I. In john xv. 13 the MS. reads, with the codex Martino-Turonensis, 'maiorem caritatem'. f. 2.
2. 'Oratio dominica', as in Matt. vi. 9-12. Interlinear Anglo-Saxon gloss, printed by Zupitza, 'Mercisches aus der MS. Royal 2 A. 20', in Zeitschrt für deutsches Alterthum (Leipzig, 1889), xxxiii, p. 47. The word 'supersubstantialem' is erased and 'cotidianum' substituted by a slightly later hand. The gloss 'deghweamlice' follows the latter reading. A note in John Theyer's hand points out the change, concluding 'ut perspicere licet isto 150 die Iulii anno Domini 1649, servitutis autem Angliae praetextu parliamenti post Regem eius perfidissime malitiosissime sceleratissime et periniquissime occisum et (ut causidici dicunt) murderatum primo, ut autem [confidenter, erased] spero, ultimo, quod faxit Deus [valde celeriter, erased]. Amen, quoth Ioannes Theyer.' f. 11 b.
3. 'Symbulum apos[tolicum]' (the rubric seems to be original): the old Roman form of the Apostles' Creed (see A. E. Burn, Introduction to the Creeds, 1899, p. 200. The MS. is collated as S (codex Swainsonii of Kattenbusch, Das apost. Symbol, 1897, i, p. 64). Incomplete gloss, printed by Zupitza, l. c. In another hand the clauses are assigned to the twelve apostles, 'Petrus cwep, Andre cwep', &c. f. 12.
4. 'In nomine'(&c.). 'Incipit epistola saluatoris domini nostri lesu Christi ad Abagaruin regem quam dominus manu scripsit et dixit': the apocryphal letter of Christ to Abgar, king of Edessa. The text is evidently taken from Rufinus' translation of Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. i, ch. 13, but with added remarks on the value of the letter as a charm, which seem to be connected with the Greek text printed by Lipsius and Bonnet, Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha, 1891, i. 280. See also K. C. A. Matthes, Die Edessenische Abgarsage, Leipzig, i882. The text of the letter is printed from this MS. in Cureton's Ancient Syriac Documents, 1864, P. 154. Beg. 'Beatus es qui me non uidisti et credidisti', and ends 'ambulet in pace. amen'. The first seven words are glossed in Anglo-Saxon (see Zupitza, l. c.). f. 12 b.
5. 'Oratio': two short prayers, beg. 'Deus omnipotens et dominus noster Iesus Christus', and 'Benedicat me dominus et custodiat', with Anglo-Saxon gloss (Zupitza, l. c.). Followed by a blessing, without gloss, beg. 'Sanat te deus pater'. The Latin text of all three is printed by Birch, l. c. f. 13.
6. 'Hymnus sanctx Mariae': the Magnificat, with Anglo-Saxon gloss (Zupitza, l. c.). f. 13 b.
7. 'Canticum Zachariae': the Benedictus, with Anglo- Saxon gloss (Zupitza, l. c.). f. 14.
8. 'Canticum trium puerorum': the longer form of the Benedicite, Dan. iii. 52-90, with full refrain throughout. Beg. 'Benedictus es domine deus patrum nostrorum', and ends 'misericordia eius'. Cf. the Zürich Psalter. Anglo-Saxon gloss to verses 57-62 only (see Zupitza, l. c.). f. 14 b.
9. Charm against bleeding, beginning with four lines from the Carmen Sedulii, infra, art. 37. Beg. ' Riuos cruoristoridi'(corr.to torridi). The whole is printed by Birch, l. c. (for timores read tumores). f. 16 b.
10. ' Oratio sancti Hugbaldi abbatis' : in the Book of Cerne (Camb. Univers. MS. Ll. i. 10), f. 67, called Oratio sancta ad dominum (see Kuypers, o . cil. p P . 133). A Hygbald, abbot in Lindsey, is mentioned, as pointed out in the Cat. Anc. MSS., by Bede, Hist. Eccl. iv. 3, under the year 669, and a Hygbald abbas, perhaps the same person, occurs in the Durham Liber Vitae (see Sweet, Oldest English Texts, i885, P. 156). Whether Hygbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne 780-803, was an abbot anywhere before his elevation is unknown. Beg. ' In primis obsecro supplex obnixis precibus'. f. I7.
11. Without title: a prayer also contained in the Book of Cerne, collated by Kuypers, p. 8o. A somewhat similar form is in Harl. MS. 7653, f. 4. A few words on f. 19 have Anglo-Saxon glosses (see Zupitza, l. c.). Beg. 'Sanctam ergo unitatem trinitatis iterum atque iterum'. f. 18.
12. 'Deprecatio.' Beg. 'Benedictio dei patris cum angelis suis sit super me'. Ends 'in uiam pacis dirigat'. f. 19 b.
13. 'Oratio sancta.' Beg. 'Spiritum mihi domine tuæ caritatis infunde ut anima mea miserationum'. Another copy is in Harl. MS. 7653, f. 4 b. Printed by Warren, op. cit. P. 97. f. 20.
14. Prayer. Beg. 'Sancta trinitas una diuinitas semper auxiliare me (altered to mihi) domine deus meus. Te domine semper quaero te diligo'. Ends ' Clemens trinitas una diuinitas parce et indulge exaudi et miserere nobis omnipotens deus qui regnas in saccula saeculorum. amen'. f. 20 b.
15. 'Oratio matutina' : printed by Birch, P. 30, and 34
Warren, p. 96. In the Book of Cerne (Kuypers, p. 89) entitled ' Oratio in mane sancti Hieronimi presbiteri', and similarly attributed (a longer form) in a Fleury Libellus Precum (Orleans MS. i84, ioth cent.) printed by Martene (Migne, Patr. Lat. ci. 1385). Beg. 'Mane cum surrexero intende', and ends 'sacrificium uespertinum'. A few words have A.-S. glosses (see Zupitza, l. C.). f. 22.
16. 'Oratio sancti Agustini episcopi': excerpts from S. Augustine's Soliloquia, lib. i, cap. i (Migne, xxxii.869-872). A prayer with the same title in the Fleury Libellus Precum (Migne, ci. l397) appears to be made up by joining the first part of this (to foot of f. 23) with part of art. 29 below. Two words on f. 24 have A.-S. glosses (see Zupitza, l. c.). Beg. 'Deus uniuersitatis conditor presta mihi'; ends 'beatissimi regni tui', with the appendix 'Sancta trinitas una diuinitas praesta mihi aduersus omnia antiqui hostis temtamenta tuæ protectionis clementer auxilium'. f. 23.
17. 'Oratio sancti Agustini episcopi.' Beg. 'Domine Iesu Christi (sic) qui de hoe mundo transisti'; ends 'particeps uitæ aeternæ efficiar'. f. 24 b.
18. 'Oratio matutina': rhythmical prayer (29 lines) printed by Birch, l. c. In the Book of Cerne (Kuypers, p. 91). Beg. 'Ambulemus in prosperis huius diei luminis'. f. 25.
19. 'Oratio milite (sic) in templo', including extracts from the parables of the Prodigal Son and Pharisee and Publican. Beg. 'Pater peccaui in caelum'; ends 'premia regni cælcstis'. f. 25.
20. 'Laetania.' Printed by Warren, op. cit. p. 89. Beg. 'Christe audi nos. Sancte Michahel ora'; ends 'Christe audi nos' with the appendix 'Summa trinitas una diuinitas auxiliare et miserere nobis'. A 10th cent. hand has added an invocation of relics in the margin. f. 26.
21. Ascription of praise, beg. ' Benedictus dominus et pater domini nostri Iesu Christi'. Ends 'depraccamur eum ut misericordiam eius consequi mereamur in saccula sacculorum amen', with the appendix ' Benedictus es deus pater qui nobis gratis cuncta donauit bona. Confitebimur ei quia fecit nobiscum misericordiam suam'. f. 27.
22. ' Hymnus angelicus': the Gloria in excelsis, with an added Greek gloss in Latin characters. The Latin text is more normal than the texts from Irish MSS. given by Warren, P. 76. f. 28.
23. 'Fides catholica': the opening clauses only, down to 'colimus et confitemur', of the creed of S. Damasus (see Burn, Introduction to the Creeds, P. 245). Printed by Warren, p. ioo. Beg. 'Credimus in unum deum'. f. 28.
24. Prayer, beg. ' Domine deus omnipotens pater qui es omnium rerum creator'. Ends 'saluator mundi qui uiuis et regnas in saecula seculorum amen'. For the concluding formula as a sign of Gallican origin of the prayer see Warren, p. xxix. f. 28 b.
25. Abecedarian series Of 24 prayers (A-Z and B is misplaced after E. The Q and R prayers are nearly identical with two in Harl. MS. 2965, ff. 29 b, 30. The incipits and the text of the R prayer are given by Birch (see also Warren, p. 100). At the end of the N prayer are eight lines of verse, alternately in black and red, beg. ' P Dextera nos saluos conseruit (sic) in aeuum'. A later hand has added A.-S. titles indicating the events in our Lord's life to which the prayers refer (see Zupitza, 1. c.). First prayer beg. 'Altus auctor omnium creaturarum', with A.-S. title'+ Pis gebed is be licumlicre gebyrde usses drihtnes', and the last (not noticed by Birch and Zupitza) 'Et tu deus iudex iustus', with imperfect title 'Be þæm towea[rdlican dome ?]'. An inserted slip containing the conclusion of the E prayer (f. 29*) has also Agnus dei in Greek (in Latin characters), sc. '0 amnos tu theu o eron thas amarthias tu chosmu eleyson imas', and in Latin. f. 29.
26. Prayer in elegiac verse, probably imperfect by loss of leaves at the beginning. It includes a paraphrase of Ps. lxxxiii. Beg. 'Me similem cineri uentoque umbracque memento'; ends 'Spiritus alta leuet nos super astra tuus'. f. 39.
27. Versus Cud de sancta Trinitate : a metrical creed in fourteen hexameters. The author may perhaps be S. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne 685-688, or, as Mr. Warren suggests (p. 98), Cudradus, a priest of Lindisfarne and correspondent of Alcuin, circ. 793-794. A note in Theyer's hand erroneously extends the name as 'cuiusdam'. Beg. 'Mente canam domino grates laudesque rependens '. f. 4o.
28. Brief confessional form. Beg. 'Peccaui domine peccaui coram te' ; ends 'sicut et ego hodie'. f. 40.
29. 'Precatio ad sanctam Mariam et sanctum Petrum et ad ceteros apostolos.' Part is printed from the Fleury Libellus Precum in Martene (see art. 15, above). Beg. 'Intercede pro me sancta Maria et beatissima et gloriosa'; ends 'et salua me saluator mundi'. f. 4o b.
30. 'Oratio Moucani': a prayer, in ten sections (apparently all connected, though the third has a rubric 'Item alia'), each of which (except the eighth and ninth) ends with 'Eloe sabaoth ia adonai eli eli laba (corrected once lama) sabacthani'. Dr. Birch suggests monachi' for 'moucani', but it may well be the name of a Celtic author, possibly S. Mugint of Whitherne (Candida Casa) in Galloway, the reputed author of a hymn or prayer printed in J. H. Todd's Book of Hymns of the Ancient Church of Ireland, i, P. 94. The forms of the name and the possible identity of the Welsh S. Maugantius or Meugan are fully discussed by Dr. Todd, l.c. There is also a Cornish S.Mawgan. Beg. 'Deum patrem deum filium deum deprecor spiritum sanctum cuius magnitudo inmensa'. f. 42.
31. 'Oratio penitentis.' Beg. 'Gratias ago deo meo quod me miserum peccatorem'; ends 'requiem dare digneris per dominum nostrum lesum Christum filium tuum'. f. 45.
32. 'Oratio', beg. 'obsecro te Iesus Christus filius dei uiui'. Printed by Birch, l. c. The words 'filius F dei' are glossed 'sunu godes', not noted by Zupitza. Ends 'custodiat spiritum meum'. f. 45 b.
33. Exorcism, partly in Greek (in Latin characters), partly in Latin. Printed by Birch, l.c., and Warren, p. 101. Beg. 'Eulogumen patera caeyo. . . Adiuro te satanae diabulus aelfae'. f. 45 b.
34. 'Oratio sanctae Mariae matris domini nostri.' Another text with manyvariations is in the Book of Cerne (Kuypers, p. 119). Beg. 'Auxiliatrix esto mihi sancta trinitas exaudi exaudi exaudi me domine'; ends 'in te requiescam exaudi exaudi exaudi me qui uiuis'(&c.). f. 46.
35. 'ln nomine dei summi. Pax patris aetemi luminis salus sempiterna': prayer or deprecation addressed to God, angels, patriarchs, apostles, saints (including Cyprian and Isidore), &c. Printed by Warren, p. 91. Beg. 'Te deprecor pater sancte ut digneris'; ends 'et gloria per infinita seculorum secula. amen'. For the heading 'In nomine dei summi', as a note of Celtic influence, see Warren, P. 35. f. 46.
36. 'Oratio sancti Augustini': contained under the same heading in the Fleury Libellus Precum (Migne, ci. 1384), and as 'oratio paenitentis' in the Book of Cerne (collation by Kuypers, p. 145). Beg. 'Deus iustitiae te deprecor deus misericordiae'. f. 47 b.
37. Another charm against bleeding (cf. art. 9), including two repetitions of the same lines from Sedulius and some corrupt Greek words. Printed by Birch, l. c. Beg. 'Crux Christi Iesu domini dei nostri ingeritur mihi. Riuos cruoris torridi'. f. 49.
38. 'Carmen Sedulii de natale domini nostri lesu Christi': the abecedarian hymn printed in Corpus Script. Eccl. Lat. x, p. i63. Two lines (47, 48) are cut off by the binder. Two words have A.-S. glosses (see Zupitza, l.c.). Beg. 'A solis ortus cardine'. f. 50.
39. Another abecedarian hymn, of unknown authorship, on the Heavenly Jerusalem; printed by Duemmler, Rhythmorum Ecclesiasticorum Aevi Carolini Specimen, 1881, p. I4. Chevalier, Rep. Hymn. no. 844. Lines I, 25 are mutilated by the binder and the whole of the second page is nearly illegible from damp. Beg. 'Alma fulget in [caelesti] perpes regnum [ciu]itas'. At the foot Of f 51 are the words 'In perennis die sabbati'. f. 51. The following collects, &c., added in the margin, appear to be in one hand, perhaps of the 10th cent.:-(a) In the margin of art. 1, three beg. 'Oremus. Infunde domine benedictionem tuam super populum tuum ut tua resurectione', ' Oremus. Totius mundane uanitatis distructor', and 'Oremus. Infunde domine eclesiam tuam caritatem'. f. 3 b ;-(b) ' Post le[c]tionem,' beg. ' Omnipotens sempiterne deus precibus et meritis . f. 7 b ;- (c) 'Oratio pro semetipso,' beg. ' Omnipotens sempiterne deus obsecro te'. f. 7 b ;-(d) 'Gebiddan for ... Missa de sancte Benedicte' (sic), beg. 'Sit domine beatus Benedictus custus'. f.10b;-(e)'Super oblata',beg. Sacris altaribus domine ostias superpositas'. f. 10 b;-(f) Beg. Existat quaesumus domine beatissime'. Both the last two refer to S. Benedict. f. 10 b;-(g) Beg. 'Saluator mundi salua nos omnes sancta dei genetrix'. f. ii b.,-(h) In margin of art, 4. 'Oremes' (sic): three collects beg.'Dona domine uirtutem populum tuum'., Remitte domine iniquitatem plebi tui', and ' Erue domine animas nostras de manu inferi'. f. 12 b;-(i) In margin of art. 6. 'De sancte Benedicti (sic) colecta', beg. ' Intercessione nos qu[ae]sumus domine beati Benedicti'. f. 13 b;-(k) 'Oratio sancte Benedicti', mentioning also SS. Martialis, Taurinus and Aquilinus, beg.'Letetur eclesia tua deus'. f. 13 b;-(l) In margin of art. 7. Beg. 'Oculi nostri ad te domine semper intendant'. f. 14;-(m) In margin of artt. 7, 8. Beg. ' Exaudi domine sancte pater omnipotens sernpiterne deus et mittere dignare'. f. 14 b;-(n) 'Oratio introitu in æclesiam', beg. ' Domine-Iesu Christe qui introitum Hierusalem'.
f. 14 b;-(o) A collect for S. Benedict erased. f. 16 ;-(p) In margin of art. 9. Beg. ' Maiestatem tuam domine suppliciter exoramus ut sicut eclesie tue beatus Andreas apostolus extitit predicator et rector'. f. 16 b ;-(q) Beg. ' Domine Iesu Christe adoro te in cruce ascendentem'. f. 16b;-(r) In margin of art. i6. Collect for S. Laurence, beg. 'Da nobis quesumus omnipotens deus uitiorum nostrorum flammas extinguere'. f. 23 b;-(s) Prayer for the monastery, beg. 'Visita quesumus domine habi , tationem istam'. f. 23 b:-(t) In margin of art. 25. 'Oratio de sancte Benedicte' (sic),beg.'Excita domine in eclesia tua spiritum'. f.30b;-(u)In margin of art. 29. Beg. ' Pacem tuam domine de celo da nobis'. f. 41 b;-(v) Beg. 'Deus caritas dona per gratiam sancti spiritus'. f. 41 b;-(w) In marein of art 3o. Beg. 'Domine Iesu Christe [a]put me sis ut me defendas'. f. 42 b;-(x) Beg. 'Beatorum apostolorum nos domine quesumus continua oratione custodi'. f. 43b;-(y) Beg.'Auxiliare domine querentibus'. f.43b;-(z)Beg. ' Iniquitates nostras ne respicias omnipotens deus'. f. 43 b;-(aa) Beg. 'Deus qui es omnium sanctorum tuorum splendor'. f. 44b. The following are in other hands:-(bb) Written over the prayer (0) above. Beg. ' Domine fons misericordiam in quae cuncta lauante (sic)'. f. 16 .-(cc) In margin of artt. 25-26. Prayers for the hours. The title ' Oratio' and first four words of that for prime, beg. Deus qui hora prima diei lucem ' (f. 37 b), and the whole of that for vespers, beg. 'Gratias agimus domine deus omnipotens qui nos uiuentes' (f. 39 b), are in a hand resembling that of (a)-(aa). The rest of the prayer for prime and that for tierce, beg. 'Tibi subnixis Christum dominum deprecamur' (f. 38 b), are in a hand apparently of the ii th cent. Leaves lost after f. 38 may have contained prayers for the other hour& ff. 37 b-39 b -(dd) In margin of art. 3o. Anglo-Saxon note on the months (see Zupitza, l. c.). In the same hand as the notes on f. 12. Beg. ' Ianuarius. Se mone biþ onæled et middre ne[h]t'. Breaks off at the first letter of A[pril]". f. 44. The fly- leaf (f. 52) contains, in a 12th cent. hand, charms (a) Against sleeplessness, mentioning the Seven Sleepers, beg. ' In Epheso ciuitate';-(b) Mentioning S. Blasius;-(c) To stop bleeding, beg. ' In principio erat uerbum';-(d) For ' minuta', mentioning S. Cassius. Some erased inscriptions in the margins contain Saxon names, e.g. ' Ædulf ælteow', ff. 10 b, 24 b; , Mære Berhtelm and Ælfwynne and Brynhild his dohtor', f. 13 b.
Vellum; ff. 52,. 9 1/4 in. x 61 in. VIII cent. Gatherings of eight (ff 2-31, single leaves cancelled or cut out after ff. i6, I7) or six (ff. 32-51, leaves lost after ff. 38, 39, 45). Written in England (North, or Mercia) in three hands, the first (ff. 2-12) a round set hand, the second (ff. 12 b-3 8, 41-45) of mixed round and pointed letters, the third(ff.39,40,46-51)pointed.For all three (ff.12,17, So) see pl 18 ; and cf. Cat. Anc. MSS., pl. 21. Few contractions, among which Ihus (f. 7; also Ihs), nros (f. 14 b) and q (for quia, f. 2ob) may be noted. Initials in Irish style filled with colour and surrounded with red dots. The first word (Liber) in gold and silver outlined in red. Zoomorphic initial on f. 17. Sec. fol. 'qui crediderit'. Belonged to John Theyer. Theyer sale-cat. no. i6o ; CMA. 6392?'
