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Harley MS 2892, ff 17-214

Record Id:

041-003256829

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048723

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100027679774.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100101170043.0x000001

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2892, ff 17-214

Title:

The Canterbury Benedictional

Scope & Content:

These folios contain a large benedictional traditionally known as the 'Canterbury Benedictional'. This benedictional contains almost twice as many benedictions as earlier benedictionals, like Æthelwold's Benedictional (Add MS 49598).

Decoration: initials, rubrics, and decorative punctuation in red throughout; manicula (f. 33r); musical notation (f. 37v, 71v, 133r, 214v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048723
041-003256829

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2892 : Fragment of a pontifical, the Canterbury Benedictional

Harley MS 2892, ff 17-214 : The Canterbury Benedictional

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2893]/040-002048723[0002]/041-003256829

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

198 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1023

End Date:

1050

Date Range:

1023-c 1050

Era:

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Custodial History:

Origin: Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, after 1023: The manuscript was probably written at Christ Church, Canterbury, given its extensive set of benedictions for former archbishops Augustine (ff. 154v-156r), Dunstan (ff. 151v-154v), and Ælfheah (ff. 156r-157r), its form for commemorating the anniversary of an archbishop's consecration (ff. 202v-203r), and its description of a procession to St Martin's Church, presumably St Martin's, Canterbury (f. 51r). The manuscript was written after the translation of Ælfheah in 1023, because it includes benedictions for his translation (ff. 156r-157r). These folios were copied by a scribe who also copied Trinity College MS B.15.34.

Provenance:

Added text and musical notation (ff. 71v, 214v).

Iohannes Vlimmerius (d. 1597), prior of the Augustinian priory of Val St Martin, Louvain: owned; inscribed 'ex parte f. Io[hann]is Vlimerij' (f. 84r).

Information About Copies:

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.

Publications:

Abbot Gasquet and Edmund Bishop, The Bosworth Psalter (London: Bell and Sons, 1908), pp. 36-37.

Christopher Wordsworth and Henry Littlehales, The Old Service-Books of the English Church, 2nd edn (London: Methuen & Co., 1910), pp. 226-27, pl. XX.

Neil R. Ker, 'English Manuscripts owned by Johannes Vlimmerius and Cornelius Duyn', in The Library, 4th series, 23 (March 1942), 205-07 (p. 206).

J. Brückmann, 'Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals in England and Wales', Traditio, 29 (1973), 391-458 (p. 440).

Elzbieta Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), p. 92.

Andrew Prescott, 'The Structure of English Pre-Conquest Benedictionals', British Library Journal, 13 (1987), 118-58 (pp. 132-33, 148-55).

Andrew Prescott, ‘The Text of the Benedictional of St Æthelwold’, in Bishop Æthelwold: His Career and Influence, ed. by Barbara Yorke (Woodbridge, 1988), pp. 119-47 (p. 144).

David Dumville, Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England: Four Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 92.

Richard Gameson, The Role of Art in the Late Anglo-Saxon Church (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), pp. 60, 216, 231.

T. A. Heslop, 'The Canterbury Calendars and the Norman Conquest', in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints, and Scholars, 1066-1109, ed. by Richard Eales and Richard Sharpe (London: Hambledon Press, 1995), pp. 53-86 (p. 69).

Nicholas Orchard, 'The Bosworth Psalter and St Augustine's Missal', in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints, and Scholars, 1066-1109, ed. by Richard Eales and Richard Sharpe (London: Hambledon Press, 1995), p. 89 n. 14.

Helmut Gneuss, ‘Origin and Provenance of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: The Case of Cotton Tiberius A. III’, in Of the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, their Scribes and Readers: Essays presented to M. B. Parkes, ed. by P. R. Robinson and Rivkah Zim (Aldershot: Scholar Press, 1997), pp. 13-48 (p. 32).

Niels Krogh Rasmussen, Les pontificaux du haut Moyen Âge: Gènese du livre de l'évêque, ed. by Marcel Haverals(Leuven: Spicilegium sacrum Lovaniense, 1998), pp. 224-29, 231-54.

M. Bradford Bedingfield, The Dramatic Liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2002), p. 13.

Nicholas Orchard, The Leofric Missal, Henry Bradshaw Society, 114, 2 vols (London: Boydell, 2002), I, 87, 94, 167, 170-71, 175, 183, 198, 203-04, 223, 226.

C.A. Jones, 'The Chrism Mass in Later Anglo-Saxon England', in The Liturgy of the Late Anglo-Saxon Church,ed. by Helen Gittos and M. Bradford Bedingfield (London, 2005), pp. 105-42.

C.A. Jones, 'The Origins of the "Sarum" Chrism Mass at Eleventh-Century Christ Church, Canterbury', Mediaeval Studies, 67 (2005), 219-315 (pp. 239-41. 253-56.261-62, 279-83, 309-11).

Richard W. Pfaff, The Liturgy in Medieval England: A History (Cambridge: University Press, 2009), p. 92.

Helen Gittos, Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 281-82.

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. 429.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)