Catalogue of manuscripts preserved in the chapter library of Worcester Cathedral / compiled by John Kestell Floyer and edited and revised throughout by Sidney Graves Hamilton.

  • Worcester Cathedral Library
Date:
1906
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Credit: Catalogue of manuscripts preserved in the chapter library of Worcester Cathedral / compiled by John Kestell Floyer and edited and revised throughout by Sidney Graves Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the course of this letter he alludes to the Bible which Offa gave: ‘ tandem revolvens bibliothecam quam .... beate memorie rex Offa ecclesie nostre contu- lisse dicitur1.’ xii cent. No. 87. Radulfus super Leviticum Libb. xx. ‘ Bound and labelled as 217/ xiii cent. No. 146. Thus described in the Catalogue ‘ Codex membranaceus in folio, olim ut videtur, peculium ecclesiae Wigornensis, et est Pontificate diversis temporibus scriptum, cuius in priore parte circa annum 1100, quo floruit Sampson Wigornensis, exarata continentur.’ This book contains many local allusions, and was apparently the official Pontifical of the Cathedral. (2) is ‘ Benedictiones cerei et baculi et imaginum et excom- municatio eorum qui ecclesiam Wigornensem violaverint,’ p. 3. (10) Professio subiectionis ab ordinandis, p. 52. A note in the Catalogue says ‘ Hinc ex nomine Sampsonis episcopi WigonT colligimus hanc partem codicis exaratam fuisse circum annum 1100.’ No. 217. Petrus Cantor. ‘ Liber monasterii Wigornie.’ xiv cent. No. 265. On the fly-leaf, ‘ Liber Penitentialis Egberti qui erat Episcopus Ebor 2,’ etc. This, however, is but a small part of the contents of this MS., which has been very fully described by Miss Bateson in English Hist. Reviezv, vol. x. pp. 712 foil. (October, 1895). She assigns it to the end of the xith, and beginning of the xiith cent. It is a miscellaneous theological and legal collection, such as might have been compiled for the use of a bishop. No. 279. Canones Patricii. Henry Bradshaw notes ‘ Certainly not written in England or Ireland.’ ix to x cent. No. 367. Miscellanea. This may be a Worcester book3. There is a letter to a prior of Worcester at the end from Hubert, Abbot of Westminster, and Edwius Prior. xv and xi-xiii cent. 1 See Annales Monastici, Worcester, under year dcclxxx. 2 Egbert, Abp. of York, 734—767. 3 If so, Worcester must have possessed the English books which are mentioned in a list at the end of this volume : ‘ Deo englissce passionale and ii englissce dialogas [of Gregory] and oddan boc and he englisca martirlogium and ii englisce salteras and ii pastorales englisce and he englisca regol and barontus ’ [the vision of St. Barontus of Pistoja (cent. vi)]. The ‘ ii pastorales ’ may be C.C.C.C. 12 and Hatton 20.