Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 302
Gospel lectionary
Contents
- H. Roosen-Runge, Farbgebung und Technik frühmittelalterlicher Buchmalerei: Studien zu den Traktaten 'Mappae Clavicula' und 'Heraclius', Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien 38 (Munich, 1967), 2 vols
- A.E. Planchart, The Repertory of Tropes at Winchester (Princeton: University Press, 1977).
- F. Wormald, 'Anglo-Saxon Painting', in Collected writings I: Studies in medieval art from the sixth to the twelfth centuries (1984)
- E.C. Teviotdale, 'The Cotton Troper (London, British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A.xiv, ff. 1-36): a study of an illustrated English troper of the eleventh century', unpublished PhD dissertation (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991)
- E.C. Teviotdale, 'Some thoughts on the place of origin of the Cotton Troper', in Cantus Planus: papers read at the Fourth Meeting of the Cantus Planus Study Group of the International Musicological Society, Pécs, Hungary, 3-8 September 1990, ed. by L. Dobszay (Budapest, 1992), 407-412
- E.C. Teviotdale, 'The Hereford Troper and Hereford', in Medieval art, architecture and archaeology at Hereford, ed. by D. Whitehead, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 15 (Leeds, 1995), 75-81
- E.C. Teviotdale, 'An episode in the medieval afterlife of the Caligula Troper', in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and their heritage, ed. by P. Pulsiano and E. Treharne (Aldershot, 1998)
Language(s): Latin and Old English
Description in Old English of the boundary between the dioceses of Hereford and Worcester, as established by Æthelstan, bishop of Hereford (reg. (1013-1056). Ends imperfectly.
Extracts from the Gospels arranged in narrative, not liturgical, order.
Physical Description
Early 21st-century foliation
[a], i + 1-117 + 118-120
Written faintly in pencil in the top right-hand corner of the recto side of each leaf.
Collation
- Quire 18-1 (ff. 1-7: 1st leaf missing)
- Quires 2-148 (ff. 8-111)
- Quire 158-2 (ff. 112-117v: 7th and 8th leaves excised)
18-1 (1st leaf missing) 2-148 158-2 (7th-8th leaves missing)
Layout
155 × 70 mm. Ruled in hardpoint, frame and line. Single columns. 20 lines to the page, written above top line.
Hand(s)
Written in Caroline minuscule.
Text added to f. 8r written in Insular minuscule.
Display scripts used for the opening words of each Gospel (see Decoration).
Decoration
Twelve Canon Tables (ff. 1r-6v) framed within gold columns and arches, decorated with masonry and foliage in blue, red, orange and purple, with patterns drawn or punched on the gold, and including two eagles perched at the top left and right (ff. 2v, 4v), a man pointing at an open book (f. 5v) and instructing another man (f. 6r), and a monk bent over a book, with two cockerels perched at top left and right (f. 6v). More Canon Tables may have been planned for inclusion on ff. 7r-8v, which were left blank (save for a short text added to f. 7r).
Four full-page miniatures in purple, red, orange, blue, green, and gold with drapery folds, floral and geometric patterns deeply incised and drawn in black ink, at the beginning of each Gospel:
- f. 9r: St Matthew seated, holding a book open with a knife, and dipping his quill into an inkpot
- f. 38r: St Mark seated beside a lectern with an open book and an inkpot or lantern attached to it, turning towards the sunlight coming in through the window, and holding his quill up ready to trim it
- f. 60v: St Luke seated, his quill behind his ear, holding an open book on a lectern and a knife in his right hand
- f. 88v: St John seated, holding a book open with his knife and writing in it
Four gold initials at the beginning of each Gospel, followed by the opening lines written in a hierarchy of scripts, diminishing in size, from gold, blue, red and purple square capitals, rustic capitals and uncials to the Caroline minuscule of the main text:
- f. 9v: Gospel of St Matthew: eleven-line initial L, shaped of gold interlace with a beast's head and foliage in blue, green and red
- f. 38v: Gospel of St Mark: fifteen-line initial I, shaped of gold interlace and terminating in foliage and two long-eared birds' heads in blue, purple, green and red
- f. 61r: Gospel of St Luke: nine-line initial Q, with foliage infill in gold, red, blue and green, the letter's tail shaped of a blue and orange dragon attacking a cockerel with a snake's tail (labelled 'b·ciλiccus', i.e. 'basilicus')
- f. 89r: Gospel of St John: eleven-line initial I, shaped of gold interlace terminating in birds' and beasts' heads in purple, blue and red
One- to three-line initials in gold, blue, red or purple, with occasional foliate ornament (e.g. ff. 13v, 25v, 74v).
Additions
Notes on the contents of the manuscript by Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886) , University Librarian 1867-1886, on a folded sheet of paper adhered to the rear pastedown. Bradshaw also noted the lack of two leaves at the end of Quire 15 (f. 117v) and may also have been reponsible for adding quire numbers and '+' signs throughout.
Binding
18th-century binding of dark green morocco over pasteboards, gold tooled with rectangular panels: the inner edged with a roll stamp, triangular foliate devices at the mid-points of the outer, with fleurons at the corners. Spine panels also gold-tooled. Repaired by Sydney Morris ('Sandy') Cockerell, 1906-1987 , July 1973: report adhered to f. 119v.
History
Thomson (2022): 'From Hereford or Worcester Cathedral, but probably made for private, not liturgical use'; Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge, Part 4, vol. 1 (2013): '[P]robably Worcester'.
Provenance and Acquisition
At Worcester Cathedral Priory or Hereford Cathedral by the late eleventh century, as indicated by the description of the boundary between the two dioceses (see f. 8r).
William Mundy (c. 1699-1735)
, fellow of Pembroke College: name inscribed on f. [a] recto.
Presented to Pembroke College by William Mundy (c. 1699-1735) , fellow of Pembroke College: inscription on f. i recto, 'Ex dono Gulielmi Mundy A.P.S 1730' (the date written in a different ink, probably by a different, later hand).
Additional Information
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Bibliography
Editions
Der Flussname Themse und seine Sippe: Studien zur Anglisierung keltischer Eigennamen und zur Lautchronologie des Altbritischen Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Abt., Förster, Max (München, In Kommission bei C.H. Beck, 1941)Bibliography
Manuscript Descriptions
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Manuscript Decoration
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Secondary
History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon: being an inquiry into the text of some English manuscripts of the Vulgate Gospels, Glunz, H.H. (Cambridge, University Press, 1933) Der Flussname Themse und seine Sippe: Studien zur Anglisierung keltischer Eigennamen und zur Lautchronologie des Altbritischen Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Abt., Förster, Max (München, In Kommission bei C.H. Beck, 1941) The early charters of the West Midlands Studies in early English history, Finberg, H. P. R. (Leicester, University Press, 1961) Religion and literature in western England, 600-800 Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Sims-Williams, Patrick (Cambridge, University Press, 1990, https://doi-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/10.1017/CBO9780511553042) Book production and decoration at Worcester in the tenth and eleventh centuries St. Oswald of Worcester: life and influence Studies in the early history of Britain, Gameson, Richard (London, 194-243, Leicester University Press, 1996) The West Saxon Gospels and the gospel-lectionary in Anglo-Saxon England: manuscript evidence and liturgical practice Anglo-Saxon England, Lenker, Ursula (28, 141-178, 1999) Diocese and cathedral before 1056 Hereford Cathedral: a history, Keynes, Simon (London, 3-20, Hambledon, 2000) An early boundary of the dioceses of Canterbury and Rochester A commodity of good names: essays in honour of Margaret Gelling, Brooks, N.P. (Donington, Lincolnshire, 28-43, Shaun Tyas, 2008) Pembroke College 302: abbreviated gospel book or gospel lectionary? The study of medieval manuscripts of England: festschrift in honor of Richard W. Pfaff Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Teviotdale, E.C. (Tempe, Arizona, 69-99, ACMRS Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in collaboration with Brepols, 2010) The Anglo-Saxon psalter Medieval church studies, Toswell, M.J. (Turnhout, Brepols, 2014)Digital Images
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