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Pontificale — Ely, Cambridgeshire. Benedictine abbey and (1109) cathedral priory of St Peter and St Etheldreda.


Provenance: Ely, Cambridgeshire. Benedictine abbey and (1109) cathedral priory of St Peter and St Etheldreda.
Location: Trinity College , Cambridge
Shelfmark: B. 11. 10
Author/Title: Pontificale
Type of evidence: l: Liturgical evidence, often to be found in the kalendar
Notes on evidence:

'The added litanies belong to Ely; the nucleus of the book is English but not from Ely' (MRJ, who compares Cambridge, UL, MS Ll. 2. 10).

Contents of the book:

I

1) (fol. 1r) Prayer Summe Sacerdos without heading, in a hand of s. xiii.

2) (fol. 2(3)v) D. I. C mane cum surrexero

3) (fol. 3(4)v) Tu D. I. C qui sic pro nobis flexus es

4) (fol. 4(5)v) In another hand (s. xiii): Mense primi quarti septimi et decimi sabbato inclinata iam die in ecclesiea ubi tunc Episcopus missam celebrat.

(Rules for Ordinations).

5) (fol. 5(6)v) Qualiter synodus agatur provincialis

 

II 

(fols. 7(8)r–115v) Benedictiones episcopales per circulum anni

Date: s. xii
Ownership:

'Augustine Styward 158[?]7' (mayor of Norwich and relative of Robert Styward, last prior of Ely).

Given to Trinity by Thomas Nevile, dean of Canterbury (c. 1548–1615).