Manuscript: BnF latin 943
Description (from Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts)
Letter from Pope John XII to Dunstan ; Pontifical ; Benedictional; Prologue to Poenitentiale Egberti ; First Capitulary of Gerbald of Liège ; Forms of absolution: s. x3/4 (after 959), prob. CaCC.
Additions : List of bishops of Sherborne ; Letter to Bishop Wulsige III of Sherborne ; Two homilies for the Dedication of a church* (one by Ælfric) ; Rules of confraternity* and Formula-letter announcing the death of a monk; Part of Mass of the Dead ; Two penitential letters ; Writ by Bishop Æthelric of Sherborne* : s. x/xi -- xi1, Sherborne.
Prov. whole MS Sherborne by s. x/xi, France s. xi2. FC: Prescott (1987), pp. 141--147, for benedictions.
Current location
- Repository
- Bibliothèque Nationale
- Town or City
- Paris
- Shelfmark
- latin 943
Other information
- Name
- Sherborne Pontifical
- Catalogue Numbers
- G. 879
- K. 364
- Format
- Unspecified
- Date
- Unspecified
- Origin
- CaCC (dubitable)
Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (G. 879)
Letter from Pope John XII to Dunstan ; Pontifical ; Benedictional; Prologue to Poenitentiale Egberti ; First Capitulary of Gerbald of Liège ; Forms of absolution: s. x3/4 (after 959), prob. CaCC.
Additions : List of bishops of Sherborne ; Letter to Bishop Wulsige III of Sherborne ; Two homilies for the Dedication of a church* (one by Ælfric) ; Rules of confraternity* and Formula-letter announcing the death of a monk; Part of Mass of the Dead ; Two penitential letters ; Writ by Bishop Æthelric of Sherborne* : s. x/xi -- xi1, Sherborne.
Prov. whole MS Sherborne by s. x/xi, France s. xi2. FC: Prescott (1987), pp. 141--147, for benedictions.
DigiPal Project
Temple: Dates whole MS to s. x4/4, and (?) CaCC. 'The pontifical was dated by Wormald c. 992--5; but it is possibly earlier, before 988 (?) since its decoration is unaffected by the influence of the Utrecht Psalter'. Sherbourne prov. prob. by 1001x1009 (list of bishops on f.1 ends w/ Æthelric), and prob. not earlier than s. xi in, 'since a hortatory letter (f. 2) in a hand close to the original one is addressed by an unnamed archbishop, probably Ælfric of Canterbury (995--1005) to Wulfsin, bishop of Sherbourne (992--1001).'
