DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY. DEANERY OF BRIGG.
The illustrations which we have been able to give of our subject from the pictures in Mediæval MSS. are only a handful selected out of a very great number. It may be useful to some students to have references to the MSS. in the British Museum, where other illustrations of special interest may be found.
The most useful for illustrations of ecclesiastical rites, and incidentally for the vestments of all orders of the clergy, and forinstrumenta, are the Pontificals;e.g.—
The Pontifical of Landulph of Milan, 9th century, engraved in D’Agincourt’sL’Art par ses monuments; Painting, Plates XXXVII. and XXXVIII.
Tiberius B. VIII. contains two MSS. One English, of the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century.
The other French, date,A.D.1365.
Egerton 931. French, of the Diocese of Sens, date, 1346-1378.
Lansdown 451. English of Diocese of Exeter, 14th century.
Egerton 1067. French, 15th century.
Add. MS. 14805. German, 15th century.
Add. 19898. French, late 15th century.
An early printed Pontifical, 471, f. 2, with engravings, Venice,A.D.1520. There are other editions printed in other countries, but with the same engravings.
Baptism.—By affusion.—16 G. VI. f. 128, 14th century. Egerton 745, f. 1, early 14th century. Egerton 2019, f. 135, late 15th century.
With aspersion.—10 E. VI. f. 230b, early 14th century. (Adult in temporary font, bishop sprinkling with aspersoir.)
By immersion.—10 E. IV. f. 125, early 14th century. 16 G. VI. f. 128, 14th century. 6 E. VI. f. 171, and f. 318b, 14th century. Harl. 2278, f. 76, 15th century. Add. 29704, f. 18, close of 14th century. Nero A. IV. f. 81b, 14th century. Lansdown 451, f. 225b, 15th century. 20 C. VII. 190b, 14th century. 16 G. VI. f. 14.
Confirmation.—6 E. VI. f. 372, 14th century. Egerton 1067, f. 12, late 15th century. Printed Pontifical 471, f. 2, page 2,A.D.1520.
Marriage.—Nero E. II. f. 115 and f. 217, 14th century. Harl. 2278, f. 462. 6 E. VI. 257, and f. 375 and f. 414b, 14th century. 10 E. VI. f. 229band f. 313, 14th century. 14 E. IV. f. 30 and f. 275, 15th century. Harl. 4379, f. 6, 14th century. 16 G. VI. f. xx., 14th century. 20 C. VII. f. 10, 14th century. Nero E. II. f. 115, 14th century. Printed Sarum Primer,A.D.1531, Paris. G. 12136, in Kalendar, June.
Preaching.—Egerton 745, f. 46, 14th century. Add. 29433, f. 16, early 15th century. Add. 17280, f. 55, late 15th century. 6 E. VII. f. 75b, 14th century. 14 E. III. f. 9b, early 14th century.
Confession.—6 E. VII. f. 500, 14th century. Add. 25698, f. 9, Flemish, c.A.D.1492. Arundel 83, f. 12, 14th century. Egerton 2019, f. 135, c.A.D.1450. 6 E. VI. f. 357, and f. 369b, and f. 414b, 14th century. Add. 18851, f. 69b, end of 15th century. 6 E. VII. f. 506b, 14th century.
Printed Pontifical 471, f. 2, p. 177, and p. 203b,A.D.1523.To a Friar, Royal, 16 G. VI. f. 159, etc. Egerton 2019, f. 135, 15th century.Of Clergy, Royal, 6 E. VII.
Penance.—16 G. VI. f. 421, 14th century. Arundel 83, f. 12, 14th century. 6 E. VII. f. 443, 14th century.
Printed Pontifical 471, f. 2, p. 155,A.D.1520.
Celebration of Mass.—10 E. IV. f. 211,with housel cloth, 14th century; and 2 B. VII. f. 260b, late 13th century. 16 G. VI. f. 130 and f. 139, 14th century. Nero E. II. f. 129b, 14th century. Egerton 2125, f. 143, late 15th century. Royal 14 E. III. f. 17, early 14th century. Royal 6 E. VI. f. 24b.
Add. 25698, f. 2, c.A.D.1492. Add. 29704, f. 7 (elevation), and 16997, f. 144, 15th century. Plut. 279, f. 12, 15th century. Add. 16997, f. 145, French, 15th century. Add. 15813, f. 155, Italian,A.D.1525. Egerton 931, f. 78b(1346-78).With only one candle on altar, Nero E. II. f. 202, etc., 14th century.
Add. 25698, f. 2, c.A.D.1492. Add. 29704, f. 7 (elevation), and 16997, f. 144, 15th century. Plut. 279, f. 12, 15th century. Add. 16997, f. 145, French, 15th century. Add. 15813, f. 155, Italian,A.D.1525. Egerton 931, f. 78b(1346-78).
With only one candle on altar, Nero E. II. f. 202, etc., 14th century.
Processions.—16 G. VI. f. 30, f. 350, and f. 351. Nero E. II. f. 36, f. 73, 14th century. 10 E. IV. f. 231b, 14th century. P. La Croix, La Vie Militaire, etc., plate 257.
Visitation of the Sick.—6 E. VI. f. 427b, 14th century. 6 E. VII. f. 70, 14th century. Add. 25698, f. 5, Flemish, c.A.D.1492. Egerton 2019, f. 142, late 15th century. 20 C. VII. f. 78b, 14th century. Lansdown 451, f. 234, early 15th century. Printed Sarum Primer,A.D.1531, in Kalendar, December, and at f. 102b.
Funeral Ceremonies.—Enshrouding the corpse.—Egerton, 2019, f. 142, 15th century.In church.—16 G. VI. f. 412,A.D.1270. 2 B. VII. f. 222, f. 300, and f. 315, c.A.D.1260. Sloane 346, f. 22b, 14th century. Add. 16997, f. 119b, and f. 171b, 15th century. 16 G. VI. f. 315, 14th century. Nero E. III. f. 131, 15thcentury. Nero E. II. f. 200b, 14th century.At the church door.—Add. 10294, f. 72 and f. 89, 14th century.Being carried into church.—Add. 12228, f. 8, early 14th century.Funeral procession.—20 C. VII. f. 40band f. 200, 14th century. Egerton 1070, f. 54b, c.A.D.1480. Add. 15813, f. 263,A.D.1525. 6 E. VI. f. 481, 14th century. Add. 10294, f. 86 and f. 88, early 14th century.Commendatio defunctorum.—Egerton 2125, f. 117b, late 14th century. Egerton 1070, f. 54b,A.D.1480. 14 E. IV. f. 208b. 20 C. VII. f. 10, 14th century. Printed Sarum Psalter,A.D.1531, f. 98. See also Norwich Vol. of the Archæological Institute, p. 105.Burial.—Claudius B. IV. f. 11, f. 18, f. 44, f. 72, f. 74, and f. 85, 11th century. Egerton 2125, f. 18, early 16th century. Egerton 2019, f. 135, c.A.D.1450.Aspersing coffin.—16 G. VI. f. 315, 14th century; and Harl. 2278, f. 22b, 15th century.Tomb of a king.—20 C. VII. f. 40b, 14th century. Nero E. II. f. 72b, 14th century.Tomb with lamp over it.—Egerton Plut. 745, f. 62b, 14th century.Sword and horn over tomb.—16 G. VI. f. 180b, 14th century.