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The Regularis Concordia and its Old English gloss

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Lucia Kornexl
Lucia Kornexl
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When writing about the tenth-century ecclesiastical reform in England thirteen years ago, Eric John rightly pointed out that ‘the tenth and early eleventh centuries are the least studied and most taken for granted periods of both English and Continental history’. But today, this contention is no longer true: investigation into different aspects of the monastic revival has resulted in a considerable number of special publications. In particular, the millennial celebrations marking the deaths of the leading reformers, Æthelwold (d. 984), Dunstan (d. 988) and Oswald (d. 992), have been accompanied by a reassessment of their activities and achievements, the fruits of which are assembled in three collections of essays by experts in a variety of fields. The renewed interest in the reform era has naturally drawn scholarly attention to the primary sources which provide first-hand information about the thought, aims and strategies of the reformers. Among such documents, the Regularis Concordia (henceforth RC) plays a major part as an object of historical and liturgical research; besides, it has turned out in recent years that the Latin text and especially the Old English interlinear gloss of the consuetudinary also offer important material for the philologist and the historical linguist.

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Anglo-Saxon England , Volume 24 , December 1995 , pp. 95 - 130
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13 For details, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. xxxi–xxxvii.Google Scholar

14 The natural interest which English monasteries had in promoting the reputation of their local saints was probably enhanced in reaction to oppressive tendencies after the invasion. According to Eric John, ‘the over-emphasis of the part of Dunstan in the revival seems to go back to the immediate post-Conquest historians of English monastic history’ (‘The Sources of the English Monastic Reformation: a Comment’, R.B 70 (1960), 197–203, at 200, n. 1).Google Scholar

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18 For the origin and promotion of this much-cited dictum, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, p. xxxviGoogle Scholar and n. 20. A recent publication written in this vein is Dales, D. J., ‘The Spirit of the Regularis Concordia and the Hand of St Dunstan’, St Dunstan: his Life, Times and Cult, ed. Ramsay, et al. , pp. 45–56.Google Scholar

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20 ‘abbate quodam assiduo monente ac regiam catholice fidei uiam demonstrante …’(§ 1, lines 8–9). For scholarly comment on this passage, see the references cited in Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. xxxix–xl.Google Scholar

21 See ibid. pp. xliii–xliv.

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23 Cf. Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. xlv–xlvi and n. 59. As outlined below, Æthelwold probably played a major part in the codification of these prayers in the RC.Google Scholar

24 See ibid. pp. xlvii–I.

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28 In this context, it seems important to remember that, if faithfully adhered to, the RC put a heavy burden on the monks and nuns even outside special seasons. On the basis of the summer horarium, Mary Berry arrives at the conclusion that, when retiring to bed around 8.30 p.m., ‘they had been up for about nineteen hours and of these about eleven had been spent in singing’ (‘What the Saxon Monks Sang: Music in Winchester in the Late Tenth Century’, Bishop Æthelwold, ed. Yorke, , pp. 149–60, at 151).Google Scholar

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30 For a summary of the contents, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. Ixi–Ixxiii.Google Scholar

31 For embryonic forms of dramatic enactment in the performance of the liturgy, perhaps contributed to the RC by Æthelwold and expressly advocated by him, see ibid. p. Ixvi and nn. 46–7.

32 See ibid. p. Ixiii, and the bibliographical references provided there; cf. also above, n. 28.

33 See Lapidge, , Wulfstan of Winchester, ed. Lapidge, and Winterbottom, , pp. Ix, lxvii (and n. 112) and lxxvGoogle Scholar; Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. xlvi (and n. 59), lxiii–lxiv (and n. 33) and clxxxvii, n. 14.Google Scholar

34 See ibid. pp. lxxiii–lxxxiii.

35 In contrast to the impression sometimes conveyed in scholarly publications, the typically English institution of monastic cathedrals presided over by monk-bishops, for which Æthelwold himself had set the model by expelling the secular clergy from the Old Minster in Winchester early in 964, is described in the RC as a potential configuration, but by no means as the only one possible; cf. § 9, lines 132–3: ‘… ubicumque in sede episcopali monachi regulares conuersantur …’(‘… wherever monks live the monastic life in a bishop's see …’; Regularis Concordia, ed. Symons, p. 6)Google Scholar. For a brief discussion and bibliographical references, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. Ixxviii–lxxix.Google Scholar

36 See ibid. pp. lvii–lviii.

37 See below, pp. 109–11.Google Scholar

38 Symons, , Regularis Concordia, p. xxix.Google Scholar

39 References sometimes tend to be very general (see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. lix–lx)Google Scholar; cf. ‘… canentes antiphonas, que in antiphoniario continentur’ (§ 34, lines 785–6); ‘… nocturnale officium agatur secundum quod in antiphonario habetur’ (§ 37, lines 872–3; my italics). As demonstrated by these examples, the matter may be further complicated by terminological ambiguity: the first reference here is to a gradual, the second to an antiphoner (cf. notes on lines 785 and 873). For a detailed treatment of this complex field, see Gneuss, H., ‘Liturgical Books in Anglo-Saxon England and their Old English Terminology’, Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Studies presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. Lapidge, M. and Gneuss, H. (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 91–141Google Scholar, and idem, ‘Linguistic Borrowing and Old English Lexicography: Old English Terms for the Books of the Liturgy’, Problems of Old English Lexicography. Studies in Memory of Angus Cameron, ed. Bammesberger, A. (Regensburg, 1985), pp. 107–29.Google Scholar

40 For a more detailed account of the state of scholarship concerning the sources of the RC, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. Ixxxiv–xcv.Google Scholar

41 .See Davril, A., ‘Un coutumier de Fleury du début du XIe siècle’, RB 76 (1966), 351–4Google Scholar; ‘Consuetudines Floriacenses antiquiores’, ed. Davril, A. and Donnat, L., Consuetudinum saeculi X/XI/XII monumenta non-Cluniacensia, ed. Hallinger, , CCM 7.3, 3–60.Google Scholar

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43 See Hallinger's, investigation into ‘Fleurys Einfluss auf die Synode von Winchester’ (cited above, n. 26), especially his resumé at p. 354.Google Scholar

44 On the manuscripts-London, British Library, Cotton Faustina B. iii and Cotton Tiberius A. iii – see Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957)Google Scholar, nos. 155 and 186. For the earlier dating of the Faustina text of the RC – s. xex as compared to s. ximed – cf. Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, p. cii.Google Scholar

45 For details, see ibid. pp. cxliii–cxlvii.

46 See ibid. pp. xcvi–c.

47 Robinson, P. R., ‘Self-Contained Units in Composite Manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Period’, ASE 7 (1978), 231–8Google Scholar, and idem, ‘The “Booklet”: a Self-Contained Unit in Composite Manuscripts’, Codicologica 3: Essais typologiques (1980), 46–69Google Scholar. As indicated by these titles, ‘booklets’ were often combined to form composite volumes, but there is also evidence that they could circulate independently (cf. ‘The “Booklet”’, pp. 52–4)Google Scholar and ‘may have been bound with others at any time, even long after the Anglo-Saxon period’ (‘Self- Contained Units’, p. 234).Google Scholar

48 For the reconstruction of the RC-booklet, which we chiefly owe to T. Symons and N. R. Ker, and for its largely unknown transmission, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. cxii–cxviGoogle Scholar. Ker was, however, wrong in attributing the Harley copy to Laurence Nowell (cf. ibid. p. cxiii–cxiv and nn. 69–70).

49 Traces of a probably early modern binding on the first page of the Latin RC text (now Faustina B. iii, 159r) suggest that it may first have been destined to be kept separately but then became incorporated in the newly formed Faustina codex. Such subsequent regrouping was not unusual for Cotton and, in a different way, has also affected the Benedictine documents that originally preceded the other RC text in Tiberius A. iii (see below, n. 60).

50 For indications that this leaf shared a common transmission with the actual booklet, see Ker, Catalogue, no. 155 (the subsequently inserted items on Faustina B. iii, fol. 158, are there erroneously described as a ‘list of popes’). Signs of wear on this single leaf may be indicative of its former function as the front part of a cover provided for the RC-booklet.

51 See below, p. 107.Google Scholar

52 See below, pp. 109–11Google Scholar. A major flaw was the lack of the original title which, by contrast, made the Tiberius text clearly identifiable as the ‘Regularis concordia’. For the long-winded, periphrastic designations applied to the Faustina version in early modern library catalogues, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, p. cvi, n. 46.Google Scholar

53 See ibid. pp. cix–cxi and the facsimiles of the pertinent folios on pp. cclxxiv–cclxxvii.

54 Printed ibid. pp. 148–9.

55 ‘Hodie in pace’ and ‘Redemptor animarum’, printed ibid.app. frit, line 1634, with a brief comment on pp. cx–cxi.

56 See RC § 67, lines 1619–20 and app. crit.: ‘Domnus ille, abbas monasterii illius,…’, abbas with uel episcopus, illius with ęcclesiæ Cbristi in superscript.

57 The first of these additional obituary notices begins as follows: ‘Gratia Dei archiepiscopus ille humilisque Christi ęcclesię monachorum cetus …’ (ibid. p. 148); for the slightly different wording of the introductory formula in the two other Christ Church variants, see ibid. p. 149, and p. cii, n. 22. Depending on their earlier dating (S. Xex), T. Symons took the three notices as ‘clear evidence of the presence of monks at Christ Church, Canterbury, in the last years of the tenth century or at the beginning of the eleventh’ (‘The Introduction of Monks at Christ Church, Canterbury’, JTS 27 (1926), 409–11, at 411)Google Scholar. As N. Brooks has shown, however, no precise date can be given for the establishment of monks at Christ Church (The Early History of the Church of Canterbury. Christ Church from 597 to 1066 (Leicester, 1984), pp. 255–60), though recent excavations suggest that a monastic community may have existed there rather early in the reform period (private communication from Professor Brooks).Google Scholar

58 See Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. lxxxii–lxxxiii, and the references given there.Google Scholar

59 Ker, , Catalogue, p. 197 (no. 155); for further palaeographical detailsGoogle Scholar, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. ciii–cv.Google Scholar

60 For a brief description of the history of the manuscript and the reconstruction of its original compilation – fols. 117–73, followed by fols. 2–116 – see ibid. pp. cxxi–cxxix. The divided entry no. 155 for Tiberius A. iii in London, British Library, Harley 6018, a library catalogue dating from Cotton's lifetime, where the items now on fols. 118–79 have been added by a different hand on a separate leaf, may indicate that Cotton had initially planned to remove this part entirely from the manuscript.

61 Ker, , Catalogue, p. 241Google Scholar (no. 186). Ælfric Bata's involvement with the RC version in Tiberius A. iii and with this volume requires further investigation; for a brief discussion of the evidence, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. cxxx–cxxxiv.Google Scholar

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63 See ibid. pp. cxxxviii–cxli.

64 Deshman, R., ‘Benedictus Monarcha et Monachus: Early Medieval Ruler Theology and the Anglo-Saxon Reform’, FS 22 (1988), 204–40 and pls. XVIII–XXVIII, at 210.Google Scholar

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67 See ibid. pp. cvi–cvii.

68 For the linguistic aspects of this term (cf. Med. Lat. circator), see ibid. pp. ccxxxi and 347–8, note on line 1377.

69 See ibid. p. lxxiii, and pp. 383–4, note on line 1648. This stipulation attests to the fact that in pursuing their aims, the reformers not only depended on royal protection but also on the support of powerful laymen, likewise repaid by monastic prayer.

70 See ibid. pp. 318, note on lines 1171–6, and 353–6, note on lines 1406–14.

71 See above, p. 103 and n. 39.

72 Hohler, C., ‘Some Service-Books of the Later Saxon Church’, Tenth-Century Studies, ed. Parsons, , pp. 60–83 and 217–27, at 74Google Scholar. Hohler's remark that ‘lessons and tracts in the 10th century were commonly in separate books, with inadequate cross-references’ (p. 223, n. 46) supports the above suspicion.Google Scholar

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74 ‘ex consuetudinibus eorum cenobiorum, quae nostro tempore maioris auctoritatis sunt in ordine monachorum’ (The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc, ed. and trans. Knowles, D. (London, 1951), p. 1Google Scholar; corrected reprint under the title Decreta Lanfranci Monachis Cantuariensibus Transmissa, CCM 3 (Siegburg, 1967), 1–149).Google Scholar

75 See Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. clii–cliv.Google Scholar

76 See ibid. pp. cxlix–clii.

77 Printed by Schröer, A., ‘De Consuetudine Monachorum’, Englische Studien 9 (1886), 290–6Google Scholar, and E. Breck (see below, n. 90). The translation comprises §§ 36–43, lines 839–1038, of the RC.

78 Cf. above, pp. 104–5.

79 Ed. Zupitza, J., ‘Ein weiteres Bruchstück der Regularis concordia in altenglischer Sprache’, ASNSL 84 1890), 1–24 (corresponding to §§ 14–19, lines 241–356 of the RC.Google Scholar

80 See below, p. 129.Google Scholar

81 For the incipit ‘Animę fratrum nostrorum’, as given in RC § 19, lines 349–50 — marking a prayer for departed brethren said daily after prime – the translation fragment offers the extended reading: ‘Anime fratrum 7 sororum nostrarum requiescant in pace’ (‘De Consuetudine Monachorum’, ed. Schröer, , p. 296.27–8Google Scholar; my italics). Similarly, in a prayer for a deceased monk, to be said instantaneously after receiving the news of his death from an affiliated monastery, the Tiberius version of the RC has uel eam inserted above eum in the phrase ‘nec eum patiaris cruciari gehennalibus flammis’ (§ 68, lines 1640–1, and see note on line 1640).

82 On particular forms of commemoration attested in the RC, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, p. lxxiii, with references to relevant literature.Google Scholar

83 See ibid. p. clv; the whole complex has recently been investigated in detail by Hill, J., ‘The “Regularis Concordia” and its Latin and Old English Reflexes’, RB 101 (1991), 299–315.Google Scholar

84 For a more comprehensive account, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. clvi–clxviGoogle Scholar; annotated lists with bibliographical references to earlier, full and partial, editions of the RC and to major extracts printed from manuscript are to be found on pp. clxvii–clxix.

85 On the extensive excerpts made for the purpose of linguistic and thematic studies by Franciscus Junius from the glossed text, see ibid. pp. cxli–cxlii.

86 See ibid. pp. cxv–cxvi.

87 ‘Liber de consuetudine monachorum, qui est aut idem quem Æthelwoldus Wintoniensis episcopus cum coepiscopis et abbatibus tempore Eadgari regis Anglorum collegit (de quo mentionem facit Ælfricus Abbas in epistola ad Egneshamenses fratres) aut certe ex eodem est desumptus.’

88 Cf. the titles chosen by Schröer (above, n. 77) and Breck (below, n. 90) for their editions of the translation fragment.

89 Logeman, W. S., ‘De Consuetudine Monachorum’, Anglia 13 (1891), 365–454.Google Scholar

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94 See ibid. p. clxiv. Modern scholarship has, however, deprecated the idea of a linear evolution of medieval English drama, beginning with the famous Quem quaeritis-trope in the Easter office of the RC (§ 51, lines 1223–54).

95 See below, pp. 128–30.Google Scholar

96 An outline of editorial policy and textual treatment is provided in ch. VII of my introduction.

97 For a more detailed presentation of the evidence and full bibliographical references, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. clxx–clxxxiii.Google Scholar

98 E.g. lariente, larigente, largente (F, lines 28, 107 and 134) for largiente (T), or reliosorum (T, line 244; TF, line 874) for religiosorum.

99 Lapidge, M., ‘The Hermeneutic Style in Tenth-Century Anglo-Latin Literature’, ASE 4 (1975), 67–111Google Scholar; for a study of pertinent elements in the prologue of the RC, attesting to Æthelwold's authorship, see idem, ‘Æthelwold as Scholar and Teacher’ (cited above, n. 27), pp. 98–100.Google Scholar

100 See the example cited above, p. 100.

101 Lapidge, , ‘Æthelwold as Scholar and Teacher’, p. 100.Google Scholar

102 For the kinds of ‘basic’ (mostly liturgical) texts which, according to our manuscript evidence, received systematic Old English glossing, see Wieland, G., ‘Latin Lemma – Latin Gloss: the Stepchild of Glossologists’, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 19 (1984), 91–9, at 91, n. 1Google Scholar; and Gneuss, H., ‘Glossen, Glossare: IV. Englische Literatur’, Lexicon des Mittelalters IV (Munich, 1989)Google Scholar, cols. 1513–14, at 1513. The pre-Conquest evidence for the library and scriptorium of Christ Church, Canterbury, where the RC gloss most probably originated, is assembled and evaluated in Brooks, , Early History, pp. 266–78; see especially pp. 276–7 on what ‘is shown to be a monastic library by its contents’.Google Scholar

103 For scholarly discussion of the controversial concept of the ‘classbook’, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. clxxxv–clxxxvi.Google Scholar

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105 For a documentation of these various types of evidence, see Kornexl, , Regularis Concordia, pp. clxxxviii–cxcv.Google Scholar

106 See ibid. p. cxcvi.

107 See ibid. p. cxlvi, n. 20.

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115 See ibid. pp. ccxxii–ccxxiv.

116 For a more detailed comment on these and further examples cited here, see the notes to the relevant lines.

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121 See ibid. p. cciii and nn. 59 and 61.

122 See ibid. pp. ccvi–ccxi.

123 See e.g. notes on line 644, to uigilian = ad uigiliam, and line 1415, latanias = letanie.

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139 E.g. the adjective prinen ‘trinus’, also attested in the Arundel 155 prayers (see ibid, pp. 203–4, note on line 300, and the references there cited), and the loan-translation betwuxsendan ‘intermittere’, which, probably on account of the partial synonymy of Lat. intermittere and interpolare in the sense ‘interpolate, interrupt’, was found apt to render the latter lemma in the Durham Hymnal (see ibid. pp. 178–80, note on line 148). For a summary of the complex history of this text and its Old English gloss, and for the deviations from Winchester usage which copying and adaptation in Canterbury brought about, see Hofstetter, Winchester, text no. 12.

140 I wish to thank Professors Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge for reading an earlier version of this article and making valuable suggestions for improvement.