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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
The Vellum MS. numbered 27, in the Public Library at Rouen, called the Benedictional of Archbishop Robert, is a folio, in wood binding, covered with boar-skin leather, measuring twelve inches and three quarters, by nine and a quarter, and contains one hundred and ninety one leaves, beside a fly-leaf on which there is a note by Monsieur I'Abbe Saas, with his signature, and the date 1738. It is illuminated with miniatures, foliated and architectural borders, and capitals and letters of gold: the whole in fine preservation.
page 123 note a D's lumen verum qui primo die, &c.
page 123 note b Benedicat vos Trinitas divina maiestas, &c.
page 124 note c D's principimn omnium creaturarum, &c.
page 124 note d Om‘p’s D's rerum omnium formator, &c.
page 124 note e Benedicat et inluminat Om‘p’s D's, &c.
page 124 note f D's aetemae bonitatis qui quinto die, &e.
page 124 note g Benedicat vos D'i patris dementia qui sexto die, &c.
page 124 note h D's qui sex diebus, &c.
page 124 note i Om‘p’s D'n's s‘c’ar' mentium habitator, &c.
page 124 note k Nunquam deseras D'ne, &c. 1 Ad custodiendum gregem, &c.
page 124 note m Inmittat in vos D'n's quietem sancti soporis, &c.
page 124 note n Benedicat tibi D'n s. semperque te in omnibus custodiat, &c.
page 124 note o Benedic D'ne hunc clementissimum Regem cum iiniverso populo, &c.
page 124 note p In the original LXX. and so by mistake counting to the end.
page 124 note q D's Bened. omnium largus infundor, &c.
page 124 note r Benedictionum omnium largitor, &c.
page 124 note s Om‘p’s D's qui in vetere lege, &c.
page 124 note t Xp's D'i filius qui est initiu' & finis, &c.
page 124 note u Benedicat uobis om‘p’s D'n's qui cuncta ex nihilo creavit, &c.
page 124 note x Om‘p’s D's cuius misericordia ubique cognoscitur, &c.
page 124 note y Dignare D'ne D's n'r caelestem super populum impenire, &c.
page 124 note z Om‘p’s D's triumphator, &c.
page 125 note a D's qui socrum Simonis, &c.
page 126 note b D's que' trinum in personis & coeteraa divinitate, &c.
page 128 note c Natalem templi huius diem fr'es delectissimi, &c. See Martene de Antiq. Eccl. Rit. torn. ii. 786.
page 129 note d The two prayers, Accipite, are omitted in the MS., as well as the prayer, Deum Patrem Omni potentem, immediately following. The prayer, Domine qui in hune mundum, begins, Domine S‘c’ae Pater Oin‘p’s aeterne D's qui, &c.
page 129 note e In the ordinatio Episcopi, at Hie mittatur in Cathedram Episcopalem after the prayer, Om'p's Pater sancte D's aeterne, tu omnem ordinem, &e. then follows in the MS. D'ne Ih'u Xp'e tu preelegisti, &c, and Populus te honoret, &c.—See Martene de Antiq. Eccl. Rit ton), ii. 114, 115, ex.MS. Pontif. Angl. monast. Gemet.
page 130 note f The form begins with Deus qui vestimentum sulutare, followed by Deus bonarum virtutum dator, with some variations. The prayer Te invocamus is omitted.
page 130 note g Gallia Christiana, torn. xi. p. 30.
page 131 note h Richard, Bishop of Coutance in 1152, is a witness to the grant made by William de Vernon of lands to the Church of Montesburgh. Gall. Christ, torn. xi. In the 7th Henry II. Roger Arundel answered forty pounds for the Knights' fees he then held. Rot. Pip. 7 Hen. II. dors.
page 132 note i Hinc Sanctum Grimbaldum, artis musicae peritissimum, & in divinis scripturis eruditissimum, evocatum è Francia, suo novo monasterio quod Wintoniae construxerat, praefecit in Abbatem. Ingulph. Hist. fo). 495.
page 132 note k Sax. “Iudocer Cyme.”
page 132 note l MS. Hail. 1761.
page 132 note m Ibid.
page 133 note n Acta Benedict, torn. ii. p. 565, in vita S. Iudoci Presbyteri et Confessoris auctore anonymo qui seeculo VIII. scripsisse videtur, ex. Codice Monast. Gemeticensis ante annos 700 inarm descriptus.
page 133 note o De Iudoci cella et de Quentovico.—See Hadriani Valesii Notitia Galliarum, p. 256. See also Gallia Christiana, torn. x. p. 1289 and 1347.
page 133 note p Eansvvð monialium aedificatrix monasterii. prius d'o s'c'isq: ei' largitis diuersarum specieru'donatiuis. que praecellens matrona diligentius possederat. iacet tumulata. cum s'c'is perpetim resurrectura in superne felicitatis gloria. Quo etiam in loco quidam viri religiosi Pontiui territorii e partibus transmarinis aduexerunt sacratissima membra confessoris Xp'i. IUDOCI. quem summo cum gaudio deuotissimus excipiens clerus. ac infinitus fidelium plebium concoetus. ibidem deposuerunt. quo dignis honoribus ueneratur. qui caelestis thesaurus cuius sit in celis meriti. approbat ipsius felicissima uita. fidemq: afferunt hie diuinitus ostensa multiplicium miraculorum insignia. “—Extract from the historical account of the translation of the monks of New Minster to Hyde Abbey, in the MS. belonging to the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, called the Hyde Abbey Book; where also the following passage is found in an account, written in Saxon, of the burial places of English Saints,—” þonne pestao onnipan mynstjie S'c's iudocus. js'c's gpimbaldus.”
page 133 note q Wolstani Monachi Ventani liber de vita S. Swithuni; Epistola ad Elfegum; Acta Benedict, saec. v. p. 635.
page 133 note r The authorities quoted are sufficient to shew the belief of the monks of New Minster that they were possessed of the body of St. Iudoc, brought thither when their Church was consecrated, and who seems, in the passage quoted from the Hyde Abbey Book, to be identified with the priest and hermit of this name, from Runiac in Picardy.
On the other hand, Isembard, a monk of Fleury in the time of Hugh the Great or King Robert, writes that the body of St. Iudoc, the priest and hermit, having been buried to prevent its falling into the hands of enemies ravaging the country, the spot was soon forgotten; and that in 977, in the time of Lothaire, son of Lewis (many years after the coming of the Saint's relics to England, according to our historians), the body was miraculously discovered, and translated into the monastery of St. Iudoc, built the same year. See De Translatione Corporis Sancti Iudoci Presbyteri & Confessoris. Acta Benedict. SKC. V. p. 545.
Isembard's relation will be found altogether very vague, although Orderic Vitalis makes use of it; and that Historian also records, on the authority of Willermus, monachus Merulensis, & sacerdos, the subsequent translation of the relics of St. Iudoc, first to Gomercium and afterward to Parnis, of which church he speaks as follows— “Ecclesia itaque de Parnis Uticensibus monachis commissa est, quae in honorem S. Martini Turonensis metropolitee antiquitus constructa est, vbi corpus S. ludoci Confessoris Christi iamdiu reuerenter seruatum est.” Orderic Vitalis, lib. iii. p. 496, apud Duchesne, Historic Normanorum Scriptores.—Mabillon, in his Commentary, adds, “Ecclesia Sancti ludoci de Parnis (sic modb appellatur) sita est, ut dixi, in pago Velliocassino, haud longfe a Magniaco oppido: qua in ecclesia quaedam portio Sancti ludoci reliquiarum populo exhibetiir feria secunda post Pentecosten: maxima pars (si non totum corpus) hactenus in ipsius sancti ludoci monasterio apud Morinos a nostris hactenus asservatur.” Acta Benedict. Saec. V., p. 547.
page 134 note s Hyde Abbey Book, MS. belonging to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.
page 134 note t Æthelgar was Abbot of New Minster in 965. Ann. Hyde.
page 134 note u ibid.
page 135 note x Lingard, Hist, of England, vol. i. p. 303.
page 135 note y Malmesb. de Gestis Pontif. lib. i. and lib. ii. Ibid, de Gestis Reg. Angl. lib. ii.
page 135 note z “Le Benedictionaire a-t-il été fait par l'ordre d'un Archevêque Robert? Je reponds d'abord qu'il n'a pu être fait par l'ordre de l'archevêque de Rouen, puisqu'on y trouve le Ceremonial et les prières du sacre des rois Anglo-Saxons, et que par consequent il étoit à l'usage de l'é'veêque de Cantorbery.” p. 166. “Mais comment, dira-t-on, pouvoit-il venir de Robert Archevêque de Rouen? Ma première conjecture à cet égard est fondée sur le catalogue même que je viens de citer (Mr. Gourdin had cited it, p. 167, on the authority of Mons. Saas), et dans lequel on lit simplement Benedictionarius Roberti Archiepiscopi. p. 170.—Notices des deux manuscrits de la Bibliotheque de Rouen, par Mons. Gourdin; Precis Analytique des travaux de l'Academie des Sciences, Belles Lettres, et Arts, de Rouen, pendant l'anuée 1812.
page 135 note a See Notices des manuscrits de la Bibliotheque de l'Eglise Metropolitaine de Rouen, par l'Abbe Saas, Chanoine a Rouen 1746; and the tracts relating to the controversy between the Abbé and Dom. Tassin. The French writers have been much deceived as to the age of this Benedictional; even Montfaucon ascribes it to the eighth century. Bibl. Biblioth. p. 116.
page 136 note b This justification must have escaped Mons. Gourdin's attention, or he would not, I conceive, in his Notices des deux Manuscrits, have repeated the charge against Abbé Saas.