Number

879

Shelfmark

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 943

Date

x3/4 [after 959]

Origin

France s. xi2

Provenance

[unknown]

Contents

• Letter (spurious?) from Pope John XII to Dunstan
• pontifical (including litanies and second English Coronation ordo)
• benedictional
• prologue to Poenitentiale Egberti (CPL 1887)
• First Capitulary of Gerbald of Liège
• forms of absolution. Additions (s. x/xi—xi1): list of bishops of Sherborne
• letter to Bishop Wulfsige 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*

Bibliography

MSS

• Delisle (1868-81) I.320, III.268-70
• Liebermann (1903-16) I.xxxvii
• Brotanek (1913) 33-49
• Wildhagen (1913) 456-7
• Förster (1927) 116
• Leroquais (1937) II.6-10
• Lauer et al. (1939—) I.335-6
• N.R. Ker (1957) no. 364
• Samaran—Marichal et al. (1959-84) II.43 [d’Alverny]
• T.A.M. Bishop (1964-8b) 246 n. 1
• N.R. Ker (1964) 179
• Vezin (1965) 86
• Vezin (1968) II.287
• T.A.M. Bishop (1971) xxii
• Korhammer (1973) 174
• Rella (1977) 106-7
• Backhouse et al. (1984b) no. 34
• Prescott (1987) 126-8
• Haggenmüller (1991) 87, 152, 289
• Lapidge (1991a) 79-80
• Dumville (1992a) 69, 72, 82-5, 90-4, 125
• Rosenthal (1992)
• Scragg (1992) xxxiv, 330 and n. 3
• Conner (1993) 19-20 et passim
• Dumville (1993f) 89, 92, 95-6, 99 [no. 22]
• Dumville (1993g) 100, 148
• Dumville (1994c) 293-4
• Nelson—Pfaff (1995) 89-90
• R. Gameson (1996b) 163, 173-5
• Rasmussen (1998) 258-317
• Ebersperger (1999) 32-44
• C.A. Jones (2004) 341 n. 67, 343 n. 73, 344 nn. 77-80
• C.A. Jones (2005a) 111, 128
• C.A. Jones (2005b) 234
• Keynes (2005a) 62-3 and nn. 64-72
• N. Orchard (2005) xcix-xcix, cxxix, 444 et passim
• Stockdale (2005) 169
• Hartzell (2006) no. 310
• O’Brien O’Keeffe (2006) 268-9
• Pulsiano (2007) 124-5
• Wieland (2009) 124
• Winterbottom—Lapidge (2012) xxxviii and n. 121, xl, lx, clviii n. 560, 84 n. 247, 139 n. 92
• R. Gameson (2012a) 40, 67 n. 232
• R. Gameson (2012b) 114
• D. Ganz (2012) 190 n. 13, 194 and nn. 38-9
• Pfaff (2012) 458 and n. 32
• Rankin (2012) 490
• Rushforth (2012) 203 and n. 42
• Scragg (2012a) nos. 979-83

DEC

• F. Wormald (1945) 135 [repr. F. Wormald (1984) 74]
• Rice (1952) 162, 197, 209, 212-13
• F. Wormald (1952) 78 [no. 54]
• Dodwell (1954) 8
• E. Temple (1976) no. 35
• Brownrigg (1978) 246 n. 2, 252
• Rosenthal (1981)
• F. Wormald (1984) 107
• F. Wormald (1984b) 117
• Ohlgren (1986) no. 140
• Avril—Stirnemann (1987) no. 16
• Raw (1990) 92, 111-28, 235
• R. Gameson (1992a) 189 n. 9 et passim
• R. Gameson (1995a) 140 n. 171
• R. Gameson (1995b) 22-3, 127, 153, 156-7, 194, 223 n. 183
• C.A. Jones (2005a) 111
• R. Gameson (2012c) 262 and n. 37, 280

FACS

• NPS I, pls. 111-12 [fols. 10r, 156r]
• Rice (1952) pls. 42(d) [fol. 10r], 64(b) [fol. 4v]
• F. Wormald (1952) pls. 4(a), 4(b), 5(a) [fols. 5v, 6r, 6v]
• Dodwell (1954) pl. 5(a) [fol. 4v]
• E. Temple (1976) ills. 134-8 [fols. 4r, 5v, 6r, 6v, 10r]
• D.M. Wilson (1984) pl. 234 [fol. 4v]
• F. Wormald (1984) ill. 113 [fol. 5v]
• Huglo (1987) pl. XVI [fol. 10v]
• Ramsay et al. (1992) pls. IV, 1-3 [fols. 4v, 5v, 6r, 6v]
• Eales—Sharpe (1995) pl. 6(b) [fol. 6v]
• Rasmussen (1998) pls. 9-10 [fols. 10r, 108r]
• Keynes (2005a) figs. 5-6 [fols. 1v, 2r]

ED

• Stubbs (1874) cxiii [list of bishops of Sherborne], 406-8 [letter to Bishop Wulfsige], 408-9 [two penitential letters]
• Liebermann (1903-16) I.401-9 [Iudicium Dei coll. as Ps]
• Brotanek (1913) 15-27 [base MS for anon. Homily for the Dedication of a church], 27-8 [rules of confraternity], 38 [list of bishops of Sherborne]
• Harmer (1952) no. 63 [writ by Æthelric]
• Moeller (1971-9) [benedictions coll. as Paris 943]
• Whitelock et al. (1981a) I.88-92 [letter from Pope John XII to Dunstan], 226-8 [letter to Bishop Wulfsige], 230-1 [first penitential letter]
• Brommer (1984) 16-21 [Gerbald, First Capitulary, coll. as P3]
• H. Zimmermann (1984-5) I.271-4 [letter from Pope John XII to Dunstan]
• O’Donovan (1988) no. 13 [writ by Æthelric]
• Lapidge (1991a) 247-9 [litanies for Dedication of a church]
• Conn (1993) [pontifical and benedictional]
• Ebersperger (1999) 237-62 [base MS for Ælfric, Homily for Dedication of a church]
• Rumble (2002) 233-7 [Letter from Pope John XII]

LANG

• Schabram (1965) 99-100
• Wenisch (1979) 22, 45, 327
• Hofstetter (1987) 219

ST

• H.A. Wilson (1903)
• Woolley (1917) 139-65
• D.H. Turner (1971) xvi-xxxix
• Scragg (1979) 256
• Frantzen (1983b) 131
• N.P. Brooks (1984) 244, 248, 267, 274, 281, 378 n. 153
• Vollrath (1985) 338-46
• Prescott (1987) 141-7
• Gardner (1988) 65-7
• Sole (1998) 134-5
• Cross—Hamer (1999) 35
• N. Orchard (2002) I.108 n. 252, 238
• Heslop (2004) 282 n. 5
• C.D. Wright (2009) 182-4 [Letter from Pope John XII]
• Hamilton (2010) 426