Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Chronology of the Lives of Odelerius and his Son Orderic Vitalis
- Composition of the Historia ecclesiastica
- Introduction: Interpreting Orderic Vitalis
- Orderic and his Father, Odelerius
- Following the Master's Lead: The Script of Orderic Vitalis and the Discovery of a New Manuscript (Rouen, BM, 540)
- Orderic Vitalis as Librarian and Cantor of Saint-Évroul
- Saint-Évroul and Southern Italy in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica
- Orderic and English
- Inscriptions in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica: A Writing Technique between History and Poetry
- Reading Orderic with Charters in Mind
- Orderic Vitalis and the Cult of Saints
- Orderic's Secular Rulers and Representations of Personality and Power in the Historia ecclesiastica
- Worldly Woe and Heavenly Joy: The Tone of the Historia ecclesiastica
- Orderic Vitalis, Historical Writing and a Theology of Reckoning
- Jesus Christ, a Protagonist of Anglo-Norman History? History and Theology in Orderic Vitalis's Historia ecclesiastica
- ‘Studiosi abdita investigant’: Orderic Vitalis and the Mystical Morals of History
- Meanders, Loops, and Dead Ends: Literary Form and the Common Life in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica
- Orderic and the Tironensians
- ‘One single letter remained in excess of all his sins …’: Orderic Vitalis and Cultural Memory
- The Reception of Orderic Vitalis in the Later Middle Ages
- Appendix 1 Archaeological Investigations at the Abbey of Saint-Évroult-Notre-Dame-des-Bois
- Appendix 2 Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Featuring the Hand of Orderic Vitalis
- Select Bibliography
- List of Manuscripts Cited
- General Index
Appendix 2 - Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Featuring the Hand of Orderic Vitalis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2017
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Chronology of the Lives of Odelerius and his Son Orderic Vitalis
- Composition of the Historia ecclesiastica
- Introduction: Interpreting Orderic Vitalis
- Orderic and his Father, Odelerius
- Following the Master's Lead: The Script of Orderic Vitalis and the Discovery of a New Manuscript (Rouen, BM, 540)
- Orderic Vitalis as Librarian and Cantor of Saint-Évroul
- Saint-Évroul and Southern Italy in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica
- Orderic and English
- Inscriptions in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica: A Writing Technique between History and Poetry
- Reading Orderic with Charters in Mind
- Orderic Vitalis and the Cult of Saints
- Orderic's Secular Rulers and Representations of Personality and Power in the Historia ecclesiastica
- Worldly Woe and Heavenly Joy: The Tone of the Historia ecclesiastica
- Orderic Vitalis, Historical Writing and a Theology of Reckoning
- Jesus Christ, a Protagonist of Anglo-Norman History? History and Theology in Orderic Vitalis's Historia ecclesiastica
- ‘Studiosi abdita investigant’: Orderic Vitalis and the Mystical Morals of History
- Meanders, Loops, and Dead Ends: Literary Form and the Common Life in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica
- Orderic and the Tironensians
- ‘One single letter remained in excess of all his sins …’: Orderic Vitalis and Cultural Memory
- The Reception of Orderic Vitalis in the Later Middle Ages
- Appendix 1 Archaeological Investigations at the Abbey of Saint-Évroult-Notre-Dame-des-Bois
- Appendix 2 Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Featuring the Hand of Orderic Vitalis
- Select Bibliography
- List of Manuscripts Cited
- General Index
Summary
The principal discussions of manuscripts featuring Orderic's hand to date are those listed in works by Léopold Delisle, Marjorie Chibnall and Denis Escudier. The following appendix aims to provide a more detailed picture of the precise nature and locations of Orderic's contributions within the surviving manuscript corpus, including the addition of Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 540, as discussed by Weston, above. The manuscripts are listed according to institution. Each entry contains the shelfmark, approximate date of production, dimensions, total number of folia, textual contents, as well as a brief description of Orderic's contribution with precise folia numbers.
Alençon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS
(1100–1200; 300×192 mm; 148 fols.; Old Testament book of Prophets, with prologue of St Jerome)
Fols. 30v–32v: Orderic added three poems or hymns; one on the transient nature of worldly glory, one penitential piece, and one litany.
All three pieces are presented in a uniform format, with the text in two columns and with green and red capitals at the beginning of each line. Indications of pitch were added to the first three lines of the text beginning ‘Mundi forma’ on fol. 30v, though it is almost impossible to know whether Orderic was responsible for these.
Either Orderic or another scribe with a very similar hand revised or corrected the first poem at a later date. This is shown by the erasure of previous text and the addition of new lines in a much darker ink on fol. 30v, at: col. 1, lines 26–7; col. 2, lines 15 and 17; col. 2, lines 19–20.
The third poem may be incomplete. While the main text ends a quarter of the way down the page, coloured capitals were added to the remaining space but with no additional text. These coloured capitals have been either much damaged or partly erased.
References
Delisle, ‘Matériaux’, pp. 497–500
HE, I, p. 202
Escudier, ‘L'oeuvre entre les lignes’
Escudier, ‘Orderic et le scriptorium’, pp. 24, 26–7
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- Orderic Vitalis: Life, Works and Interpretations , pp. 385 - 398Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016