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Atto of Vercelli, De pressuris ecclesiasticis, Archbishop Wulfstan, and Wulfstan's “Commonplace Book”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

J. E. Cross*
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool

Extract

Karl Jost first noted the use of a passage from Atto of Vercelli, De pressuris ecclesiasticis, in Archbishop Wulfstan's Latin composition De Christianitate. Dorothy Bethurum, however, in her essay on the group of manuscripts associated as representatives of Wulfstan's “Commonplace Book,” suggested that an extract in one of these, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190, pp. 96–97, was an intermediary between the original work of Atto and Wulfstan's De Christianitate. Jost and Bethurum used the edition of Atto by d'Achery, reprinted in Migne. Now Joachim Bauer has re-edited Atto's tract and, finding early manuscripts rare, has read CCC 190 and identified more quotations from Atto in this English manuscript.

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page 237 note 1 Karl Jost, “Einige Wulfstantexte und ihre Quellen,” Anglia 56 (1932): 265–315, at 279–80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 237 note 2 Dorothy Bethurum, “Archbishop Wulfstan's Commonplace Book,” PMLA 57 (1942): 916–29 at 923–24. Bethurum noted a number of manuscripts which she would regard as exemplifying a “Commonplace Book.” But if the term means a series of miscellaneous abstracts from larger works which are recorded for reference, some of these manuscripts should be deleted from the group, although they may still record Wulfstan's writing and suggest Wulfstan's reading. Certain manuscripts, however, fit the definition. These have sequences of normally brief items in common, although no one manuscript is a copy of another. These are Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190 (Part A) (hereafter CCC 190); Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 265; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barlow 37; and now Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale 1382 (U. 109): see n. 7, below. Other manuscripts which also are collections for future reference but are not closely allied to the above group are Copenhagen, Royal Library Gl. Kgl. S. 1595, which contains mainly sermons and homiletic passages, and BL Cotton Nero A i, which contains a number of laws. Other manuscripts noted in this paper are obviously associated with Wulfstan in other ways.Google Scholar

page 237 note 3 Exeter, s. xi1, for this section.Google Scholar

page 237 note 4 PL 134; L. d’Achery, Spicilegium (Paris, 1668), the first edition.Google Scholar

page 237 note 5 Joachim Bauer, “Die Schrift ‘De Pressuris Ecclesiasticis’ des Bischofs Atto von Vercelli: Untersuchung und Edition” (diss., Tübingen, 1975), cited hereafter as Bauer. Identifications of Atto's work in CCC 190 are presented with the edition at pp. vi-xiii. Bauer (v, n. 4) unfortunately associates CCC 190 with Wulfstan II, Bishop of Worcester, 1062–95.Google Scholar

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page 240 note 23 Bauer has one error of transcript where CCC 190 is in error in reading: coeternis, for Atto's caeteris. Bauer reads caeteris without indication of editorial emendation.Google Scholar

page 240 note 24 Bauer has one small error: et for ac in ‘Sanctus martyr Alexander ac Romanus papa.’Google Scholar

page 240 note 25 Bauer has errors in reading papa for propria (Atto also propria) in the description of Pope Pelagius, and fatigaret for fatigaretur in the reference to Pope Leo.Google Scholar

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page 242 note 29 The Anglo-Saxon Pontificals, ed. H.M.J. Banting, HBS 104 (London, 1989), 16. We should note that a short section which immediately follows these two in the Egbert Pontifical, Ex concilio Calcidonense titulo II quod non debeant officio aecclestiasica per pecunias ordinare, ultimately from the Council of Chalcedon no. 2 (PL 67: 171), is also presented in CCC 190, pp. 106–7.Google Scholar

page 245 note 1 Ecclesia … domina] Atto, DPE, PL 134: 88D; Bauer, 141; cf. De rapinis 11.Google Scholar

page 245 note 2 decet … ipsis] Atto, DPE, PL 134: 88D; Bauer, 141; cf. De rapinis 11.Google Scholar

page 245 note 3 Omnia … tolluntur] Atto, DPE, PL 134: 88c; Bauer, 139; cf. De rapinis 2.Google Scholar

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page 245 note 5 Agustinus … diripit] Unidentified as Augustine, but cf. De rapinis 14, Wulfstan's own addition to Vespasian A xiv, fol. 173v.Google Scholar

page 245 note 6 Legitur … permisit] Atto, DPE PL 134: 89c; Bauer, 143, with a little adaptation.Google Scholar

page 245 note 7 Item … presumpsit] Atto, DPE, PL 134: 89B; Bauer, 143, with omission of some phrases of Atto.Google Scholar

page 245 note 8 Item … permisit] Atto, DPE, PL 134: 89B; Bauer, 143.Google Scholar

page 245 note 9 Quid … ecclesiam] An orator's question linking the preceding material with the succeeding answers from authority. Note the echo “qui Christi lacerant ecclesiam,” above n. 4.Google Scholar

page 245 note 10 Adtendamus … uenti] Psalm 82:13–14 cited Atto, DPE, PL 134: 89D; Bauer, 145: cf. De rapinis 4.Google Scholar

page 245 note 11 Omnis … domino] Atto, DPE, PL 134: 88B; Bauer, 139. Note exact echo of De rapinis 10 with added phrase: “uel dampnetur a domino.”Google Scholar

page 245 note 12 Canon Romanus … sumpserunt] Excerptiones Pseudo-Egberti, Aronstam (as in n. 26 above), 119, no. v almost verbatim. The item is found in CCC 265, p. 29; Barlow 37, fol. 3v; and Rouen 1382, fol. 187r.Google Scholar

page 245 note 13 Cristus … culpa] Excerptiones Pseudo-Egberti, Aronstam p. 120, no. vi almost verbatim. The item is found in CCC 265, p. 29; Barlow 37, fol. 3v; and Rouen 1382, fol. 187r.Google Scholar

page 246 note 14 Quid igitur? … pertingere] Unidentified, perhaps another linking passage.Google Scholar

page 246 note 15 Omnipotens … uicissitudinem] Atto, DPE, PL 134: 90A; Bauer, 145–47.Google Scholar

page 246 note 16 Quamuis … manifestissime] Atto, DPE, PL 134: 90B; Bauer, 147.Google Scholar

page 246 note 17 Intra … regnorum] Is. 47:5, cited Atto, DPE, PL 134: 90A; Bauer, 147.Google Scholar

page 246 note 18 Item … sua] Jer. 12:14 cited Atto, DPE, PL 134: 90A; Bauer, 145, cf. De rapinis n. 9.Google Scholar

page 246 note 19 Gregorius … Amen] see n. 14 of essay above; cf. De rapinis 13.Google Scholar