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Meg asked if the Inventory of Church Goods is contained in the whole of v. 19 of the Norfolk Record Society or in part. Vol. 19 is devoted soley to the Inventory. It's in 2 parts. Part 1 (1947) is Watkin's 103-page analysis of the Inventory; Part 2 (1948) is the Inventory itself. It concludes with Watkin’s biographical notices of all the donors noted in the Inventory, itself fascinating. Most of it was compiled in 1368 with additions into the early 1400s. As Frans has found, it's a gold mine of interesting data. The inspectors seem to have had in hand the 13th-century list attributed to Bp. Robert Winchelsey (though never formally issued) describing the books and items every parish church should own (at least this is my surmise given how closely the Inventory follows the list’s order). (The list is in Powicke and Cheney’s “Councils and Synods,” 2/2, p. 1387.)
By my count--which is a little different from Watkin’s if I recall; it’s been awhile since I looked closely at it--the Inventory catalogues roughly 6,363 books in 358 churches, on average each owning about 18 books. Only about 500, or 8%, are non-liturgical volumes. It also lists all the vestments and liturgical paraphernalia in each church. It’s so detailed that you almost feel you’re taking a quick peek inside late 14th-century churches.
Best,
John
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PS: ... the inventory also shows that some twelve more churches owned a partial
Bible: Gospel book, Epistolary, glossed Psalter, or other glossed Bible book.
(xxxv)
I'll stop there, but I'm having a ball with this source ;-)
F.
>>> John Shinners <[log in to unmask]> 03/18/13 11:36 AM >>>
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>Would each church have possessed one copy of the Vulgate?
Definitely not. One go-to source for this is the “Archdeaconry of Norwich,
Inventory of Church Goods, temp. Edward III,” which is a document cataloguing
all the books and liturgical goods in parish churches in the diocese of Norwich
made in 1368 (with later editions). Aelred Watkin edited it for the Norfolk
Record Society (v. 19, 1947-48).
The inventory covers over 350 parishes. Regarding Bibles, Watkins writes:
“Copies of the Bible are found in six churches" (xlvii). In the various
service books in each parish there would, of course, be large sections of the
Bible, but to own a complete Bible in a single volume (or usually in 2) was, at
least in Norwich, very rare.
Best,
John
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TBob,
It very much depends what you mean with "the Vulgate". Especially when you
start talking about Psalters, "the Vulgate" is a problematic term when you use
it as a blanket term for the Bible. Not to mention apocryphal texts.
Certainly it seems safe to say that almost all churches in England would have
possessed a bible for liturgical reading, or (and maybe in addition to) a
lectionary or psalter. Several book lists and catalogues of monastic
foundations also explicitly mention that there was "a copy of a bible in the
coister, for consultation by the brothers."
We can assess the book possession of individual foundations (such as Sheppard
has done for the Buildwas books), and then extrapolate for the ones we don't
have data for.
Frans van Liere
School of Historical Studies
Institute for Advanced Study
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Princeton NJ 08540
>>> Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> 03/18/13 9:30 AM >>>
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Most of the publicly displayed figures are the product of pro-Christian
arguments. I live about 3 hours from the nearest research library. I realize
that a half or more of those manuscripts will contain some portion of the
Vulgate. They probably included psalteries, and favorit books like the
Apocalypse or apocrypha like the Gospel of Nicodemus.
Would each church have possessed one copy of the Vulgate?
TBob
Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D.
Professor of French
University of Tennessee at Martin
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Dear Bob,
Thanks for your query. This sounds like a rather overblown number to me; could
you mention who has come up with this figure? Maybe, if this figure were to
include things like gospel collections and New Testaments, or indeed liturgical
collections that serve as repositories of biblical texts, then it would be, to
me, more believable.
As to your query about how many were in England at any point … I don't know!
Intrigued and interested to learn more about this, George
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On 18 MaThere are allegedly 8000 ms copt copies of the Vulgate. Any idea of where I
could find an estimate of how many there were in England in the 13th century,
or at any specific time in the Middle Ages?
TBob
Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D.
Professor of French
University of Tennessee at Martin
Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy
Director, Globe-gate Intercultural Web Project
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