London, British Library, Cotton Claudius A.iii is a composite manuscript containing three separate Pontificals (books, that is, containing the various services performed only by bishops, such as the consecration of churches or the coronation of kings); of these three, the first two are 11th-century Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the third a 12th-century manuscript containing an important coronation ordo (Schramm's "Third Coronation Order"). There is an introduction on pontificals in Anglo-Saxon England.


