Collects and antiphons for the Office

Denmark, after 1489

Paper

124 leaves

230 × 160 mm

Latin, Danish

1 (ff. 1ra–26vb) Proper of time

Rubric: Feria quarta in capite ieiuvnii (!) aske onsdag super benedictus

Incipit: Cum ieiuniatis nolite fieri sicut ypocrite tristes (Matt. 6:16)

Explicit: Cecus magis ac magis clamabat ut eum dominus illuminaret Versus dirigatur collecta ut supra

Note:

The Proper of time starts with Ash Wednesday and ends with Quadragesima Sunday.

ff. 27r–27v: guidelines, but no text.

2 (ff. 28ra–94vb) Proper of saints

Rubric: Hic incipit de Sanctis primo de sancto stephano antiphona

Incipit: Intuens in celum beatus stephanus uidit gloriam dei

Explicit: sic eius munera capiamus sempiterna gaudentes Per eundem qui theodosie virginis eodem die.

Note:

The Proper of saints begins with St Stephen (26 Dec.) and ends with St Thomas (21 Dec.) and with the rubric for St Theodosia (18 July).

A majority of the pages only contain the rubric for a each feast.

Notable feasts:

f. 29 and f. 57r: St Knud Lavard (7 Jan. and 25 June, see Chesnutt (2003), pp. 77–78);

f. 31r: St Henry (19 Jan., text not inserted);

f. 34r: St Ansgar (3 Feb.), concerning the text, see Helander (1989), pp. 49–53, 68, 159–161, 253;

f. 37r: St Sigfrid (15 Feb.);

f. 39v: St Lucius (4 Mar.);

f. 44r: St Katarina of Sweden (24 Mar.);

f. 51v: St Halward (15 May, text not inserted);

f. 52r: Erik (18 May);

f. 54v: St Eskil (12 June);

f. 55r: St Vilhelm, 16 June;

f. 57r: St David of Munkentorp (25 June, only the rubric);

f. 61v: St Knud (10 July);

f. 62r: St Kjeld (11-18 July), regarding the antiphons, seeGertz (1908-1912), pp. 279–280, 283 (the antiphon for first Vespers not found in Gertz);

f. 65v: St Birgitta (23 July, text after the office Rosa rorans);

f. 67v: St Olaf (29 July);

f. 74r: translation of St Lucius (25 Aug.);

f. 76v: St Sunniva (7 Sep.)

f. 80v: St Ketil (27 Sep., text not inserted);

f. 82v: St Birigtta (7 Oct., text after the office Birgitte matris inclite);

f. 85r: St Thøger (30 Oct.).

3 (ff. 95ra–99va) Additions

Rubric: Eugenie uirginis

Incipit: ⟨M⟩Ortifica quesumus domine populum tuum hic in temptacionibus

Explicit: vt a quibus tibi ministrantibus in celo semper assistetur ab hiis in terra vita nostra muniatur Per eum qui venturus est

Note:

Added feasts: St Eugenia (rubric only); St Buriana ; Translation of St Birgitta; Three Maries; Patriarchs et prophets; Twenty-four elders; St Mechtild; The Lance of Lord Saviour; Crown of Thorns (rubric in Danish), St Adalbert, St Liborius; St Paulinus; St Priscus; St Edmund, St Linius?; St Saturninus (last seven saints only with a collect); St Joachim; collect for the dead; St Lupus; Feast of relics; Dedication of the church; Three Marys, one sequence, and two prayers.

4 (ff. 99vb–100vb) Two prayers for St Magnus

Rubric: De sancto magno episcopo et martire Oratio

Incipit: Hoffligh biscopp oc megtugh martir fattughe oc wedhertørff the menneskes myldhe patronae Sancte magus (!)

Explicit: Oc with thesse thimelighe thing skulle wii forskyldhe at fanghe meth fructsommelighe gaerninghe ewyndelighethz gledhae Per christum dominum nostrum Amen

5 (ff. 101ra–124ra) Prayers

Rubric: Hwo som sigh wil wærdelige redhæ ath thagæ til sigh thz werduge sacramenth tha skal han i ix daghæ til fornæ læsæ thzte som hær æffter staar [...] ok gøræ thic læsæ so thennæ bøn

Incipit: O Thw alzobarm hiertugeste gudh fadher

Explicit: Thz wnnæ oss allæ samen gudh father ok søn ok then helghæ andh AmeN

Note: Collection of prayers in Danish. Transcription of rubric, incipit, and explicit based on material supplied by Ingela Hedlund.

Physical Description

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: LCI, RCI

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 230 × 160 mm

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1–124

Leaf dimensions: 230 × 160 mm

Support: Paper

Note: The first and centre bifolium of every quire is parchment, everything else paper.

Watermark 1

Locus: ff. 1–124,

Motif: Letter P, above single line rod with flower on top.

Note: Similar to watermarks in Piccard IV:2, chapters VII-VIII. There may be two or more versions of P-marks, but they are difficult to analyse because of the text. The most visible watermark is on f. 27, additional ones on e.g. f. 64 and f. 85.

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil. Secundo folio: atus auerte

Collation

Note: VisColl collation

Formula: 1(16), 2(14, lacks 6, 13-14), 3(18, lack 5), 4(18), 5-6(16), 7(16, lacks 3, 8-16), 8(14), 9(14, lacks 11-14)

Condition

Binding/Endleaves

Endleaves have been cut out at the front and back. Stubs left at the back.

Textblock

Paper dirty and stained in places. 18 leaves and the entire last quire (probably consisting of 8 leaves) have been cut out. See collation for exakt leaves. f. 35: hole, no loss of text; f. 40r: half the page has been cut out along its length, probably before the text was written (one column of text on the remaining part). f. 124 has been subjected to cutting or tearing, only circa 30% of the leaf remains, which carries 10 lines of text. After f. 124 an entire quire has been cut away, stubs remain.

Layout

Columns: 2

Written lines: 29–35

Written area: 170 × 110 mm

Note: Guidelines in ink.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

(ff. 1ra–26vb)Gothic cursive.

Hand 2

(ff. 28ra–98va)Gothic hybrida. Possibly more than one hand. Occasional looping on d and l.

Hand 3

(ff. 98vb–100vb)Gothic cursive.

Hand 4

(ff. 101r–124r)Gothic hybrida.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Upper left corner: National Library modern ex libris. Upper part of page in in brown and black ink by two different modern hands: table of contents. Bottom of page in brown ink: ‘N: 14’.

(RCI) Upper part of page in black ink by medieval hand: two words, probably a pen-trial.

Textblock

(ff. 8v–98v) A few additions or corrections in the margins in ink by the scribe or a contemporary hand. These range from one word to 3 llines.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in black ink, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red.

Initials:

(ff. 1ra–94vb): plain initials in red over 1-2 lines (and extending below the line) (ff. 95ra–100va): Plain initials in red over 1-2 lines. (ff. 101ra–123ra): Plain initials in red over 2-3 lines.

Binding

Description:

Late medieval binding. Brown leather over wooden boards. 4 double spinebands and endbands. 2 hook-clasp fastenings, 2 different styles of catch plates on LCO. Spine: stamped in gold: ‘A 35’; in black ink: ‘89’; in brown ink on a sticker:‘ A. 35’ ; remains of a torn-off sticker.

Binding dimensions: 240 × 175 × 50 mm

Tooling:

Blind tooling with series of frames and diagonal lines creating lozenges, in which are stamped roses and fleur-de lys of two sizes.

Condition: Leather torn, especially on the spine where the endbands are visible. Several small holes in the upper part of LCO. Clasps detached and preserved separately.

History

Origin

Denmark, probably Viborg diocese, after 1489. Regarding the origin former librarian Anna Wolodarski has observed that the liturgical contents agree to some extant with the liturgical traditions of the Danish dioceses of Slesvig, Odense and Århus, but the highest degree of solemnity of St Kjeld (Kettil) and the strong Augustinian features point to the diocese of Viborg, Jutland (for which no breviary has been preserved). The Birgittine and Franciscan influences are obvious. The great number of saints not found in the liturgical traditions of the Danish dioceses might imply a martyrology as a model for the manuscript. The rubrics ‘In cicilia natalis sanctorum lxxxiiii’ (f. 38r), ‘In Britania deposicio Felicis episcopi’ (f. 41v) and the obit: ‘Hic obiit Vademarus rex Danorum’ (f. 51v, relating to Valdemar I ‘the Great’) could confirm this suggestion, see Helander (1989), pp. 48–53 and Andersen (1990), pp. 97–120. The feminine grammatical forms in both the Latin prayers for Sophia (f. 58v, ‘famula’) and in one of the vernacular prayers (f. 121ra, ‘syndherskæ’) point to a female owner. Regarding the dating: the feast of Catherine of Sweden implies dating after 1489, see Andersen (1990), p. 114; according to Chesnutt (2003) a date shortly after 1500 is plausible.

Provenance

The manuscript has been in Sweden since at least the 17th century. It may have been taken as spoils of war. The signum ‘no. 14’ (LCI), possibly written byJohan Hadorph jr., probably refers to the arrangement of the library of the College of Antiquities from about 1689, cf. Ilsøe (1968), p. 8. The manuscript belonged to the Antiquities Archive and is listed in its inventories and catalogues.

The older signum ‘89’ is mentioned in the inventory from the 1720s (U 90:2, f. 8).

Current signum, ‘A 35’, first established in Helin’s catalogue from the 1720s (U 91:2:2).

Also mentioned in the following catalogues and inventories: U 90:1, f. 12v ‘no. 144’; (U 91:1) ‘G 89’, later changed to ‘35’; U 91:5 ‘no. 54’.