Recommendatio parvula sive Salutatio beatae Mariae virginis gloriosae

Denmark, 14th century, last quarter, or 15th century, first quarter

Parchment

19 leaves

200–205 × 130 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 2r–18v) Jacobus Nicholai de Dacia, Recommendatio parvula sive Salutatio beatae Mariae

Rubric: Salutacio beate marie uirginis gloriose

Incipit: Salue sancta parens dei Salue mater noster spei

Explicit: Et securos nos conducet Lux que sine fine lucet Per suam clemenciam Amen

Note:

f. 18v An addition by the scribe:

‘Istud salve subscriptum stare debet in tercio folio precedenti ad tale signum quod sequitur’ and six lines of verse, these are linked with a signe-de-renvoi to f. 16r where ‘in fine stat’ has also been written in the margin.

According to Kabell (1967), p. 24, n. 40 one bifolium of the manuscript is probably missing since the original number of the double strophes should be 150.

Physical Description

Secundo folio

Salue mitis

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: LCI, RCI

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 200 × 130 mm

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1–19

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 205 × 130 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Collation

Formula: 1(1+10), 2(8)

Note: VisColl collation.

Condition

Binding/Endleaves

Flyleaves loose, board and attachment straps visible underneath.

Textblock

f. 1 loose leaf, almost detached. f. 4 Circa 80% of the page cut out. Words or parts of words from 10 lines are visible on 4r, on 4v only two words. f. 1 and f. 19 dirty and with holes in the page. Sewing loose in both quires.

Layout

Locus: ff. 1r–19v

Columns: 1

Written lines: 24

Written area: 150 × 100 mm

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

Gothic cursive.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Upper left corner: National Library book label with current signum; lower right corner: remains of a red wax seal.

(RCI) Centre page, in brown ink by a medieva hand: ‘probacio penne’, ‘salue mater’ (pen-trials).

Textblock

(f. 1r) Upper right corner, in black ink by a modern hand: ‘18 Blad 1846.’

(f. 1v) Top of page, in brown ink (with capitals touched in red) by a medieval hand: ‘Incipit recommendacio paruula siue salutacio beate marie genitricis dei omnipotentis et virginis gloriose’; below the title a contemporary hand has written: ‘probacio penne’; bottom page, by the same hand that wrote the title: ‘Per quendam scolarem de regno dacie;’ below, a pen-trial in faded brown ink.

(f. 2r) Top of page in pencil: ‘27’.

(f. 5v) Outer margin, in brown ink within a frame by the scribe or a contemporary hand: ‘Roskildis’.

(ff. 5v–16r) Short additions or corrections (one word or short phrases) by a contemporary hand.

(f. 19r) The entire page is covered by a double frame containing an x-shape drawn in darkbrown ink. In the upper part of the frame, the scribe or a contemporary hand has written: ‘Salue sancta ? et omni cause’ Below the lower part of the frame: ‘sic deformetur per furtum ne rapiatur folium hoc’

(f. 19v) A similar frame to that on (f. 19r) filled with pen-trials (of which some are words and others just letters). Above the frame two lines have been written, but the text is too faded and damaged to make out.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in brown ink, capitals touched in red,

Initials:

(f. 2r) Opening plain initial ‘S’ over 2 lines (extending above and below the line) in blue with red flourishing.

Binding

Description:

Medieval binding. Brown or white leather over wooden boards. 3 pairs of raised bands and endbands. Strap and pin fastening, pin at the RCO.

LCO, top in brown ink ‘N 39’; bottom stamped in gold: ‘A 39’; Spine, brown ink on paper label: ‘A 39’.

Binding dimensions: 205 × 140 × 25 mm

Condition: Leather dirty and torn. Boards visible on all sides. Worm holes all over. Bottom endband missing. Traces of nails (from chain staples) and rust on upper part of RCO.

Contemporary: Yes