Processional for Birgittine use

Germany, Maihingen, 1499

paper

68 leaves

190–200 × 140–150 mm

Latin, German

1 (f. 1r) Antiphons and collects

Rubric: Antiphona

Incipit: Lauda suenigena (!)plebs

Explicit: deuota conuersacione et placitis moribus deseruire Qui viuis et regnas in deo patre in vnitate spiritus sancti deus per omnia secula seculorum Amen

Note:

f. 1rrecords a miscellany of antiphons and prayers related to Birgitta and Katarina. The first four antihphons recorded on f. 1r  are found again, with musical notation and in a different medieval hand, on f. 63r and ff. 64r–64v .

f. 1v blank.

2 (ff. 2r–63r) Processional for the Birgittine liturgy

Incipit: Regnum mundi et omnen ornatum

Explicit: Gloria patri et filio et spiritui santo

Note:

The contents of the processional - antiphons, responsories, tropes, glorie, and hymns – is printed by Geete as ‘Cantus sororum’ in his edition of the Birgittine liturgy as preserved in National Library of Sweden A 12, but follows a different order from Geete's edition.

f. 14 has been incorrectly placed, resulting in a disruption in the order of the text; the correct placement of f. 14 is after f. 15. The misplacement is signalled on f. 13v, f. 14v, and f. 15v, by marginal notes in German with a corresponding reference mark on f. 13v, f. 14r, f. 14v, f. 15r, and f. 15v.

The last couple of items – two responsories with following verse, and a gloria in a different medieval hand, for Maccabees, highlighted by the marginal note ‘Contra Turcas’ – are not included in Geete.

Edition: Geete (1895), pp. 209–267.

3 (f. 63r) Antiphon

Rubric: V⟨ersi⟩o sant katherina

Incipit: O patrone ingenue

Explicit: perspicue a clade repentina

Edition: Collijn (1945), p. 66.

4 (ff. 63v–64r) Gospel readings in German

Incipit: An dem grünen donderstag

Explicit: dat auch ir also einander thut

5 (f. 64r) Antiphon

Incipit: Birgitta vas gracie

Explicit: per suffragia Saluemur a ruina

Edition: Collijn (1945), p. 66.

6 (f. 64v) Antiphon

Incipit: Lauda suecigena plebs

Explicit: semper exaltat katherine

Edition: Collijn (1945), p. 65.

7 (f. 64v) Antiphon

Incipit: Uale mater inclita

Explicit: et celorum abdita

Edition: Collijn (1945), p. 65.

8 (ff. 65r–68r) Index

Rubric: Hye nach folgt dat register vber diez processional an welchen tagen dat obgeschriben gesanck gehalten wirt mit sampt einer zal an welchem plat ein yeglich responsz oder antiffen geschriben vnd notiert ist

Note:

The index is organised by rubrics, in German, for each feast day; under each rubric follows the incipits of the material to be sung, in order, followed by the contemporary folio number on which the item in question is found.

f. 68v Guidelines, no text.

Colophon: ff. 65r–68rLaus deo finis in die felicitate anno 1499 Bit got auch fur mich

Physical Description

Secundo folio

Regnum mundi et omnem ornatum

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: LCI, RCI

Support: Western paper

Leaf dimensions: 190/200 × 140/140 mm

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1r–68v

Support: Western paper

Leaf dimensions: 200 × 150 mm

Watermark 1

Locus: ff. 1–44,

Motif: Crown with double-lined arch with pearls, and above, a cross.

Note: Similar to Piccard online nr. 53634.

Watermark 2

Locus: ff. 33–68,

Motif: Circle with single-line half-cross and rod with single-line star.

Note: Similar to Piccard online nr. 161375.

Watermark 3

Locus: ff. 57–68,

Motif: Oxhead with eyes and singe-line rod, and above, a crown with single-line rod and flower.

Note: Similar to Piccard II:3, XV, 227.

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Contemporary foliation in Roman numerals ff. 2r–56r

Collation

Note: VisColl collation.

Formula: 1(12), 2(8+2), 3(10), 4-6(12)

Condition

Textblock

f. 37 Leaf repaired with glued-on piece of paper. f. 62Piece of leaf torn out.

Layout

Locus: ff. 2r–64v

Note: Six staves, with four lines per stave, ruled in red ink.

Script

Textblock

Description:

Text in at least four different hands.

Hand 1

(ff. 2r–62v, 65r–68r)Main hand in gothic hybrida.

Hand 2

(ff. 1r, 63v–64r)Gothic hybrida.

Hand 4

(f. 62v)Gothic semi-textualis.

Hand 5

(ff. 63r, 64r–64v)Gothic cursive.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Top left corner in pencil by a modern hand, the current signum of the National Library: ‘A 92a’; adjacent to this in pencil by a modern hand: ‘b 5 3’ (struck through); top centre in pencil by a modern hand, the signum of the Ötttingen-Wallerstein library: ‘II (Lat.) I 4o 42’.

(RCI) Centre page, National Library stamp; bottom page, two stamps from F. Öttingen Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek.

Textblock

(f. 1r) Bottom right corner: the National Library acquisition date and number in ink: ‘1934/14’ Bottom centre: National Library stamp.

(f. 2r) Top centre in black ink by a modern hand: ‘Processionale’

(ff. 6v, 40r–40r) Marginal note in pencil by a modern hand: ‘Birg’ / ‘Birgitta’.

(f. 13v) Marginal note with cross and corresponding cross on (f. 15r) signalling misplacement of leaf: ‘Ker fir sich ain plat vm’.

(f. 14v) Marginal note with cross and corresponding cross on  (f. 14r)  signalling misplacement of leaf: ‘Ker fir sich ain plat vm’.

(f. 15v) Marginal note with cross and corresponding cross on  (f. 13v)  signalling misplacement of leaf: ‘Ker hinder sich ii pleter vm’.

(f. 35v) Marginal note in brown ink: ‘De S Anna’.

(f. 61r) Marginal note in black ink by a contemporary hand: ‘Contra Turcas’.

(f. 62v) Marginal note in red in by a contemporary hand: ‘super salutem’, ‘videte’.

(f. 64v) Top of page in light brown ink by a later hand: ‘De S. Katherina’; mid page margin, in the same ink, a capital ‘D’ with penwork.

(f. 68v) Top of page, two pen trials and in brown ink in a contemporary hand: ‘Benedicat nos deus et dirigat nos et actus nostros’; Below, an erasure, text illegible.

Decorations

Binding/Endleaves

Images:

(LCI), woodcut of St Birgitta standing with her customary symbols: a book, the pilgrim's staff, and hat; frame in black with vegetative ornaments; upper left corner, a coat of arms with ‘SPQR’. The print is coloured in red, green, pink/beige, and blueish grey.

Textblock

Description:

Notation and main text in black ink.

Initials:

1r Opening puzzle initial R in bright and dark red ink over two staves and text lines. (ff. 1v–64v) Plain initials in red ink over one stave and text line, some with reserved interior shapes and/or penwork in red ink. (ff. 2r–62v) Plain initials in black ink over one stave and text line with flourishing in red or black ink, and in counterspace sometimes a flower (e.g. (f. 39v), (f. 40r), (f. 55v), (f. 62v)), sometimes a chequered pattern (e.g. (f. 2v), (f. 45r), (f. 60r)locustext not allowed here; expected the element end-tag), and sometimes a face ((f. 2r), (f. 5v), (f. 18r), (f. 22r), (f. 24r), (f. 29v), (f. 37v), (f. 57v))

Bookmarks:

Brown or pink leather bookmark. on (f. 5), (f. 19), (f. 54), (f. 57), and (f. 59).

Musical Notation

Textblock

Square notation.

Binding

Description:

Medieval binding. White leather over bevelled wooden boards. 3 double raised bands and endbands. 1 hooked clasp with a white leather strap; both clasp and catchplate decorated with a vegetative motif. Lower left corner of LCO: National Library book label with current signum.

LCI, paper pastedown glued on top of fragment from a 12th-century manuscript with neumes; RCI, fragment of same manuscript as LCI glued on top of paper pastedown.

Binding dimensions: 210 × 160 × 30 mm

Condition: The leather binding has numerous wormholes and is worn, showing the wooden boards in a few places as well as the binding on spine. On LCO, a hole from a centre boss. Remnants of three paper labels pasted around spine.

History

Origin

Germany, Maihingen, 1499, colophon f. 68r.

Provenance

The manuscript was most likely produced in the monastery of Maria Maihingen and remained there until the monastery's dissolution at the end of the 16th cenury (Schier (2013), pp. 269–270). According to Schier, it then probably passed into the possession of the new Franciscan monastery at Maihingen (ibid.). At the beginning of the 19th century it entered into the library of the princely family of Öttingen-Wallerstein (cf. stamp on RCI), where it remained until 1934.