National Library of Sweden, A 139
Missal
Germany, Bavaria, 1000, circa
parchment
i, 373, i' leaves
270 × 225–235 mm
Latin
The text appears to be an early form of missal which includes the Station churches in Rome in the rubrics (beginning and ending with St Maria Maggiore, 12v and 233v). The text on 11r-284v agrees to large extent to the content and order of the text in the Gregorian Sacramentary Cambrai Bibliothéque Municipale MS 164 from the early 9th century, but with added Bible readings and antiphons, cf. Deshusses 99-295. The Proper of Time is followed by a Proper of Saints, which ends in November, after which a set of prayers for Advent introduces a collection of prayers, blessings and related texts. The final text in the manusript is a Proper of Time from Pentecost on without mention of Station churches and with formularies only for Sundays, Wednesdays, and sometimes Fridays.
The calendar is not complete. It begins with the Seven Virgin (9 Apr.) and ends with St Sylvester (31 Dec.).
For a complete transcription and discussion, see Tüchle (1978), pp. 202–208.
Notable feasts:
1rb: Sts Gordianus and Epimachus (10 May);
1vb: St Ulric (4 July);
2rb: St Afra (7 Aug.);
2va: St Magnus (6 Sep.);
3ra: St Gallus (15, 16 Oct.);
3ra: St Columbanus (24 Oct.);
3ra: St Pirminus (3 Nov);
3rb: St Fridolin (15 Nov.);
3rb: St Otmar (16 Nov.).
Leaves in wrong order; the correct order is: 149, 151, 150, 152.
The Proper of Time begins with Christmas Eve and ends with Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost.
The easter mass on 150v-184r includes the Trisagion in Greek and Latin (159v), and instructions for baptism/catechumen. There is also a longer litany on 179v-181v, which inlcludes Sts Gordianus and Epimachus, St Ulric, and St Afra.
Deshusses, 176-180.
Deshusses, 99-171.
Deshusses, 189-230.
Begins with the Dedication of St Nicomedes (1 June) and ends with (283v) St Andrew (30 Nov.).
Deshusses, 234-292.
Deshusses, 294-295, Deshusses, 303-334. Fol. 284v-292v: follow the order of Deshusses more or less exactly.
285v: various prayers.
285v-287v: pro peccatis
287v-290v; orationes cotidiani
290v-292v: orationes matutinales, vespertinales
292v-293r: orationes cotidianis diebus ad missas
293r-296r: common of saints
296r: dominica: de trinitate;
297r: feria II, Pro peccatis;
298r: feria III, Ad postulanda angelica suffragia;
298v: feria IIII, De sapientia;
299r: feria V, De caritate;
300r: feria VI, De sancta cruce;
300v: Sabbato, De sancta Maria.
301r: de spiritus sancti dono postulando
301v-307v: various masses
308r-311v: missae communis;
311v-317v: various masses, masses for the sick;
318v-328v: masses for the dead;
328v-333v: various prayers, starting with orationes ante cibum;
331r-332v: prefaces
332v-333r: blessings
333r-333v: halleluia
Begins with the First Sunday after Pentecost and ends (defectively) on Friday in the Fifteenth Week after Pentecost.
No saints mentioned. Consists of formularies for Sundays and Wednesdays, sometimes Fridays.
Support
Binding/Endleaves
Foliation
Collation
Condition
Textblock
Parchment of notably varying thickness, worn and in places, especially in the beginning, stained. The blind ruling has cut through the leaves in places, e.g. 161 (second line from the bottom), Several holes in the leaves, e.g. on 63, but no loss of text. Text, mainly rubrics, faded in places, e.g. on 4v-5r. Several leaves have had strips cut from them, e.g. 273, but seeminly without loss of text. 10r: leaf repaired in the upper corner.Layout
Script
Textblock
Hand 1
Carolingian minuscule.Additions
Binding/Endleaves
Decorations
Textblock
Main text in brown ink, rubrics in red, capitals in red in some places.
(f. 6v): UD (Vere dignum). The monogram is outlined in red ink and has a cross at its centre surrounded by vine-stems. The mongram is enclosed in a simple frame in brown ink. This part of the page is faded, which makes the motif somewhat difficult to discern.
(f. 7r): TE IGITVR.The entire phrase is made into a monogram with the T in the centre and the other letters on each side. The R is not filled in and barely visible. The letters are intertwined with vine-stems.
11r: decorated initial H over 6 lines. The leter is painted in red, green and blue, and decorated with vine-stems. Below, the abbreviation for ‘deus’ is painted in the same style, with the D over 9 lines, an abbreviation line, and an S over 3 lines.
(f. 11v): decorated initial P over 10 lines. The inital is outlined in red and deocrated with vines-tems. Some of the counterspace is filled in with a purplish blue. The leter is enclosed in a frame, which is red on three sides but gold and green on fourth side.
11r-18v (24-26 Dec.), 65v (Quadragesima), 125r (Palm Sunday), 161r (Exultet), 162v (Orationes), 174v (Benedictio salis), 184r (Holy Saturday), 185v (Easter Sunday), and 334r (Pentecost): decorated initials over 3 lines (and extending below the line). The initials are outlined in red and decorated with penwork details and foliage ornaments. Counterspace or background often in a purplish blue.
(f. 7v): Full-page miniature of the Crucifixion. The motif is outlined in dark ink and coloured with touches of red and gold. The cross has a second crossbar or plaque on top. Beneath Christ's feet stand a chalice/the grail. The motif is surrounded by a thin double frame, the outer frame in gold and the inner in red.
(f. 9r): Half-page pair of minatures of Christ and a priest. The motifs are outlined in dark ink and coloured with touches of red and gold. To the left a priest portrayed as standing holding or presenting a chalice. He is wearing a full-length robe, stole and has bare head. The priest is standing inside an arch. To the right, Christ is portrayed as seated on a throne, in one and holding a book and the other hand extended in benediction. Christ's head is surrounded by a cruciform halo. The throne feature zoomorphic details.The motif is surrouded by a double-framed lozenge or rhombic mandorla.
Binding
Medieval binding. Light brown leather over wooden boards. 4 double raised bands and endbands. 2 hooked brass clasps. Spine, in ink: ‘ANTIPHONA [--- 4 chars ---] ’; ink on label: ‘No 16.’; stamped in godl: ‘A 139’; ink on label: ‘e. 30. 6. 9.’ (this label covers another label); ink on label: ‘16 [--- 5 chars ---] ’.
Clasps and catch plates decorated with foliate patterns.
Origin
Provenance
According to Tüchle (1978), pp. 198–199 during the 12th century the manuscript belonged to the abby in Thierhaupten, and after 1342 it was transferred to the church in Weihern.
The manuscript is listed in Vossius' catalogue from 1651 (U 202:1, p. 15).
The signa on the spine refer to the catalogue of 1734 (U 125e): ‘No 16’; and Hammarsköld's catalogue from the 19th century: ‘e. 30. 6. 9.’.
Acquisition
Taken as spoils of war during the Thirty Year's War.
- Paléographie musical vol. 3, plate 119.
- Gyllene böcker (1952), p. 25, no. 13.
- Illuminated manuscripts (1963), p. 9.
- Tüchle (1978).
- Hoffmann (2004), pp. 162–164.