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.

1 (ff. 1r–3v) Calendar

Note:

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.).

2 (f. 4r) Prayers for St Mark

Incipit: ⟨D⟩EUS QUI BEATVM MARCVM EVANGELISTAM TVVM EVANGElice predicationis gratia sublimasti

Explicit: atque pontifice tuo marco plena uirtute consequamur P

3 (ff. 4v–10r) Ordo and Canon missae

Rubric: ~~IN NOMINE DOMINI INC~~ IN NOMINE DOMINI INCPIT LIBER SACRAMENTORVM DE CIRCULO ANNI EXPOSITVS A SANCTO GREGORIO PAPA ROMANO EDITVS EX AUTHENTICO LIBRO BIBLIOTHECAE CV⟨BICU⟩LI SCRIPTUS QVALITER MISSA ROMANA CELEBRATVR

Incipit: HOC EST INPRIMIS INTROITVS

Explicit: AGNUS DEI QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI MISERERE NOBIS

Note: 7r: Te igitur.

4 (ff. 10r–10v) Prayers for the Virgin Mary

Rubric: IN ADNVNTIATIONE SANCTAE MARIAE

Incipit: OMNIPOTENS SEMPER BEATUS QVI COETERNUM TIBI FILII HODIE PRO mundi salute

Explicit: christi filii tui incarnationem cognouimus per passionem eius et crucem ad resurretionis gloriam perducamur Per

Note: After the final line a second contemporary hand has added 8 lines: ‘Hodierne lux diei celebris in matris dei agitur memoria [...] florentis hortus haustro stante porta clausa post et ante’.

5 (ff. 11r–242v) Proper of Time

Rubric: IN VIGILIA NATALIS DOMINI DE DONA

Incipit: HODIE SCIEtis quia ueniet dominus

Explicit: Sic est qui sibi thesaurizat et non est in deum diues (Luke 12:21)

Note:

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.

6 (ff. 242v–284v) Proper of Saints

Rubric: mense iunio kalende iunii Dedicatio sancti nicomedis

Incipit: ANTIPHONA LAETABITUR IUSTUS DOMINUS QUI NOS BEATI nicomedis martyris tui meritis

Explicit: ut tuo semper auxilio secuta tibi possit deuotione seruire Per

Note:

Begins with the Dedication of St Nicomedes (1 June) and ends with (283v) St Andrew (30 Nov.).

Deshusses, 234-292.

7 (ff. 284v–296r) Prayer collection

Rubric: MENSE DECEMBRIO ORATIONES DE ADUENTU DOMINI

Explicit: eorum pariter cottidie auxiliis ab omnibus protegamur aduersis Per dominum

Note:

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

8 (ff. 296r–301r) Mass formulary for the entire week

Rubric: DIE DOMINICA DE SANCTA TRINITATE

Incipit: BENEDICTA SIT SANCTA TRINITAS atque indiuisa unitas confitebimur

Explicit: da quesumus eius nos patrocinus ubique protegi in cuius ueneratione hec tuae obtulimus maiestati Per

Note:

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.

9 (ff. 301r–333v) Collection of prayers and masses

Rubric: DE SPIRITUS SANCTI DONO POSTULANDO

Incipit: Antiphona Dum sanctificatus fuero in uobis

Explicit: ALLELUIA Diffusa est gratia in labiis tuis propterea benedixit te deus in eternum

Note:

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

10 (ff. 334r–372v) Proper of Time (continued)

Rubric: DOMINICA I POST PENTECOSTEN

Incipit: DOMINE IN TUA MISERICORDIA speraui exultauit cor meum

Explicit: At illi cogitabant intra se dicentes quia si dixerimus de (Luke 20:5) [mut.]

Note:

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.

Physical Description

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: ff. LCI, SL1, SR1, RCI

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 270 × 225 mm

Watermark 1

LCI–SL1/SR1–RCI,

Motif: Beehive and the words TUMBA.

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1–372

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 270 × 235 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil. Error in foliation: 1-67, 67a, 68-372.

Collation

Formula: 1(10), 2-18(8), 19(10, lacks 5, 8), 20-34(8), 35(6), 36-38(8), 39(10), 40(8), 41-42(6) , 43-46(8), 47(8, lacks 7)

Note: VisColl collation. The collation of the first quire is tentative. This quire is irregular and may have been the result of later manipulation.

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

Columns: 1

Ruled lines: 19–25

Written area: 195 × 155 mm

Note: Blind ruling. Pricking in margins.

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

Carolingian minuscule.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Top left corner, in ink by a modern hand: ‘A 139’.

(f. SL1r) In ink by a modern hand, from top to bottom: ‘1734 års Katalog Theol. in 4^o, N^o 16.’; ‘Liber Sacramentorum de Circulo Anni expositus a Sancto Gregorio Papa Romano editus ex authentico libro Bibliothecae cubiculi scriptus qualiter missa Romana celebratur.’; ‘Ifrån ~~10de eller 11te århundradet~~. Ett blad löst.’, above in pencil: ‘9^de århundradets slut (West- 1869)’.

(f. SL1v) Top of page, in brown ink by a modern hand: ‘Efter bl. 149 skall bl. 151 och så bl. 150 följa. Efter fol. 160 saknas något. Efter fol. 370 saknas omkring 12 blad’.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in brown ink, rubrics in red, capitals in red in some places.

Initials:

(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.

(ff. 6r–372v): plain initials over 1-3 lines in red.

Images:

(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

Description:

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 ---] ’.

Binding dimensions: 280 × 265 × 110 mm

Clasps:

Clasps and catch plates decorated with foliate patterns.

Condition: Leather worn and damged. Boards exposed on all sides. Leather on spine detached and binding underneath exposed. Holes from bookworms.

Contemporary: Unknown

History

Origin

Germany, Bavaria, 1000, circa. Hoffmann argues Kempten as place of origin based on the inclusion of Sts Gordianus and Epimachus in the litany (f. 180r) and the dating based on the inclusion of St Ulrich in the calendar and litany (f. f. 1v and f. 180r), cf. Hoffmann (2004), p. 163.

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): ‘N^o 16’; and Hammarsköld's catalogue from the 19th century: ‘e. 30. 6. 9.’.