After the main verse on f. 1r, several other verses have been added on different occasions, e.g. one on the obligations of the prelate, one on the qualities of wines, and one on the causes of flatulence. The additions also include a collect for the office of St Julian.
Hystoria sancti Ubaldi confessor Et habetur hic sicut dicitur in Kubyn in monte vbi sepultus est et ibi recepi hystoriam sed legendam require in principio huius liber et eciam in octaua Iohannis babptiste et hoc festum habetur et peragitur xvi die may Et hoc est certum
Ad uesperas antiphona Adsit gaudens in conuentu cleri
Ad nocturnum ymnus de Eodem festo [...] honor spiritui sancto reuerancia beato confessori nostro tanto Amen
Grates deo et sancto Ubaldo nunc et semper Amen
f. 8vb: a later addition of a verse on the four seasons in the main hand.
8(ff. 9ra–9vb)Readings for the office of St Damasus
Legenda sancti Damasi pape ante Lucie
Damasus nacione Yspanus ex patre Antonio sedit annos xviiio
Damaso confessore tuo atque ponticife supplicaciones nostras placatus intende Per Cetera ut de confessoribus et pontificibus
Several verses in the main hand, e.g. three about local natural disasters stated to have occurred in 1308, 1347, and 1348 respectively, two verses in German, as well as proper prayers for Maundy Thursday.
12(ff. 10vb–11vb)Institutes for the college of the church of Perchtoldsdorf
Hec sunt spiritualia instituta et articuli in quibus socii et capellani tenetur obedire suo Plebano et sue ecclesie In Perichtolsdorf et sic
Primo tenentur visitare omnes missas
ad ducillum propinauit sine stewra et impedimento incolarum et a Ciui⟨u⟩m fori antedicti
f. 12r contains two notes by Thomas Ebendorfer von Haselbach, theologian and historian at the university of Vienna as well as dean of the college of the church of St Mary at Perchtoldsdorf, the first on the respective obligations of the college and dean, written in 1445, and the second on the burning of Perchtoldsdorf by the Hungarians in 1446.
13(f. 13r)Verses by the compiler, Mathias Gallulus
Hic notantur versus de plurium historiarum non invtili reportacione facta per Reuerendissimum dominum Mathiam Plebanum in Pertdolsdorff protunc ducis Leupoldi Illustri principis Capellanum
Gallulus est dictus proprio sed nomine scriptus | Mathias
M tria C Lx x et v Mayi mense Gallulus Mathias [...] Et est byennio finitus gloria christo Codex ecclesie In Perchtolsdorff sancte Marie
In the first verse, Mathias Gallulus describes the nature of his work and his reasons for compiling it; in the second, he states that it was finished in the year 1375, having taken two years to complete.
15(ff. 14r–15v)Preparations for Mass (Accessus altaris) and miscellaneous verses
Three Accessus altaris (f. 14r, f. 15v) and several verses - some calendrical, some mnemonic, and one about the demon Titivillus (‘Tintillus’, f. 14v) - the last few of which are later additions.
The calendar also records a large number of feasts which are not otherwise typical for Passau, e.g. St Jovinus (2 Mar.), St Florentius (6 Apr.; cf. f. 9v), St Ubaldus (16 May; cf. f. 7r), St Brendan (17 May), St Albanus (21 June), St Louis of France (25 Aug.), St Verena and St Prisca (1 Sept.; cf. f. 5v and f. 10r), St Maternus (13 Spetember), St Himerius (12 Nov.), and St Longinus (1 Dec.). Several are feasts common in Bohemia - e.g. the translation of St Wenceslaus (4 Mar.), St Sigismund (1 May; festum fori), St Stanislaus ( rather than the translation of St Stephen, May 8), St Ladislaus (27 June; addition), St Procopius (4 Aug.; addition), and St Ludmilla (16 Sept.) - and several are common to a large number of German dioceses, e.g. St Polycarp (26 Jan.), St Germanus (31 July), and St Magnus (19
Aug.) The calendar also records, as an addition, a ‘Dedicacio in Mawrbach’ on May 17.
Each month also includes a cisiojanus for the month in question.
Incipit tabula huius oracionis anno domino Mo CC lxxxv Anno solari vio cuius primarius numerus significatus est per diccionem habentem in fine literam cum Cynobrio factam
Quod litteras quelibet diccio subscripte oracionis continet
additur una dies et sic saluatur illa diccio mater que sequitur post benigna et similes dicciones
Table of Christmas-Easter intervals beginning with the year 1285 and organised by dominical letters keyed to a prayer beginning with the words, ‘Salue preclara celorum regina’. The years 1476–1500 and 1508 have been superscribed with the number of each year in a late medieval hand. Two notes in red in a cursive hand comment on the years 1364 (f. 22va) and 1421 (placed by 1521-1523, f. 23rb). A later hand has noted 1500 next to f. 23va, however, incorrectly identified.
Incipit ordo siue breuiarium Ecclesiasticis obseruationibus quid legendum aut cantandum sit per circulum anni secundum Patauiensem ecclesiam In aduentu domini
ad uesperas antiphona A Diebus antiquis nos audiuimus ab ore prophetarum
ineffabili spiritus sanctificacione transfertur Tu autem domino Responsorium Tria sunt munera
The Proper of time begins with the First Sunday of Advent. Offices are followed by a mass formulary, and the Proper ends with a list of formularies for the Sundays after Pentecost, a Gospel reading for the octave of Epiphany, and a homily.
IN illo tempore Misit ihesus xii discipulos suos precipiens eis
et post doctrine graciam ministrasse commemorat Tu
ff. 402v–407r, ruled but no text. The leaf after f. 403 torn out.
56(f. 407va)The compiler Mathias Gallulus's donation of the book to his church
EGo Mathias dictus Hendel Rector Parochialis ecclesie beate virginis In Perichtoldorf ac Illustrissimi principis Leupoldi ducis Austrie Cappellanus Notum facio uniuersis
Insuper ordinaui vnam literam quam tenet magister zeche reconditam cum ceteris literis Datum et actum dominica Quasi modo geniti in Anno lxxxiio Et hoc sit in nomine domini Amen
Modern foliation in pencil, 1-756. Intermittent earlier modern foliation, incorrect and struck through.
Near contemporary foliation, ‘1-14’, on ff. 2r–15r, which continues with ‘15-253’ on ff. 27r–265r breaks off and then picks up again with ‘254-281’ at pp. 375r–402r, skips the blank leaves (ff. 403–407), and continues with ‘283-614’ on ff. 408r–740r.
Quire signatures on quires 5-24, 26-27, 31-33, 37-64, and 66. The quire signatures reveal that the manuscript has been reorganised at least once. Quires 5-24 and 37-64 display a complete series of quire numbers running from ‘Ius
’ to ‘xviiius
’, revealing this as one unit (with the Proper of Saints following directly after the Proper of Time).
The signatures on quire 26-27, 31-33, and 66 align with a series in which each quire signature is 2 less of the current number of quires, which would be explained if, for example, the current quires 1-3 were once one quire (1-3 = 1; 4 = 2; 5 = 3 etc.).
At some point, the current quires 25-36 were inserted into the unit which consisted of the current quires 5-24 and 37-64, and new quire numbers applied. As only one folio of the last quire (66, signature ‘64’) remains, and the last folio of the inserted unit, f. 407v, carries the donation note of Mathias Hendel, a likely scenario would seem to be that the current quires 25-36 originally made up the last part of the manuscript, with whatever came between the rest of what is now quire 66 and what is now quire 25 having been lost.
Catchword on quire 32.
Condition
Textblock
Holes from corner bosses and clasps on ff. 1–5 and f. 756. Occasional holes and traces of stitching, e.g. f. 162 and f. 717, with the thread preserved in several places, e.g. f. 332 and f. 562. The leaf between f. 403 and f. 404 torn out. The bottom edges and corners of ff. 284v–341 (approx. the extent of the ferial psalter) particularly dirty due to heavy use. On f. 542r, the ink has bled somewhat.
Layout
2
37–39
220 ×
155 mm
Guidelines and ruling in brown or black ink.
Script
Textblock
Two principal textualis hands can be distinguished, with possible further subdivisions (cf. for example f. 10v, and f. 13v).
The second main hand (Hand 3) is also found in Mathias Hendel's donation note on f. 407v beginning ‘Ego mathias dictus Hendel’, but he is possibly the scribe behind several of the hands; the other note mentioning him by name (f. 13v) is, for example, in a cursiva antiquior.
(LCI)
Top left corner, in pencil in a modern hand: the current signum, ‘Kungl. Bibl. A 175’.
(f. SL1r)
Top of page, in ink by a modern hand: ‘Kongl. Bibl. 1734 års Kat. Theol. in fol. no 45.’; centre page, in ink over 4 lines by a modern hand: ‘Ordo siue Breuiarium de Ecclesiasticis Obseruacionibus quid legendum aut cantandum sit per circulum anni secundum Patauiensem Ecclesiam MScr de anno MCCLXXXV.’; a modern hand has put an exclamation mark in parentheses following the year and below it a question mark; below, in pencil and square brackets by a modern hand: ‘PASSAU’.
(RCI)
Column a: an abecedarium in the scribal hand; column b: a verse on the properties of wine with an addition of two lines by Tibullus in a later hand below.
Textblock
(ff. 3r–752r)
Numerous additions of liturgical material, often in the scribal hand. On (f. 3r), the addition has been erased, crossed out, and marked with the warning ‘caue’.
(ff. 4r–700r)
Occasional corrections, often in the scribal hand.
(ff. 395v–399v)
Rubrics noted in the margin in a separate medieval hand.
(Fragments)
Accompanying the manuscript is an envelope containing several scraps of paper, some with writing in different medieval hands, probably having served as bookmarks.
Decorations
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Main text in black or brown ink; rubrics and instructions in red; capitals touched in red.
(f. 27ra): inhabited foliate opening initial ‘A’ over 11 lines in a purple and lilac floral pattern with white highlights and a border of green flower stems with flowers in blue and orange extending from the letter body. In the top counter space against a blue background, Christ wearing an orange mantle and carrying a book; in the bottom counter space against a blue background with a stylised floral pattern, a monk in a light yellow robe kneeling in prayer, surrounded by rocks and trees.
(f. 408ra): penwork initial ‘I’ over 11 lines in blue with flourishing in red.
(f. 47ra), (f. 70ra), (f. 71rb), (f. 133vb), (f. 141vb), (f. 162rb), (f. 170va), (f. 374vb), (f. 744ra): decorated initials over 4-11 lines in blue ink with various shapes inlaid in gold leaf and sgraffed patterns against a background of red pen-flourishing ((f. 162rb) and inverted colour scheme) and a border of red, blue, and gold pen-flourishing extending along the margin or between the columns and punctuated by flowers in red or blue or tendrils in gold. Initial missing on (f. 147ra).
(f. 49ra), (f. 49vb), (f. 177ra), (f. 192ra): decorated initials over 4-6 lines in blue ink with various shapes inlaid in gold leaf with sgraffed patterns against a background of red pen-flourishing and a border of red pen-flourishing extending along the margins or between the columns ( (f. 177ra): inverted colour scheme). (ff. 1ra–26vb): plain initials over 2-3 lines in red ink.
(ff. 1va–26vb): plain initials over 1 line in red ink.
(ff. 27ra–72vb) (Q5-8), (ff. 133ra–44vb) (Q14), (ff. 157rb–192va) (Q16-18), (ff. 373va–384vb) (Q34), (ff. 744rb–755vb) (Q65): pen-flourished initials over 2-3 lines alternating in blue and red ink with flourishing in the contrasting colour.
(ff. 73rb–131v) (Q9-13), (ff. 145vb–156rb) (Q15), (ff. 193va–372rb) (Q19-33), (ff. 388rb–742vb) (Q35-64): plain initials over 2-3 lines alternating in blue and red ink (between (ff. 328v–566v) and (ff. 388rb–401v) only red). Many, but far from all, of these also have flourishes in red, blue, black or brown ink. The blue and red flourishes are of a similar though not identical style as seen in the first type of pen-flourished initial, e.g. (f. 408ra); the black and brown flourishes are of a less careful and spikier style, e.g. (f. 196rb), (f. 364vb). Some of these may be later additions.
(ff. 28rb–756vb): plain text initials in red or blue ink over 1 line.
(ff. 4vb–756vb): on the top line in same ink as text, initials extending the length of ca 3 lines into the top margin, many with some flourishing in red.
(f. 26va): in place of an initial ‘A’, miniature of the annunciation over 11 lines: against a blue background, Gabriel with wings dotted with peacock eyes, dressed in a red robe, and holding a speech scroll reading ‘aue maria plena’; in front of him, the Virgin Mary, wearing a lilac robe and kneeling in prayer in front of a pulpet with an open book on it beneath a golden canopy inside a pink building; both figures with halos in gold. Next to the miniature is the beginning of the prayer Ave Maria written over 12 lines in alternating red and black letters. (27a): the coat of arms of Mathias Hendel (Gallulus); on a blue background, a green rooster with a golden comb, bill, wattle and feet, a white tail, and a golden cross on its back. For further description of the decoration, see Lindqvist
Sandgren
.
Bookmarks of parchment attached to (f. 50), (f. 62), (f. 105), (f. 353), (f. 410), (f. 439), (f. 608), (f. 692), (f. 719), (f. 727), (f. 740), and (f. 751).
The binding consists of two parts: only the RCO is original; the LCO has been taken from a different medieval binding and added later; its wooden board is thinner and slightly smaller than that of the RCO. The original binding displays at least two contemporary layers: first, red leather over wooden boards. Over this, a second cover, of brown leather, has been added and is now glued down. The first layer of leather appears to cover a smaller area than the second, and the wooden board has been cracked in two and repaired. The two layers may correspond to the addition of several quires and reorganisation of the original structure which is revealed by the quire signatures. 5 double raised bands and endbands. Originally, two clasps and straps; centre and corner bosses. Spine (on red cover), in ink on a paper label: ‘Missale 180’; stamped in gold: ‘A 175’; in ink on a parchment label: ‘No 45’; in ink on a parchment label on top of the previous label: ‘e. 30. 5. ⟨4⟩
’; in ink on a parchment label ‘
[--- 3 chars ---](e) 35
’, and below, ‘137’.
310 ×
230 ×
200 mm
RCO: a blind-tooled double-outline frame, inside of which two double-outline bands form the shape of an X.
LCO: 3 bands of 4 blind-tooled parallel lines forming a frame, inside of which bands of 3 blind-tooled parallel lines form a pattern of lozenges; inside of these, blind-stamped flowers and medallions alternating between the Agnus Dei and a double-headed eagle.
LCO has been reinforced with leather at the Spine and corners. On the Spine, windows have been cut out at the top and bottom of the second layer of leather, revealing the first leather cover and labels underneath. RCO is heavily worn and torn in places, with the red leather showing around the edges.
Of the clasps, straps, and bosses, only two plates remain on the front cover, and, on the back, a stud and short stubs of the straps. Boards exposed at Tail.
Austria, c. 1375. In a verse on f. 13r, the compiler of the manuscript, Mathias Gallulus (Mathias Hendel), chaplain of Duke Leopold III of Austria and dean of the college of St Mary's church at Perchtoldsdorf (Perchtoldsdorf, Austria), describes his text-collecting activities, his reasons for compiling the texts, and states that the book was finished in the year 1375, having taken two years to complete. In his donation note on f. 407v, Mathias Hendel states that he gathered material for the book for thirty years or more.
The manuscript was most likely taken as spoils of war during the Thirty Years' War. It is listed on p. 67 (no. 1) in Vossius's catalogue of 1651 (U 202:1), as no. 137 in Jaches's catalogue of 1695 (U118:10), as no. 35 (recording also the former signum 137) in Jaches's catalogue of 1698 (U 122), as Theol. in fol. no. 45 in the catalogue of 1734 (U 125e), and as e.30.5, no. 4, in Hammarsköld's catalogue of the 19th century (U 133). The signum ‘180’ found on the Spine has not been identified.
