Gradual — 1200 × 1216 (?); Austria, South, perhaps Admont

Title

Gradual — 1200 × 1216 (?); Austria, South, perhaps Admont

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 340

Associated place

Italian

Place of origin

Austria, South, perhaps Admont

Date

1200 × 1216 (?)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 153 + i fol.

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 110, pl. VIII)

Coloured initials at the beginning of the greater feasts, a large one at the beginning of Advent (fol. 9).

Musical notation

Adiastematic neumatic notation, in the proser often lacking or added by later hands; above the original text corrections in square notation on staves of 4 red lines are made on fol.18 (troped introit of St. Stephen), fol. 19v (troped introit of St. John the evangelist); some square notation on black staves added on fol. 135.

Binding

17th century or 18th century, Italian: thick wood boards, no bevel, square-cut with large squares and a redundant strap-groove at centre edge of front board beneath the leather; paper paste-downs and flyleaves with ‘three moons’ watermarks; light brown leather over the groove and not allowing for any clasp(s), blind-tooled with double lines and one bee(?)-tool to form a simple panel with crossing diagonals, and with a thin wavy roll near edges; spine lost except for gilt red-leather label; edges plain. Same style (archaizing?) as at MSS. Canon. Liturg. 297 and 324.

Rebacked in similar leather, late 19th century, Bodleian, preserving the earlier label. 293–295 197–198 c. 75 (book closed).

The manuscript’s last page (fol. 153v) preserves scant stains from a previous binding.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Flotzinger argues that the manuscript was written at Admont for export, with the calendar perhaps added at Moggio. The calendar contains the feast of St Cunigunda (2 Mar.), canonized in 1200; calendarial tables on fols 7v-8r run from 1216 to 1324, so that 'a date shortly before 1216 seems probable' (Watson).

Benedictine abbey of St Gall, Moggio Udinese (Mosach), near Udine: evidence of the calendar.

This is the manuscript 'in Archivio Comitis Marii a Puteo' (Mario del Pozzo) at Venzone, shown to Federigo Altan in the mid-18th century, as reported by Altan (Althanus) in his De Calendariis in genere, et speciatim de calendario ecclesiastico ... (Venice, 1753), 92, with an edition of the calendar on pp. 153–75.

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

A Gradual with some tropes, preceded by a calendar and tables, and followed (fol. 136) by Sequences

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 340

Date

Written in about A.D. 1216

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with some fine illuminated capitals

Physical extent

154 Leaves

Custodial history

The calendar points unmistakably to the neighbourhood of Aquileia (Hilarius, Mar. 16: Cantus, Mar. 31: Hermagoras, July 12), but is in some respects like those referred to at MS. Canon. Liturg. 297 (Cunigunda, Willibrord, etc.). Liberalis of Treviso is added, Apr. 27, and on Aug. 19 is 'Hac die gloriosus princeps Ottakarus Bohemie rex in conflictu Rudolphi Romanorum regis occiditur Mocclxxix. Vocatus martyr (in the original hand on Mar. 5) seems to be unknown to hagiographers. The tables of years run from 1216 to 1324.