Noted choir breviary; south Germany (Eichstätt?), 12th century, beginning (c. 1108–1111)

Title

Noted choir breviary; south Germany (Eichstätt?), 12th century, beginning (c. 1108–1111)

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 468

Place of origin

Germany, south; Eichstätt, Domstift (?)

Date

12th century, beginning (c. 1108–11)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (paper) + i (parchment) + 175 + i (parchment) + i (paper) leaves

Decoration

Good initial (fol. 4r). (Pächt and Alexander i. 53)

Plain red initials.

Red rubrics.

Musical notation

German neums: adiastematic, half-rhythmical notation.

Binding

Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.

Acquisition

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Provenance

The presence of St. Willibald and his brother Wunnebald in the kalendar, where they are both exceptionally given the prefix 'sanctus', the hymn for St Willibald in the hymnal, and the office for St. Willibald, with vigil, (fols. 37v, 42v) suggest that the volume was written at or for the cathedral church of St Willibald in Eichstätt. Marks in the Easter table on fol. 3v indicate that the manuscript was in use c. 1108–1111 (H. M. Bannister, 'Signs in kalendarial tables', in Mélanges offerts à M. Émile Chatelain (Paris, 1910), 141–149 at 143–4).

Domstift Eichstätt (?). Listed by Krämer under the collegiate church of St Willibald, Eichstätt, for reasons which are unclear.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1636.

Title

Breviary (noted choir breviary), of German origin

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 468

Date

12th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

175 Leaves

Custodial history

Old shelfmark '1' on f. 8. MS. Frere 43. Manuscript 2443 acquired by the Bodleian Library