Rituale for the Use of the Dominican Nuns of Maria Medingen, Mödingen; Germany, 15th century

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Title

Rituale for the Use of the Dominican Nuns of Maria Medingen, Mödingen; Germany, 15th century

Shelfmark

MS. E. D. Clarke 29

Place of origin

Germany, doubtless Swabia, Mödingen

Date

15th century

Language

Latin

Ritual

(fols. 1r–6r) Blessings for salt and water, for a variety of liturgical seasons. Includes ‘Benedictio aque cum reliquiis beati Petri martyris’ (fol. 4v), ‘reliquias beati Petri martyris’ (fol. 5r), ‘reliquiarum beati Petri martyris’ and ‘Postea immerge reliquias beati Petri …’ (fol. 5v).

(fols. 6r–8v) Blessings for candles at the Purification, herbs at the Assumption, eggs, paschal lambs, bacon, cheese, bread, etc. at Easter, etc.

(fols. 8v–17r) Procession antiphons etc. to be sung on Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday; at the altars of the Virgin, Mary Magdalene, St Nicholas, St Augustine ‘in choro sororum’, the Holy Cross, and at the Dedication of a church; on the feasts of the Ascension, Corpus Christi, Purification, Assumption, and others.

(fol. 17r–v) The Office for the reception of novices

(fols. 17v–38v) Last rites (communion, fol. 17v, unction, fol. 18v) and funeral service (fol. 23v)

(fols. 38v–41r) Rubric: Forma absolucionis generalis ordinis predicatorum

(fols. 41r–45r) Rubric: Scire Mori quid sit

(fols. 45v–50v) The Seven Penitential Psalms

(fols. 50v–54r) Litany of saints, with Dominic and Katherine each invoked twice; followed by collects mentioning Sts Dominic (fol. 53r), Thomas (Aquinas) and Vincent (Ferrer) (fol. 53v).

(fols. 54v–56r) The Improperia, with music

(fol. 56r–59v) Miscellaneous blessings and prayers (some listed on fol. 61v), ending with ‘Pro pluvia’ and ‘Pro serenitate’.

(fol. 60r–v) Ruled, otherwise blank

(fols. 61r–v) Table to contents, the folio numbers in red. Exorcismus salis & aque folio i. Benedictio uini folio .iiij. Benedictio aque cum reliquiis beati Petri martyris folio v. Ad benedicendum homines folio v. Benedictio candelarum folio vi. Benedictio herbarum & fructuum folio vij. Benedictio esibilium in die pasche folio vij. Ad processionem in die palmarum folio ix. In die Cene ad ablucionem altarium folio x. Ad processionem in dedicacione ecclesie folio xij. Ad processionem in die Ascensionis folio xij. Ad processionem in festo corporis Christi folio xiij. Ad processionem in festo purificationis beate virginis folio xiiij. Ad processionem in festo assumptionis beate virginis folio xiiij. Ad processionem Extraordinariam folio xv & xvi. Ad receptionem novitiarum folio xvij. Ad communicandum infirmam folio xvij. Ad inungendum infirmam folio xviij. In exequiis ad Sepulchrum folio xxiij. Vespere mortuos folio xxxv. Forma absolutionis generalis ordinis folio xxxviij. Forma absolutionis remissionis plenarie folio xxxix. Forma absolutionis ab excommunicatione maiori folio xli. Scire mori quid sit folio xli. De quinque temptacionibis in extremis folio xli. De xv. interrogari debet infirma folio xl.ii. De quinque que Christus in cruce fecit que & infirma facere debet folio xliiij Ad xiiij. exhortari debet infirma folio xliiij. Item vij. psalmi penitentiales folio xlvi. Item Popule meus cum nota folio liiij. De benedictione itinerancium & veniencium folio lvi. Pro benefactoribus Retribuere folio lvij. Tempore victorie seu laudis Te deum folio lvij. Item pro tribulatione ecclesie diuerse collecte, a folio lvii. usque ad folio lix.

(fol. 62r–v) Ruled, otherwise blank

Form

codex

Support

parchment (wrongly described as paper in the Summary Catalogue)

Physical extent

63 folios

Hands

Formal Gothic bookhand

Decoration

1- and 2-line initials in plain red, occasionally with calligraphic flourishes.

Musical notation

The Improperia (fols. 54v–56r) with 5 lines of text and music in square notation on four-line red staves.

Binding

Medieval binding. Sewn on three slit/double bands and laced into wood boards covered with dark red leather, blind-tooled in a lattice pattern with large (rose?) and small (daisy?) flower-head tools in the interstices; with 4+1 circular bosses in a quincunx pattern on each board, and one clasp at the fore-edge (fastening from the back to the front board). Despite parchment flyleaves, the pastedowns are paper, the front one with part of a watermark visible (Ochsenkopf, type Piccard XII.761–878).

Acquisition

Sold or donated by him to the Bodleian in 1809 or later.

Provenance

The Dominican nunnery of Maria Medingen, Mödingen (northeast of Ulm): inscribed ‘Monasterio Meding. ordinis predicatorum pertinet’ (fol. 54v, similarly on fol. 6r).

Edward Daniel Clarke (1769–1822), fellow and Bursar of Jesus College Cambridge, professor of Mineralogy from 1808, and University Librarian from 1817. He collected manuscripts while travelling across Europe and as far as Russia, Palestine, and Egypt, from 1792 to 1802 (Maria Medingen was secularised in 1802).

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