Mass Lectionary (combined Epistolary and Evangeliary), Temporale, from Christmas Eve, Sanctorale, from Sylvester to Thomas (31 December – 29 December), Common of the saints, The dedication of a church, and an altar, Masses for the days of the week, Masses for various intentions, Mass for the Dead, Readings for:, Purification (Malachi 3:1–4), Epiphany (Luke 3:21–4:1), Substantial formal later additions:, Reading for Corpus Christi (John 6:54–72), The Exultet with music, St Martin, St Francis, St Peter, St Matthew — 12th century, first half; German (south)

Title

Mass Lectionary (combined Epistolary and Evangeliary), Temporale, from Christmas Eve, Sanctorale, from Sylvester to Thomas (31 December – 29 December), Common of the saints, The dedication of a church, and an altar, Masses for the days of the week, Masses for various intentions, Mass for the Dead, Readings for:, Purification (Malachi 3:1–4), Epiphany (Luke 3:21–4:1), Substantial formal later additions:, Reading for Corpus Christi (John 6:54–72), The Exultet with music, St Martin, St Francis, St Peter, St Matthew — 12th century, first half; German (south)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 324

Associated place

Italian

German

Place of origin

German (south)

Date

12th century, first half

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii (paper) + I (medieval parchment) + 192 + III (medieval parchment) + ii (paper)

Decoration

Large pen-drawn foliate initials in brown and purple inks at major textual divisions, typically about 5 lines high, except the Gospel reading for Christmas Eve, 13 lines high (fol. 1r); occasionally in the form of, or including, a dragon (fols. 4r, 7v, 8r, 109v, 110r, 130v); two with a yellowish wash background (fol. 130r–v). Pächt & Alexander (Pächt and Alexander i. no. 63) describe the initials as ‘partly unfinished’, presumably because the purple ink is very pale and has the appearance of preparatory drawing.

2-, 3-, or 4-line initials in plain red for ordinary lections.

One marginal drawing of a bearded head (of Christ?) (fol. 95v).

Musical notation

Occasional neumes in the text. The Exultet has square notation on 4-line staves; the marginal music at fol. 66r has no ruling.

Binding

17th century or 18th century, Italian: sewn on three wide slit straps, laced horizontally into thick wood boards, no bevel, square-cut with broad squares and a strap-groove at centre edge of front board beneath the leather; inside boards are bare wood; light brown leather over the groove, not allowing for clasp(s), blind-tooled with double lines and one bee(?)-tool to form a simple panel with crossing diagonals; spine lost; edges plain, top edge speckled with dark spots, perhaps deliberate. Same (archaizing?) style as at MSS. Canon. Liturg. 297 and 340. Rebacked in matching leather, 20th century, Bodleian. 233–235 163–164 c. 73–77 (book closed).

Traces of the lost original binding, before 1255, German: fols. iii and 195 (with date 1255) were the old parchment paste-downs(?), with traces of leather turn-ins and a central clasp.

Provenance

The Sanctorale is very similar to that in MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 43, which shows strong monastic influence, and the inclusion of St Aurelius suggests a connection with the Hirsau congregation.

Benedictine abbey of St Gall, Moggio Udinese: Inscribed in 1255, below a two-line erasure, ‘Anno domini mºcc lv. xvi kalendas Aprilis. concessi sunt hic libri. A mosacenense conuentu domino Walramo et domino Ottaviano .iiii. scilicet epistolarium et euangeliarium. in i uolumine missale et duo matutinalia’ (fol. 195r). Identified by Rudolf Flotzinger, Choralhandschriften österreichischer Provenienz in der Bodleian Library, Oxford (Vienna, 1991), 48–48.

In Italy by the 14th century, when marginalia (fols. 49r and 66r) and the Exultet (fols. 193v–194r) were added.

Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727–1806), Jesuit and bibliophile of Venice; from whom his mansucripts passed to his brother, Giuseppe (d. 1807), and on the latter’s death to Giovanni Perisinotti, from whom over 2,000 were bought by the Bodleian Library in 1817.

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: ‘Miscell. Liturg. 334.’ (!) (inner face of front board), ‘E codd. Bodl. Miscell Liturgy CCCXXIV’ (fol. iii verso).

Title

Epistles and Gospels throughout the year

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 324

Summary

Epistles and Gospels throughout the year, partly in an abbreviated form giving first words only:

The Proprium de Tempore begins on fol. 1 with the Epiphany (some leaves appear to be wanting)

The Proprium Sanctorum on fol. 136v

The Commune Sanctorum on fol. 161

miscellaneous at fol. 181

The hymn 'Exultet iam angelica turba celorum', with musical notes, is added in a 13th cent. hand, at fol. 193

At fol. 195 is the note 'Anno Domini Mo cclv xii Kal. April. Concessi sunt hic lib... Amo ... eñ conuentu domino Walstipp & domino Ottauiano .iiii. scilicet epistolarium & Evangelistarium in i uolumine missale .i. duo matutinalia.'

Date

Written in about A.D. 1200 in Germany (?)

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment

Physical extent

196 Leaves