Missal (primitive, noted, monastic) — Multiple dates; Austria

Title

Missal (primitive, noted, monastic) — Multiple dates; Austria

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 354

Associated place

Salzburg

Place of origin

Austria

Date

13th–15th centuries

12th century, second half, or 13th century, early

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 277 + i; leaves missing at the end.

Hands

One main hand, protogothic.

Additions by several hands (see Flotzinger) in textualis.

Additions by several hands (see Flotzinger) in cursive.

Decoration

Fine initials. Initials in gold and red outlines on a blue and pale green ground. In the sacramentary the first line of the text in capitals alternately black and red.

Fine miniature (defaced) painted or repainted on fol. 67, 13th century, first half. (Pächt and Alexander i. 102, pl. VIII)

Musical notation

Adiastematic non-rhythmical notation of S. Germany

Binding

A standard Canonici style of blind-tooled diced brown leather over pasteboards; 18th century, Italian.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Flotzinger established that the manuscript was written for the Benedictine abbey of St Paul in Lavanttal. At fol. 67v the wording is 'pro cuncta congregatione sancti Pauli ac familia eius', and at fol. 123v is an added (14th century?) prayer on for 'famuli tui Engelberti fundatoris huius ecclesie'; St Paul was founded by Engelbert I von Spanheim. Although both passages are additions, the general prayer on fol. 124v also refers to 'omni congregatione et familia sancti Pauli', and the feasts of St Paul are emphasized throughout. The monastic provenance is established by fols. 115v-116r with masses 'pro abbate et congregationem' and 'missa monachorum'.

Assessments of the manuscript's date have varied from c. 1160 (Flotzinger) to the first half of the 13th century (Haidinger). St Gothard in the lectionary (fol. 254r) establishes a date after 1131 (Watson), but the absence of St Thomas of Canterbury from the original sacramentary (his feast is added, late 14th century, fol. 71v) is not significant for dating as his feast was not immediately observed in Austria (Haidinger, 45).

The manuscript's origin is also disputed. As Flotzinger and Haidinger discuss, comparisons have been drawn with manuscripts associated with Salzburg and with the Benedictine abbey of Kremsmünster; our manuscript has particularly close affiliations with Stuttgart, LB, Cod. bibl. fol. 20, written at Kremsmünster c. 1136 but in use at St Paul's soon after (Haidinger, 31–4).

Presumably remained at St Paul's, where the later-medieval additions were made.

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805: uncertain when acquired, not from Trevisan / Soranzo.

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

A Roman Sacramentary etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 354

Summary

A Roman Sacramentary (fol. 57), preceded by a Gradual (fol. 1). Fols. 57-62, the original Calendar belonging to the Sacramentary, are almost entirely erased (except in January) and Sequences written over it in a 14th cent. hand. Prefaces and added offices occupy fols. 63v-66, and the Canon of the Mass is at fol. 68, preceded by a large Crucifixion.

At fol. 141 begin the Epistles and Gospels, with additions: ending, imperfect, in a 'Hystoria de sancta Dorothea.' There are some musical notes. The names of Udalric or Ulric, Erentrude, and in the additions Rupert, Afra, and Dorothea prove the provenance of the volume from Augsburg.

Date

Written in the 13th century at Augsburg

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with one large miniature and many illuminated capitals

Physical extent

278 Leaves