Lectionary/Missal; western Germany, 12th century, second quarter

Title

Lectionary/Missal; western Germany, 12th century, second quarter

Shelfmark

MS. Add. A. 188

Place of origin

Italian, Bologna

German, West

Date

14th century, second quarter

12th century, second quarter

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

1 + i + 167 + 1 fol.

Hands

Proto-gothic bookhand, accented for reading aloud; the parts with music in smaller script.

Decoration

One fine large foliate initial drawn in brown ink, embellished with red (fol. 1r).

Two-line initials in plain red.

Musical notation

Adiastematic German neums.

Binding

17th-century German binding. Sewn on three bands laced into wood (beech?) boards, covered with red leather, the back cover formerly with corner-pieces and a large centre-piece and clasp fittings (all now missing), the front cover with simple blind fillets; the spine with lozenge-shaped gilt ornaments; the edges of the leaves gilt. Extensively repaired.

Acquisition

Thomas Boone, London bookseller, with his price-code in pencil (fol. 168r, upper left corner); bought by the Bodleian on 29 October 1879 for £10. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: ‘MSS. Bodl. Addit. A. 188’ (fol. iir).

Provenance

Regular canons of St Mary and St James, Lonnig (west of Koblenz), transferred in 1326 to the regular canons of Mayen (west of Koblenz); with 15th century inscription: Notum sit omnibus presens scriptum visuris in perpetuum quod iste liber est ecclesie sancte Marie virginis sanctique Iacobi apostoli Lůneche quem si quis furto detraxerit aut in vadio exposuerit …, and in a 17th(?)-century hand, 1326. Hic liber cum caeteri Maioniam [Mayen] translatus sub Baldewino archiepiscopo.(fol.167v)