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Breviary (Lent)

First Sunday in Lent and Monday after First Sunday in Lent

F-3z73

Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Private Collection, Canada, Fr.G1-6

Private Catalogue, Canada, 2024. (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Breviary (Lent)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Germany [?]

Current Condition

Dimensions 166 x 225 mm
More about the Current Condition

The bifolium was recovered from a binding, where it was used as a wrapper. There is fading and soiling on both sides. On the recto are two paper labels, which would have been visible on the spine of the host volume. One label, possibly dating to the 18th century, bears the host volume title (Runceus: cros. dialect.). The other label, dating to the 19th or early-20th century, bears a location or call number (XXI 66). The verso, which was previously pasted down, contains remnants of paper and glue that partially obscure some of the text. The creases of the host volume spine and turn-ins are clearly defined.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

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 Rubrication is penned in red ink.

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      The bifolium contains text used during Lent. The left-side of the recto begins with an antiphon (Vigilate omnes et orate nescitis) and continues with another antiphon (sive) that is largely illegible, but may be Media vita in morte sumus. These chants can be associated with the first Sunday in Lent (Dominica I in Quadragesima). This side then contains a rubric: Iste ordo processionis teneatur usque dominicam in palmam exceptis responsoriis que assumuntur de hystoriis singularum dominicam (This order of the procession must be kept through to Palm Sunday, except the responsories which are assumed for the histories of individual Sundays). The rubric is followed by the propers of the Mass for the first Sunday in Lent: introit (Invocavit me), oration (Deus qui ecclesiam), epistle (Hortamur vos), gradual (Angelis suis), tract (Qui habitat), and gospel (Ductus est ihesus). The right-side of the recto continues with text intended for use on the same day. It begins with part of 2 Corinthians 6, followed by a response (Septies in die laudem dixi) and two versicles (Erravi sicut ovis quae perierat and Scapulis suis). The side then continues with an antiphon (Dixit dominus) and additional part of 2 Corinthians 6 for both Vespers. The left-side of the verso contains two antiphons (Miserere mihi domine and Pacem tuam quaesumus domine) to be used at Compline. Both chants can be associated with the first Sunday in Lent. On the right-side of the verso is Hieronymus’ Commentarii in Matthaeum 25: 31-33. These verses from the Gospel of Matthew are used during the Monday after the first Sunday in Lent (Feria II post Dominica I in Quadragesima). 

      There are several marginal notations in different hands on both sides. Notably, on the bottom of the left-side of the verso, partially obscured by the turn-ins, is what appears to be a Hellenized name ([Georgius?] Backmeysteriades). On the bottom of the right-side of the verso, there are also three lines of Greek, referencing Homer and the Iliad (ΟΜΗΡΟΣ ΙΛΙΑΔΟΣ [Β?] ΡΑΨΩΔΙΑς).

History

Origin

The seller dated the bifolium to the fifteenth century and identified its origins as German. It was listed as part of a missal by the seller, but the references to the Office in the rubric, namely Vespers on the right-side of the recto and Compline on the left-side of the verso, suggest that the bifolium was part of a breviary. 

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