Missale Benedictinum Bursfeldense
printed by Peter Drach, Speyer 1498
F-4ncw
General Information
Print, Gothic missal type
The printed text on the fragments is very faint. The fragments are probably the top layer of the paste-laminate boards covered by a thin, translucent sheet of blank parchment that forms the case.
Identification was aided by infrared imaging.
Original Condition
Foliation in Roman numerals in the top margin as well as alphanumeric quire signatures in the bottom margin.
Current Condition
Two pieces, each consisting of about the bottom quarter of the respective leaf.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Red rubrics.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Mass for one martyr
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Remarks
Bottom of the leaf, about six lines of text preserved, though column B is missing the beginnings of the lines. Quire signature G.
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Mass for St Vincent
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Remarks
Bottom of the leaf, about six lines of text preserved, though column B is missing the beginnings of the lines. Quire signature C iii.
History
Printed in Speyer in 1498. The missal was edited by Johannes Trithemius, abbot of Sponheim Abbey, for the Bursfelde Congregation, a reform movement of the late 15th century that advocated for a return to the strict rule of St Benedict. Some fifty copies survive of this edition.
Host Volume
The host volume belonged to Herlufsholm Skole, a private Latin school located in Næstved, Sealand. The old library of Herlufsholm was transferred to the University Library of Southern Denmark in 1968-69.
Herlufsholm was founded in 1565 on the grounds of a secularised Benedictine monastery, St Peders Kloster.St Peders Kloster was associated with the Bursfelde Congregation and implemented its reforms, but it did not formally join the congregation. It is possible that the fragment is a remnant of Skovkloster's book collection.
This book is part of a tranche of books acquired by Peder Pedersen Hie, who was rector of Herlufsholm between 1610-13. It bears an inscription on the title page reading Hic liber in usum Scholæ Herlovianæ acquisitus est Rectore Petro Petrejo Hiennio, most likely added later by a librarian.
On a blank leaf at the front of the book, there are some pen trials and the signature Nathaniel Hume. This person has not been identified yet, but Hume as a Scottish surname suggests that this book was with Hie when he studied at St Salvator’s College at the University of St Andrews in 1607 (another fragment with a Hie-St Andrews connection is F-pp52). There are various annotations in Latin and Danish on the endpapers, some referring to the contents of the host volume. They may be interpreted as further evidence that the book was used in an educational context. Another ownership inscription identifies Hans Poulsen Resen, bishop of Sealand from 1615 until his death in 1638 as a former owner of the book.
The binding is a simple laced-case binding with three visible double endbands. The boards are stiff, probably paste laminate. It was restored by bookbinder Axel Pedersen (A.P. Kons) in 1975 according to a stamp on the back endleaf.
Bibliography
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Holck, Jakob Povl. Den Gamle Verdens Magi: Bogsamlingen Fra Herlufsholm På Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek. Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, 2015.
portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/den-gamle-verdens-magi-bogsamlingen-fra-herlufsholm-på-syddansk-u/ -
Holck, Jakob Povl. ‘Herlufsholm-Samlingen På Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek Og Forskningspotentialet–Om Forskellige Fund Af Fragmenter’. Studier i Nordisk, nos 2016–2018 (2022): 5–40.
https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/herlufsholm-samlingen-p%C3%A5-syddansk-universitetsbibliotek-og-forskn/ -
Ilsøe, Harald. ‘Danske Studerende Ved St. Andrews i Skotland 1595-1610 Med et Tillæg Om de Studerende i Oxford 1603-22’. Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift 82, series 14, volume 4, issue 01-02 (1962): 23–26.
https://tidsskrift.dk/personalhistorisk_tidsskrift/article/view/79656/114780