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Breviary

Office for the Feast of St Stephen [26 December]

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Leuven, Archief van de Abdij van Park, ID3.24

Elize Van Opstal, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023. (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

Additional remarks by Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023.

General Information

Title Liturgical manuscript, possibly a missal
Shelfmarks Leuven, Archief van de Abdij van Park, ID3.24
Page/Folio Reference upper pastedown - upper flyleaf
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 14th century
Script, Hands

Small gothica semitextualis formata.

Original Condition

Page Height 182 – 243 mm
Page Width 146 mm
Height of Written Area at least 57 mm
Width of Written Area 110 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 51 – 52 mm
Number of Lines at least 12
Line Height 5 mm
Ruling Lead-point ruling
More about the Condition

The original height is estimated with the procedure of J.P. Gumbert’s statistical research on page dimensions of manuscripts. He has shown that the ratio of height to width generally lies between 0.60 and 0.80. The estimated minimum height lies between 182 and 243 mm.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf (trimmed, in situ)
Dimensions 101 x 146 mm
More about the Current Condition

Leaf was cut with only the lower half preserved. The leaf is preserved in situ, with the left side preserved as a pastedown and the right side as a flyleaf. Because of this, the lower side of the pastedown cannot be read.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Plain versals, alternately in red and blue ink. Initials with interior reserved shapes, alternately in red and blue ink; red colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Hieronymus Stridonensis (commentator); Fulgentius Ruspensis (author)
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Liturgical manuscript, possibly a missal
    • Content Description
      • Fol. [1]r, col. A:
        • Reading from Matthew 23:34, with commentary by Hieronymus Stridonensis.
        • Antiphon on St Stephen ('Impetum fecerunt unanimiter', CantusID 003195).
      • Fol. [1]r, col. B:
        • Responsory on St Stephen ('Intuens in caelum beatus Stephanus', CantusID 006984).
          • Responsory verse ('Cum autem esset Stephanus', CantusID 006984b.1).
        • Reading from Matthew 23:35 (defective).
      • Fol. [1]v, col. A: reading from Fulgentius Ruspensis, Sermo III ('De sancto Stephano protomartyre')
      • Fol. [1]v, col. B: cannot be read.
    • upper pastedown
    • Remarks

      The fragment contains two readings from Matthew 23 (34 and 35) with commentary by Hieronymus Stridonensis. In between those readings, antiphons and responsories on the Feast of St Stephen can be read. The fragment ends with an excerpt of a sermon by Fulgentius Ruspensis on the Feast of St Stephen.

      It can therefore be assumed the original manuscript was a breviary, with this fragment being the office for the Feast of St Stephen [26 December].

Host Volume

Title Middle Dutch prayers and meditations
Date of Origin/Publication late 15th century
Place of Origin/Publication Low Countries
Shelfmark Heverlee, Archief van de Abdij van Park, ID3.24
Persons Host volume was owned by a nun only known by her surname 'Brouwers' in 1672, according to a provenance mark on fol. 1r ('Suster Brouwers hoort dit boeck 1672').
Remarks

Fragments are used as flyleaf and pastedown in a Middle Dutch devotional manuscript with prayers and meditations.

Fragments from a different manuscript (F-ri2o on Fragmentarium) were used as the host volume's upper flyleaf and pastedown.
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