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The Bavarian homiliary

Winter part, nos. 36-37 and 32

F-rf36

Brugge, Archief Grootseminarie Brugge, Ms. 120/159

Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title The Bavarian homiliary
Shelfmarks Brugge, Archief Grootseminarie Brugge, Ms. 120/159
Page/Folio Reference lower pastedown
Material Parchment
Date of Origin second half ninth century
Script, Hands

Carolingian minuscule for main text. Uncial used as display script for rubrics.
General Remarks

A fragment from the same manuscript was used as a pastedown in Brugge, Grootseminarie, Ms. 121/158 (F-qag5 on Fragmentarium). Both host volumes contain a part of the same text (the Vita Christi by Ludolphus de Saxonia) and were created around the same time in the Abbey of Ter Doest. Another manuscript from Ter Doest with two more fragments of the same manuscript is Brugge, Openbare Bibliotheek, Ms. 13.

Original Condition

Page Height 305 mm
Page Width at least 239 mm
Height of Written Area 258 mm
Width of Written Area 164 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 164 mm
Number of Lines 33
Line Height 8 mm
Ruling Full blind-point ruling
Collation

This bifolium was probably the second most inner bifolium of the quire. The visible side was the outside of the bifolium. The inner bifolium of the quire has also survived. It has been divided into two leaves and is found as pastedowns on Brugge, Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge, Ms. 13.
More about the Condition

Prickings visible in outer margin of fol. [2].

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium (trimmed, in situ)
Dimensions 305 x 239 mm
More about the Current Condition

A part of fol. [1] has been trimmed away, resulting in text loss. The fragment is used as pastedown with the result that the text on fol. [2]v-[1]r cannot be read anymore. The visible side is the outside of the bifolium.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red rubrication (fol. [1]v).

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title The Bavarian homiliary
    • Content Description

      On fol. [1]v part of two homilies of the so-called Bavarian homiliary, I, 36 (end)-37 (beginning), on fol. [2]r part of homily I, 32.
    • fol. [1]v-[2]r
    • Remarks

      Homily I, 36 is on Matthew 12:38-50, for the first Wednesday of Lent, homily I, 37 on John 5:1-14, for the first Friday of Lent, homily I, 32 on Matthew 4:1-14 for the first Sunday of Lent.

History

Provenance

Original manuscript was kept at Ter Doest Abbey (Lissewege) at one point, before being fragmented there probably in the late fifteenth century.

Host Volume

Title Ludolphus de Saxonia, <i>De Vita Christi</i>
Date of Origin/Publication 1474
Place of Origin/Publication Abbey of Ter Doest
Shelfmark Brugge, Archief Grootseminarie Brugge, Ms. 120/159
Page/Folio Reference: fol. 1-186
Persons Ludolphus de Saxonia (author of host volume); Michael filius Ricardi de Slusa (scribe of host volume)

Bibliography

  • Barré, Henri, Les homéliaires carolingiens de l’école d’Auxerre: authenticité, inventaire, tableaux comparatifs, initia (Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica Vaticana, 1962), p. 26-27.
  • Ordine, Piercinzia, ‘Testimoni e testimonianze dell’ « Omelario bavarese » nella Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli’, Revue bénédictine, 105 (1995), 99–154
     https://doi.org/10.1484/J.RB.4.01341
  • Brusa, Gionata, ‘Gli omeliari della Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli’, Scrineum, 10 (2013), 49–190 (p. 58–60)
     https://www.academia.edu/5350888
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