Missal

F-st34

Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Mis.MF.2019.09.01

General Information

Title Missal
Shelfmarks Mis.MF.2019.09.01
Former Shelfmarks OJ.19 (written in pencil on rear pastedown)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Germany, Central Europe, or Scandinavia
Date of Origin 1401-1450
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis formata (textus quadratus)

Original Condition

Page Height at least 190 mm
Page Width at least 182 mm
Height of Written Area 175 mm
Width of Written Area 112 – 118 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 112 – 118 mm
Number of Lines at least 15
Numbering

Upper right recto: contemporary (?) ink foliation, “81”; later pencil number, “17”.

Current Condition

Dimensions 190 x 282 mm
More about the Current Condition

Tipped into decorated paper boards.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Two two-line initials provided in red. One-line initials supplied in red and blue. Paraph supplied in blue; rubrics in red.

Text on leaf 2 has interlinear Arabic numbers over text, perhaps to aid word order when translating into vernacular.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Missal
    • Content Description

      Leaf 1: [De resurrectione domini] (Psalm, Gradual, Versical, Tract); “Septima de ascensione” (Introit, Prayer, Reading)

      • Begins recto line 1: “[timbe]bo d[omi]n[u]s defensor vite mee a quo trepida[bo]”
      • Ends verso line 15: “assumptus est. Quibus et pre[buit]”

      Leaf 2: [Decima octava de festo pentecostes] (Sequentia and Reading)

      • Begins recto line 1: “Purifica n[ost]ri ocul[um] . . . “
      • Ends verso line 15: “. . . [me]us diligent eu[m]: et ad”
    • Remarks

      Order of masses in this fragment follows the same order as the list of Prefaces in Hugh of St. Cher's Speculum Ecclesiae (per Innocent Smith, op, Assistant Professor at St. Mary's Seminary & University, Baltimore, MD).

History

Provenance

Bookplates of Sigurd (1875-1947) and Gudrun (1882-1976) Wandel; K(ai) A(lexander) Jacobsen (1885-1956); Ole Lars Jacobsen (1915-1996).