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O-antiphones and other prayers for Advent

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Leuven, KU Leuven Bibliotheken Bijzondere Collecties, Ms. 1316

Birthe Verscuren, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title O-antiphones and other prayers for Advent
Shelfmarks Ms. 1316
Former Shelfmarks Fragm. 527
Material Paper
Date of Origin mid 16th century
Script, Hands

One hand with marginal notes by a later hand

Original Condition

Page Height 168 mm
Page Width 130 mm
Height of Written Area 150 mm
Width of Written Area 110 mm
Number of Lines 14 – 16
Line Height 10 mm
Ruling none

Current Condition

More about the Current Condition

fragment a: 165 x 65 mm

fragment b: 167 x 32/66 mm

fragment c: 167 x 60/64 mm

As fol. 1 and fol. 5 are part of the same bifolium, this was once folded differently, or fol. 5v could never have received an impression of fol. 1r (see below, under content).

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Versals in red ink

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Content Description

      1. (fol. 1r-1v): 4 prayers: Excita domine corda nostra, Aurem tuam quesumus domine, Excita domine potentiam tuam en A nobis quesumus domine

      Inc.1: Excita domine corda nostra …
      Expl.1: … seruire mereamur (+ slotzin).
      Inc.2: Aurem tuam quesumus domine …
      Expl.2: … gratia tue visitacionis illustra (+ slotzin).
      Inc.3: Excita domine potenciam nostram …
      Expl.3: … indulgentia tuae propitiationis acceleret (+ slotzin).
      Inc.4: A nobis quesum[us] domine …
      Expl.4: … lectemur per dominum.

      2. (fol. 1v-3r): 7 O-antiphones
      Inc.: O sapientia, que ex ore …
      Expl. … veni as [sal]vandum nos domine deus no[…]

      3. (fol. 3r-3v): extra antiphones for S. Thomas, the Virgin Mary (O virgo virginum) and Christ (O rex pacifice)
      Inc.: O thomas didime per christum …
      Expl.: … unde ruerunt per [culpa]²m

      4. (fol. 3v): Isai 45.8
      Inc.: Rorate [caeli de]super …
      Expl.: …”germi[net sal]uatorem

      5. (fol. 4r): offset on fol. 3v

      6. (fol. 4v): offset on fol. 1[3]

      No legible text on the loose fragments.
    • Edition The University of East-Anglia, Norwich. CURSUS, Online Resource for Medieval Liturgical Texts (2000-2003). http://www.cursus.uea.ac.uk/ms/gloucester. Ed.: - Callewaert, C. “De groote Adventsantifonen O”. In: Id., Sacris erudiri. Fragmenta liturgica collecta a monachis Sancti Petri de Aldenburgo in Steenbrugge ne pereant. Steenbrugge: Sint-Pietersabdij, 1940. p. 405-418 (p. 406-407).
    • Remarks

      Ed.: The first prayer corresponds to prayer 1743 from the Cursus-website (second Advent Sunday), the second to prayer 1744 (third Advent Sunday) and the third to prayer 1786 (fourth Advent Sunday). The fourth prayer also occurs in the manuscript Vatikaanstad, BAV, lat. 4770, f. 23[1], but it is dedicated to S. Benedictus there and here to S. Thomas.

      A later reader added the following directions:
      - between the first and the second prayer: domenica 3 (refers to the second prayer, cf. edition)
      - between the second and third prayer: domenica 4 (refers to the third prayer, cf. edition)
      - between the third and fourth prayer: De sancte Thomas apostoli [1 word] (refers to the fourth prayer, cf. supra)
      - between the fourth prayer and the first O-antiphone: In die lucie a…  

History

Provenance

Unknown, transmitted together with Fragm. 544, that contains an impression ofthe middle folio of the quire

2009 (?): restoration by studio Schrijen
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