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Egerton MS 3018
- Record Id:
- 032-001985112
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001985112
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x00035d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165163355.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 3018
- Title:
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Missal for Use of Cologne
- Scope & Content:
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A Missal for Use of Cologne, as is indicated by the Calendar and the offices in honour of St Severin of Cologne. The main part of the manuscript (ff. 8-130) was written and illustrated in an Italian script and style. This part, moreover, is made with smooth white parchment that was common in Italian manuscripts.
A Rhenish scribe then added a Calendar for Use of Cologne, written on a separate quire (ff. 1-6) made from leaves of stouter parchment, and a Sequence of St Severin of Cologne and a Mass dedicated to all angels (with the colophon ‘M.oCCCC.o [erasure?] in praefesto Benedicti’) on empty spaces (ff. 87r-87v, ff. 129v-130v). These additions stand apart from the main part, featuring a type of penwork decoration that appears to have been executed by a Dutch artist (working in a style associated with Haarlem and North Holland). Full-page miniatures of Rhenish execution were added on singletons, again, of parchment that is thicker than that of the main part of the manuscript. Although most of these illustrations do not match textual items in the manuscript, it is possible that the Italian or 'Italian-influenced' and Rhenish scribes and artists collaborated with each other at the commission of a Cologne patron (depicted on f. 24r). This is suggested by the fact that the office for St Severin of Cologne (ff. 85v-87r) and the rubric that introduces the aforementioned sequence of St Severin of Cologne (f. 87r) are written in the Italian-influenced script as well.
Contents:
ff. 1r-6v: Calendar of Saints, for Use of Cologne (it contains feasts for the Three Magi, and their Translation to Cologne; the Eleven Thousand Virgins; St Severin, Archbishop of Cologne; St Heribert, Bishop of Cologne; the Translation of St Cassius, St Florentius and St Malusius, three members of the Theban Legion venerated at Cologne; St Agilulfus, Bishop of Cologne; St Maternus, Archbishop of Cologne; St Evergislus and St Kunibert, Bishops of Cologne; and Cordula, one of the Eleven Thousand Virgins).
ff. 8r-18v: The priest’s preparation for Mass, ‘Ordo sacerdotis preparantis se ad missam’ (including vesting and preparatory prayers).
ff. 18v-23r: Prefaces.
f. 23v: The hymn ‘Adoramus te’ (as part of the daily Mass).
ff. 23r-46r: The Canon of the Mass, beginning with ‘Te igitur’; followed by ‘Preces post missam’, the Gloria, Credo, and an adaptation of the Gloria in honour of the Virgin (on f. 46r).
ff. 46v-107r: Temporal and Sanctoral Cycle: containing the offices for Easter Sunday, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Trinity, Corpus Christi, St John the Baptist, St Peter and St Paul, the Assumption, the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, All Saints, St Martin, the Exaltation of the Cross, St Andrew, the Conception of the Virgin Mary, St Severin of Cologne, St Katherine of Alexandria, St Lucia, the Nativity, the Circumcision, Epiphany, the Purification of the Virgin, Annunciation, and a Dedication of the Church.
ff. 107r-122v: Commune Sanctorum.
ff. 122v-130v: Votive Masses.
[f. 64r is a smaller parchment leaf from another manuscript pasted onto a paper leaf, featuring a section of the Gospel of Matthew (starting at Matthew 16:13)].
[ff. 7v, 24v, 43v, 54v, 64v, 65v, 92v, 117v are blank].
Decoration:
7 full-page miniatures, of Rhenish execution, on tipped-in singletons: with colours and gold in frames of colours (red, blue or green) and gold; the second full-page miniature (on the ‘Canon page’) is accompanied by a full foliate border, in colours and gold. The location of the miniatures, except for f. 24r, cannot be explained from the texts they accompany and appears random: with the possible exception of St Severin of Cologne (if he is the saint depicted on f. 7r), the manuscript has no prayers for any of the illustrated saints. The subjects of the miniatures are as follows:
f. 7r: A bishop with triple-towered church, probably St Severin of Cologne.
f. 24r: The Virgin Mary with Christ Child, and a patron kneeling before them.
f. 43r: The Ten Thousand Martyrs.
f. 54r: St Laurence holding a book (displaying Psalm 112:2).
f. 65r: St Andrew.
f. 92r: St Cornelius and St Cyprian.
f. 117r: A bishop, probably St Martin of Tours, with a crippled beggar.
The opening of the Canon of the Mass (f. 23v) features a small miniature of Christ on the Cross with the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist (in white robes) below, and a large historiated initial 'T' (Te Igitur) in purple against a background in blue and gold, featuring God the Father (in a white robe) supporting the dead Christ (a conflation of the Throne of Mercy and Pietà motifs, known as the 'Not Gottes'). The page features a richly ornamented full foliate border, in colours and gold, containing a roundel with a large cross in gold against a background of red and blue.
f. 64r features an illustration of a bird in black ink in the lower margin.
Numerous small initials in red with blue or purple penwork and pen-flourishing or in blue with red penwork and pen-flourishing throughout the manuscript. Numerous small initials in plain red or blue throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001985112", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 3018: Missal for Use of Cologne" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001985112
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001985112
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment manuscript
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165163355.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century - 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 265 x 185 mm (text space: 160 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 130 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Collation: Gatherings of 10 leaves (exceptions: i6, iv8, viii3, xii9; nine inserted leaves are supernumerary to the quires: ff. [iii], 7, 24, 43, 54, 64, 65, 92, 117). The original order of the manuscript, as shown by offsets on the verso of the leaves concerned, was ff. i, 1-6, 24, 65, 43, 117, 7, 92, 51, 8-23, 25-130.
Binding: Post-1600. Black velvet, inscribed in gold on the spine: ‘MISSAL’; gilt edges and a yellow ribbon as a bookmarker.
- Custodial History:
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Unidentified owner (in Cologne?): a donor portrait accompanied by his arms (damaged): gules, a bend argent (f. 24r).
Josiah Forshall (b. 1795, d. 1863), museum administrator, under-librarian (keeper) of the department of manuscripts and secretary at the British Museum: his sale, Robinson and Hetley, 10 April 1865, lot 308.
Henry Huth (b. 1815, d. 1878), book collector: his catalogue, undertaken after his death The Huth Library, 5 vols (London: Ellis & White, 1880), III, p. 982; bequeathed to his son Alfred Huth.
Alfred Huth (b. 1850, d. 1910), book collector: his sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1916, lot 5037; bought by Walter James Leighton for £168, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of Huth's sale catalogue.
Walter James Leighton (b. 1850, d. 1917), antiquary bookseller: his sale, London, 18 November 1918, lot 524 (note on f. i recto); bought by the British Museum for £134, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of his sale catalogue, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
- Publications:
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British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1916-1920 (London: British Museum, 1933), no. Egerton 3018.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), p. 165.
Ik, Maria van Gelre: De hertogin en haar uitzonderlijk gebedenboek (1380-1429), ed. Johan Oosterman (Museum Het Valkhof: Nijmegen; Waanders: Zwolle, 2018), p.68; published also in German as Ich, Maria von Geldern: Die Herzogin und ihr berühmtes Gebetbuch (1380-1429).
- Exhibitions:
- Ik, Maria van Gelre, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, October 2018 - January 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)