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Add MS 22049
- Record Id:
- 032-002034510
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002034510
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x000340
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165146287.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22049
- Title:
- A Benedictional
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-2r: added ownership inscriptions.
ff. 3r-13v: Order for Candlemas, beginning, ‘Ordo in purificatione sancte marie virginis ad benedicendos cereos’.
ff. 13v-15v: Order for Ash Wednesday, beginning, ‘Feria quarta in capite Ieiunij. Benedictio cinerum’.
ff. 16r-40r: Order for Palm Sunday, beginning ‘Ordo in die palmarum ad benediccionem palmarum’.
ff. 40r-47v: Order for Maundy Thursday, beginning, ‘Ad mandatum peragendum itur ad locum consuetum cum candelis et thuribulo’.
ff. 47v-84r: Order for Good Friday, beginning, ‘Feria sexta parasceues’. Vespers begins at f. 76r.
ff. 84r-117v: Order for Easter Vigil, beginning, ‘Sabbato sancto pasche’
Corrections and ritual notes added in the margins in Gothic and Humanistic scripts.
Decoration:
5 historiated initials in colours and gold at the opening of each section (ff. 2r, 13v, 16r, 40r, 48r). 4 small miniatures in colours and gold for Easter Vigil (ff. 84r, 108r, 113v, 115r). Large initials at the opening of new prayers, alternating between red and blue. Musical notation for some parts sung by the priest. An added marginal drawing of flowers and grapes (f. 2v).
The subjects of the historiated initials and miniatures are as follows:
f. 3r: Candlemas, the purification of the Virgin Mary.
f. 13v: Ash Wednesday, the imposition of ashes, with a priest and a worshipper.
f. 16r: Palm Sunday, the Entry into Jerusalem.
f. 40r: Maundy Thursday, Christ washing the feet of the disciples.
f. 48r: Good Friday, The Crucifixion.
f. 84r: Easter Vigil, a priest in a cope blessing the new fire.
f. 108r: Easter Vigil, the blessing of the font.
f. 113v: Easter Vigil, the pouring of water in the four cardinal directions: 'Hic eice aqua in quatuor partes hoc modo'.
f. 115r: Easter Vigil, a priest blowing the candle in the water: 'Hic fac mitti cereum in aquam tribus uicibus, insufflando hoc modo'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002034510", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 22049: A Benedictional" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002034510
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002034510
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165146287.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 370 × 260 mm (written area 250 × 160 mm).
Foliation: ff. 118 (+ 4 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated ruled parchment leaves after f. 2 + 4 modern paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. German brown leather blind-stamped over wooden boards with metal bosses and clasps. Spine rebacked.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany.
Provenance:
Johann van Stettenberg (fl. 1459-1484) dean of Speyer: inscribed, 'Agenda est Io[annes] de Stettenbergk Decanus' and 'Joannes de Stettenberg Decanus et Jubileus / 1459.-1484 obiit in Die S. urbani 25 e 12 May' (f. 1v).
Wilderich von Walderdorff (b. 1617, d. 1680), dean of Speyer from 1650, later prince-bishop of Vienna and imperial chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire: inscribed, 'Vita mea Domino reddam in conspectu omnis populi eius: in atriis domus. domini in medio tui Jerusalem ps ii5. Wildericus a Walderdorff Decanus Spirenis in anno 1651' (f. 2r).
Offered for sale at Sotheby’s, 10 June 1857, lot 259; purchased by the British Museum for £3 5s.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1860 (London: British Museum, 1875), p. 1328.
J. Brückmann, ‘Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals in England and Wales’, Traditio, 29 (1973), pp. 391-458 (pp. 425-26).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)