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Add MS 15456
- Record Id:
- 032-002087216
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002087216
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x00029b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165143349.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15456
- Title:
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Obituary calendar of the Abbey of St Quirinus, Neuss
- Scope & Content:
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An obituary calendar of the Abbey of St Quirinus, Neuss, recording the obits (or death anniversaries) of the abbey's former members, patrons and other local figures which would be announced in the nuns' daily chapter meeting after the office of prime.
For a facsimile, edition, and translation of the manuscript, see Nagel, Das Neusser Totenbuch (2000).
Contents:
Inside upper cover: the liturgy of Neuss Abbey.
ff. 2v-50v: an obituary calendar of the Benedictine Abbey of St Quirinus, Neuss, made in 1421, with added obits continuing to the 2nd half of the 17th century.
f. 51r: the oath to be taken by the abbey’s canonesses, written in German, beginning, 'Dit ist das juramentu[m] das ein custersen tzo sanct...'
ff. 52r-53r: the oath to be taken by the abbey’s abbess, written in German, beginning 'Dit is dat jurament[um] tzo duytz dat eyn abdisse...'
f. 53v: the oath to be taken by the monastery’s abbess, written in Latin, beginning, 'Sequitur Juramentum Abbatisse in latino.'
Inside lower cover: the liturgy of Neuss Abbey.
ff. 10v and 51v are blank.
Decoration:
1 full-page miniature in three registers, in colours, depicting the Last Judgement: (above) Christ enthroned and flanked by St Bibiana and the Virgin Mary on the left and John the Baptist and St Quirinus on the right; (middle) an angel and a demon flying above a group of people awaiting judgment, including a nun and a bishop, while the dead rise from their coffins; (lower) nuns and monks praying at an altar (f. 2r).
Drawings in coloured ink appearing alongside different entries in the calendar: a coat of arms, black with a red cup and white flowers (f. 5v), children (ff. 3r, 40r), men (ff. 27v, 39v), monks (ff. 4v, 5v, 7r, 9v, 27v, 37v, 39r, 40v, 47v), nuns (ff. 5r, 8v, 16v, 27r, 30v, 36r, 39r, 41r, 44r, 44v), women (ff. 8v, 12v, 15v, 18r, 21v, 22r, 30v, 36r, 38r, 39r, 39v, 40r), Berta, dowager countess of Cleves (f. 24v), Everhard, count of Cleves (f. 6r), Conrad bishop of Cleves (f. 38r) and Emperor Henry (f. 28r), possibly Henry II (r. 1014-1024). Some of the human figures bearing inscribed scrolls, e.g. ff. 3r, 6r 40r).
12 large 'KL' initials in blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 3r, 7r, 11r, 15r, 19r, 23r, 27r, 31r, 35r, 39r, 43r, 47r).
Large initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing. Initials with red, blue, green, and yellow flourishes on capitals and headings, some inhabited with human faces (e.g. ff. 14r, 21v, 25r).
Manicules (ff. 8v, 12v, 14r, 19r, 25v, 26r, 27r, 33v, 37r, 38r, 40v, 45r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002087216
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002087216
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165143349.0x000001
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- Languages:
- German, Low
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1421
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 1421-17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 385 x 295 mm (text space: 310 x 220 mm).
Foliation: ff. 54 (+ 1 parchment stub f. 51v); ff. 1 and 54 are pastedowns to the inside upper and lower covers.
Script: Gothic cursive, with additions in later hands.
Binding: Pre-1600. Original stamped leather over wooden boards; decorated with flowers and eagles, and brass bosses; restored spine.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Neuss, Germany.
Provenance:
The manuscript was made for the Benedictine Abbey of St Quirinus, Neuss in 1421: inscribed, 'Liber animarum Capituli monasterij sancti Quirini Nussiensis Coloniensis diocesis renonatus Sub Anno a natiuitate domini moccccoxo primo' (f. 2v); the calendar features added obits throughout in a number of different hands continuing to the 2nd half of the 17th century (see Watson, Catalogue of Datable Manuscripts (1979), I, no. 131).
Purchased by the British Museum from Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller, 8 March 1845, along with Add MSS 15454-14548, for £8.10s: see inscription (inside upper cover).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), no. 15456.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 14.
Robert Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, 2 vols (in 1 vol.) (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1979), II: Das British Museum mit einem Anhang über die Guildhall-Bibliothek (first publ. as 2 vols, Erlangen, 1896-1901), pp. 134-35.
Wilhelm Levison, 'Das Totenbuch des Neußer St. Quirinis-Stiftes in London', Annalen des Historischen Vereins für den Niederrhein, 116 (1930), 136-39.
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London: The British Museum 1979), I, no. 131.
Bernard McGinn, 'Portraying Antichrist in the Middle Ages', in The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages, ed. by Werner Verbeke et al (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1988), pp. 1-49 (p. 45).
Das Neusser Totenbuch: Liber animarum capituli monasterii sancti Quirini Nussiensis (London, British Library, Ms. Add. 15456), ed.by Rolf Nagel in collaboration with Joachim Oepen (Neuss: Stadtarchiv, 2000) [edition].Quirinus: Tribun, Martyrer und Stadtpatron, ed. by Christiane Zangs and Georg Hollander (Cologne: Wienand, 2000), no. 45 [exhibition catalogue].
Maren Hohn-Haider, 'Liber animarum capituli monasterii sancti Quirini Nussiensis: Anmerkungen zu den Miniaturen des Neusser Totenbuchs', in Mittelalter an Rhein und Maas: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Niederrheins: Dieter Geuenich zum 60, ed. by Uwe Ludwig and Thomas Schilp (Münster: Waxmann, 2004), pp. 137-46.
Laura Fulkerson Hodges, Chaucer and Clothing: Clerical and Academic Costume in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005), pp. 49-50, 55.
Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus Mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern, Bonn and Essen exhibition catalogue (Munich: Kirmer, 2005), no. 21.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Nigel F. Palmer, The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin, 2 vols (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2015), I, p. 361.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)