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Add MS 16605
- Record Id:
- 032-002094386
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094386
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x0000c5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100174219551.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16605
- Title:
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Sacramentarium Gregorianum with supplements by Benedict of Aniane
- Scope & Content:
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The Gregorian Sacramentary is a collection of prayers created in the time of Pope Gregory I (b. c. 540, d. 604) for the Pope's recitation of the Eucharistic liturgy in Rome's churches. Between 810 and 814 the Benedictine monk and monastic reformer Benedict of Aniane (b. c. 750, d. 821) selected and reworked materials from the Frankish Gelasian Sacramentary and added his so-called Supplementum to the Gregorian Sacramentary with a view to adapting the work for a Carolingian audience. This manuscript presents only a select number of masses from the Supplementum.
Contents:
ff. 1v-3r: Benedictio Cerei or Exultet (with neumes added to the text).
ff. 3v-13r: Prefaces for different liturgical feasts (with additions in a 10th-century hand on ff. 4r, 4v).
ff. 13v-17r: Liturgy for the feast of St Remaclus.
ff. 17v-18r: Preface of the Mass.
ff. 18v-19v: Canon of the Mass.
f. 20rv: Consecration of the Mass.
ff. 20v-21r: Commemoration of the Dead.
f. 21r: Minor Elevation of the Mass.
f. 21r-22r: Communion of the Mass.
f. 22v: A mass for the dedication of a church added in an 11th-century hand, 'Missa in dedicatione ecclesia'.
ff. 23r-100v: Masses for liturgical feasts of the Sanctorale and Temporale (with an 11th-century marginal notation on f. 66r).
ff. 101r-113v: Benedictionale, 'Benedictio in Vigilia Natalis Domini'.
f. 113v: Prayers for the Church added in a 10th-century hand, 'Orationes in dedicatione ecclesiae'.
f. 114r: Prayers for the Church added in a 10th- or 11th-century hand.
Decoration:
Seven large initials with penwork decoration in gold and green (ff. 18v, 19v, 21v, 23r, 24v, 53r, 77r). Initial filled with purple and smaller letters (f. 53r). Six excised large initials (ff. 15v, 51v, 52v, 68v, 71r, 77r). Full-borders with penwork decoration in green and grey (ff. 17v, 18r, 18v). Small initials in red or gold, and one with penwork decoration (f. 30v), and one on a purple background (f. 52r). Purple-stained parchment covering the text space on ff. 17v, 18r, 18v, 21v, several lines on f. 15v, and one line on f. 77r.
The style of the decoration (Franco-Saxon) is typical of manuscripts produced by monasteries in Northern France during the second half of the ninth century (see Denoël, 2007, p. 207).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094386
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002094386
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100174219551.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 0900
- Date Range:
- c 850 - c 900
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 285 x 215 mm (text space: 210 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 114 (plus three unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + four unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Carolingian minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Netherlands, S.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Stavelot: a parchment strip with a 15th-/16th-century inscription: 'pertin[et] mo[na]sterio stabulen[se]' (f. 115r). A post-medieval inscription reads 'anno 980' (f. 1r), but Bernhard Bischoff dates the manuscript to the third or fourth quarter of the ninth century (for the dating of the manuscript and its additions see Bischoff, 2004, pp. 95-96).
Thomas Rodd (b. 1796, d. 1849), bookseller: purchased from him by the British Museum for £ 32.00: 'Purchased of Tho[ma]s Rodd, 13 march 1847 (sale of stavelot mss at Ghent. Lot 14)' (f. iiir).
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digital Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1846-1847 (London: British Museum, 1846), p. 290.
Jean Deshusses, Le Sacramentaire Grégorien: ses principales formes d'après les plus anciens manuscrits, 3 vols,Spicilegium Friburgense, 16, 24, 28 (Freiburg im Breisgau: Academic Press Fribourg, 1979–1982,), I: le supplément d'Aniane (repr. 1992), p. 37.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998–2014), II: Laon–Paderborn (2004), pp. 95-96.
Charlotte Denoël, ‘Saint-Amand et l’école franco-saxonne (cat. 56 à 61)’, in Trésors carolingiens: Livres manuscrits de Charlemagne à Charles le Chauve, ed. by Marie-Pierre Lafitte and Charlotte Denoël (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2007), pp. 207-221.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)