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Add MS 16950
- Record Id:
- 032-002094745
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094745
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x000121
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100177221822.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16950
- Title:
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Gradual, Cistercian Use ('The Seligenthal Gradual')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-4r: Hymns (beginning imperfectly).
ff. 4v-166v: The Temporal, from the first Sunday in Advent (beginning 'Ad te levavi') to the 23rd Sunday following Pentecost (beginning 'Dicit dominus ego'), including the Litany (ff. 100r-102v).
ff. 167r-237r: The Sanctoral, from St Stephen (26 December, beginning 'Etenim sederunt principes et adversum') to St Andrew (30 November, beginning 'Dominus secus mare Galilaeae vidit').
ff. 237v-239r: The dedication of a church (beginning 'Terribilis est locus').
ff. 239r-241r: The Office of the Dead (beginning 'Requiem eternam').
ff. 241r-246v: Short chants for various feast days.
ff. 246r-257r: Various hymns.
f. 257r: Scribal colophon of Elysabeth (see Provenance).
f. 257v: Tables of lections for Sundays and week days, with golden numbers and dominical letters.
f. 258r: Hymn to St Bernard (beginning 'alleluia beatus Bernhardus vi amoris vulneratus').
ff. 258v-261v: The Passion of the Lord according to the Four Gospels.
ff. 261v-262r: Solemn prayers for Good Friday (Parascave).
f. 262r-v: Blessing of the Paschal Candle.
f. 262v: Easter Tables for the years 1270-1304.
ff. 263r-275v: Added hymns (beginning 'Gaudeamus omnes in domino diem'), probably by Elisabeta Hyttlin in 1462 (see Provenance).
ff. 176r-279r: Added Gradual of St Bernard (beginning 'Alleluia beatus Bernhardus vi amoris vulneratus'), 18th century.
Decoration:
20 historiated initials in colours and gold, usually with coloured silk curtains (ff. 4v, 18v, 21r, 62r, 80v, 90v, 95v, 106v, 126v, 131r, 139r, 167r, 167v, 185r, 193r, 195r, 224v, 228r, 232v, 236r).
13 decorated initials in gold and colours, with vegetal and sometimes zoomorphic decoration (f. 14v, 70v, 117v, 170r, 179v, 182r, 213v, 216v, 223r, 224r, 230v, 233r, 237v).
Numerous puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork, in one case featuring a penwork man with bird's head holding a scroll inscribed 'qui manducat carnem' (f. 132v).
Arched arcades framing the text in blue, red and yellow penwork (ff. 100r-102v).
2 marginal drawings of a flowering plant with two birds in its branches, in red, blue and yellow penwork, inscribed 'hiems transiit abiit et recessit flores apparverunt initia vox turturis audita est' (f. 103r), and 'flores apparverunt vox turturis audita est in terra nostra' (f. 107v).
Penwork line fillers. Tear in the parchment mended with sewing in coloured thread (f. 224).
The subjects of the historiated initials are as follows:
f. 4v: The Tree of Jesse.
f. 18v: The Nativity.
f. 21r: The Adoration of the Magi.
f. 62r: A standing king.
f. 80v: The Entry into Jerusalem.
f. 90v: The Last Supper.
f. 95v: The Crucifixion.
f. 106v: The Resurrection and Noli me tangere.
f. 126v: The Ascension.
f. 131r: Pentecost.
f. 139r: Christ in Majesty with the Evangelist Symbols.
f. 167r: The Stoning of St Stephen.
f. 167v: St Bernard and St John the Evangelist.
f. 185r: The Presentation in the Temple.
f. 193r: St Benedict and St Francis with a kneeling nun.
f. 195r: The Annunciation.
f. 224v: The Dormition of the Virgin with a kneeling man.
f. 228r: The Nativity of the Virgin, with a kneeling nun.
f. 232v: The decapitation of St Ursula.
f. 236r: St Catherine and another saint.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094745
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002094745
- 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_100177221822.0x000001
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- Languages:
- German
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1260
- End Date:
- 1260
- Date Range:
- 1260
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions:
Foliation: ff. 279 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end); f. 1 is a paper note affixed to the inside upper cover; f. 2 is a parchment leaf bound into the volume back to front; ff. 276-279 are modern paper additions.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Wooden boards covered with blind-tooled leather; four brass bosses on each side and bronze clasps with animal heads. Movable textile bookmarks, one with a ring of woven metallic thread on the end.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Germany, South (Seligenthal or Regensburg?).
Provenance:
Written by the scribe Elysabeth, probably at the request of Agnes von Grünbach (b. 1233, d. 1277), abbess of the Cistercian abbey of Seligenthal near Landshut, in 1260, perhaps at the nearby monastery of Regensburg. Inscribed in a 13th-century hand, 'Finito libro laus sit Christo. Orate pro scriba que scripsit hunc librum. Nomen eius Elysabeth' (f. 257r); inscribed in a possibly 17th-century hand, '1260 bey erster Frau Abbtissin Agnes Graffin von Preyssing dis grosse Ambt Buech geschriben worden von Closter Frau Elisabetha. Resquiescat in pace' (f. 4v). The style of decoration is similar to other Regensburg manuscripts (see Regensburger Buchmalerei (1987)).
Elisabetha Hyttlin, cantor, 1462: probably added further songs to the manuscript (ff. 263r-275v); inscribed in a possibly 17th-century hand, '1462 hat auch eine Closter Frau Elisabetha Hyttlin das Gratual Buech verfertiget war 35 Jahr Cantorin. Requiescat in Pace' (f. 5r).
18th century: added Gradual of St Bernard (ff. 176-279).
Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller: bought from him by the British Museum on 22 May 1847 (see inscription f. 1r).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1846-1847 (London: British Museum, 1864), pp. 329-30.
Hanns Swarzenski, Die Lateinischen Illuminierten Handschriften des XIII. Jahrhunderts in den Ländern an Rhein, Main und Donau, 2 vols (Berlin: Deutscher Verin fur Kunstwissenschaft, 1936), I, no. 31.
Le graduel romain: édition critique par les moines de Solesmes, 2 vols (Solesmes: Abbaye Saint-Pierre, 1957), II: Les sources, p. 64.
A.G Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London, 1979), I, no.169.
Renate Kroos, Die Zeit der Fruhen Herzoge: Ausstellung Landshut (Munich: Hubert Glaser, 1980) no. 156, pp 124-27.
Regensburger Buchmalerei (Munich: Prestel, 1987), no. 62, pls 134-35 [exhibition catalogue].
Jeffrey Hamburger and Nigel Palmer, The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin, 2 vols (Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2015), I, p. 311.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)