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Add MS 30845
- Record Id:
- 040-002022566
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002022564
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001396.0x0001c6
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- Add MS 30845
- Title:
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Mozarabic Liturgy with musical notation
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-161v: Offices and Masses in the Mozarabic tradition for the saints' days from 20th May (Quiricus, Quirce or Cyriacus) to 24th August (Bartholomeus or Bartholomew), including the Translatio Sancti Saturnini, and the Officium de Letianas Canonicas, incomplete after ff. 7 and 161. The saints venerated are of mixed origin, including San Pelayo of Leon and others from the southern or Ebro regions of Spain. The first quire (ff. 1-7), containing the Offices of St Cyriacus and St Jerome is perhaps from another manuscript (see Diaz Díaz y Díaz, 'Literary Aspects', 1980). f. 1r is an outer leaf with the title 'Oficeriu[m] toledanu[m]', a Silos ownership inscription and the vespertinus chant, 'Splenduit lucerna tua, Domine'. Four folios containing the Mass for St Maria (ff. 89r-92v) and two parchment strips (f. 4) containing the Creed with musical notation including unusual rythmic signs represented by the letters 'a' and 't'; f. 84 containing liturgical formulae have been added in the 11th century (see Zapke, Hispania Vetus (2007), p. 306)).
Decoration:
Large monograms introducing the vespertinus chant at the beginning of each office (ff. 1v, 5v, 8r, 13r, 24r, 27v, 29v, 38r, 42r, 47r, 48v, 52v, 56r, 64r, 71r, 74v, 81r, 84v, 96r, 100r, 107r, 110r, 112r, 118r, 127v, 130v, 134v, 139r, 144v, 150r, 152r and 160v) and initials marking sections within the offices, both decorated with ecclesiastics, human figures, animals, birds, foliate and geometric patterns in green, light brown and red. Numerous small initials and symbols with decoration in green, light brown and red. Musical notation with northern Visigothic neumes has been added in a darker ink by a later hand.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002022564
040-002022566 - Is part of:
- Add MS 30844-30857 : Belonged to the Monastery of S. Domingo de Silos, near Burgos, in Spain
Add MS 30845 : Mozarabic Liturgy with musical notation - Hierarchy:
- 032-002022564[0002]/040-002022566
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex, 161 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_30845 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
Spanish - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 365 x 255mm (text space: 295 x 190mm). Some folios are irregular in shape, with parts of parchment lacking.
Layout: 2 columns of 27 lines (31 lines on ff. 1-7 and 30 lines on ff. 148-161).
Foliation: 163 folios (ff. 162 and 163 are paper flyleaves with parchment fragments attached + 1 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).
Script: Visigothic minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather over wooden boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Spain, North (Burgos, ?Santo Domingo de Silos).
Provenance:
The Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos during the abbacy of Santo Domingo (1041-1073). Perhaps part of the donation of the possessions of the neighbouring abbey of St Michael and St Mary to Silos in 1056 (the office of St Michael is the most decorated in the manuscript) or copied at Silos after 1056, when the relics of St Michael became part of the property of the monastery (see Walker, Views of Transition (1998), p. 119). Perhaps in the catalogue of the 13th-century, in the catalogue made by the librarian of Silos, Gregorio Hernandez in 1772, no 30 (see Boylan, 'Library at Santo Domingo de Silos' (1992)) and kept in cupboard no 6: marked 'Caja 6' (f. 1r). An 18th-century list of contents is attached (f. 163r) and an inscription written in Spanish on f. 1r states that the manuscript is part of a 2 volume set 'here at Silos': 'Es de Sanctos, el de las Dominicas es de este mismo cuerpo y letra y esta aqui en Silos'; the other manuscript is now Add MS 30844.
Rodrigo Echevarria y Briones, last Abbot of Silos (1790-1875) hid some of the books in the neighbouring villages and kept some with his personal archive after the dissolution of the monastery in 1835 when the archives were transferred to the provincial library at Burgos, according to Férotin (~Histoire de l'Abbaye~ (1897).
Benedictine abbey of San Martin de Madrid, a dependency of Silos: the personal archive of Echevarria was entrusted to them on his death in 1875 (see Férotin, Histoire de l'Abbaye (1897)). In 1877, 69 manuscripts and incunabula including the present manuscript were sold by them to a Madrid bookseller for 16000 pesetas to raise money for the rebuilding of the Benedictine Abbey of Silos.
Bachelin-Deflorenne, booksellers of Paris, sold at their auction of 55 manuscripts from the library at Silos, 1 June, 1878, lot 18.
Bernard Quaritch, London booksellers, bought by them with Additional MS 30844 for 1 700 francs, along with 13 other Silos manuscripts. Purchased by the British Museum from Quaritch (a note on f. [i]).
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- Publications:
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Antoine Bachelin-Deflorenne, Catalogue de livres rares et de manuscrits du Ixe au XVIIIe siècle (1878), p. 17.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 120.
D. Marius Férotin, Histoire de l'Abbaye de Silos (Paris: Leroux, 1897), pp. 238, 271.
F. Cabrol, H. Leclerq and M. Férotin, Le Liber Mozárabicus Sacramentorum et les Manuscrits Mozarabes, Monumenta Ecclesiae Liturgica, 6 (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1912), cols. 820-42.
Meyer Schapiro, 'From Mozarabic to Romanesque in Silo', Art Bulletin, 21 (1939), 313-74 (p. 368).
Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz, Index scriptorum latinorum medii aevi Hispanorum, 2 vols (Madrid: Salmanticae, 1958-1959), no. 158 passim.
Klaus Gamber, Codices liturgici latini antiquiores. Secunda editio aucta (Freiburg: Universitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz, 1968), p. 35.
Clyde W. Brockett, Antiphons, Responsories, and Other Chants of the Mozarabic Rite, Musicological Studies, XV (New York: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1968), p. 36 (no. 10).
D. M. Randel, The Responsorial Psalm Tones for the Mozarabic Office (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969), p. 6
Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz, 'Literary Aspects of the Visigothic Liturgy', in Visigothic Spain: New Approaches (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), pp. 61-76.
Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz, Codices visigoticos en la monarquia leonesa (Leon: Centro de Estudios e Investigacion San Isidoro C.S.I.C., 1983), pp. 402-04.
Bonifatius Fischer, Die Lateinischen Evangelien bis zum 10. Jahrhundert, 4 vols (Freiburg: Herder, 1988-1991), I: Varianten zu Matthäus, 13, p. 19.
Ann Boylan, Manuscript illumination at Santo Domingo de Silos (Xth to XIIth Centuries) (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1990), pp. 306-40.
Rose Walker, Views of Transition: Liturgy and Illumination in Medieval Spain (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 48-68, 105-11, 115, 119, 161, 259.
Ann Boylan, 'The Library at Santo Domingo de Silos and its catalogues (XIth-XVIIIth Centuries)', Revue Mabillon, nouv. sér., 3 (1992), 59-102 (pp. 70, 71, 74, 89, 94).
Augustin Millares Carlo, Corpus de códices visigóticos, 2 vols (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: UNED, 1999), I: Estudio, p. 86; II: Album, no. 110.
Soledad de Silva y Verastegui, 'La miniatura en los códices de Silos', in Silos. un Mileno: Actos del Congreso Internacional sobre la Abádia de Santo Comingo de Silos, ed. by José A Fernández Flóres, 4 vols (Burgos: University of Burgos, 2003), IV, Arte, pp. 220-22, 225, 228.
Hispania Vetus: Musical-Liturgical Manuscripts from Visigothic Origins to the Franco-Roman Transition (9th-12th Centuries), ed. by Susana Zapke (Bilbao: BBVA Foundation, 2007), pp. 306-07.
Raquel Rojo Carrillo, Text, Liturgy and Music in the Old Hispanic Rite: The Vespertinus Genre (Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Bristol, forthcoming).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
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