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040-002022567

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032-002022564

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Title:

Liber Misticus, Offices and Masses of the Mozarabic Liturgy

Scope & Content:

Contents:

Offices and Masses of the Mozarabic Liturgy from Easter to Pentecost (imperfect).

Leaves from two Liber Mysticus manuscripts have been interleaved and combined to form one codex. One is written in two columns (ff. 1-6, 25-56, 75-87) and the other in one column (ff. 7-24, 57-74, 88-175). There are lacunae in many places, and a fragment of an early 10th-century Passionary has been added, containing part of the Passion of St Juliana (f. 173) (see Boylan 'Manuscript Illumination' (1990), pp. 242-43). Some words in Arabic (ff. 8r, 15v and 24r) have been written in by the scribes who wrote the Latin.

Decoration:

Large monographs and initials with penwork decoration in foliate, interlace or geometric patterns, some with human figures (ff. 28r, 46v, 47v, 84r, 84v, 94r), birds or animal heads (e.g., f. 57v) in brown with red, green, yellow or black.

Marginal image of a bird with a fish in its beak (f. 161v).

Initials and display script in red, green or light brown.

Musical notation of northern Visigothic neumes has been added in a darker ink by a later hand in some places, though the program of notation is not complete (Vivancos in Hispania Vetus (2007), p. 304).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002022564
040-002022567

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Add MS 30844-30857 : Belonged to the Monastery of S. Domingo de Silos, near Burgos, in Spain

Add MS 30846 : Liber Misticus, Offices and Masses of the Mozarabic Liturgy

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032-002022564[0003]/040-002022567

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0975

End Date:

1025

Date Range:

c 1000

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment and paper (ff. 176-177 only).

Dimensions: 280 x 220 mm (written space: 200/10 x 150/70 mm), with some folios written in two columns.

Foliation: ff. 177 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and 1 unfoliated parchment and 1 paper flyleaf at the end); ff. 176 and 177 are added paper leaves.

Script: Visgothic minuscule.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather over wooden boards.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Burgos (?Santo Domingo de Silos), Northern Spain.

Provenance:

The Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, kept in cupboard no 8: labelled 'Caj[on] 8' on f. 2r, in the catalogue compiled by Ibarette in 1770; a list of contents added on 17 July 1772 (ff. 176r and 177r) and in the catalogue compiled by the librarian of Silos, Gregorio Hernandez in 1772 (see Boylan, 'Library at Santo Domingo de Silos' (1992).

Rodrigo Echevarria y Briones, last Abbot of Silos (b. 1790, d. 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.

The 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 to a Madrid bookseller for 16, 000 pesetas.

Bachelin-Deflorenne, booksellers of Paris, in the sale of 55 manuscripts and 14 incunabula from the library at Silos on 1 June, 1878, lot 28.

Bernard Quaritch, London booksellers, bought by them for 365 francs, together with 13 other Silos manuscripts; bought by the British Museum on 15 June 1878 (a note on f. [i] recto).

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

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: Ernest Leroux, 1897), no. 35, pp. 275.

F. Cabrol, H. Leclerq and M. Férotin, Le Liber Mozárabicus Sacramentorum et les Manuscrits Mozarabes, Monumenta Ecclesiae Liturgica, 6 (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1912), cols.842-70.

Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum latinorum medii aevi Hispanorum, 2 vols (Madrid: Salmanticae, 1958-1959), nos. 437, 639, 641, 704.

Klaus Gamber, Codices liturgici latini antiquiores, Spicilegii Friburgensis Subsidia, I, 2nd edn (Freiburg: Universitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz, 1963), p. 55.

François Avril and others, Manuscrits enluminés de la péninsule ibérique (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1982), p. 13.

Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Codices visigoticos en la monarquia leonesa (Leon: Centro de Estudios e Investigacion San Isidoro C.S.I.C., 1983), pp. 404-05.

Ann Boylan, 'Manuscript illumination at Santo Domingo de Silos (Xth to XIIth Centuries)', (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1990), pp. 242-44.

Ann Boylan, 'The Library at Santo Domingo de Silos and its catalogues (XIth-XVIIIth Centuries)', Revue Mabillon, nouvelle série, 3 (1992), 59-102 (pp. 89, 93)

Rose Walker, Views of Transition: Liturgy and Illumination in Medieval Spain, (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 48-50, 259.

Augustin Millares Carlo, Corpus de códices visigóticos, 2 vols (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: UNED, 1999), I: Estudio, pp. 86-87; II: Album, no. 111.

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. 223-24, 226.

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. 304-05.

Emma Hornby and Rebecca Maloy, Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants. Psalmi, Threni and the Easter Vigil Canticles (Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2013), pp. 59-60.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Burgos, Spain

Related Material:

From the Catalogue of Additions 1876-1881 (1882):

'OFFICES and Masses of the Mozarabic Liturgy from Easter to Pentecost. Latin. Imperfect at the beginning, and with other leaves missing. Included also are:-Canticles and Hymns.f. 57; " Sermo de cotididie " (sic), beg. " Rogo uos et amoneo, fratres karissimi, quotiens ad eglam [ecclesiam] conueniti (sic) fueritis nolite otiosis sermonibus," etc. f. 132 ;-" Incipiunt letanias apostolicas " (sic). f. 136;-" Passio sancta Iuliana (sic) que passa fuit in ciuitate Nicomediã sub imperatore Maximiam [Maximiano] ex profecto (sic) Eluseo xiii. kalendas Martias," be,-,. " Denique temporibus Maximiam." Imperfect. f. 175. Vellum; ff. 177. In Visigothic characters, with ornamental initials. xth cent. Quarto.'