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Record Id:

040-002022573

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032-002022564

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Title:

Mozarabic prayerbook

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-115v: An Orational or collection of 730 prayers from the Mozarabic liturgy, also known as the Orationum hispanum. The text is incomplete, covering only the period from Advent to the Nativity of S. John Baptist (24 June) and folios are lacking between ff. 15 and 18. The Orational of Tarragona (now Verona, Cathedral, Biblioteca Capit. Cod. LXXXIX) contains a more complete collection, though it lacks some prayers that are in the present manuscript.

ff. 116r-117v: An added index of 1772, with folio references for each item listed.

Decoration:

Large initials in orange, green and/or brown, some with geometric designs. Rubrics and marginal notes in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002022564
040-002022573

Is part of:

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

Add MS 30852 : Mozarabic prayerbook

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032-002022564[0009]/040-002022573

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0875

End Date:

0924

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment and paper (ff. 116-117).

Dimensions: 320 x 260 mm (text space: 242 x 190 mm), written in two columns.

Foliation: ff. 117 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end); f. 1r a label with the words 'Caja 14 Orationes Sancte' is affixed; ff. 116-117 are paper leaves.

Script: Visigothic minuscule.

Binding: Pre-1600 (15th-century binding). Leather over wooden boards; restored spine.

Custodial History:

Origin:

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

Provenance:

The Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, in the catalogue compiled by Ibarette in 1770; in the catalogue compiled by the librarian of Silos, Gregorio Hernandez in 1772 (see Boylan, 'Library at Santo Domingo de Silos' (1992)).

Note on flyleaf dated 18 July 1772 at the time of foliaton (see Vives 'El Oracional mozárabe', 1945).

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)).

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 by them to a Madrid bookseller for 16000 pesetas to raise money for the rebuilding of the Benedictine Abbey of Silos (see Boylan, 'Manuscript illumination' (1990), pp. 27-29).

Bachelin-Deflorenne, booksellers of Paris, sold at their auction of 55 manuscripts from the library at Silos on 1 June, 1878, lot 34.

Bernard Quaritch, London booksellers, bought by them for 180 francs from Bachelin-Deflorenne, along with 13 other Silos manuscripts; purchased by the British Museum from Quaritch, 1 June 1878 (a note on f. [i]r).

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 120.

E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II Latin, p. 58.

D. Marius Ferotin, Histoire de l'Abbaye de Silos (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1897), pp. 238, 269, 275-76.

Meyer Schapiro, 'From Mozarabic to Romanesque in Silos', Art Bulletin, 21 (1939), 313-74 (p. 368 n. 197).

J. Vives, 'El Oracional mozárabe de Silos: British Museum Additional 30852', Analecta Sacra Tarraconensia, 18 (1945), 1-25.

Clyde Waring Brockett, Antiphons, responsories and other chants of the mozarabic rite (New York: Institute of Medieval Music, 1968), p. 37, no. 14.

Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Códices visigóticos en la monarquia leonesa (Leon: Centro de Estudios e Investigacion San Isidoro C.S.I.C., 1983), p.295, n. 2.

Ann Boylan, 'Manuscript illumination at Santo Domingo de Silos (Xth to XIIth Centuries)', (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1990), pp. 252-53.

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

Augustin Millares Carlo, Corpus de códices visigóticos, 2 vols (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: UNED, 1999), I: Estudio, pp. II: Album, no. 116.

Hispania Vetus: Musical-Liturgical Manuscripts from Visigothic Origins to the Franco-Roman Transition (9th-12th Centuries), ed. by Susana Zapke (Bilbao: BBVA Foundation, 2007), p. 198.

José Manuel Ruiz Asencio, 'Codices Pirenaicos y Riojanos en la Biblioteca de Silos en el Siglo XI' in Silos. Un Milenio: Actos del Congreso Internacional sobre la Abadía de Santo Domingo de Silos, ed. by José A Fernández Flóres, 4 vols (Burgos: University of Burgos, 2003), II, pp. 177-210 (pp. 208-09).

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. 2, 40, 250.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1882):

'COLLECTION Of prayers for the services in the Mozarabic Liturgy throughout the year. Latin. Imperfect, extending from Advent to the Nativity of S. John Baptist (24 June), with lacunæ in several places. The prayers include, with many others, those which in the Gothic Breviary are entitled the " capitula," the " benedictio," and the " oratio." For a collection of a similar character see J. M. Thomasii ... opera omnia, studio curaque Jos. Blanchini, tom. i., Romae, 1741, p. 1. Vellum; ff. 115, decayed and mutilated at the edges. In Visigothic characters, with rubrics and coloured initials. ixth century. Quarto.'