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- Record Id:
- 040-002028511
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002028510
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001516.0x0001ce
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055981061.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 18031
- Title:
- Roman Missal ('The Stavelot Missal'), volume 1
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is the first part of a two-volume Missal created for the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot. The second part is Add MS 18032.
Contents:
ff. 1r-v: A fragment from a 13th-century sacramentary, which includes a mass for the Finding of the Cross with litanies and neumes.
f. 2r: A liturgical responsory chant with neumes, 'Orietur stella ex Iacob'.
f. 2v: Masses for St Poppo of Stavelot (b. 977, d. 1048) followed by masses for the Apostles and the Secret, beginning: 'Missa Sancti Popponi. Deus qui famulum tuum sacerdotem'.
ff. 3r-5r: Prayer for St Ambrose (b. 374, d. 397), beginning: 'Summe sacerdos vere pontifex'.
ff. 5r-6v: Prayers, beginning: 'O intemerata et in eternum benedicta'.
ff. 6v-7v: Preparation for the mass, beginning with a chant, beginning: 'Quam dilecta, Benedixisti', followed by prayers and the mass (f. 7r), beginning: 'Accedens ad altare dicat. Domine Deus omnipotente qui es magnus'.
ff. 8r-13v: A liturgical calendar, beginning: 'Iani prima dies et septima fine timetur'.
ff. 14r-18r: Litanies of saints, beginning: 'Kyrie leyson prime leyson'.
ff. 18r-21v: Order of the mass (Ordo Missae), beginning: 'Per Omnia sancta secula seculorum amen. Dominus vobiscum'.
ff. 22r-190v: The Temporal, including collects, introits and lections from the Gospels. Masses for the first Sunday of Advent (ff. 22r-24r); the second Sunday of Advent (ff. 24r-26r); the third Sunday of Advent (ff. 26r-33r); the fourth Sunday of Advent (ff. 33r-34v); the Christmas vigil (ff. 34v-37r); for the Nativity, preceded by a preface (ff. 37r-47r); the Epiphany (ff. 47r-49r); the octaves of Epiphany (ff. 49r-50v); the Sundays after the octaves of Epiphany (ff. 50v-59r); Septuagesima Sunday (ff. 59r-62r); Sexagesima Sunday (ff. 62r-65v); Quinquagesima Sunday (ff. 66r-68r); Ash Wednesday (ff. 68r-70v); the feast after Ash Wednesday (ff. 70v-72r); the Saturday after Ash Wednesday (ff. 72r-75r); the first Sunday in Lent (ff. 75r-77v); the second Sunday in Lent (ff. 77v-79r); the third Sunday in Lent (ff. 79r-80v); the fourth Sunday in Lent (ff. 80v-82v); the fifth Sunday in Lent (ff. 82v-84r); Ember days (ff. 84r-89r); the second Sunday of Lent (ff. 89r-90r); feasts in the second week of Lent (ff. 90r-100v); the third Sunday of Lent (ff. 100v-102r); feasts in the third week of Lent (ff. 102r-114r); the fourth Sunday of Lent (ff. 114r-115v); feasts in the fourth week of Lent (ff. 115v-127v); the fifth Sunday of Lent (ff. 127v-129r); feasts in the fifth week of Lent (ff. 129r-138v); Palm Sunday, including a preface, prayers (ff. 138v-144v) and the antiphon for Palm Sunday (ff. 141v-144v), beginning: 'Pueri Hebreorum tollentes ramos olyvarum'; the Passion of Christ (ff. 144v-150r); feasts of Holy Week (ff. 150r-164v); feast for the Last Supper (ff. 164v-167r); Good Friday (ff. 167r-175v) ending with an antiphon: 'Popule meus' (ff. 174r-175v); Holy Saturday (ff. 176r-190v), including the antiphons 'Inventor rutili dux bone luminis'; 'Exultet iam angelica turba celorum' and 'Vere dignum et iustum est' (ff. 176v-179r) and litanies (ff. 186r-v, 189r).
ff. 191r-231v: The Sanctoral, including collects, introits and lections, beginning with the feast of St Andrew the Apostle (ff. 191r-193v), introit: 'Dominus decus mare galylee' followed by the collect: 'Quaesemus omnipotens Deus ut beatus Andreas apostolus tuum pro nobis imploret', ending with the mass for the holy virgins and martyrs (ff. 230v-231v).
ff. 231v-244v: Votive masses, beginning with a mass for the martyrs: 'Propitiare quaesumus Domini nobis famulis tuis'; ending with a mass for the saints whose names are not known.
ff. 244v-246v: Exorcisms, beginning: 'Exorcizo te creatura salis'.
ff. 247r-253v: Masses for funerals, beginning with the introit: 'Si enim credimus' and followed by the collect: 'Adesto quesumus domine anime (sic) famuli tui cui in depositione sua officium commemoratione impendimus', including antiphons (ff. 247v-248r, 248v).
ff. 254r-266r: Antiphons, preceded by an antiphon added by a 15th-century hand, 'Gaude Maria templum' (f. 254r). The original part includes: 'Natus ante secula' (ff. 254v-255v); 'Congaudent angelorum chori gloriose virgini' (ff. 255v-256r); 'Unus amor et una concordia' for St Stephen (ff. 256r-v); 'Iohannes Ihesu Christo multum dilecte virgo' for St John the Apostle (f. 256v); 'Laus tibi Christi' for the Innocents (ff. 256v-257r); 'Festa Christi omnis Christiana' for the Epiphany (ff. 257r-258r); 'Concentu Parili hic te Maria veneratur' for the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (ff. 258r-259r); 'Ave mundi spes Maria ave mitis' (ff. 259r-260r) for the Blessed Virgin Mary; 'Terribilis est locus iste', an introit for the mass for dedication of a church (f. 260r-262v), including collects and secrets; the preface of the dedication of a church (f. 262v), followed by the sequence 'Congaudentes exultemus vocali concordia' (ff. 263r-v); an Antiphon for the feast of the Ascension (ff. 263v-266r), followed by the chant 'Hec est dies quem fecit dominus' (ff. 265v-266r).
Additions in a hand of the late-14th or early-15th century:
f. 2v: A mass for St Poppo of Stavelot, 'Missa Sancti Popponi'.
f. 33r: A chant 'Memento nostri domine in beneplacito populi tui';, added in the lower margin.
f. 44v: A reference to the feast of Thomas Becket, 'De beato Thoma archiepiscopo Cantuariensis' followed by a collect, in the lower margin;
f. 149r: A musical sequence, 'Heli heli lema zabatai (sic)';
f. 203v: Notes on the feast of St Sigebert 'De Sancto Sigeberto rege' in the margin;
ff. 2r, 254r, 263v-266r: A mass and chants, copied on blank leaves at the beginning and end, between texts and in lower margins, including 'Deus qui corda fidelium Sancti Spiritus' (f. 263v) and 'Sancti Spiritus domine corda nostra mundet infusio' (f. 264r).
Decoration:
A full-page miniature of the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St John (f. 18v). 11 large puzzle initials with pen-flourished decoration in red and blue (ff. 18r (x2), 22r (x2), 39r (x3), 48r (x2), 189r, 205r). Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing. KL initials in red and blue for each month in the calendar. Red, blue, yellow and green initials throughout, some with pen work decoration. One small initial in yellow and green filled with a human figure (f. 52v). Rubrics in red. Some letters are highlighted in red. Line fillers in red and green. Red paragraph signs in the shape of a cross. Musical notation in black and red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002028510
040-002028511 - Is part of:
- Add MS 18031-18032 : Roman Missal ('The Stavelot Missal')
Add MS 18031 : Roman Missal ('The Stavelot Missal'), volume 1 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002028510[0001]/040-002028511
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 18031-18032
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055981061.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 315 x 205 mm (text space: 240 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 266 (f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Gothic, written above top line.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Stavelot, Southern Netherlands (now in Belgium).
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Remaclus, Stavelot, diocese of Liège: local saints in the litanies, including St Remaclus patron of the abbey (ff. 10r, 186r) and the dedication of the monastery 'Dedicatio Stabulensis ecclesie' (f. 10v).
Additions in hands of the late 14th-century or early 15th-century include a mass for St Poppo of Stavelot (f. 2v), the feast of Thomas Becket, 'Thome martyris' added in red ink in the calendar (f. 13v), with a further reference to Becket (f. 44v, lower margin).
Thomas Rodd the Younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller: at his sale, February 1850, lot 611; bought by the British Museum.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1848-1853 (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1868), p. 72.
Dom Joseph Gajard, Les Principaux Manuscrits de Chants, Paléographie Musicale, 14 (Tournay: Desclée, 1931), pp. 155, 167, 187, 190.
Karl Hermann Usener, 'Das Breviar Clm. 23 261 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek und die Anfange der romanischen Buchmalerei in Luttich', Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst, dritte folge, 1 (1950), 78-92 (p. 90 n. 1).
Le graduel romain: édition critique par les moines de Solesmes, 2 vols (Solesmes: Abbaye Saint-Pierre, 1957), II: Les sources, p. 62.
Francis De Meeûs, 'Pour l'édition critique du graduel romain', Scriptorium, 14:1 (1960), 80-97 (p. 86).
Maurice Coens, Recueil d'Études Bollandiennes, Subsidia Hagiographica, 37 (Bruxelles: Sociétés des Bollandistes, 1963), pp. 225-40.
A Boutemy, 'Le manuscrit à peintures', in Trésors des abbayes de Stavelot, Malmedy et dépendances (Bruxelles: n. pub., 1965), pp. 9-14 (p. 14).
Marie-Rose Lapière, La lettre ornée dans les manuscrits mosans d'origine bénédictine (XIème-XIIème siècles) (Paris: Les Belles-Lettres, 1981), p. 410.
Anne J. Duggan, 'A Becket Office at Stavelot: London British Library, Additional MS 16964', in Omnia Disce: Medieval Studies in Memory of Leonard Boyle, O.P. ed. by Anne J. Duggan, Joan Greatrex and Brenda Bolton (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 161-82 (p. 181).
Manuel Pedro Ramalho Ferreira, 'Cluny at Fynystere: One Use, Three Fragments', in Studies in Medieval Chant and Liturgy in Honour of David Hiley, ed. by Terence Bailey and László Dobszay (Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2007), pp. 179-228 (p. 211).
Leo Lousberg, 'Microtones According to Augustine: Neumes, Semiotics and Rhetoric in Romano-Frankish Liturgical Chant' (unpublished doctoral thesis, Utrecht University, 2018). Available online: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/369247 (consulted 18/08/2021).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.