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Record Id:

040-002087737

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002087734

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001453.0x0001cd

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 34750

Title:

Hymnal, Cistercian use

Scope & Content:

Contents:

Hymnal, in Latin, with music, wanting single leaves after ff. 1 and 7.

ff. 2r-8v: Commune Hymnarii;

ff. 9r-40v: Temporale, containing among other hymns one for Christmas day at vespers, beginning 'Intende qui regis Israhel' (f. 11r);

ff. 40v-68v: Sanctorale, with the hymns 'Christum rogemus et patrem' for All Saints day (f. 60r) and 'Bellator armis inclitus Martinus' (f. 65r);

ff. 69r-80r: Commune Sanctorum;

ff. 80v-94r: Cantica, only those for the Feast of the Purification (ff. 90r-94r) are accompanied by musical notes, the first lines of which are as follows: 'Ave, gracia plena dei genetrix', 'Adorna thalamum tuum', 'Responsum accepit Symeon', 'Collegerunt pontifices', and 'Ave, Rex noster'.

A 13th-century charter has been used to restore a portion of f. 94.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002087734
040-002087737

Is part of:

Add MS 34748-34789 : Phillips Manuscripts

Add MS 34750 : Hymnal, Cistercian use

Hierarchy:

032-002087734[0003]/040-002087737

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View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 34748-34789

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment. Folio 33 is an inserted paper leaf.

Dimensions: 185 x 135 mm (text space: 125 x 100 mm)

Foliation: ff. 94 (+ two unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and three at the end)

Script: Gothic

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house restored brown leather spine, with original wooden boards.

Custodial History:

Origin: France, E. (Alsace)

Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Pairis, founded in 1138, near Orbey, Haut-Rhin, Alsace: the manuscript shares a number of melodies set to the same hymns as found in two other manuscripts associated with the abbey, Colmar, Bibliothèque municipale, MSS 286 (442) and 287 (441) (on their contents see Weimar, Hymnarium Parisiense; see also Mearns, The Canticles (1914), p. 85, and Bornert, Les Monastères (2011), V, p. 326).

Sir Thomas Phillipps, baronet (1792-1872), collector of books and manuscripts: his sale, 21 March 1895, lot 169; purchased by the British Museum.

Publications:

Carl Weinmann, Hymnarium Parisiense: Das Hymnar der Zisterzienser-Abtei Pairis im Elsass (1905) [on the hymns and melodies].

James Mearns, The Canticles of the Christian Church Eastern and Western in Early and Medieval Times (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914), p. 85.

C. H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 8 (1952), 402-18.

P. Ambrosius Schneider, 'Deutsche und französische Cistercienser-Handschriften in englischen Bibliotheken', Cistercienserchronik, 61/62 (1962), 43-54.

Carl P. E. Springer, The Manuscripts of Sedulius: A Provisional Handlist (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1995), p. 143.

James Mearns, Early Latin Hymnaries: An Index of Hymns in Hymnaries Before 1100 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011 [1913 reprint]), p. xvii.

René Bornert, Les Monastères d’Alsace, 7 vols (Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2009-2011), V (2011), p. 326.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)