Collectar (Horologium Olomucense)

Bohemia, Olomouc, 1136–1142

ii, 161, iii' leaves

280–285 × 210 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 1r–1v) Computistical tables

Incipit: Post xvi kalendas februarias ubi luna fuerit decima

Explicit: Aetas uero lune paschalis numquam minor est quam xv. nec maior quam xxi.

Note: The text ends on f. 1v with a table showing the ‘Claves terminorum’, ‘Regulares terminorum’, ‘Paschalis terminus’ and ‘Epacte’.

2 (ff. 2r–7v) Calendar

Incipit: KL. Iani prima dies et septima a fine timetur

Explicit: Terminat arcitenens medio sua signa december.

Note: The calendar has also been used as a necrology. As noted by Friedl (1927), p. 132, saints are mentioned on all days in the calendar.

Editions: Dudík (1880), pp. 3–16; Friedl (1927), pp. 103–114.

3 (ff. 8r–9r) Computistical tables

Incipit: Anni ab inicio mundi

Explicit: Propter hoc ipso anno nulle epacte dicuntur et exhinc xi pronuntia

4 (f. 9v) Blood-letting table

Rubric: Argumentum ad discernendas utilitates siue ad minuendum sanguinem

5 (ff. 10r–17v) Hours for Sundays and Weekdays

Rubric: Dominicis diebus inuitatorium

Incipit: Adoremus dominum qui fecit nos

Explicit: Dominum Deum nostrum venite adoremus [mut.]

Note:

The text continues on f. 154r. The pages have been separated as a result of the re-binding of the book.

6 (ff. 18r–153r) Prayers and chapters for the Divine Office

Rubric: In nataliciis apostolorum ad uesperas Capitulum

Incipit: Benediccio Domini super caput iusti

Explicit: pio iugiter experiamur auxilio. Per dominum

Note: f. 153v Blank page.

6.1 (ff. 18r–30v) Common of Saints

Rubric: In nataliciis apostolorum ad uesperas Capitulum

Incipit: BENEDICCIO DOMINI super caput iusti

Explicit: earum intercessionibus commendemur et meritis. Per dominum

6.2 (ff. 30v–33r) Dedication of a Church and an Altar

Rubric: IN DEDICATIONI AECCLESIE AD VESPERAS CAPITVLVM

Incipit: UIDI CIVITATEM Sanctam hierusalem nouam

Explicit: ab omnibus hic inuocantibus nomen tuum protectionis tue auxilium senciatur. Per dominum

Note: ff. 33v–34rBlank pages. f. 34v Minature.

6.3 (ff. 35r–104v) Proper of Time

Incipit: DEVS PACIS SANCTIFICET UOS PER omnia

Explicit: et habitabunt in terra sua dicit dominus omnipotens

6.4 (ff. 105r–153r) Proper of Saints

Rubric: IN FESTUM SANCTI ANDREE apostoli Capitulum ad uesperas

Incipit: BEATVS UIR qui facit iudicium et iusticiam

Explicit: pio iugiter experiamur auxilio. Per dominum

7 (ff. 154r–158v) Hours for Sundays and Weekdays (continued)

Incipit: Quia mirabilia fecit dominus

Explicit: sed dextera tua inuicta nos custodiat. Per dominum

8 (ff. 159r–161v) Office of the Dead

Rubric: In die depositionis defuncti

Incipit: DEUS CVI PRIMVM est misereri semper ac parcere

Explicit: Maiestatem tuam domine supplices exoramus ut anime famularum tuarum N ab omnibus [mut.]

Physical Description

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: ff. SL1r–SL1v, SR3r–SR3v

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 280/285 × 210/210 mm

Locus: ff. SL2r–SLRv, SR1r–SR2v

Support: Western paper

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1r–161v

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 285 × 210 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Collation

Note: VisColl Collation

Formula: 1(10), 2-11(8), 12(9), 13-18(8), 19(7), 20(8)

Condition

Textblock

f. 21vContemporary reparation. f. 34r f. 99r f. 153rHoles.

Layout

Locus: ff. 1r–161v

Columns: 1

Ruled lines: 18–34

Written area: 190/210 × 50/150 mm

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

(ff. 1r–161v) Carolingian minuscule.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCO) Top of cover: Illegible text in brown ink.

(f. SL1r) Top of page in brown ink by a medieval hand, in total 6 lines of text: ‘ Dominus Bruno episcopus olomucensis post consecrationem suam accepit duas precioluces capellas cum pertinenciis pontificalibus...’

(f. SL1v) Top of page in brown ink by a modern hand: ‘Missale R’.

(f. SL1r) All additions are by a modern hand. Top of page in brown ink: ‘Kgl. Biblt 1734 års Kat. Theol. in 4o no 18’. Below this in pencil:‘ Jachesii gamla kat. Ms. in fol. nr 80’. Middle of page in brown ink: ‘Collectae seu Horae (sine fine)’. Below this in pencil, written by Clemens Blume: ‘Böhmisk handskrift. Breviarium Bohemicum (Pragense?) saec. 12. Blume’. Lower half of page in left margin in brown ink: ‘de Sec. xi l. xii’. Bottom of page in right corner in pencil: ‘A 144’

(f. SL2v) To the left in pencil by Clemens Blume: the antiphons cited on (f. 34v).

Textblock

(f. 1r) Top of the page in ink: ‘Collectae’. Traces of a label: ‘No 18’.

(ff. 2r–7v) In brown ink by a 13th century hand, notes on the deaths of lay people, bishops and monastics. For example: (f. 1r) ‘Obiit Baldwinus, olomucensis decanus’. (f. 2v) ‘Obiit Pribislava soror nostra’ (f. 2v) ‘Obiit Dragoslaua soror nostra’. (f. 3r) ‘Obiit Wencezlaus dux fundator olomucensis ecclesie’. (f. 3v) ‘Asinus presbiter obiit’. See further Dudík (1880)pp. 3-16, Friedl (1927)pp. 103-114, Bistřický (2011)p. 157.

(f. 92v) Bottom of the page in ink by a later (gothic) medieval hand: ‘Capitulum ad vesperas’ followed by a prayer, in total 13 lines.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

The manuscript is decorated throughout. Rubrics in red. The decorations, in particular the miniature on (f. 34v), are discussed by Friedl (1927) Bistřický (1976) Bistřický (1985)  Merhautová-Livorová (1986) Černý (2002) Černý (2009) Bistřický (2011) and others.

Images:

(ff. 1r–1v)Drawings of computistical tables in red, with text in brown ink.

Illuminations:

(f. 34v) Full-page miniature (159 x 211 mm) in blue, gold, green, red and several other colours. The theme of the miniature is the dedication of the cathedral St Weneclas in Olomouc, consecrated in 1131. In the centre Pope Gregory I, inspired by the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. Gregory sits on a throne held up by two men. It has been suggested that they are to be understood as construction workers. They are noted as ‘MARC(VS)’ and ‘MODLATA’. To the left of the pope is a bishop indicated by the letters ‘I E’, possibly bishop Jan of Olomouc (1104–1126). To the right Jindřich Zdik, bishop of Olomouc 1126–1150, identified by the letters ‘H(enricus) E(piscopus)’, holding a roll with an antiphon in honour of Gregory I (Hesbert 4031: ‘O Gregori, dulcissimum Sancti Spiritus organum atque virtutum speculum, posce nobis suffragium, ut hoc possimus consequi...’). Above Zdik is a group of four persons, among them a beardless man with the inscription ‘DVX’, first identified by Bistřický as the Bohemian prince Soběslav I (1125-1140), in a later study as his successor Vladislav II (1140-1172). To the left of Gregory a group of eight persons, among them two monks in brown habits, indicated by the letters ‘R’ and ‘ABBAS’. It has been suggested that they are monks from the Benedictine monastery Hradisko near Olomouc. In the bottom right corner Petrus Diaconus as a scribe, indicated by the letters ‘PETR(VS) D(IACONVS)’. At the bottom self-portaits by the illuminators Hildebert (‘H PICTOR’) and Everwin (‘EVERWINUS’). The scribe ‘R (SCRIPT)OR’ depicted to the left, probably identical with the monk indicated by the letter ‘R’ to the left of Gregory. Hildbert and ‘R’ hold a scroll between them with the following antiphon (Hesbert 7279): ‘O PASTOR APOSTOLICE GREGORI BEATISSIME TVO POSCE PRECAMINE INCREMENTUM ECCLESIE TVO RIGATE DOGMATE AC DEFENSATE OPERE’. Written in the frame around the miniature: ‘PASTOR OVIS PREDAM QVERIT LEA MISTICA QVEDAM EST BOS PASTOR OVIS ET LEA VACCA BOVIS’.

Initials:

(f. 35r) (f. 78r) (f. 89r) Large, foliated knotwork initial D in red, blue, green and gold.

Initials:

Inhabitated/historiated initials: (f. 90r) eagle, (f. 95v) quadruped, (f. 99v) Christ, (f. 101v) bird, (f. 113v) St Peter with keys, (f. 117v) eagle, (f. 121v) quadruped, (f. 144r) St Lambert.

Initials:

Dentelle initials in gold, red, blue and green over 2-5 lines.

Initials:

Plain initials in red over 1-2 lines.

Binding

Description:

Repaired medieval binding. LCO original. Wood covered with pink leather. RCO beech wood, produced in 1974. Two new clasps attached to RCO. Spine removed, bookblock and sewing stations exposed. Three double bands (exposed, modern). In the 1850s, the manuscript was resewn on cords, reusing the 13th-century sewing station. The spine and the back cover were then covered with leather. In 1974, f. SL1r, then a pastedown, was removed and raised. The 19th century cover material (with the signum ‘A 144 ’on the spine) is kept in a separate box, together with a dummy of the quires made in 1974.

Binding dimensions: 290 × 210 × 70 mm

Condition: Worn, repaired.

History

Origin

Bohemia Olomouc 1136–1142. The dating of the manuscript is discussed by Bistřický (2011), pp. 103–104 and is based on the table on f. 8r as well as the miniature on f. 34v.

Provenance

Probably St Weneclas Cathedral (Olomouc). Bruno of Schauenburg, bishop of Olomouc 1245-1281, is mentioned in the inscription on f. SL1r. The volume was most likely taken as war booty to Sweden during the Thirty Years’ War. In Vossius’ catalogue from 1649 (U 202:1), p. 19, mentioned as ‘Missale Olomucensium’. Also mentioned in Jaches' catalogue from 1698 (U 122), ‘80’, and the catalogue from 1734 (U 125e), ‘18’.