National Library of Sweden, A 176
Missal
Germany, Passau, 15th century, first half
parchment
222 leaves
260–270 × 210–220 mm
Latin
Notable feasts:
f. 2r: St Valentine (7 Jan.);
f. 3r: St Cunigunde (3 Mar.);
f. 3r: St Rupert (27 Mar.);
f. 4r: St Sigismund (2 May);
f. 4r: translation of St Stephen (7 May);
f. 5r: translation of St Nicholas (9 July);
f. 5r: St Henry (13 July);
f. 5v: translation of St Valentine (4 Aug.);
f. 5v: translation of St Hedwig (25 Aug.);
f. 6r: translation of St Cunigunde (9 Sep.);
f. 6r: translation of St Rupert (24 Sep.);
f. 6r: translation of St Virgil (26 Sep.);
f. 6v: St Maximilian (12 Oct.);
f. 6v: St Coloman (13 Oct.);
f. 7r: St Virgil (27 Nov.).
At least one leaf is missing before f. 8r, resulting in loss of text; as it is, the proper of time begins in the middle of the First Sunday of Advent. The first part of the proper ends with the mass of Corpus Christi.
One quire is missing after f. 91, which ends in the middle of the Gospel reading for Good Friday; f. 92r begins with the end of the mass of Tuesday of Easter week.
One quire is missing after f. 99, which ends with the reading for Friday of the third week of Eastertide; f. 100r begins in the middle of the mass of Pentecost.
Cross-references in Roman numerals to the pages for complete mass items are employed throughout the manuscript.
The proper of saints begins with the vigil of St Andrew (29 Nov.) and ends with the feast of St Katharine (25 Nov.).
Notable feasts:
f. 153v: St Cunigunde (3 Mar.);
f. 154v: St Rupert (27 Mar.);
f. 169v: translation of St Cunigunde (9 Sep.);
f. 172r: St Emmeram (22 Sep.);
f. 172r: translation of St Rupert (24 Sep.);
f. 172v: St Wenceslaus (28 Sep.);
f. 175r: St Maximilian (12 Oct.);
f. 175v: St Hedwig (15 Oct.);
f. 178v: St Wolfgang (31 Oct.).
Several leaves are missing; one between f. 161 and f. 162, 13 between f. 163 and f. 164, and one between f. 178 and f. 179.
ff. 203v–205r: de sapientia; de Sancto Spirito; de angelis; de caritate; de sancta cruce;
ff. 205r–208v: masses of the Virgin Mary;
ff. 208v–213r: masses for the dead;
ff. 213r–216v: pro peccatis; pro pace; contra hereticos et paganos; pro iter agentibus; pro infirmis; pro pluvia; pro serenitate; pro pestilentia.
Support
Foliation
Collation
Condition
Textblock
Some stains and tears. Several leaves have been cut out; some of the stubs show traces of decorated initials, e.g f. Stub_2r (full-page), f. Stub_5. Initials have also been cut out of f. 73, f. 104, f. 105, f. 109, f. 201, f. 205, f. 208. In some places, the blade has cut through the following leaf/leaves as well. Gaps in the contemporary foliation reveal that one full quire is missing between ff. 91–92 and one between ff. 99–100. Catalogue notes dating to the 19th century describe the manuscript as comprising 259 leaves; however, the first leaf of the Proper of time – seemingly having contained a full-page illuminated initial – had already been cut out by that time.Additions
Textblock
Decorations
Textblock
Main text in black ink; rubrics in red; capitals touched in red.
All but one of the decorated initials have been cut out of the manuscript; on (f. 144r) is found the only remaining one, a illuminated foliate initial ‘D’ over 11 lines in a purple shades highlighted in white and surrounded by a square blue frame in simple perspective technique; the counter space in green with a lozenge pattern in blue.
(ff. 8v–220v): plain initials over 1-4 lines alternating in red and blue, some with a little penwork, e.g. (f. 191r), one with flourishing ((f. 211r)).
Binding
Medieval binding. Blue leather over wooden boards. 4 double raised bands and endbands. LCO: 2 hooked clasp metal catchplates engraved with a flower and finishing in a butterfly shape; LCO and RCO: bronze edge strips engraved with small stripes at the edges; corner and centre bosses embossed with a dome, star and foliate pattern; corner bosses with the text ‘maria [--- 3 chars ---]anis’. Spine, in ink on a paper label: ‘Missale Romanum No 17’; stamped in gold: ‘A 176’; in ink on a paper label glued on top of another paper label: ‘e. 30. 6. 10.’; in ink on the remnants of a paper label: ‘18’.
Blind-tooled pattern of single- and double-lined lozenges – on RCO with additional geometric shapes and flowers inside lozenges and at some of the intersecting lines.
Origin
Germany, 15th century, first half. The listing in the calendar of ‘dedicatio ecclesie pataviensis’ on August 5, as well as the celebration as festa fori of St Valentine (Jan. 7), his translation (Aug. 6), and of St Maximilian (Oct. 12), places the manuscript in the diocese of Passau. The feast of the Visitation, instituted 1389, is present in the calendar, but the feast of the Transfiguration, instituted in 1457 (and celebrated in Passau on August 26), is not, which indicates a production date within this period.
Provenance
On f. 1v, a former owner identifies himself as Symon Poth, stating that the manuscript was sold to him by Walthisar Honsperger, chaplain of the Altar of the Holy Cross, on February 24, 1480.
Acquisition
The manuscript came to the Royal Library before the fire of 1697; it was most likely brought to Sweden in the 17th century as spoils of war from the Thirty Years' War. It is listed as ‘233 ’ in Jaches's catalogue of 1698 (U 122; former signum ‘238’), as ‘17’ in the catalogue of 1734 (U 125e), and as ‘e.30.6.10’ in Hammarsköld's catalogue from the 19th century. The signum ‘18 ’ found on the spine has not been identified.
- Lehmann (1936), p. 22.
