Accession number
MS M.855
Object title
Gradual, Sequentiary, Sacramentary (MS M.855).
Display Date
ca. 1260-1264.
Created
Austria, perhaps Salzburg, ca. 1260-1264.
Binding
Austrian 18th-century brown sheep, blind tooled, over original boards, 2 clasps, in brown box case.
Credit line
Purchased from Mrs. Edith Beatty, 1951.
Description
220 leaves (1 column, 20-24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 322 x 228 mm
Provenance
Executed for use in the Benedictine Monastery at Seitenstetten (once Seitenstetten, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. XIV); remained at Seitenstetten until 1927, when purchased by A. Chester Beatty (his W ms. 48 [alternatively W ms. 31A; 137]) through Jacques Rosenthal of Munich; Mrs. Edith Beatty; purchased through Maggs from Mrs. Beatty in 1951 with the assistance of the Fellows.
Notes
Ms. gradual, sequentiary, and sacramentary (Seitenstetten Missal), use of Seitenstetten; written and illuminated in Austria, perhaps Salzburg, ca. 1260-1264.
Musical notation: neumes over red lines that indicate phrasing.
Decoration: 3 full-page miniatures, 50 historiated initials, 12 calendar illustrations.
Artist: 3 artists working in Austria, one, a Byzantinizing artist, stylistically related to the Giovanni da Gaibanna group that produced the Padua Epistolary of 1259 (Padua, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS E 2).
Musical notation: neumes over red lines that indicate phrasing.
Decoration: 3 full-page miniatures, 50 historiated initials, 12 calendar illustrations.
Artist: 3 artists working in Austria, one, a Byzantinizing artist, stylistically related to the Giovanni da Gaibanna group that produced the Padua Epistolary of 1259 (Padua, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS E 2).
Contents
fols. 1v-7r: Calendar of Salzburg, but adapted to Seitenstetten with commemmoration of Founder of Seitenstetten Abbey, Udalscalcus [Udalschalk] of Stille (05.11) and Dedication of Seitenstetten Abbey (11.03) -- fols. 7v-8v: Three Prayers before Mass -- fols. 9r-87r: Gradual with combined Temporale-Sanctorale and Common of Saints -- fols. 86v-88v: Gloria in Excelsis, Sanctus, Athanasian Creed, and Mass for Corpus Christi (added when feast of Corpus Christ was established in 1264, fols. 87v-88v) -- fols. 89r-104v: Sequentiary, beginning at Christmas, and including Sequences for Translation of Benedict of Montecassino (fol. 94v) and Dedication of Church (fol. 100r), and for Feast of Corpus Christi (added later on fol. 104r) -- fols. 105r-220: Sacramentary with combined Temporale-Sanctorale -- fols. 105r-108v: Ordinary of the Mass, Proper Prefaces -- fol. 109r: Ordinary of the Mass, Canon of the Mass, Common Preface -- fols. 110v-111v: Ordinary of the Mass, Canon of the Mass, Miniatures -- fol. 112r: Ordinary of the Mass, Canon of the Mass, Te igitur -- fols. 118r-185r: Temporale-Sanctorale -- fols. 185v-188r: Common of Saints -- fol. 188v: Dedication of Church -- fols. 189v-216v: Votive Masses -- fols. 217r-219v: Epistles and Gospels for the Deceased -- fol. 220r: Office of the Annunciation of Virgin Mary.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
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