Research Catalog

Title

Lectionary for the office.

Author

Catholic Church.

Publication

Weingarten, Germany, approximately 1220.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Master of the Berthold Sacramentary, active 1208-1217
• New York Public Libary. Manuscript. Spencer Coll. MS 1.

Description

1 volume (146 leaves), bound : vellum, ink, manuscript, illuminations; 395 x 73 mm

Uniform Title

Lectionarium officii

Alternative Title

• Lectionarium officii
• Office Lectionary for November (part) and Sanctorale.
• Sanctorale.
• Prophetae Minores

Subjects

• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > German
• illuminated manuscripts
• Early works
• vellum (parchment)
• Manuscripts > Germany > 13th century
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > New York (State) > New York
• Catholic Church Liturgy > Texts > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Manuscripts – Germany – 13th century.
• vellum (parchment)
• Early works.
• illuminated manuscripts.

Note

• The manuscript is a composite of two distinct volumes (fols. 1-50; fols. 151-146) made in the early thirteenth century for Weingarten Abbey in southern Germany.
• Main scribe, ca. 1220; scribe B, s. XIV?; scribe D, s. XIII? Two artists. Repairs to parchment with embroidered silk thread (similar repairs in M.710). Vellum tabs on fore edges as place markers. Leaf between ff. 98 and 99 omitted in foliation.
• Contains the temporale for the weekdays of the last week in November. The main section of the ms, containing the Sundays of November and the other weekdays of that month, is St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, MS Lat. F.V.I. 133.
• Layout: 10 long lines visible, and 2 columns, 24 lines ruled whit stylus.
• Decoration: Large opening initial in black ink. 15 historiated initials. Initials in red, or red and yellow; others in red, blue and green. 19 elaborately decorated initials in many colors. On ff. 144v-146v, simple decoration in red only.
• Script: Large archaistic minuscule and cursive.
• Artist: Berthold Master.

Access (note)

• Restricted use.

Indexed In (note)

• The Splendor of the Word. (ed.) J. G. Alexander, J. H. Marrow, L. F. Sandler (NYPL / Harvey Miller, 2005)
• Ricci, S de. Medieval and Renaissance mss.

Cite As (note)

• NYPL. Spencer Collection MS. 1

Language (note)

• Latin.

Provenance (note)

• Written at order of Berthold, abbot of Weingarten (1200- 35), as was his sacramentary, now NY, Morgan Library, M.710. Remained at Weingarten until 1781. Collection of Lord Vernon; his sale (1918) to Maggs. Morgan M.710 now dated to ca. 1208-1215, but present ms. to ca. 1220, perhaps after the Weingarten fire of 1215, for the reconsecration of the church in November 1217.

Binding (note)

• Bound in 16th century Germany, wooden boards and tooled leather. Leather stamped with panels showing King David, Paul, etc. Leather clasps and brass hinges (one missing) in shape of lion mask.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. MS. 1

OCLC

1335716128

Author

Catholic Church.

Title

Lectionary for the office.

Imprint

Weingarten, Germany, approximately 1220.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Access

Restricted use. Requires permission for access.

Indexed In:

The Splendor of the Word. (ed.) J. G. Alexander, J. H. Marrow, L. F. Sandler (NYPL / Harvey Miller, 2005), n. 28.

Ricci, S de. Medieval and Renaissance mss., p. 1335, no. 1

Cite As:

NYPL. Spencer Collection MS. 1

Language

Latin.

Provenance

Written at order of Berthold, abbot of Weingarten (1200- 35), as was his sacramentary, now NY, Morgan Library, M.710. Remained at Weingarten until 1781. Collection of Lord Vernon; his sale (1918) to Maggs. Morgan M.710 now dated to ca. 1208-1215, but present ms. to ca. 1220, perhaps after the Weingarten fire of 1215, for the reconsecration of the church in November 1217.

Binding

Bound in 16th century Germany, wooden boards and tooled leather. Leather stamped with panels showing King David, Paul, etc. Leather clasps and brass hinges (one missing) in shape of lion mask.

Source of description

Part of the description used is from Digital Scriptorium 1.0.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Place of Publication

Germany Weingarten

Added Author

Master of the Berthold Sacramentary, active 1208-1217, illuminator.

New York Public Libary. Manuscript. Spencer Coll. MS 1.

Other Title

Office Lectionary for November (part) and Sanctorale.

Prophetae Minores

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. MS. 1