COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Document Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwsms169_bk
Manuscript Identifier:
MS 169
Title:
Leaf from a Cistercian Missal
Alternative Title:
MS 169
Incipit:
In illo tempore: Maria stabat ad monumentum foris plorans dum ergo fleret inclinavit se et prospexit in monumentum et vidit duos angelos in albis sedentes unum ad caput et unum ad pedes ubi positum fuerat corpus Jesu
Author:
Catholic Church
Origin Date:
between 1150 and 1199
Origin Location:
Austria?
Description:
A leaf from a 12th-century Cistercian Missal once owned by Otto Ege containing the prayers said at the altar as well as all that is officially read or sung in celebrating the Mass over the course of the ecclesiastical year. Text taken from John 20:11. The text opens with Mass for the Tuesday within the Octave of Easter, celebrated on April 10. While the use of multi-colored initials was banned by Cistercian statutes, the ban was widely ignored, and the punctus flexus punctuation found here is typical of books written for the Order.
Provenance:
Owned by Otto Ege who broke up the book. Since the style was imitated in monasteries throughout Europe, it can be very difficult to localise; Ege himself took this manuscript to be Spanish, but the Missal is now thought to be either south German or, more probably, Austrian. The parent manuscript included on f.105v an added Mass for St Robert of Molesmes, co-founder of Cîteaux, canonized in 1222. The parent manuscript (with 173 leaves and 13 large initials) was no 17 in the c.1928 auction catalogue of EMIL HIRSCH (1866-1954), which likely originate from the Hohenfurth / Vyššà Brod monastery. Peter Kidd points out that Hirsch also owned two other manuscripts now at the British Library, both from Cistercian houses in southern Germany or Austria, one of which may have been written in 1191 for the Abbey of Wilhering, west of Linz.
Manuscript Parts:
f. [40] of original manuscript?
Explicit:
in montem ubi constituerant illis Jesu Et videntes eum adorauerunt quida autem dubitauerunt
Extent:
1 leaf
Subject:
Missals
Subject:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Austria
Subject:
Manuscripts, Medieval--Michigan--Kalamazoo
Subject:
Cistercians--Liturgy--Texts--Manuscripts
Subject:
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject:
decorated initials
Subject:
detached leaves
Language:
lat
Dimensions:
347 x 238 mm
Material:
parchment
Foliation:
f. 1r-v
Binding:
Excised from a larger manuscript.
Decoration Description:
1 column of 24 lines lead point or very light ink ruling. Text written above the top line. Prickings in inner margins. The number "40" written in pencil on top corner of recto. 4-line initial in red and in the margin with bowed and rounded strokes; 1-line initials and rubrics in red; capitals touched in red; irregular text size; Cistercian puntus flexus and puntus elevatus punctuation throughout; cues in the inner margin of verso.
Description of Hands:
Written in formal angular Protogothic minuscule in brown ink. Script conforms to the earlier Carolingian minuscule, except that the shapes have become slightly compressed and angular and developed little hooked feet. However the letters are well separated and have not evolved into the rows of minims of fully developed Gothic script.
Is Part Of:
Medieval Document Collection
Is Part Of:
Manuscript 169, Western Michigan University Special Collections
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Date-Issued:
2019
Type:
Text
Format:
image/jp2
Is Referenced By:
P. Kidd, "A 12th-century Cistercian Missal Formerly Owned by Otto Ege", in Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, [18 August 2015].
Is Referenced By:
M. Manion, V. Vines & C. de Hamel, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand collections, 1989, no 113.
Access Rights:
This leaf is in the public domain. Western Michigan University holds the right to the image and reproduction. The images that are provided here are for non-profit, educational use only. For all other uses please contact Special Collections, Western Michigan University.
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