Alternative title
Liber daticus Lundensis vetustior
Language
Origin
Metz;
Lund, 12th-15th century (1140 c.-1410 c.)
Physical description
Format: Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
- Script: Three main hands, one for each section of the book; hand 1, late 13th century: ff. 1r-7v; hand 2: ff. 8r-140v, early 12th century, protogothic book script; hand 3, late 12th century: ff. 141r-142v. This hand resembles the hand that wrote marginal notes on the inauguration of altars in the main section of the book, see ff. 67v, 76r, 90v. Many hands have added the entries in the calendar proper and the notes in the margins.
- Collation: 19 quires: I: 7(ff. 1-7); II:8 (ff. 8-15); III: 8 (ff. 16-23); IV: 8 (ff. 24-32, f. 28 is added); V: 8 (ff. 33-40); VI: 9 (ff. 41-49, f. 49 is added); VII: 8 (ff. 50-57); VIII: 2 (ff. 58-59); IX: 8 (ff. 60-67); X: 10 (ff. 68-77, ff. 71 and 77 are added); XI: 8 (ff. 78-85); XII: 8 (ff. 86-93); XIII: 8 (ff. 94-101); XIV: 8 (ff. 102-109); XV: 8 (ff. 110-117); XVI: 8 (ff. 118-125); XVII: 8 (ff. 126-133); XVIII: 7 (ff. 134-140); XIX: 2 (ff. 141-142). There are quire signatures, roman numbers in pencil in the lower left corner of the first recto leaf of each quire, from the second quire and onwards, reflecting an earlier stage of the manuscript in that the first quire is numbered 0 and the last is un-numbered. Quire nr 8 (ff. 58-59) is numbered VIa.
- Foliation: The manuscript is foliated by the modern cataloguer in the upper right corner of the recto page.
- Columns: 1
- Lines: 22
Notes
Literature
Bring, S.: Monumenta Scanensia Londini Gothorum, [1744]-1751.
Cederschjöld, F. J.: Disputatio historica de libro datico Lundensi ejusque in historia Scaniae ecclesiastica usu, cujus partem secundam ... Fried. J. Cederschjöld et respondens Petrus Olasu Bäckamn ... modeste exhibent. Lundae, 1797.
Langebek, J.: Scriptores rerum Danicarum medii aevi, collegit adornavit et publici juris fecit Jacobus Langebek, vol. 3 Hafniae, 1774.
Weeke, C.: Libri memoriales capituli Lundensis. Lunde Domkapitels Gavebøger. ("Libri datici Lundenses") København, 1884-1889.
Liebman, Charles J.: Paleographical Notes on Ms. Morgan 338 of the Old French Psalter Commentary Codices manuscripti. Zeitschrift für Handschriftenkunde Wien, 1985. 11:2 pp. 65-77.
A Martyrology of four cities. Metz, Cologne, Dublin, Lund Padraig O Riain (ed.) London, 2008.
Mellan evighet och vardag. Lunds domkyrkas martyrologium Liber daticus vetustior (den äldre gåvoboken). Studier och faksimilutgåva. Eva Nilsson Nylander (ed.). Lund, 2015.
Nielsen, L.: Danmarks Middelalderlige Haandskrifter Köbenhavn, 1937.
Sommelius, G.: Disputatio historica de libro datico Lundensi ejusque in historia Scaniae ecclesiastica usu, cujus partem primam ... praeside Gustavo Sommelio, ... defert Friedricus Cederschjöld. Lundae, [s.d.].
Book binding
Binding: Half binding of parchment, Sweden, Lund 20th century; preserved sewing contemporary with the manuscript. Size: 312 x 210 x 82 mm.
Half binding of parchment with blue, red and yellow marbled paper over millboards. Hollow back. Two library labels at the back; one of gilt parchment from former binding and the other of blind-tooled paper. Former edge trimming preserved. Plain single flyleaves and pastedowns of paper. All along sewing on five double white leather thongs. The manuscript is kept in a parchment and paper drop front box.
There are 99 small fragments (shelfmark: Fragment 93), strips of parchment used to support the quires. They were taken out of the ms. in 1985 in view of a major restauration of the ms., never carried out.
Decoration
The original 12th century portion of the manuscript contains twelve illuminated KL-monograms, the first of which is considerably larger, and the added 14th century part (ff. 1r-7v) is furnished with 25 pen flourished two-line initials alternating in pale blue and red with flourishes in opposite colour. Some of the simpler initials are adorned with leaf decoration (e.g. ff. 16r , 21v , 34r ), and some have been secondarily enhanced with bordure, or other decoration in brown ink (ff. 20v , 27r ). Occasional leaf designs in the margins of ff. 13r , 17r and further additional decoration described below.
Detailed description: f. 8r : Large illuminated KL-monogram in red, green and faded yellow, 165 x 117 mm, with stems designed as narrow stalks with profuse foliage organically spreading throughout the entire space intrinsically interlaced with the inhabiting beasts; one big dragon, the wings of which constitutes the arms of the letter K, and the tail of which is totally intertwined with the foliage, one smaller dragon biting the foot of the larger dragon and a crouching lion at the bottom, biting the wing of the larger dragon. The outline drawing is in red and brown, and the background colour to some extent compartmented in green and red; f. 8v : Small red initial N with foliate pattern partly enhanced in blue; f. 18r : Large inhabited KL-monogram, 90 x 75 mm, with outline drawing in red and brown, with profuse foliage spreading from the stems and intertwining with wings and vegetable tail of a dragon, the wings of which constitutes the arms of the letter K; f. 25v : Decorated KL-monogram, 70 x 70 mm, with outline drawing of profuse foliage in brown and red; f. 29v : In the left margin a rather simple secondary drawing in brown ink of a standing man facing left with one hand pointing towards the text behind him, and the other pointing downwards; f. 30v : In right margin a small drawing in brown ink of the shield of arms with a ibex horn; f. 36r : Decorated KL-monogram, 80 x 65 mm, with outline drawing of profuse foliage in brown and red; f. 45r : Decorated KL-monogram, 85 x 55 mm, with foliate pattern in red; f. 56r : Decorated KL-monogram, 78 x 62 mm, with comparatively sparse outline drawing of foliage in red (faded); f. 68r : Decorated KL-monogram, 72 x 57 mm, with outline drawing of profuse foliage in red; f. 80r : Decorated KL-monogram, 72 x 78 mm, with outline drawing of profuse foliage in red; f. 90v : Decorated KL-monogram, 80 x 65 mm, with outline drawing of profuse foliage in red, with a white void decorated undy line in the stem of the letter L (faded); f. 102v Decorated KL-monogram, 63 x 63 mm, with outline drawing of profuse foliage in red (faded); f. 114v : Decorated KL-monogram, 70 x 65 mm, with sparse foliate pattern in red; f. 129v : Decorated KL-monogram, 80 x 65 mm, with outline drawing of profuse foliage in red; f. 133r : Secondary initial N, 20 x 22 mm, in brown ink with pen flourishes and filigranated decoration.
Style: The grand KL-monograms with their intricate and highly organically rendered foliage is not coherent with any manuscript decoration known to have been executed in Scandinavia. Ewert Wrangel (Lunds domkyrkas konsthistoria, 1923, pp. 103-110) suggests a south German or Bohemian origin, but without any convincing comparisons, while in a foot note he refers to his friend Wilhelm Köhler, who suggests a northern French origin. Exceptionally close affinities are in fact found in the north east of France. The scriptoria of Corbie, Metz and Reims all present plausible places of origin with a tendency towards Metz on hagiographical grounds, or Reims for ecclesiogeographical reasons (see Origin).
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- Shelfmark: Medeltidshandskrift 7
- Previous shelfmark: Bibl. Ms. H. L. a) fol. N:o 10., Bibliotheca recentior N:o 1
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-13276 (nbn)
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alvin-record:13276 (alvin)
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