Language
Origin
Lund, Kingdom of Denmark (hist), ca 1500
Physical description
Format: Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
- Script: Semihybrida in two sizes according to liturgical function. Two scribes: hand 1: ff. 1r-487v (including f. 471a, a parchment slip, 130 x 127 mm., with 2 columns, 20 lines); hand 2: ff. 488r-495v.
- Collation: 42 quires, almost all of which are senions: I: 11 (ff. 1-11; 1 leaf missing), II: 12 (ff. 12-23), III: 12 (ff. 24-35 ), IV: 12 (ff. 36-47), V: 12 (ff. 48-59), VI: 12 (ff. 60-71), VII: 12 (ff. 72-83), VIII: 12 (ff. 84-95), IX: 12 (ff. 96-107), X: 12 (ff. 108-119), XI: 12 (ff. 120-131), XII: 12 (ff. 132-143), XIII: 12 (ff. 144-155), XIV: 12 (ff. 156-167), XV: 12 (ff. 168-179), XVI: 12 (ff. 180-191), XVII: 12 (ff. 192-203), XVIII: 12 (ff. 204-215), XIX: 12 (ff. 216-227), XX: 12 (ff. 228-239), XXI: 12 (ff. 240-251 ), XXII: 12 (ff. 252-263), XXIII: 12 (ff. 264-275), XXIV: 12 (ff. 276-287), XXV: 12 (ff. 288-299), XXVI: 12 (ff. 300-311), XXVII: 12 (ff. 312-323), XXVIII: 12 (ff. 324-335), XXIX: 12 (ff. 336-347), XXX: 10 (ff. 348-357), XXXI: 12 (ff. 358-369), XXXII: 12 (ff. 370-381), XXXIII: 10 (ff. 382-391), XXXIV: 12 (ff. 392-403), XXXV: 12 (ff. 404-415), XXXVI: 12 (ff. 416-427), XXXVII: 12 (ff. 428-439), XXXVIII: 12 (ff. 440-451), XXXIX: 12 (ff. 452-463), XXXX: 13 (ff. 464-475; f. 471a is added), XXXXI: 12 (ff. 476-487), XXXXII: 8 (ff. 488-495).Quire signatures in the right lower corner of the page visible in most quires.
- Foliation: Modern foliation 1-495 + f. 471a, in pencil in upper right corner of recto side. According to a note in pencil in the same hand as the foliation f. 471a was earlier placed between ff. 353-354; f. 1r an f. 463v are blank. There are 8 parchment bookmarks (one is broken): ff. 10, 15, 21, 27, 96, 295, 402 and 484.
- Columns: 2 (with an intercolumnium of 10 mm.)
- Lines: 38 (30-32 lines on ff. 488r-495v)
Notes
Literature
Corpus Antiphonalium Officii. V. Fontes earumque prima ordinatio. (Series Maior. Fontes. XI). Hesbert, Renato-Joanne (ed.) Roma, 1975, p. 10.
Helander, Sven: Ansgarskulten i Norden, 1989, p. 35.
Nielsen, Lauritz: Danmarks Middelalderlige Haandskrifter Köbenhavn, 1937, p. 92.
Book binding
Binding: Blind-tooled brown goatskin binding, preserved covers possibly Norway, Trondheim, contemporary with the manuscript. Rebinding Sweden 20th century. Size: 210 x 135 x 160 mm.
Brown goatskin binding over bevelled wooden boards. Rebinding with covers from former binding and leather fragment of the back preserved. Two engraved metal hook-clasp fastenings (hooks, straps and anchor plates missing). Remains of furnishings at fore-edge corners of the upper cover. Rounded spine. Tight back with three raised double bands. Embroidered endbands of white linen. Former edge trimming preserved together with eight textmarkers of parchment at fore-edge (one marker broken). Single flyleaves and separate pastedowns of parchment. Separate pastedown of upper board from former binding. All along sewing on three raised cords laced through the boards.
The covers are blind-tooled with two triple fillets to a frame with compartments containing two repeated tools; a lion and a lacework within a rectangular form. Two pomegranate ornaments fill the central panel of the upper cover. The panel of the lower cover is tooled with triple fillets into a saltire with a repeated lion in each compartment. The back is blind-tooled into panels with a lozenge-shaped pattern made of double line fillets. (cfr. Schjoldager 1927 p. 54 sqq.).
Decoration
The decoration is restricted to the initials. Apart from the largest which is described separately, there are three six line initials with red pen flourishes extending into upper and lower margin on f. 15r , 50r , 99r ; twelve five to seven line initials with moderately extended red pen flourishes f. 9v , 18r , 21r , 23r , 26v , 29v , 34v , 41v , 65v , 72v , 99r , 119v ; six smaller initial with restricted pen flourishes on f. 265v , 267v , 268r , 268v (two), 269v .
On f. 88r the tail of a small blue initial Q extends into a drawing in the lower margin of a heart pierced by an arrow. The motif is repeated in brown ink on f. 351r and 402v , a heart only on f. 402r and 411v . On f. 175v , 178v , 233v , 404r , 434v , 464r , 465r , 470r small leaf decorations in brown and red ink.
Detailed description: f. 1v : large initial P, 20 lines in height, in shadowed red, with dentelle decoration in blue with red dots, and pen flourishes in red extending from the serifs and mid staff.
Style: The initials have a distinctly Scandinavian flavour, presumably of Norwegian origin, with symmetrically organized stylized leaf forms in the fillings of the initials and twists and roundels in the pen flourishes reminescent of continental early 13th century initials, indicating a conservative paradigm. The initials on f. 265v - 269v are executed with a finer line by a second artist.
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Lund University LibraryHelgonabackenBox 3
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- Shelfmark: Medeltidshandskrift 34
- Note: There are two former call numbers on the front pastedown: Bibl. Ms. H. L. a) 4o 2 and further down Ex Biblioth: ant: L. II, N:o 13 . The current call number ("34") written on a small piece of paper is glued on to the pastedown.
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-14723 (nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:14723 (alvin)
Licensing of the work
Public Domain Mark (No Known Copyright)