Melk missal, Walters Art Museum MS. W.33 by The Walters Art Museum

A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.33, Melk missal

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

Shelf mark

Walters Art Museum Ms. W.33

Descriptive Title

Melk missal

Text title

Missal

Abstract

This missal, which dates to the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, was made for the Benedictine abbey of Melk (Seitenstetten) in Upper Austria, as indicated by the inclusion of local saints. The surviving volume of a multi-volume missal, the manuscript contains only the ordinary of the mass and the "summer part," with the temporale running from Holy Saturday through the Sunday after Trinity Sunday and the sanctorale beginning with the feast of Primus and Felicianus (June 9) and ending with St. Andrew (November 30). Most notable about the manuscript are its skilled pen drawings, including two full-page miniatures depicting Christ in Majesty and the Crucifixion, as well as sixteen ornate initials, three of which are by the artist known as Gottschalk of Lambach.

Date

Late 12th--early 13th century

Origin

Melk, Austria

Artist

Authority name: Gottschalk, 12th cent. Known as: Gottschalk of Lambach

Form

Book

Genre

Liturgical

Language

The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.

Support material

Parchment Cream-colored parchment of medium thickness; quality varies, with many original holes and some irregularly shaped folios due to using the very edges of the skin

Extent

Foliation: 288 Modern pencil foliation in upper right corners (followed here) running from fols. 1-284, omitting four leaves (now fols. 85*, 132*, 202*, and 248*); some inconsistent pencil foliation in lower right corners; roman-numeral foliation (fifteenth century?) in middle upper margins

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Collation

Formula: 1-24(8), 25(10,-8), 26-31(8), 32(10,-8), 33-35(8), 36(6) Catchwords: None Signatures: None Comments: Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 9(2), 17(3), 25(4), 33(5), 41(6), 49(7), 57(8), 65(9), 73(10), 81(11), 88(12), 96(13), 104(14), 112(15), 120(16), 128(17), 135(18), 143(19), 151(20), 159(21), 167(22), 175(23), 183(24), 191(25), 200(26), 207(27), 215(28), 223(29), 231(30), 239(31), 247(32), 255(33), 263(34), 271(35), 279(36); third leaf of quire 25 (fol. 193) and third leaf of quire 32 (fol. 248bis) tipped in; bifolium 50-51 presently unsewn and glued in, presumably when fol. 248bis was tipped in; quire 36 misbound; correct order of folios is 279, 284, 280, 281, 282, 283

Dimensions

17.0 cm wide by 26.5 cm high

Written surface

10.9 cm wide by 19.7 cm high

Layout

Columns: 1 Ruled lines: 21 Drypoint ruling; contains neumatic musical notations periodically throughout the text

Contents

fols. 1r - 284v: Title: Missal Text note: Text is "summer part" of missal only, Use of Melk Hand note: Written in pre-Gothic bookhand for the majority of the text, with a much smaller version used for sections with neumes; later material added in fifteenth-century cursive (e.g. fols. 238v, 239r, and 241v); four primary hands: Scribe A (fols. 1r, 2r, 3r-8v); Scribe B (fols. 9r-184r, 193r, 271r-277v [line 21], 278r [line 4]-279v, 284r [lines 1-4]); Scribe C (fols. 184v-192v, 194r-270v, 277v [line 22]-278r [line 3]); Scribe D (fols. 280r-283v); three later hands: Scribe E, thirteenth-fourteenth century (fols. 284r [lines 5-19],

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284v [lines 1-14]); Scribe F, fifteenth century (fol. 284r [lines 19-26]); Scribe G, fourteenth century (fol. 284v [lines 15-29]) Decoration note: Two full-page miniatures, drawn in red and purple pen, with only the backgrounds painted in solid tones of blue and light green and images contained within frames of penned foliate designs; six historiated initials, five inhabited initials, and five decorated initials, all between 4 and 10 lines in height and done in the same technique and colors as the miniatures; three pen-drawn initials added later in blank spaces; capitals in red throughout, ranging from 1 to 4 lines; text and neumes in black ink fols. 1r - 7r: Title: Ordinary of the mass Artist: Gottschalk, 12th cent. Contents: Fol. 1r: Prefaces for Easter, Ascension of the Virgin; fol. 2r: Vere dignum; fols. 3r-7r: Canon of the mass Decoration note: Two full-page miniatures (fols. 1v and 2v); large initials by Gottschalk of Lambach (fols. 2r and 3r) fols. 7v - 132r: Title: Temporale (summer part) Artist: Gottschalk, 12th cent. Rubric: In Sabbato Sancto ad missam ... Oratio Incipit: Deus qui hanc sacratissimam Text note: Begins with Holy Saturday and ends with the Sunday after Trinity Sunday Decoration note: Initials on fols. 7v (by Gottschalk of Lambach), 9r, 36v, 53v, 62r, 65r, 66v, 78v, and 80v fols. 132r - 133v: Title: Dedication of a church Rubric: In dedicatione templi Incipit: Terribilis est locus iste Decoration note: Initial on fol. 132r fols. 133v - 134r: Title: Dedication of an altar

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Rubric: In dedicatione altare Incipit: Ominpotens sempiterne Deus altare hoc nomini Decoration note: Initial on fol. 133v fols. 134v - 232r: Title: Sanctorale (June 9 to November 30) Rubric: Primi et Feliciani Incipit: Sapientiam sanctorum narrant populi Text note: Begins with the nativity of SS. Primus and Felicianus and ends with St. Andrew Decoration note: Initials on fols. 143r, 149v, and 178v fols. 193v - 193v: Title: Mass of Corona Dei (added) Rubric: Officium de Corona Dei Incipit: Gaudeamus omnes in domino Diem festum celebrantes sub honore Corone Deo Text note: Text not originally included but added to a blank folio in a later, thirteenth-century hand fols. 232r - 284r: Title: Common of Saints and votive masses Incipit: Ego autem sicut oliva fructifera Contents: Fols. 232r-237r: Common of Saints; fols. 237r-243v: Feriae which are not proper; fol. 243v: For the patrons of the church (Propitiate quos domine nobis famulis tuus per sanctorum Apostolorum tuorum Petri et Pauli et Sancti Cholomanni martyris); fol. 244r: Common of all Saints; fols. 244r-284r: Votive masses fols. 284r - 284v: Title: Added prayers Contents: Fol. 284r: Prayer to St. Katherine (Loquebar per totum), prayer to the Virgin Mary (Virginis Mariae laudes); fol. 284v: Prayer to St. Katherine (Deus qui dedisti legem), prayer (Omnipotens sempiternae Deus tuae) Hand note: Text not originally included but added to blank folios in several later hands in the fourteenth and fifteenth century

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Decoration

fol. 1v: Title: Christ in Majesty Form: Full-page miniature Text: Ordinary of the Mass: Vere dignum Comment: The inscription reads: LUX EGO. FONS VITE. PAX GRATIA SIM SITIS IN TE. O MENS SINCERA ME. MENTE. FIDE. PETE. SPERA. fol. 2r: Title: Decorated monogram Form: Inhabited initials "VD," 8 lines Text: Ordinary of the mass: Vere dignum Label: This Vere dignum monogram was painted by an artist called Gottschalk of Lambach. fol. 2v: Title: Crucifixion Form: Full-page miniature Text: Ordinary of the mass: Canon of the mass Comment: Titulus is inscribed: IESUS NAZARENUS REX IUDEORUM. The circular inscription reads: CARNE DOMINUM CRUCIFIXUM CORDE TENEFIXUM CARO. fol. 3r: Title: Decorated initials Form: Decorated initials "TE," 8 lines Text: Canon of the mass: Te igitur Label: These decorated initials were painted by an artist called Gottschalk of Lambach. fol. 7v: Title: Monogram with a lion breathing on two cubs Form: Historiated initials "DS," 8 lines Text: Sanctorale: Deus qui hanc Label: This historiated monogram is a contraction for the word "Deus" and was painted by an artist called Gottschalk of Lambach. fol. 9r: Title: Jonah in the mouth of the whale Form: Historiated initial "R," 11 lines

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Text: Temporale: Mass for Easter fol. 53v: Title: Abraham sacrificing Isaac Form: Historiated initial "T," 9 lines Text: Temporale: Mass for the vigil of Pentecost fol. 62r: Title: Pentecost Form: Historiated initial "S," 8 lines Text: Temporale: Mass for Pentecost fol. 132r: Title: Crucifixion Form: Historiated initial "T," 9 lines Text: Mass for the dedication of a church fol. 143r: Title: St. John the Baptist Form: Historiated initial "D," 5 lines Text: Sanctorale: Mass for the Nativity of John the Baptist fol. 149v: Title: SS. Peter and Paul Form: Historiated initial "N," 10 lines Text: Sanctorale: Mass for SS. Peter and Paul Binding

The binding is not original. Austrian fifteenth-century beech boards covered with brown calfskin stamped with inscribed scrolls containing German poetic inscriptions; Clarkson notes in the Walters file that letters are raised and therefore cannot have been directly impressed with movable type as suggested by Miner and Goldschmidt; much restored; pastedowns of manuscript waste: front pastedown in twelfth-century Gothic bookhand (1 Chronicles, 2:33-43), back pastedown in fifteenth-century German cursive hybrid bookhand (breviary)

Provenance

Benedictine abbey of Melk or Seitenstetten, evinced by the patron saints of Melk, Peter and Paul, and Cholomannus (fol. 212r); liturgy for use in Melk diocese, so appears to have

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been made for the abbey in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century Seitenstetten Stiftsbibliothek Ms. 127, acquired before 1913; described in 1913 Swarzenski publication Jacques Rosenthal bookplate on inside of upper board, cat. 90, 1928 Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931 Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

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Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Clarkson, Christopher; Davis, Lisa Fagin; Dutschke, Consuelo; Emery, Doug;

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Hamburger, Jeffrey; Noel, William; Sciacca, Christine; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.

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The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/

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The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/

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