Melk missal, Walters Art Museum MS. W.33

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

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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 thirteenthcentury, was made for the Benedictine abbey of Melk(Seitenstetten) in Upper Austria, as indicated by the inclusionof local saints. The surviving volume of a multi-volumemissal, the manuscript contains only the ordinary of themass and the "summer part," with the temporale runningfrom Holy Saturday through the Sunday after Trinity Sundayand the sanctorale beginning with the feast of Primus andFelicianus (June 9) and ending with St. Andrew (November30). Most notable about the manuscript are its skilledpen drawings, including two full-page miniatures depictingChrist in Majesty and the Crucifixion, as well as sixteenornate initials, three of which are by the artist known asGottschalk 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; qualityvaries, with many original holes and some irregularly shapedfolios due to using the very edges of the skin

Extent Foliation: 288Modern pencil foliation in upper right corners (followedhere) running from fols. 1-284, omitting four leaves (nowfols. 85*, 132*, 202*, and 248*); some inconsistent pencilfoliation 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); thirdleaf of quire 25 (fol. 193) and third leaf of quire 32 (fol.248bis) tipped in; bifolium 50-51 presently unsewn andglued in, presumably when fol. 248bis was tipped in; quire36 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: 1Ruled lines: 21Drypoint ruling; contains neumatic musical notationsperiodically throughout the text

Contents fols. 1r - 284v:Title: MissalText note: Text is "summer part" of missal only, Use ofMelkHand note: Written in pre-Gothic bookhand for themajority of the text, with a much smaller versionused for sections with neumes; later material addedin fifteenth-century cursive (e.g. fols. 238v, 239r, and241v); 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: ScribeE, 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 inred and purple pen, with only the backgrounds paintedin solid tones of blue and light green and imagescontained within frames of penned foliate designs;six historiated initials, five inhabited initials, and fivedecorated initials, all between 4 and 10 lines in heightand done in the same technique and colors as theminiatures; three pen-drawn initials added later in blankspaces; capitals in red throughout, ranging from 1 to 4lines; text and neumes in black ink

fols. 1r - 7r:Title: Ordinary of the massArtist: Gottschalk, 12th cent.Contents: Fol. 1r: Prefaces for Easter, Ascension of theVirgin; fol. 2r: Vere dignum; fols. 3r-7r: Canon of themassDecoration note: Two full-page miniatures (fols. 1v and2v); large initials by Gottschalk of Lambach (fols. 2rand 3r)

fols. 7v - 132r:Title: Temporale (summer part)Artist: Gottschalk, 12th cent.Rubric: In Sabbato Sancto ad missam ... OratioIncipit: Deus qui hanc sacratissimamText note: Begins with Holy Saturday and ends with theSunday after Trinity SundayDecoration note: Initials on fols. 7v (by Gottschalk ofLambach), 9r, 36v, 53v, 62r, 65r, 66v, 78v, and 80v

fols. 132r - 133v:Title: Dedication of a churchRubric: In dedicatione templiIncipit: Terribilis est locus isteDecoration note: Initial on fol. 132r

fols. 133v - 134r:Title: Dedication of an altar

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Rubric: In dedicatione altareIncipit: Ominpotens sempiterne Deus altare hoc nominiDecoration note: Initial on fol. 133v

fols. 134v - 232r:Title: Sanctorale (June 9 to November 30)Rubric: Primi et FelicianiIncipit: Sapientiam sanctorum narrant populiText note: Begins with the nativity of SS. Primus andFelicianus and ends with St. AndrewDecoration note: Initials on fols. 143r, 149v, and 178v

fols. 193v - 193v:Title: Mass of Corona Dei (added)Rubric: Officium de Corona DeiIncipit: Gaudeamus omnes in domino Diem festumcelebrantes sub honore Corone DeoText note: Text not originally included but added to ablank folio in a later, thirteenth-century hand

fols. 232r - 284r:Title: Common of Saints and votive massesIncipit: Ego autem sicut oliva fructiferaContents: Fols. 232r-237r: Common of Saints; fols.237r-243v: Feriae which are not proper; fol. 243v:For the patrons of the church (Propitiate quos dominenobis famulis tuus per sanctorum Apostolorum tuorumPetri et Pauli et Sancti Cholomanni martyris); fol. 244r:Common of all Saints; fols. 244r-284r: Votive masses

fols. 284r - 284v:Title: Added prayersContents: Fol. 284r: Prayer to St. Katherine (Loquebarper totum), prayer to the Virgin Mary (Virginis Mariaelaudes); fol. 284v: Prayer to St. Katherine (Deus quidedisti legem), prayer (Omnipotens sempiternae Deustuae)Hand note: Text not originally included but added toblank folios in several later hands in the fourteenth andfifteenth century

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Decoration fol. 1v:Title: Christ in MajestyForm: Full-page miniatureText: Ordinary of the Mass: Vere dignumComment: The inscription reads: LUX EGO. FONSVITE. PAX GRATIA SIM SITIS IN TE. O MENSSINCERA ME. MENTE. FIDE. PETE. SPERA.

fol. 2r:Title: Decorated monogramForm: Inhabited initials "VD," 8 linesText: Ordinary of the mass: Vere dignumLabel: This Vere dignum monogram was painted by anartist called Gottschalk of Lambach.

fol. 2v:Title: CrucifixionForm: Full-page miniatureText: Ordinary of the mass: Canon of the massComment: Titulus is inscribed: IESUS NAZARENUSREX IUDEORUM. The circular inscription reads:CARNE DOMINUM CRUCIFIXUM CORDETENEFIXUM CARO.

fol. 3r:Title: Decorated initialsForm: Decorated initials "TE," 8 linesText: Canon of the mass: Te igiturLabel: These decorated initials were painted by an artistcalled Gottschalk of Lambach.

fol. 7v:Title: Monogram with a lion breathing on two cubsForm: Historiated initials "DS," 8 linesText: Sanctorale: Deus qui hancLabel: This historiated monogram is a contraction forthe word "Deus" and was painted by an artist calledGottschalk of Lambach.

fol. 9r:Title: Jonah in the mouth of the whaleForm: Historiated initial "R," 11 lines

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Text: Temporale: Mass for Easter

fol. 53v:Title: Abraham sacrificing IsaacForm: Historiated initial "T," 9 linesText: Temporale: Mass for the vigil of Pentecost

fol. 62r:Title: PentecostForm: Historiated initial "S," 8 linesText: Temporale: Mass for Pentecost

fol. 132r:Title: CrucifixionForm: Historiated initial "T," 9 linesText: Mass for the dedication of a church

fol. 143r:Title: St. John the BaptistForm: Historiated initial "D," 5 linesText: Sanctorale: Mass for the Nativity of John theBaptist

fol. 149v:Title: SS. Peter and PaulForm: Historiated initial "N," 10 linesText: Sanctorale: Mass for SS. Peter and Paul

Binding The binding is not original.

Austrian fifteenth-century beech boards covered with browncalfskin stamped with inscribed scrolls containing Germanpoetic inscriptions; Clarkson notes in the Walters file thatletters are raised and therefore cannot have been directlyimpressed with movable type as suggested by Miner andGoldschmidt; much restored; pastedowns of manuscriptwaste: front pastedown in twelfth-century Gothic bookhand(1 Chronicles, 2:33-43), back pastedown in fifteenth-centuryGerman cursive hybrid bookhand (breviary)

Provenance Benedictine abbey of Melk or Seitenstetten, evinced by thepatron 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 thirteenthcentury

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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Contributors Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff andresearchers since 1934Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, WilliamCopy editor: Bockrath, DianeConservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, AbigailContributors: 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.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2009

The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland

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

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