Item Summary

Benedictions for various occasions.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Benedictional].
Call Number
Garrett MS. 43
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/q237ht31x
Publisher
[between 1025 and 1050].
Language
Latin
Date Created
1025-1050
Extent
99 leaves : parchment ; 216 x 155 (145 x 90) mm bound to 217 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Intermediate provenance unknown. In the collection of the Geheim Justiz-Rath Barnheim of Insterburg in the 19th century. Sold at the Berlin Auktions-Lokale in 1873. Purchased by Robert Garrett in 1924 from Karl W. Hiersemann. Garrett's gift to Princeton University Library in 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 66-68.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
fols. 1v-55r: Benedictions for the Temporale. For use throughout the liturgical year from the 1st Sunday of Advent to the 25th Sunday after Pentecost.
fols. 55r-70v: Benedictions for the Sanctorale.
fols. 70v-77v: Benedictions for the Common of Saints.
fols. 77v-80r: Benedictions for Church Dedications.
fols. 80r-99r: Benedictions for Votive masses.
Notes
Incipit: "In christi nomine Incipivnt Pontificales Benedictiones Per circvlvm Anni dicendę. [fol. 2r] Benedictiones in Dominica Prima Adventus Domini. Omni potens deus cuius unigeniti aduentum et pręteritum creditis et futurum expectatis. Eiusdem aduentus uos illustratione scilicet et sua benedictione locupletet. Amen."
Explicit: "Conclusio omnium benedictionum."
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. 99 ; foliation in blue ink.
Layout: 18 long lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; fol. 99 repaired.
Decoration: Feasts open with either 2- to 7-line silver and gold foliate initials outlined in red, or 1.5- to 2-line gold initials followed by smaller red and silver initials through the text. Celtic-style cross line drawing on lower pastedown.
Origin: Probably written and illuminated in the second quarter of the 11th century in Lorsch or Mainz.
Binding Note
Contemporaneous binding. Germany, 11th century. Oak boards (10-11 mm thick) first covered in alum-tawed skin, and later covered over in a green silk. Sewn on 3 double cords. The binding was repaired after 1446, and again in the 19th century. The binding closes from back to front with a single clasp, but formerly closed with two straps attaching to metal pegs on the front foreedge; semi-circular tabs extending outwards from the cover at head and tail, have been cut off. Endbands with red secondary sewing. Illegible paper label on spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
Catholic Church—Liturgy—Texts
Benedictionals—Germany—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Liturgical books
illuminated manuscripts
decorated initials
Parchment (Paper)
Manuscript waste
Wooden boards
Cloth bindings
Clasps
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
207

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2f939e92-208e-4aef-b5a1-30d803fdae89/manifest