I: A.ö.II.29, fols. [a–f] + A.ö.II.55, fols. 1–134.
A.ö.II.29, fols. [a], [e], [d], [c], [b], [f],
Dominica infra octauas natalis domini officium
In circumcisione domini officium ... Versus.
Vidimus stellam eius ... Dominica infra
octauas epyphanie domini officium. ... omnis terra seruite domino
Commune. Fili quid
Fols.
Dominica in passione officium. Iudica me deus et ...
Dominica
xxiii. Dicit dominus ego cogito ...
Fols.
In die dedicacionis ecclesie. Terribilis est locus ...
In uigilia andree. Dominus secus mare galilee uidit ...
Sancti lini martyris officium.
Sacerdotes eius. Graduale. Deus iusti, Alleluia. Versus. Amauit. Offertorium. Inueni. Commune. Domine quinque talenta.
Fols.
Sequitur in uigilia unius apostolic officium ...
Item aliud ... exite obuiam christo domino.
Fols.
De sancto spiritu officium. Spiritus domini ... De sancta cruce officium. Nos autem Christus ... In commemoratione beate marie uirginis. In
aduentu officium. Rorate. Responsorium. Insole ...
Fols.
II: fols.
fols.
Fol. Sancti Spiritus assit nobis gratia
in
III: fols.
Fols.
Fols. sequentiarium.
Fols. De sancto
Michaele. Laus erumpat ex affectu ... sic erunt ordinum distincte’), and
Sequences for St
On fol. visitatio Mariae; under those for St
There are Lutheran changes to the words of Ave preclara maris
stella on
On
Modern foliation in pencil in the upper-right-hand corners of recto-sides.
The openings (on fols. 1–125) of part I have been numbered (from d I (–XII) to o V, which is the last marking visible, although the numbering has probably extended to o XI – fol. 131). The numbering does not reflect the structure of the manuscript, but indicates that there are 36 folia missing from its beginning. The remains of six of these (five whole leaves and the upper-inner corner of a sixth) are bound in at the beginning of Helsinki, National Library, Aö II 29, in the order b iiii, b viii, b vii, b vi, b v. These all come from the lost beginning of the book.
8 + II12 +
2VI36 + IV44 + V54 + (IV–1)61 + 2V81 + VI93 + I95 + V105 + 1 + VI118 + (IV–1)125 + II127 + (V–1)134; III140; V150 + (XI–1)171 + (VI–1)182 + II186 + 2 + III194
In addition to the loss of folia from the beginning of the book, the final eight folia of the manuscript have been bound in reverse order and partly upside down: fols. 188–194 are upside down and read continuously from 194v to 188r. They are then followed by fol. 187, which is thus the final extant folio of pt. III.
The manuscript is a compilation made up of three parts: to part I (fols. 1–134) leaves (a–f) from Helsinki, National Library, Aö.II.29 must be added. Part II consists of a sole quire (fols. 135–140) and part III of fols. 141–194. The manuscript is in fairly good condition, aside from some staining (especially pronounced on fol. 1 and fol. 141) and some water damage. Some of the folia have been repaired with paper (the leaves in Aö.II.29 especially heavily). The paper used by the other of the two scribes of part I (see below) is clearly of different quality from that used exclusively by the other scribe: the former is thicker, but it the ink has leached through it more easily than on the latter.
The proposed date is based on the watermarks in the manuscript (for preliminary
observations see already
In pt. I there are two main hands writing Gothic Semitextualis and Hybrida (A,
Semitextualis: fols. [a–f],
In pt. II there is one main hand, writing
In pt. III there is one main hand, most probably the same as Scribe A of part I, writing Gothic Textualis (in the
In pts. I and II red painted lombards for the beginnings of feasts (and
at times shorter units within a feast), pen-drawn initials decorated with red and
black diamond shapes and sawteeth and spikes. Pages copied by Scribe A have
decoration in the style of the so-called Naantali-group of manuscripts (on this
A
Part III, probably copied in the
Given the stylistic
affinities of Scribe A’s work with the so-called Naantali-group of manuscripts, he
may have been an elderly member of the group that produced those manuscripts in the
Not necessarily long after part I
was finished, Lutheran hymns were copied on its blank final leaves, at least one
quire (probably at least two) attached to it, and a small gradual was copied on
these leaves, forming part II of the present manuscript. The copy of
In the