Helsinki, National Archives, Suomen kirkkohistoriallisen seuran arkisto, kotelo 28, A 116. Liber Saguensis Cataloguer Ville Walta Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Helsinki National Archives Suomen kirkkohistoriallisen seuran arkisto kotelo 28, A 116 Liber Saguensis 1622, Finland (Sauvo). Graduale

Fols. Ir–38v: Gradual in Finnish and Swedish dated 1622. Contents described in Kurvinen 1929, 47–49.

[Ir] (Front page) Liber Cantus in quo Kyrie nec non Sequentiæ in Summis et Simplicibus festis atque diebus Dominicis usitatae contentientur. Anno 1622. (Iv is blank) [1r] (Hymns in Swedish and Finnish) Hymnus S Ambrosii et Augus(tini). O gudh wij låfwe tigh… [12r] …häpiän ala tulla. Kyrie eleisen tempore Adventus Quadragesimae item festis Apostolorum. Herre förbarma tigh öffwer ... [13v] ... wari tack och låff. (14r–v is blank) [15r] De diebus Dominicis Cantus. Herre förbarma tigh ... [19r] ... wari tack och låff. Tempore Paschali. Herre förbarma tigh ... [38v] ... Isän Jumalan herraudhes. Amen. (A slightly later hand adds ‘Biblia diu legens valet hic pietate sacerdos’) (39r is blank, 39v contains various scribblings).

 Paper 40 folios 18 23,5 15 18 Modern foliation in pencil in the upper margin. 1I + IV8 + (IV–2)14 + 3IV38 + 139 Quire signatures marked with a letter 'A-E' and a roman numeral that appear in the lower margin of recto leaves in the first half of each quire.

The first page containing the handwritten heading has been removed from a printed book. Two leaves cropped after fol. 14. Fol. 39 has been pasted to fol. 38.

The paper is dirtied and darkened in places, but mostly the manuscript is in good condition.

 One column with 8 lines of notation.

One main hand writing a steady cursive. The title-page (fol. Ir) gives the year 1622, which also appears on fol. 19r along with initials ‘S. F.’ (also found on fol. 37v), presumably referring to Simon Sigfridsson Forsskål (see also below), who held different offices in Sauvo church at least from 1593 to 1629.

 Quadratic notation on a black four-line stave. Round notation on fols. 1r–7r.

Pen-drawn initials in black: large two-line intials with different ornamentation and regular one-line initials. Headings written in a different script and bolder pen.

A limp vellum binding using leaves from a missal of saec. XV (part of the prefatio missae), 23,5 × 36 (19 × 27,5), 10 lines of notation. The covers contained paper fillings, which have been removed (see below).

The manuscript contains liturgical songs in Swedish and Finnish. It was written in 1622, in all likelihood by Simon Sigfridsson Forsskåll who has left his initials in the manuscript and is also mentioned in the fragments recovered from the covers. Forsskåll was a priest in Sauvo from 1593 to 1629.

The covers contained fragments of private correspondence, which have been removed and are now stored separately in the same folder. They stem mostly from saec. XVII. They contain, for example, circular letters of saec. XVI to the clergy, a list of persons in different parishes and a fragment mentioning 'Sigfrid Forskåll' and ‘Kyrkionnes Book Liber Saguensis’. This, along with the initials found in the manuscript, renders it likely that the manuscript was written and owned by the priest of Sauvo church, Simon Sigfridsson Forsskål, and/or by his son Sigfrid Simonsson Forsskåll (d. c. 1643).

The manuscript later came into the possession of the Wallenius family. At some point it was passed to the Finnish Society of Church History, which has deposited its archives in the National Archives of Finland.

 P. J. I. Kurvinen, Suomen virsirunouden alkuvaiheet v:een 1640, Helsinki 1929. Encoding added