Skara, Stifts- och landsbiblioteket, Musikhandskrift n:o 5, <hi rend="italic" >Henricus Thomae boken</hi> Cataloguer Ville Walta Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Skara Stifts- och landsbiblioteket Musikhandskrift n:o 5 Henricus Thomae boken I: 1661, Sweden; II: 1570s, Finland; III: before 1611, Finland A liturgical songbook consisting of three different parts.

I: <hi rend="italic">Graduale</hi> and <hi rend="italic" >funebrale</hi>

Fols. a–h: Notes and probationes pennae. Their contents are described by Fransén 1936, 2 n. 2.

Fols. 1–13: <hi rend="italic">Kyriale</hi> in Swedish

[1r] Herre förbarma tigh öffwer ... [13v] ... syn fridh och wällsignelse.

Fols. 14–18: <hi rend="italic">Funebrale</hi> in Latin and Swedish.

[14r] Libera me domine de morte ... [17r] Jagh weet att min förlossare ... [18r] ... war lyff och ande (18v is blank).

II: Nicolaus Erici’s songbook

Fols. 19r–43r: <hi rend="italic" >Hymnarium</hi>. Imperfect in the beginning.

[19r] ---Beata mater ... O gloriose Domine excelsus ... [43r] ... nunc et per omne seculum. AMEN. (Fols. 43v and 44r contain probationes pennae and a few ownership markings; see below. On fol. 44v, another hand has added hymns, ‘Quando christus ascenderat sedens’ and ‘Tigh ware loff och prijs’.)

Fols. 45r–83v: Antiphon introits for the temporal and sanctoral (a selection).

[45r] Dominica prima in aduentu.offertorium. Ad te leuaui animan meam ... [83v] ... virginis visita nos oriens exalto.

Fols. 84r–111v: Lutheran gradual with texts in Latin, Swedish and Finnish.

[84r] (Kyriale) Kyrie eleyson. Christe ... [91r] ... nobis dignus datur. Alleluia. [91v] Primus chorus. O Gudh wy låffue tigh ... [94r] ... till ewigh tidh. (Te deum) Te deum laudamus ... [95r] ... non confundar in eternum. (Kyriale in Swedish) Herre förbarma tigh ... [99v] ... wari tack och löff. [100r] (Ordinarium in Finnish) Herra armadha meidhen ... [110v] ... ikenens hæpien ala. (Te deum in Swedish) Oo Gudh wij loffue tigh ... [111v] ... på ska till euigh tidh (fol. 112r contains various probationes pennae and ownership markings (see below)).

III: Henricus Thomae Hattulensis's songbook

Fols. 112v–115v: <hi rend="italic" >Kyriale</hi> in Swedish. Followed by three hymns in Latin

[112v] Kyrie eleison, tempore adventus Domini, Quadragesimæ, Item diebus festis apostolorum canendum. Herre förbarma tig öfwer oss ... [115r] ... ähr allena deligh. [115v] Oo lux beata trinitas ... cantamus dulciter hymnos.

Fols. 116r–145v: Sequences in Swedish, Latin and Finnish.

[116r] Sequentia de corpore christi. Lauda Sion saluatorem lauda ... [145v] ... et vitam futuri seculi. Amen. Christus pro nobis ...

Fols. 146r–158v: Tonarius

[146r] Libellus musicus in quo precipue Tonorum ratio proponitur ... [158v] ... et in secula seculorum amen.

Fols. 158v–165v: Antiphons and hymns in Latin and Finnish

[158v] Rex pacificus magnificatus est ... [163r] ... servulos in sempiterna secula. Amen. [163v] Oo Jumal sinua kijtäm ... [165r] ... nylle wskowaisille. Sinä istudh Jumalan oikealla|

Fols. i–m: cover fillings with various notes and liturgical songs. See Fransén 1936, 3–4.

 Paper 165 + 13 folios. 15 19,5 Text area I: 13 × 17; II: c. 12,5–13 × 16–17; III: 14 × 17,5–18. Modern foliation in pencil in the upper margin. Older foliation (or perhaps rather quire signatures) using alphabets and an arabic numeral up to eight are visible in the lower margin on fols. 19–44 (A5–D6). The foliation suggests pages are missing from the beginning of the quire and the current quire structure may be the result of reconstruction that took place during the rebinding process. Another set of foliation begins on the fourth leaf of the tonarium (fol. 149) and runs to the end of the book, fol. 165 (A4–C4). It shows that this section was probably once independent. i + 8a-h + VIII16 + I18; (IV+1)27 + 10IV107 + II111; 2II119 + I121 + VI133 + V143 + II147 + (II+2)153 + II157 + IV165 + 5i-m + i

Presumably during the rebinding, several loose leaves were pasted to guards in the gutters or to each other. This, together with possible reorganization of the quire structure, means that the current tentative collation is not necessarily a perfect representation of the original. A stub visible after fol. 9 (no text loss?). Fols. 18 and 19 were once pasted together but have since been reopened. The leaves of the quire containing fols. 19–27 are pasted together in the gutter. Fols. 152 and 153 have been pasted together and to fol. 151 in the gutter.

One modern flyleaf added at the beginning and one at the end. Fols. a–m were removed from the covers during rebinding and are now pasted to guards at the beginning and end of the manuscript. Fols. c–h apparently belong together with part I, and fols. a–b, i–m with parts II and III. Fols. a–f and i–l have been conserved on paper and were pastedowns or interior to the covers. Fols. g, h and m were flyleaves or pastedowns before the binding was taken apart (they contain, for example, ownership markings; see below).

 Catchwords appear occasionally in parts II and III.

The manuscript consists of three different booklets written over a century. Parts I (fols. 1–18) and II (fols. 19–112) may have once existed separately, but part III (fols. 112–165) was an addition to part II, as witnessed by the fact that it begins on the last leaf of part II.

The text on fols. 99v–100r is worn and scarcely legible in places. On fol. 127r–v the text is almost completely faded. There is some staining and the leaves have been cropped close to the text.

 I: one column with 7–9 lines of notation; II: one column with 7–11 lines of notation (fols. 91v–92v: two columns with 11 lines of notation); III: one column with 8–11 lines of notation (two columns on fols. 163v–164v).

I: One main hand, presumably belonging to Jacob Jonae Bellander who acquired the book in 1661.

II: Several main hands of saec. XVI2 writing humanistic and gothic cursives.

III: Several cursive hands.

Throughout the manuscript, quadratic notation on a black four-line high stave. Mensural notation appears on fols. 21r, 44v (on a five-line stave), 91v–92r, 142v–145r (on a five-line stave), 163v and 164r.

I: Carefully executed pen-drawn initial in black with highlighting in red (2–3 staves high).

II: Fol. 45r: a small child(?) drawn among the vines inhabiting an initial A. Fol. 60r–v: simple initials coloured red with a crayon(?). Elsewhere simple initials in black or initials left altogether unexecuted.

III: Simple initials in black. On fol. 116r, green also appears.

The original binding consisted of wooden boards covered with parchment, with clasps at the fore-edge.

The manuscript was rebound in 1932, during which time fols. a–m were removed from the covers. The new binding is a cardboard half-binding.

A compilation manuscript with liturgical music written at the second half of saec. XVI and during saec. XVII. The manuscript has belonged to at least two Finns, Nicolaus Erici and Henricus Thomae, both presumably priests in Finland. During their time parts II (c. 1570s) and III (before 1611) were written by several cooperating scribes. By 1661 the manuscript was in Sweden and in the hands of the Jacob Jonae Bellander (d. 1700) who added part I to it.

Fols. 43v, 44r and 112r include the name of Nicolaus Erici Aboensis, possibly identical with a parson from Sääksmäki who died around 1601, or with a parson from Lempäälä who died in 1616; fol. 44r: ‘Sum Ego Njcolaus Erici D H Aboensis’.

By 1611 the manuscript (or parts II and III) was in the possession of a Henricus Thomae from Hattula. Several priests of that name are known, but they have no established connection with Hattula. On fol. 165v: ‘Henricus Thomae Hattulasta Anno 1611 i pelkoila’, ‘Hunc librum ego Henri[cus] --- Hattulencis ---’ (apart from the name, this inscription is currently badly faded and difficult to read). On fol. 112r an erased note, ‘Sum Ego Henricus Thomae --d me--’. On fol. jv (in a hand of saec. XVI): ‘Kere anderss Thomason ... ’

fol. m: ‘Hunc librum ego petrus ... [a?]landensis ---- haeredatorio --- [h]ujus ab ---[C]hristi---’.

The manuscript was purchased in 1661 by Jacob Jonae Bellander; fol. hr: ‘Possessorem huius libri me Jacobum Jonae Bellandrum esse fateor quem mihi compravi 13. Septembris Anno 1661’. His name is also found on fols. dv and gr. On fol. gv Thomas Gregorii is reported as the donor of the book in a note written by Bellander in runes. The name of Jacob Bellander's brother, Andreas Jonae Bellander, is also included in the book.

The stamp of the Skara Stifts- och landsbiblioteket is found on the inside front cover and on the verso side of the back flyleaf. The library’s shelf-mark is on the inside front cover and first flyleaf recto. Jacob Bellander was the parson in Skara, and likely the manuscript was bequeathed to the library by him or later by his brother Andreas.

 Nat. Fransén, “Henricus Thomae-boken. (Skara mus. hskr. Nr. 5). Handskriftsbeskrivning”, Suomen kirkkohistoriallisen seuran vuosikirja 19–20 (1936), 1–61. Olav D. Schalin, Kulthistoriska studier till belysande av reforamtionens genomförande i Finland, Helsingfors 1946, 47–49. Encoding added