Cistercian Collectar
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Description
- Title
- Cistercian Collectar
- Published / Created
- [between 1100 and 1175]
- Publication Place
- Western Germany
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of a Cistercian Collectar, including a calendar, tables for calculating feast days, collects for various occasions, prayers, and ceremonials
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: the text is copied by one hand in large Praegothica, except a few passages (the numerous smaller changes and additions not taken into account): the two texts on f. 62v are added by slightly later hands; f. 95v, except the first three lines, is by a later hand; ff. 118v (except the first seven lines) -119v are in 15th century Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. The calendar, computus tables, and incipits are in smaller Praegothica, with numerous additions and changes by later hands. Neumes are only found on ff. 7r, 145r, and 146v.
Red rubrics. Occasionally red stroking of majuscules. Numerous 2-line (rarely 3-line) half inset initials, often with fancy forms; they are plain or more often decorated with interior reserved shapes and/or primitive forms of penwork. Large Romanesque initials on ff. 7v, 42v, 54v, and 63r. The headings and first letters and words after the initial on ff. 7v, 42v and 63r are in large fancy capitals in alternating colours: red, blue, green, yellowish brown, often with some penwork in a contrasting colour.
The manuscript contains a Cistercian collectar, including a calendar, tables for calculating feast days, collects for a number of occasions, including: the Temporale, the Sanctorale, the Common of the Saints, and the feast of the dedication of a church. The manuscript also contains a litany for the Rogation Days, prayers for the sick and dying and the ceremonial of the burial, as well as the ceremonials for the tonsure of a novice and for the profession.
Binding: 15th century: brown calf over bevelled oak boards, spine with three raised bands. Both covers blind-tooled: a frame traced with fillets, the central panel decorated with floral stamps and the frame with a roll. The title “Collectarius” is stamped in the lower section of the frame on the front cover. - Provenance
- The manuscript was probably produced in a monastery of the Rhine area. Purchased from H.P. Kraus, New York.
- Extent
- ff. 150 : 230 x 155 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 883
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Catholic Church
Cistercians. - Subject (Topic)
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Liturgy
Collectars
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Catholic Church > Liturgy
Cistercians
Collectars
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Cistercian Collectar. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9883991
- Object ID (OID)
- 2010330
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