Lectionary

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Accession number:

MS M.780

Title:

Lectionary

Created:

Salzburg, Austria, 1070-1090.

Binding:

18th-century Austrian wooden boards, washed with gilt paint; upper cover with metal bosses set in frame surrounding a sunken panel that once held a metal plaque; panel and back covered in green linen; hinges of 2 clasps.

Credit:

Purchased on the Lewis Cass Ledyard Fund, 1933.

Description:

82 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 245 x 182 mm

Provenance:

Executed at and for St. Peter in Salzburg (shelfmark MS A.VI.55), where it remained until purchased for the Pierpont Morgan Library through the Lewis Cass Ledyard Fund in 1933.

Notes:

Ms. Gospel lectionary; written and illuminated at the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter (St. Peter in Salzburg), Salzburg, Austria, between 1070 and 1090.
Decoration: 16 full-page and 3 smaller miniatures; 3 decorated incipit pages.
Artist: Custos Perhtolt; signed in the dedicatory miniature on fol. 80r, which contains the following dedicatory inscription written in square capitals: coeli clavigero donavit pectore laeto custos hunc librum perhtolt qui fecerit illum ut sit peccati precium. Per cuncta patrati hinc raptor poenas patiatur corpore sevas. ("To the bearer of the keys to heaven the Guardian Perhtolt who made this book offers it with joyful heart in order that it may be an expiration for all sins committed by him. May he who steals it suffer violent bodily pains.")
One page of text is missing after fol. 2; the recto probably contained a miniature.
Musical notation: neumes mark some of the lections.
Textiles: curtains of blue or cream silk for some miniatures.

Script:

minuscule

Language:

Latin

Resources:

Description/Bibliography

Genres:

Lectionaries

Anathema

Illuminated manuscripts

Miniatures (Illuminations)

Curtains (manuscripts)