Missal

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Accession number:

MS M.884.1-2

Title:

Missal

Created:

St. Pölten, Austria, ca. 1410.

Credit:

Purchased from H.P. Kraus, 1957.

Description:

2 leaves (2 columns, 27 lines), matted : vellum, ill. ; M.884.1: 422 x 286 mm; M.884.2: 435 x 283 mm.

Provenance:

Cathedral of St. Pölten; purchased from H.P. Kraus in 1957.

Notes:

Ms. missal leaves; written and illuminated in Austria, at and for the Augustinian Cathedral of St. Pölten, ca. 1410.
Decoration: M.884.1: 2 historiated initials, marginal vinescroll; M.884.2: 1 historiated initial, 1 illuminated foliate initial, 1 bas-de-page historiated vignette occupying the full page width illustrating a procession of the clergy, wearing the white robes of the Augustinian Order, followed by townsfolk, approaching the cathedral of St. Pölten, historiated marginal vinescroll. (The realistic treatment of the church architecture made it possible for Otto Demus and Franz Unterkircher to identify it as the cathedral of St. Pölten in its original configuration.)
Text: M.884.1: Proper of the Saints for August 8 - 14, Cyriac through Vigil of the Assumption; M.884.2: Proper of the Season: M.884.2r: 22nd and 23rd Sundays after Pentecost; M.884.2v: Dedication of a church and Office of the Virgin for the year.
M.884.1 and M.884.2 were originally part of a missal executed for the Augustinian Cathedral of St. Pölten, other excised leaves and cuttings from the same missal have been identified: a cutting in Catalogue 47 of L'Art Ancien in Zurich, no. 11 - initial D with the Annunciation, 266 x 122 mm., purchased by J.P. Kraus and offered to the PML August 16, 1957; 3 cuttings in the Germanische National-Museum in Nuremberg - fragmente Mm 39, Mm 40, Mm 41.

Script:

textura

Language:

Latin

Resources:

Description/Bibliography

Century:

15th century

Genres:

Missals

Illuminated manuscripts

Historiated initials