Missal Scarense

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Missal from Skara in the Västergötlands Museum . Processional songs for the palm procession on Palm Sunday can be seen
Alleluia ( call to the gospel ) and beginning of the gospel on Ascension Day

The Missale Scarense , Latin for missal from Skara , Swedish Skaramissalet , is a medieval missal . It is considered to be the oldest surviving book in Sweden .

description

Skara missal was a full missal ( missale plenum ). Of his original 300 sheets, 44 have survived, which today, after being trimmed into two volumes in an old new binding, measure 31 × 21 cm.

There are several hypotheses about its origin. The composition and notation of the liturgical chants suggest that it originated in the Norman sphere of influence (England, north-west of France).

With the help of the radiocarbon method, the sheets can be dated to 1150/1160; the oak wood of the cover of the second volume can be dendrochronologically dated to 1270. The font shows a transition style from Carolingian minuscule to Gothic script. Slight deviations suggest that in the second volume from f. 22v a second scribe was involved.

The first volume contains the proprium from Friday after Judica to Palm Sunday ; the second volume extends from the third Sunday after Easter to Trinity and contains a fragment of a Missa pro defunctis ( Requiem ) as well as the Canon Missae on pages 24 ff . Two full-page illustrations show a Maiestas Domini and a crucifixion group with sun and moon in Romanesque book illumination .

Lore

Only since 1748 has the book, which was certainly intended for use in a collegiate or cathedral church from the start, been bibliographically documented at the Skara Cathedral . The Missal is part of the collection of the Skara Abbey and State Library ( Skara stifts- och landsbibliotek ) and is on display in the Västergötlands Museum .

In 2006 a facsimile edition with scientific commentary was published.

output

  • Stiftelsen för utgivande av Skaramissalet (Ed.): Skaramissalet. Skara 2006 ISBN 91-859802-7-7

literature

  • Ann-Marie Nilsson: Chants and provenance of the fragmentary 12th-century missal of Skara, Sweden. In: Cantus Planus , Lillafüred 2004, pp. 471-487 digitized

Web links

Commons : Skara Missal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nilsson (Lit.), p. 481