Missale Slesvicense

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First page of the missal with the proprium for the 1st Sunday in Advent

The Missale Slesvicense ( Latin , German: "Schleswiger Messbuch"), complete Missale secundum ordinarium ecclesie Slesvicensis , is an incunabula of the Lübeck printer Steffen Arndes . It was published in Schleswig in 1486 and is the second book ever printed in Denmark and the first book printed in Schleswig-Holstein . It is considered to be the high point of early book printing in Denmark.

Details

The Missale Slesvicense was financed by the stable Laurens Leve and his son, Canon Levo Leve , in around 300 copies, four of which have survived.

It is a missal for the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Schleswig and contains prayers, psalms and texts for the Mass liturgy . The scope is 265 sheets in the format 35.6 × 23.8 cm. The cover is in red and black. The fonts are Gothic , the large initials hand-drawn on each side.

Whereabouts

Two of the surviving copies of the Missale Slesvicense are in the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen . Another example is in the possession of the State Museum in Gottorf Castle in Schleswig.

The fourth copy was found in 1935 in an old cupboard by the then Evangelical Lutheran pastor on the North Sea island of Amrum . It was kept in the parish for a long time. Finally, the missal was extensively restored from 2000 to 2002 and handed over to the regional church archive in Kiel for safekeeping. Occasionally it is exhibited in the St. Clemens Church in Amrum in Nebel .

None of the four copies is complete.

literature

  • Dieter Lohmeier , Gert Wilhelm Trube, Michael Brüchmann, Annette Göhres, Anke Metz: Missale Slesvicense 1486. ​​A masterpiece by the early printer Steffen Arndes . Schleswig-Holstein State Library, Kiel 2001, ISBN 978-3-9806013-4-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jostjahn.de/altes-pastorat-amrum/ Accessed on August 31, 2009
  2. ↑ Summary of the restoration report (archive version )
  3. ^ Website of the parish (autumn 2009) ( memento of June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 27, 2011