Missale secundum ritum ecclesie Bremense
The Missale secundum ritum ecclesie Bremense is a missal that was in use at the Bremen Cathedral at the beginning of the 16th century and is now on display in the Cathedral Museum .
history
The Missale secundum ritum ecclesie Bremense of the Bremen Cathedral, translated missal according to the customs of the Bremen church , describes the rite for Holy Mass that was only valid in the Diocese of Bremen in the Middle Ages . It contains the fixed and changing biblical texts, prayers and chants for the church services in Latin. The client was Archbishop Johann III , who was in office from 1497 to 1511 . Rode .
The missal was only in use from 1511 to 1532. After the religious reformation in the old town churches of Bremen from 1522–1523 in the spirit of Luther , St. Petri Cathedral, with the archbishop at its head, remained committed to the old faith. That changed when, on Palm Sunday 1532, the cathedral was taken over by a radical group of citizens, the so-called 104 men . The cathedral chapter then fled to Verden under the leadership of the cathedral provost Franz Grambeke, and evangelical preaching was only allowed in the cathedral.
Execution of the missal
The book was produced by Renatus Beck in Strasbourg in 1511 because Bremen did not have a printer's workshop at the time. The binding (h. 34 cm, w. 23 cm) is made of leather with metal clasps, some of which have already been added. The lettering on paper is black with red highlights. So far, the originator of the two woodcuts has not been determined : Archbishop Johann Rode's coat of arms (winged helmet) on the title page supplemented by the archbishop's coat of arms (two crossed keys) and in front of the canon Missae a depiction of the crucifixion with Mary and John next to the crucified . The missal with a dedication by Archbishop Rode is in very good condition, which is also explained by the fact that it was only in use for a few years (1511–1532).
There are only four other copies of the Missal in Bremen, one in the Propsteigemeinde St. Johann and three in the State and University Library ; the latter also publishes a copy in their digital collections. It is not known whether there are other issues elsewhere.
Value for the Bremen church history
The chants dedicated to Saints Willehad , Ansgar and Rimbert , who are venerated in Bremen, are of particular interest for research into the history of church and music in Bremen . If they appear in other missal books, this is an indication that they were used in the Archdiocese of Bremen and probably put together. This applies, for example, to a missal from the 12th century in the Lübeck city library , which has song texts with the associated neumes (forerunners of musical notation ), which suggest an origin from the area around Bremen Cathedral. Individual chants for Ansgar and Willehad largely agree with the codex texts handed down by the Bremen canon Vicelin in the 12th century , which are now in the Münster State Archives .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dr. Ingrid Weibezahn: Missale (missal), 1511 in: Treasures from the Bremen St. Petri Cathedral - Guide through the Cathedral Museum , pages 137-139
- ↑ a b Dr. Ingrid Weibezahn: Two valuable books in: Treasures from the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen - Guide to the Cathedral Museum , pages 49–50
literature
- Detlev G. Gross (ed.), Ingrid Weibezahn: Treasures from the Bremen St. Petri Cathedral - guide through the Cathedral Museum . Edition Temmen , 1st edition 2005, ISBN 3-86108-540-2
