Missal from silos

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The Missal of Silos or Missale de Silos is the oldest known paper document made in the Christian world ; it is a missal and dates from the 11th century . The Quarto -Missale consists of 157 Folia from which the sheets 1 to 37 are made of paper, the remaining of parchment . Strictly speaking, it is not exactly a missal: it has been called a breviary missal. It can also be considered a Liber Mysticus .

The missal is kept in the library of the Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey near Burgos , Spain as Codex 6 . It is one of a number of liturgical manuscripts of the Mozarabic rite that have been preserved in the library of Silos despite the prohibition of Pope Gregory VII in 1080. However, it was not created in the scriptorium there, but in the monastery of Santa María la Real in Nájera . The city was located on Christian territory at that time, but it is assumed that the paper of the missal comes from the Arab world, probably from al-Andalus , the Muslim Spain.

Media interest

In 2013 Umberto Eco , who refers to silos in his novel The Name of the Rose , visited the manuscript. Eco's visit received a lot of coverage in the Spanish media.

Individual evidence

  1. Carmen Crespo, Vincente Vinas: The Preservation and Restoration of Paper Records and Books: A RAMP Study with Guidelines (pdf) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 1984. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
  2. Miguel C. Vivancos: Susana Zapke (ed.): Hispania Vetus: Musical-Liturgical Manuscripts from Visigothic Origins to the Franco-Roman Transition. . Fundación BBVA, Bilbao 2007, p. 290.
  3. a b La biblioteca del monasterio de Silos hace tangible la ficción de Umberto Eco . Diario de Burgos .

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