Petershausen sacramentary

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Enthroned Ecclesia , fol. 40v
Christ Enthroned, fol. 41r

The Petershausen sacramentary (today in the Heidelberg University Library under the signature Sal. IX b ) was produced around 980 in the Reichenau scriptorium for use in solemn services and was still used there or in a church dependent on Reichenau in the 11th century.

description

The manuscript, written in one column on parchment , measuring 24 x 18.5 cm, consists of 266 sheets. It contains 152 decorative initials and in the Liber sacramentorum de circulo anni (fol. 40v – 172r) two full-page miniatures facing each other in medallions and twelve decorative pages. Eight decorative pages immediately adjoin the miniatures, gold or silver inks are used for the text on purple or blue background. Two more double pages can be found on fol. 54v – 55r and on fol. 105v – 106r at the beginning of the Easter Sunday measurement form. Before the main part, which essentially follows the Sacramentarium Hadrianum , a more recent collection of 25 forms for holy masses and two cross feasts, six votive masses as well as for the salt and water consecration is entered according to a calendar from Reichenau, while the additions after the main part mainly refer to the Supplementum of Benedict von Aniane go back. A Benediction is followed at the end of the Codex by the Exultet , which is only provided with neumes from the second page on . The last text is orations for the feast of the beheading of John the Baptist .

classification

The pictorial program of the miniatures is closely related to that of the Gero Codex : The sacramentary should also be a work by the scribe Anno, albeit later than the Gero Codex, since the ornamentation of the initials and decorative pages already mark the transition to the Ruodprecht group of the Reichenauer School reveals. The double page with a representation of the enthroned Ecclesia and the enthroned Christ, which introduces the actual sacramentary, is modeled on the Maiestas Domini of the Lorsch Codex Aureus , like the corresponding illustration in the Gero Codex , but it already implements the motif more strongly in Reichenau's own style .

backgrounds

In the monastery Petershausen the handwriting is probably only come to the convent fire of 1159, after forged documents of Bishop Gebhard II. Constance was for Peter Hausen from the years 983 and was registered in 1003 (!). This is followed by a copy of a privilege of Eugene III. of July 13, 1147, exhibited in Auxerre , with a drawing by Benevalete . This is followed by a note about the consecration of the altar in 1205 under the Petershausen abbot Eberhard with an extensive list of the relics used . Below is a message about the reburial of the bones of Bishop Gebhard, who is now venerated as a saint, in a silver shrine with gold jewelry, with further relics added, including those of the 11,000 virgins .

In 1826/27 the Heidelberg library acquired most of the Salem library from the Baden house , with which the seller had also combined the less extensive secularized property from the Petershausen monastery, which had also fallen to him in 1802. On sheet 7v of the sacramentary there is a stamp from the Petershausen library from the 18th century.

Others

A modern catalog of the liturgical manuscripts from Petershausen is not yet available. Only an older compilation of the manuscripts by Ludwig Bethmann , who still regards the sacramentary as a work of the Petershausen scriptorium, and an alphabetical volume catalog on the Salem and Petershausen manuscripts from the time after their acquisition are available in the manuscript reading room of the library.

literature

  • Florentine Mütherich : Sacramentary from Petershausen . In: Suevia Sacra. Early art in Swabia . Augsburg 1973, p. 172 No. 161 fig. 150.
  • Ludwig Schuba: Reichenauer text tradition in the Petershausen sacramentary . In: Bibliothek und Wissenschaft Vol. 12, 1978, pp. 115-140.
  • Anton von Euw : Sacramentary from Petershausen. In: Before the year 1000. Occidental book art at the time of Empress Theophanu. Schnütgen-Museum, Cologne 1991, p. 122ff. No. 32.

Web links

Commons : Petershausen Sacramentary  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Since the parchment is thinly processed, the writing on the reverse partially shines through, which is particularly evident in the Maiestas Domini on fol. 41r. The blind lines cannot always be seen in the illustrations.
  2. ↑ Schuba: Reichenauer Textradition p. 118f.
  3. ↑ fol. 234r-262v.
  4. ↑ fol. 263r-265v.
  5. ↑ fol. 265v-266r.
  6. ^ Mütherich: Sacramentary from Petershausen , p. 172.
  7. ↑ Alba Iulia, Ms R II 1, p. 36 .
  8. ^ Mütherich: Sacramentary from Petershausen , p. 172.
  9. ↑ Schuba: Reichenauer Texttradition pp. 139–140.
  10. ↑ fol. 29v – 31v with the common Arenga Desiderium quod ad .
  11. ↑ fol. 32r-34v.
  12. ↑ fol. 34v. See also Schuba, Reichenauer Textradtion p. 140, according to which the hand who entered the note shows the festival in the calendar on fol. 5v added.
  13. ↑ Ludwig Bethmann: Manuscripts of the Heidelberg University Library, acquired from the Salem and Petershausen monasteries on Lake Constance in 1827 , in: Archive of the Society for Older German History for the Promotion of a Complete Edition of the Sources of German Medieval History , Volume 9, 1847, p. 579– 587 ( digitized version ).