Ratmann sacramentary

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Ratmann sacramentary, dedication image: Ratmann hands over the sacramentary to the Archangel Michael and Bernward von Hildesheim

The Ratmann Sacramentary is an illuminated liturgical manuscript that was written in 1159 by a monk priest named Ratmann and donated for the high altar of the St. Michael monastery in Hildesheim . Possibly it is the same councilor who appears in a document from 1178 as abbot of the monastery. The sacramentary contains rich book decorations, including the miniature which Bishop Bernward von Hildesheim , the founder of the monastery, shows next to the Archangel Michael (as the church patron) before his canonization in 1192 . In 1150 a provincial synod in Erfurt had allowed Bernwards to be worshiped locally in St. Michael.

Around 1400 the text was deleted and rewritten. The high Romanesque miniatures and decorative initials from the 12th century were retained. Such a rewriting of a manuscript with preservation of the content and its liturgical function is extraordinary. The manuscript is now in the Hildesheim Cathedral Museum .

The Stammheim Missal is a sister manuscript .

literature

  • Anne Karen Menke: The Ratmann sacramentary and the Stammheim missal. Two romanesque manuscripts from St. Michael's at Hildesheim. Dissertation, Yale University 1987
  • Ulrich Knapp (Ed.): Book and picture in the Middle Ages. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 3-8067-8583-X , pp. 74-78
  • Marlis Stähli: The manuscripts in the cathedral treasure to Hildesheim: descriptions. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-447-02471-2 , pp. 117-123; 124-145 (illustrations) ( online ).
  • Patricia Engel : Strategia podejmowania decyzji konserwatorskich w procesie identyfikacji i konserwacji historycznych śladów uauwania pisma (tekstu) w rękopisach (I – XV wiek) - Na przykładzie konserwacji - restauracji “Ratmann Sakramentary Skarbescamentary.” Z kolekescji Dissertation Warsaw 2007 (unpublished).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Wulf: Bernward von Hildesheim, a bishop on the way to holiness. In: Concilium Medii Aevi 11 (2008), p. 17 ( full text ).
  2. ↑ By Stefanie Barhost in church newspaper online exhibition 1999-2000 ( Memento of 30 October 2007 at the Internet Archive ).