Stammheim Missal

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Stammheim Missal: Saint Bernward, at his feet the founder Henricus

The Stammheim Missal is a precious missal that was donated around 1160–1170 by the priest Henricus de Middel for the St. Michael monastery in Hildesheim . It bears its name after its previous place of storage, Stammheim Castle .

In addition to the texts for the mass, it contains rich book decorations, including a full-page miniature showing the founder of the book in monk's robe at the feet of St. Bishop Bernward von Hildesheim , to whom a descending angel hands a cross. Bernward holds banners with the wording: "hoc c (on) tra signu (m) nullu (m) sta p (er) ic (u) l (um)" and "Benedic d (omi) ne domum istam", de Middel a volume with the verse "Memor esto congregationis tu (ae)" from the psalm antiphon "Salvum fac" (73, 2). The miniature shows Bernward as a holy bishop, as whom he was venerated in St. Michael since 1150 before his canonization (1192). The angel with the cross refers to the miraculous legend handed down in the Vita Bernwardi about the founding relic of St. Michael, according to which the last of the four cross particles , for which Bernward made the Bernward cross as a reliquary , was added by Engelshand.

Together with his sister manuscript , the Ratmann sacramentary , the Stammheim Missal is an early liturgical testimony to the veneration of Bernwards in his monastery foundation.

The Stammheim Missal was acquired in 1997 by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles from the private collection of the von Fürstenberg family. A Carolingian ivory diptych on the inside of the front cover, which was released in 1904 and brought to the State Museums in Berlin, burned there in 1945 with the exception of small remains. The complete ivory, whose program speaks once of the origin and spread of Roman chant and at the same time gives evidence of the reality character of Carolingian art, is documented in a photo. It shows Alcuin , who wrote his sacramentary, edited in the school of Tours , to St. Martin , and is believed to have come directly from Bishop Bernwards' property.

literature

  • Elizabeth C. Teviotdale, Gerhard Lutz, Christina Sciacca, Nancy K. Turner, Kristen Collins: The Stammheim Missal. Ms. 64, The J. Paul Getty Museum. Commentary on the facsimile edition . Lucerne: Quaternio Verlag Luzern 2020. ISBN 978-3-905924-68-8 .
  • Elizabeth C. Teviotdale: The Stammheim Missal . J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2001, ISBN 978-0-89236-615-6 ( PDF ).
  • Anne Karen Menke: The Ratmann sacramentary and the Stammheim missal. Two romanesque manuscripts from St. Michael's at Hildesheim . Dissertation Yale University, 1987.

Web links

Commons : Stammheimer Missale  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Bernhard Gallistl: In Faciem Angelici Templi. Cult-historical remarks on the inscription and original placement of the Bernward door. In: Yearbook for History and Art in the Diocese of Hildesheim 75/76, 2007/2008. Pp. 89-90.
  2. ↑ Jochen Bepler : Rez.Elizabeth C. Teviotdale, The Stammheim Missal, Los Angeles 2001 . In: Church books and libraries. Jahrbuch 2, 2001, pp. 219–220 (critical and with details of the sale).
  3. ^ Anton von Euw : Charlemagne as a promoter of church singing . In: Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen , Volume 42, 2000, pp. 81–98, here p. 81.
  4. ↑ Ch. Wulf: The inscriptions of the city of Hildesheim . Reichert, Wiesbaden 2003 (= The German Inscriptions 58). Part 1. Plate III; Part 2. pp. 178-181.
  5. ↑ 1000 years of St. Michael in Hildesheim , Petersberg 2012 (= writings of the Hornemann Institute , Volume 14), p. 140, note 54.