Wonnentaler antiphonary
The Wonnentaler Antiphonary is a late medieval manuscript that originally comes from the Cistercian convent Wonnental .
The manuscript was made in the first half of the 14th century in Breisgau and most likely for the Wonnentaler Konvent. The antiphonary comes from the economic and spiritual-religious heyday of the Wonnental monastery. At an unknown point in time, it came to the Benedictine monastery of St. Georgen in Villingen . In the course of secularization , the Codex came to the Grand Ducal Badische Hofbibliothek in 1807, today Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe , where it has been kept since then.
As a choral hymn book, the manuscript lists the Latin alternate chants of choral prayer according to Cistercian usage , which are important for the monastic liturgy ( Antiphonarium cisterciense ), whereby the order of the chants is based on the chronological order of the church year . The manuscript contains numerous ornamental initials as well as figurative initial letters and marginal illustrations on 260 parchment sheets. Ornamental letters and miniatures are particularly impressive on the manuscript page that is dedicated to the feast of St. Agnes (on January 21 ). The figures shown there show in the manner of the sculptures of the tower vestibule and the west portal of the Freiburg Minster Agnes and Christ in conversation or together and embraced on the heavenly throne. The intimacy between Christ and the saint is enhanced by the intense coloring of the scenes.
Web links
- Cod. St. Georgen 5 in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek
literature
- Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe: Codex St. Georgen No. 5
- Buhlmann, M., The medieval manuscripts of the Villingen monastery St. Georgen (= Vertex Alemanniae, issue 27), St. Georgen 2007, p. 23f