Beinecke MS 9 (olim Z109.32)                                       Germany, s. XVI^^in
Hours, Premonstratensian use						  

     1. ff. 1r-3v    Prayers as follow: De mane dum primo surgis lege istam
     orationem. In christi surgo nomine...resuscita me in nouissimo die ad
     laudem et gloriam nominis tui. Amen. Pater noster et cetera. Credo in
     deum patrem. Credo in spiritum sanctum. Aue maria et cetera. Trine
     orationes ad patrem Oratio. Pater de celis deus miserere uobis. Domine
     sancte pater omnipotens eterne deus qui coequalem...; Domine ihesu
     christe fili dei uiui...; Domine sancte spiritus qui coequalis...et
     ignem sanctissimi ac suauissimi amoris tui. Qui uiuis et regnas deus.
     Per omnia secula seculorum. Amen. [HE 124-25]

     2. ff. 3v-48v    Hours of the Virgin, Premonstratensian use.

     3. ff. 49r-71v    Penitential Psalms, beginning defectively in Ps. 6.9,
     and Litany. Among the 24 martyrs, Gereon (19); among the 23 confessors,
     Servatius (9), Severinus (10), Godehard (15), Willehad (16), Anskar
     (17), and Rembert (18); among the 18 virgins, Walburgis (12),
     Aldegundis (14) and Ursula (18).

     4. ff. 72r-127v    Office of the Dead, Premonstratensian use.

     5. ff. 127v-132r    Prayer. De paives [sic] vincencius devant dit bet.
     So we dat leset eyn iar lanck alle daghe myt innicheit vor ene sele. de
     wert vorloset. Criste mortalium spes vna. qui tue misertus tantum es
     facture...propter nos induere dignatus est formam visibilem ihesus
     christus filius tuus dominus tuus dominus noster...Per omnia secula
     seculorum. Amen.

     6. ff. 132r-136v    Suffrages to the Body of Christ to be said ad
     matutinas, ad salue regina, ad quindecim gradus, ad psalterium sancti
     spiritus, ad psalterium corporis christi, In vigilia dedicationis ad
     psalterium..., antequam psalterium..., finito psalmo....

     7. ff. 136v-139r    Sequuntur Antiphone de domina nostra. Nigra sum sed
     formosa... [Canticum Canticorum, 1. 4]; (f. 137r) Uox turturis audita
     est; (f. 137r) Salue regina [RH 18147]; Alma redemptoris mater...[RH
     861]; (f. 138r) Aue beatissima ciuitas diuinitatis eterne felix
     gaudium...[RH 1701]; (f. 139r) Botrus cypri dilectus meus michi...[cf.
     RH 2506].

     8. ff. 139r-153v    Offices In vigilia pasche Ad capitulum, De corpore
     christi, Ad sepulchrum psalmi (cues of Pss. 5, 6, 114, 115, 129, 141 in
     full, 142), Commendacio animarum (Pss. 115, 116, 117 followed by
     versicles), In vigilia natalis domini Ad capitulum, Gospel readings
     (John 1. 1-14 and John 17. 1-26), prayer Pro sepultis in
     cimiterio.

     9. ff. 153v-156r    Short Hours of the Cross.

     10. ff. 156v-159r    Hours of the Compassion, short form.

     11. ff. 159r-160r    Prayer to the Five Wounds of Christ, Lyell
     Cat.,
     pp. 61-62. f. 160v ruled, but blank

     12. ff. 161r-187r    Saturday office for the Virgin (9 lessons at
     Matins).

     13. ff. 187r-192r    Suffrages. 2 each de Sancta cruce, de venerabili
     sacramento, de domina nostra, de apostolis, de sancto Augustino, and
     de
     omnibus sanctis. f. 192v ruled, but blank

     14. ff. 193r-198v    Office for the first, seventh, or thirtieth day
     anniversary of a burial or for its commemoration, beginning Vita in
     ligno moritur, infernus ex morsu despoliatur, Domine miserere anime
     famule tue....

     15. ff. 198v-201r    Oratio sancti Augustini quam qui homo qualibet
     die...Domine iesu christe qui in hunc mundum propter nos
     peccatores...ut peruenire valeat ad societatem ciuium supernorum...per
     omnia secula seculorum. Amen.

     Lyell Cat., p. 379, no. 160.

     16. ff. 201v-209v    Commendacio animarum. Subuenite sancti dei...,
     Oratio. Tibi domine commendamus animam famule tue..., Oracio.
     Misericordiam tuam domine sancte pater, Ps. 113 (cue only) with
     antiphon, Oracio. Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui humano corpori...,
     Oracio. Suscipe domine creaturam tuam..., Ps. 114 (cue only) with
     antiphon, Oremus. Diri uulneris nouitate percussi...,
     Oracio. Deus cui
     soli competit medicinam dare..., Oracio. Suscipe domine animam serui
     tui quam..., Oracio. Deus cuius misericordie non est numerus...,
     Oratio. Tibi domine commendamus animam famule tue...,
     Oracio. Deus
     origo pietatis pater misericordie..., [no rubric] Gratias ago tibi
     domine ihesu christe pro sexaginta et quadringentis..., Oracio. Domine
     ihesu christe qui portando crucem pro me....

     17. ff. 209v-217v    Suffrages to the angels, John the Baptist, the
     apostles and evangelists, martyrs, confessors, virgins, Pro pace; Ps.
     138; Aue sanctissima maria mater dei regina celi...[indulgence conceded
     by Sixtus IV]; Aue maria ancilla sancte trinitatis...[indulgence
     revealed to Bernard].

     18. ff. 217v-246r    Suffrages to Michael Archangel, one's Guardian
     Angel, all angels, John the Baptist, all patriarchs and prophets,
     Bartholomew, one apostle, all apostles, Gregory, one martyr, all
     martyrs, the 15 helpers, Jerome, one confessor, all confessors, Anna
     with indulgence conceded by Alexander VI (quas confirmauit rome in
     festo pasche Anno domini M. CCCC XCIIII.), Mary Magdalen, Catharine of
     Alexandria (2 suffrages), one virgin, all virgins and widows, all
     saints, for Holy Mother Church.

     19. ff. 246r-248v    Miserere mi domine animabus que singulares apud te
     non habent intercessores...; Saluete vos omnes fideles anime quarum
     corpora hic et ubique requiescunt...; Sal[u]ete vos omnes fideles anime
     que iacetis...; Respice quesumus omnipotens deus super
     animas...[prayers for the dead with indulgences conceded by Pius II and
     John IV]; Auete omnes christifideles anime...[prayer for the dead with
     indulgence conceded by John XII].

     20. ff. 248v-251r    Second nocturn of an office for the dead secundum
     Paderbornense ordinarium added by a later hand. ff. 251v-254v ruled,
     but blank

          Parchment, ff. v (i, iii, iv = contemporary parchment; modern
     paper leaf added [ii]; v, with miniature, added separately) + 254, 137
     x 95 (83 x 52) mm. Written in 15 long lines per page, ruled in black
     ink; double horizontal, single vertical bounding lines, all full
     across.
          I^^4 (original flyleaves; -1, + modern paper inserted between i and
     iii and glued to iv), II^^8 (+1 leaf added at beginning), III-VII^^8,
     VIII^^8 (-1, 2), IX-X^^8, XI^^8 (-2), XII-XVI^^8, XVII^^8 (folio between ff.
     120 and 121 not numbered), XVIII-XIX^^8, XX^^6, XXI^^8, XXII^^6,
     XXIII-XXXIII^^8, XXXIV^^8 (-6).
          Written by a single copyist in two sizes of liturgical gothic
     script.
          One miniature, f. v verso: Saul on the Road to Damascus, an
     addition (s. xvi^^in) of fair quality, in an arched frame, brown and
     gold; a scatter border of flowers and insects on a beige ground, brown
     edging. Large initials, one (f. 4r) 8-line (45 x 45 mm.) on burnished
     gold with tooling, the others either on burnished gold with tooling
     (ff. 1r, 38r, 72v, 127v) or on pink and blue grounds (ff. 154r, 161r,
     193v), set in full scatter borders of acanthus twigs (either gold with
     pink and brown or red, blue, and/or pink), flowers and, in some cases,
     birds, over compartmentalized (blue/gold, pink/beige, blue/dark blue,
     beige/brown), beige and parchment (with and without a background of
     black pen flecks) grounds; some borders without bounding lines. On f.
     1r, an unidentified coat of arms in each corner of the border. Upper
     left and lower right, sable, in chief 2 wreaths vert with dots gules
     and or, in base a rose per pale gules and argent, barbed vert, seeded
     or. Upper right, or, a bear [?] rampant argent, langued gules. Lower
     left, ermine, a fess gules with 4 plates, cottised sable. Small
     initials, 3-line, gold, either filled with pink with gold filigree on a
     blue ground decorated with acanthus and black flecks, or filled with
     blue on a pink ground decorated with black filigree; some with
     additional flowers or pink and blue acanthus; all associated with short
     border strips, as above. Numerous 3- and 4-line initials, blue, filled
     with red curling acanthus drawn in pen, surrounded by red or crimson
     penwork. 2- and 1-line initials in red or blue. Rubrics throughout.
          Pieces of the illuminated borders have been cut from ff. 4, 38,
     127, 154, and 193. Ink has run or been rubbed in several places,
     including ff. v verso and 1r.
          Binding: s. xvi. Sewn on three double vegetable fiber cords laced
     into wooden boards. The book is so tightly bound that it is impossible
     to determine whether or not the sewing is original. No endband grooves.
     Edges gilt. Covered in dark brown calf with a panel stamp of the Virgin
     and Child on a crescent, within a flambent aureole in the center of
     each board, hearts pierced with an arrow and a dagger [?] in a diamond,
     stars in circles above and below the central stamp, all within a vine
     scroll border. Traces of one fastening, two later fastenings added.
     Rebacked, very possibly by the binder who rebacked MS 7 as there is a
     similar, unusual, endcap treatment.

          Written in Northwestern Germany, probably near Cologne, as
     indicated from the saints in the Litany (art. 3), and the style of the
     borders (derivative from Ghent-Bruges School models of ca. 1500). The
     codex may have belonged to a woman given the presence (although not
     exclusive) of feminine forms. Arms of early owners (coat of arms in
     each corner, all unidentified; later additions?) in border of f. 1r.
     Given 11 June 1598 by Bernardus Kniperus of Lubeck, to Leonardus
     Rubenus, abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Abdingkhoff, near
     Paderborn (inscription on flyleaf, recopied on a leaf inserted later
     after the flyleaf). Old shelf-mark N. 35 of the monastery (f. v recto).
     In 1807 belonged to Ant. Jos. Rosenmeyer (inscriptions on ff. iii recto
     and v recto); later belonged to A. Gelsenthal (inscription on f. iv
     recto). Given to Yale by Addison Van Name in 1922.

     Bibliography: De Ricci v. 1, p. 163, no. 9.

Barbara A. Shailor