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Selected prayers from a breviarium monasticum, mainly from daytime offices (April-November). Contains: (ff. 1r-4r) Calendar. Incomplete (30.8 until 29.11). - (f. 5r-v) Te Deum. - (ff. 6r-67v) Ordinary, with psalms, canticles and other texts for sunday and weekdays: lauds (5v-24r), prime (24r-37r), terce (37r-39v), sext (39v-42r), none (42r-44v), vespers (44v-65v), compline (64v-67v). - (ff. 67v-200v) Selected hymns, antiphons, chapters, collects and other prayers from offices of the Temporale (66v-81r, 92v-144v) and Sanctorale (Commune sanctorum 81r-92r, Proprium sanctorum 145r-200v). - With liturgical directions underlined in red. - Empty: ff. 4v, 92v.
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Origin: based on the occurrence in the calendar (5.10) of St. Meynulphus (795-857), archdeacon of Paderborn and founder of Böddeken Monastery. Also selected prayers to Utrecht saints Werenfridus (14.8, on 147v), Willibrordus (7.11, on 192r-v), Lebuinus (12.11 on 194r) and Radbodus (29.11 on 196v). - Made for monastical use, probably a convent of canons regular, in view of the prayers to Augustine (28.8), marked with a large decorated initial (f. 175v) and extra prayers (f. 199v), preceding those of 'omnes sanctos'
Decoration: painted initials with penwork on: f. 5r (Te deum). - f. 24r (Sunday prime; psalm 21: Deus deus meus respice in me). - f. 28v (psalm 117: Confitemini domino ... dicant nunc Israel). - f. 44v (Sunday vespers; psalm 109: Dixit dominus deo meo). - f. 47v (Monday vespers; psalm 114: Dilexi quoniam exaudiet dominus. - f. 49r (Tuesday vespers; psalm 121: Laetatus sum in his quae dicta). - f. 51r (Wednesday vespers; psalm 126: Nisi dominus aedificaverit domum). - f. 53r (Thursday vespers; psalm 131: Memento domine David). - f. 56v (Friday vespers; psalm 137: Confitebor tibi domine ... quoniam audisti). - f. 60v (Saturday vespers; psalm 143: Benedictus dominus deus meus qui docet manus). - f. 64v (compline; Converte nos deus salutaris noster). - 70v (Ascension, vespers/compline; hymn: Veni creator spiritus). - f. 74v (Assumption of the Virgin Mary; hymn: O quam glorifica luce coruscans). - f. 77r (All Saints; hymn: Jesu salvator saeculi redemptis ope). - f. 81r (Vigil of an apostle; antiphon: Ecce ego mitto vos sicut oves in medio luporum). - f. 93r (Vigil of Easter; Vespere autem sabbati). - f. 96v (Octave of Easter; chapter: Benedictus deus et pater domini nostri jhesu christi). - f. 101v (Conception of the Virgin Mary, vespers: Stabat mater dolorosa). - f. 108r (Ascension, vespers; antiphon: Si diligeretis me gauderetis). - f. 112r (Pentecost, vespers; antiphon: Veni sancte spiritus). - f. 116r (Corpus Christi, vespers; antiphon: Sacerdos in aeternum Christus). - f. 144v (Common of a single martyr, Easter times; antiphon: Filiae Jerusalem venite et videte martyrem cum corona). - f. 154r (10000 milites, "Albini martyris et sociorum eorum", 22.6: Pro eo quod non credidisti verbis me). - f. 156v (Passion of St. Peter and St. Paul; antiphon: Simon Petrus cum audisset). - 162v (Mary Magdalene, vespers; antiphon: Sancta Maria Magdalena qui Christum a morte resurgentem prima mortalium videre meruisti). - f. 169v (St. Laurence; chapter: Liberasti me domine secundum multitudinem misericordiae tuae). - f. 172r (Assumption of the Virgin Mary, antiphon: Hortus conclusus es dei genetrix). - f. 175v (St. Augustine, 28.6; vespers; antiphon: Laetare mater nostra Jerusalem quia rex tuus). - f. 179v (Nativity of the Virgin Mary, vespers; chapter: Quae est ista quae progreditur quasi aurora consurgens). - f. 184v (Archangel Michael, vespers; antiphon: Archangeli Michaelis interventione suffulti). - f. 190r (All Saints, vespers; antiphon: Scimus quoniam diligentibus deum omnia cooperantur). - f. 192v (St. Martin of Tours, vespers; Domine deus noster cuius gratia beatus Martinus tres mortuos resuscitavit). - f. 196r (St. Catherine; collect: Deus qui dedisti legem Moysi in summitate montis Synai). - f. 197r (Church dedication; chapter?: Vidi et ecce majestas domini ingressa est templum).
Missing leaves at beginning and end.
Binding: Post-medieval binding.
Textual: (ff. 1r-4r) Calendar with St. Meinulph confessor (5.10) points to Westphalia. Also contains Utrecht saints Willibrord (7.11 in red) and Radboud (29.11). Includes liturgical references to the breviary's Sanctorale. - (f. 5r-v) "Canticum Ambrosii et augustini (incipit) Te deum laudamus te domine ...". - (ff. 145r-200v) Sanctorale begins with pope Leo I (11.4) and ends with St. Radboud (29.11), followed by prayers for the office of Church dedication (196v-198v) and other prayers, among which for St. Augustine, who is adressed as patron: "Factus Augustinus presbyter monasterium clericorum mox instituit et coepit vivere secundum regulam sub sanctis apostolis constituam. Ora pro nobis pie pater augustine" (199v).
Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Rogge & 1887): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:124748
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1937): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491717
Description (Lieftinck 1948): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:489936
Also described by MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD, The Hague).
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