MS. Junius 83
Summary Catalogue no.: 5194
A Calendar, compotus, Limburger Monatsregeln; Utrecht, c. 1252 with additions. B Glossaries; western Germany, mid-13th century
Physical Description
Binding
Post-1600: 17th-century (?) binding of blind-tooled calf over pasteboards.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Both parts together by c. 1300 (notes in the same hand on fols. 1r, 71v), presumably at the Cistercian nunnery of St Servatius (St Servaes) in Utrecht; certainly there by the sixteenth century: ‘Den Joffrau van Nienroden costerin van sinte Servaes’, 16th century, fol. 71v, identified by W. Braekman and M. Gysseling as Beatrice van Nienroden of the Cistercian nunnery of St Servaes, Utrecht
‘Sum Boxhornij’, 17th century, fol. 1r: Hendrik Boxhorn, -1631
Received by the Bodleian by 1677
MS. Junius 83 – Part A (fols. 1–19)
Contents
Explains the table on fols. 10v-11r; cf. e.g. Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena Ms. El. f. 17 fol. 239v.
Fol. 3r ruled, blank; fol. 3v blank.
About half-full; includes (30 April) Peter of Verona, canonized 1253, apparently as an early addition.
Pr. W. Braekman and M. Gysseling, 'Het Utrechtse Kalendarium van 1253 met de Noordlimburgse Gezondheidsregels' Verslagen en mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde (nieuwe reeks) (1967) 575–635, 581–90. Attributed to the Cistercian abbey of St Servaes, Utrecht, by A.D.A. Monna, ‘Diagnose van een omstreden 13e eeuwse kalender uit de Servaasabdij te Utrecht’, Archief voor de geschiedenis van de Katholieke Kerk in Nederland 25 (1983), 145–180. The attribution had been queried by J. P. Gumbert, 'Is Het ‘Kalendarium Van 1253’ Wel Utrechts?', Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 93 (1977), 201–2, but Gumbert withdrew his objections after the publication of Monna's article (J. P. Gumbert, 'Het ‘Kalendarium van 1253’ is wel degelijk Utrechts', Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 101 (1985), 160).
In the margins of the kalendar are rules for the months in rhymed verse, beginning with February (January, on 4r, is without one). These are added in a 13th century textualis by a subsequent hand to the primary hand of the kalendar. Pr. Braekman and Gysseling, 591–2.
Pr. Braekman and Gysseling, 593.
Cf. statues of ?1174, 1239 and 1245 (Joseph-Marie Canivez, Statuta capitulorum generalium ordinis cisterciensis ab anno 1116 ad annum 1786 (Louvain 1933–1941), i.81–2, ii.201, ii.288)
Table of movable feasts for each of the possible days of Easter from 22 March to 25 April
Computistical table from 1252, continued to 1783
Explanation of the table
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Written below top line.
Fols. 1r-2v: written space 145 × 95 mm.
Fols. 2v-19v: written space 165–70 × 100–10 mm.
Hand(s)
Textualis; Braekman and Gysseling distinguish the hands as follows: (A) fols. 1v-2v, main text of 4r-9v, 10v-11r; (B) additions to the calendar on 3 Jan. and in the margins, and fol. 10r; (C) addition to the calendar (St Dominic) and the ordinal, fol. 10r; (D) the Middle Dutch additions, February to May and October to December; (E) Middle Dutch, June to September; (F) Middle Dutch, some of the text for May; (G) (early 14th century) minor additions on fols. 1r and 71v and calendar, 20 Dec.; (H) fol. 12r, table for 1316–1345; (I) fols. 12v-19v, table for 1346–1783, and text on fol. 19v.
Decoration
Plain red initials.
History
Provenance
Written at or for the Cistercian nunnery of St Servatius (evidence of the calendar and art. 4); the date is suggested by the computistical tables and the apparent addition of Peter of Verona to the calendar.
MS. Junius 83 – Part B (fols. 20–71)
Contents
Cf. Fritzlar, Dombibl., Ms. 129 (Gen. - Apoc.)
Incorporating some German glosses (e.g. fol. 44r, 'Coriarius ledermechere') presented as part of the text; pr. E. Steinmeyer and E. Sievers, Die althochdeutschen Glossen I (1878), passim.
This ms. listed by P. Wessner, in Comment. philol. Jenens, vi, 2, 1899, p. 63–144, p. 79 (no. 44): 'ein dürftiges, unvollständiges und stark interpoliertes Excerpt'.
Vernacular glosses incorporated in the text pr. E. Steinmeyer and E. Sievers, Die althochdeutschen Glossen II. 162 (no. 636)
The text incorporates two vernacular glosses (fol. 70v, p. 43), pr. E. Steinmeyer and E. Sievers, Die althochdeutschen Glossen IV.352–3 (no. 888c)
Rest of fol. 71r blank. Fol. 71v blank except for ex libris.
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., c. 30–32 lines. Written below top line. Written space 160 × 95–105 mm.
Hand(s)
Textualis.
Decoration
Four-line blue initial flourished in red, fol. 20r; two-line blue initial, flourished in red, fol. 65v.
Elsewhere two-line red initials, plain, or flourished in red, blue or red-and-blue.
History
Additional Information
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-10: Revised description for Polonsky German digitization project.