Contents:This manuscript is the second part of a two-volume Missal
created for the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot. The first part is
Add MS 18031. This volume was written in the first quarter of the
13th century and was supplemented by 15th-century
material.13th-century contents: ff. 1r-2v: Ordo Missae (Order of
the Mass), imperfect at the beginning: 'purifices interna cordis
mei', ending: 'qui te constituit intercessorem pro peccatis
nostris'. ff. 3r-8v: A liturgical calendar, beginning: 'Iani prima
dies et septima fine timetur'. ff. 33v-34r are blank.ff. 35r-124v:
Temporal, including collects, prayers, lections, prefaces and
Secrets for each feast.ff. 125r-185v: Sanctoral, including
collects, prayers, lections, prefaces and Secrets for each feast of
Saints, beginning with the feast of St Tiburtius, St Valerian and
St Maximus; ending with the mass for several Holy martyrs. ff.
187r-226v: Votive masses, incomplete at the beginning: 'dixit mihi:
Hi qui amicti sunt stolis albis'Various masses for priests, the
bishop, friends, forgiveness of sins etc.ff. 224v-226v: Masses for
funerals ff. 227r-231r: Benedictions, beginning with the
benediction of pouches and staff, which is related to the pilgrim:
'Benedictio super peram et baculum. Domine Ihesu Christe fili dei
vivi qui recto incedentibus itinere'; including other benedictions
and exorcisms; ending with the consecration of a church (ff.
230v-231r).ff. 231v-247v: Antiphons related to the Temporal (ff.
231v-238v), beginning with 'Alleluia in die resurrectionis mee
dicit dominus precedam nos in Galilee' for the day of Easter;
ending with 'Sancti Spiritus adsit nobis gratia. Que corda nostra
sibi faciat' for Pentecost. Antiphons related to the Sanctoral (ff.
238v-247v), beginning with a chant for the Holy Trinity: 'Benedicta
semper sancta sit Trinitas deitas'; ending with the chants for the
dedication of a church 'Altissime Iesu Christe qui dignatus es
munda'. ff. 248r-250v: Excerpts from the Temporal, including
collects, prayers, lections, prefaces and Secrets for each feast,
beginning with the mass for the Sunday after the Ascension (f.
248r), beginning: 'Multitudinis credentium erat cor unum et anima
una' followed by the mass for the second Sunday within the octave
of Pentecost (ff. 248r-250v).15th-century contents:ff. 9r-22v:
Proper prefaces for the liturgical feasts, beginning: 'Eterne Deus.
Quia per incarnate verbi mysterium nova mentis nostra oculis lux
tue claritatis infulsit'. f. 23r: Chants and hymns, beginning with
the 'Credo' and followed by 'Gloria in Excelsis Deo'.ff. 23v-26v:
Excerpt from a Temporal, including collects, prayers, lections,
prefaces and Secrets (Secreta), the feast of the Holy Lance and
Nails: 'In Festo lancee et clavorum domini nostri Ihesu. Foderunt
manus meas et pedes meos dinumeraverunt'; including the chant
'Cibavit eos ex adype frumenti alleluia et de petra melle saturavit
eos alleluia' (f. 25r) prefacing the mass for the feast of Corpus
Christi (ff. 25r-26v). ff. 27r-31v: Ordo Missae (Order of the
Mass), beginning: 'Te igitur Clementissime pater per Ihesum Cristum
filium tuum dominum nostrum'; including sequences and responses
(ff. 29v-31r).ff. 32r-33r: Mass for the dedication of a church,
beginning: 'Terribilis est locus iste hic domus Dei est'.f. 34v:
Hymns, 'Gloria in excelsis', 'Credo', including the 'Ave Maria' and
Psalms.f. 49r: A line from the chant: 'Surrexit Christus et
illuxit'.f. 186r-v: Excerpts from a 15th-century missal, including
lection on the Gospel of St Luke, the antiphon 'Letamini in domino
exultare' followed by the Secret and the postcommunion (f. 186r);
extracts from the Epistle to Hebrews (f. 186v), written by a
different 15th-century scribe.f. 203r: An excerpt from the
Antiphon, beginning: 'Christus factus est pro nobis obediens'.f.
205r-v: An excerpt of the preface of the mass for the Blessed
Virgin Mary for the Visitation (f. 205r), followed by the prayer
'Deus qui de beate Marie virginis' (f. 205v), on an inserted
smaller parchment leaf.ff. 211v-212r: An excerpt from an offertory
antiphon in the margins.ff. 251r-258r: An addition to the
Sanctoral, beginning with the mass for the feast of the visitation
of the Blessed Virgin Mary: 'In festo visitationis Beate Marie
Virginis. Gaudemus omnes in domino diem festum celebrantes'; ending
with the mass for the feast of St Giles. It is followed by an
addition by a different scribe, dedicated to St Elizabeth (ff.
257r-258r), beginning: 'Tuorum corda fidelium Deus miserator
illustra'. f. 258v: An excerpt from the mass of the feast of St
Hubert, including the oratio (prayer), the secreta (Secret) and the
postcommunio (postcommunion), beginning: 'Deus qui perhennem
gloriam sanctissimi confessoris tui atque Pontificis Huberti',
followed by three prayers composed by Pope Innocent III (from 1160
to 1216), written by a different 15th-century scribe, beginning: 'A
cunctis nos quesemus Domine mentis et corporis defende
periculis'.f. 259r: A Benediction of the lector (monk in charge of
the reading), beginning: 'Averte quos domine ab hoc famulo tuo
spiritum elationis et ignorancie'.f. 259r-v is a medieval
pastedown, containing a fragment of a mass for Pentecost, written
by a late 13th-century scribe, with a Benediction of the lector
(monk in charge of the reading), beginning: 'Averte quos domine ab
hoc famulo tuo spiritum elationis et ignorancie' added above in a
15th-century hand. Decoration:A large initial with foliate
decoration in red, blue, green and gold (f. 35r). Three large
puzzle initials with pen-flourished decoration in red and blue (ff.
61r, 160r (x2). Red and blue puzzle initials with pen-flourishing.
KL initials in red and blue with penwork decoration in the
calendar. Initials in red, blue yellow and green throughout, some
with penwork decoration. One small initial in yellow and green
filled with a human figure. Rubrics in red. Added in the 15th
century: a miniature of the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St
John (f. 26v, in the lower margin) and a large 15th-century
pen-flourished initial 'D' in red and green, surmounted by a human
and a zoomorphic figures (f. 27r). Line fillers in red and green.
Red paraphs in the shape of crosses. Musical notation in black and
red.
