This 12th-century lectionary was owned by and almost certainly
produced at the Benedictine abbey of Tholey in Saarland (Germany).
The manuscript contains an anathema (f. 162v) that curses thieves
and plunderers of the monastery with all the maledictions of the
Law of Moses and the punishment of Hell at the Last Judgement:
‘The Styx may be his drink’ (‘Stix sit ei potus’).
Contents:ff. 2r-157r: A lectionary, featuring titles of feasts
added by a 15th-century hand. ff. 157r-159v: Pseudo-Alcuin, an
exposition on the Lord’s Prayer, beginning: ‘Hec oratio
dominica nam ipse dominus discipulos suos eam docuit: Discipuli
rogaverunt dominum ut doceret eos qualiter orare deberent’. ff.
159v-161v: Benedictions for the sacerdotal vestments and the altar,
beginning: ‘Orationes ad vestimenta sacerdotalia seu levitica
atque sequentis ordinis ministrantium’. f. 162r: John the Deacon
of Rome (fl. late 9th century), Vita S. Gregorii papae (Life of
Pope St Gregory), fragment. ff. 162r-162v: Lists of relics and
possessions of a monastery dedicated to St Peter and St Maurice
(‘Nos habemus in hoc monasterio sancti Petri sanctique
Mauricii’); followed by a curse (anathema) for plunderers and
thieves of the monastery. ff. 163r-167v: A palimpsest containing
portions of the Epistles of St Paul to the Romans and Corinthians
and of the Apocalypse, written in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th
century. The manuscript contains a number of additions: ff. 1r-1v,
169r-169v: Two fragments of the Gelasian Sacramentary, written in
the 2nd half of the 8th century.f. 161v: A list of donors of to the
monastery referred to on f. 162v, and their donations, added by at
least twenty hands in the 13th century.f. 162v: A prayer to the
Trinity and a Creed, beginning ‘Sancta trinitas et vera unitas
omnipotens deus’; and ‘Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem per
signum trium personarum’, imperfect at the end, added in the 13th
century. ff. 163r-164v: A lection, beginning with John 13, added in
a 15th-century script. ff. 164v-167v: A lection, beginning with
John 15, added in a 15th-century script. f. 168r: A list of tables
for liturgical feasts, beginning ‘Tabula evangeliorum in summis
festis de cantandorum de tempore primo’, added in a 15th-century
script. [ff. 167r, 167v, 168v are blank]. Decoration:Medium
initials in red, sometimes with minor penwork decoration in the
same colour; 1 featuring a human face (f. 160r); medium initials in
red with green penwork decoration (ff. 162r, 162v only); medium
initials in brown ink with green penwork decoration (ff. 1r-1v,
169r-169v only); small (one-line) initials highlighted in red.
Rubrics in red. Paraph marks in red. Line-fillers in red.
