This Cistercian missal, produced around 1300, “represents an
already advanced phase in the development of this type of
liturgical book: the chants of the gradual are completely
integrated into the sacramentary, and are no longer accompanied by
musical notes; moreover, they are written in a smaller script. In
this form, the missal could have served the celebrant for both the
conventual mass and for the private mass that Cistercians are known
to have held since their origins. The geographical origin of the
codex has not been determined with certainty. Without doubt,
however, from the fifteenth century onward it was at Hauterive,
where it was re-bound. The rich decoration in the canon section
provide a fine example of fleuronné initials from the end of the
thirteenth century; here, the decoration of the scrolls seems to be
still “domesticated” by rigorous framing.” (Joseph Leisibach,
Liturgica Friburgensia. Des Livres pour Dieu, 1993, p. 89).
Place
Preferred form
Hauterive Abbey (Switzerland) (?)
Original form
Hauterive (?)
Rights
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
