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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2016
The Prague Sacramentary is the only complete example of this important early-medieval liturgical book to survive from eighth-century Bavaria. But, as the name implies, its present home is in the Czech Republic. The manuscript (Praha, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituli, O. LXXXIII) was acquired in 1776 for the old metropolitan chapter library in Prague from a Czech private library, and nothing certain is known about its earlier location. That volume contains three works: the Sacramentary itself (fols. 1–120) together with an abridged lectionary (121–30), to which an incomplete penitential (131–45) in a different hand was added at an early date, almost certainly before autumn, 792. The page size is 247 × 165 mm (9.75 × 6.5 inches), and the gatherings of the volume vary between three and five sheets with four sheets predominating. The first 84 folios are written in a single column of 21 lines across the entire page, but folios 85–120 are written in two columns also of 21 lines each with marginal bounding lines drawn in an arrangement that is characteristic of Bavarian scriptoria in the Carolingian period. Four folios are now missing from the Sacramentary, three from the lectionary, and two from the penitential.
1 Das Prager Sakramentar [Cod. O. 83 (Fol. 1–120) der Bibliothek des Metropolitankapitels], vol. 2: Prolegomena und Textausgabe, ed. Dold, A. and Eizenhöfer, L., Texte und Arbeiten herausgegeben durch die Erzabtei Beuron, I. Abteilung: Beiträge zur Ergründung des älteren lateinischen christlichen Schrifttums und Gottesdienstes, Hefte 38–42 (Beuron, 1949) [hereafter: Prag. Sacr.]. The text of the edition is paginated separately from the prolegomena, and its pages are marked by an asterisk (*). The first volume of the edition, a photographic reproduction of the Sacramentary manuscript (“Lichtbild-Ausgabe”), was produced manually in very limited numbers in 1944, and I was not able to locate a copy, even in the excellent Benedictine collection of St. Vincent Archabbey and College Library, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, which made several items including the printed edition available to me. A microfilm of the manuscript is available at another Benedictine institution, the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St. John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota.Google Scholar
This essay is a (very) belated seventieth-birthday salute to my friend, Professor Wilhelm Stornier (Munich), who offered, as always, encouragement and welcome suggestions. Helpful comments and materials also were provided by Professor Helmut Bender (Passau), Professor Elvira Glaser (Zürich), Professor Rainer Müller and Frau Barbara Maigler (both Eichstätt), and Professor Roger Reynolds (Toronto).Google Scholar
2 Gamber's, K. discussion of this work in his “Liturgiebücher der Regensburger Kirche aus der Agilolfinger- und Karolingerzeit,” Scriptorium 30 (1976): 3–25, here 7–11, should be read in conjunction with B. Bischoff's most recent comments in his Die südostdeutschen Schreibschulen und Bibliotheken in der Karolingerzeit, part 2: Die vorwiegend österreichischen Diözesen (Wiesbaden, 1980), 258–61. Bischoff's earlier comments on the manuscript, not entirely superseded in his Schreibschulen, are found in the prolegomena to the edition, Prag. Sacr., 31–37, and in the Codices Latini Antiquiores, vol. 10, ed. Lowe, E. A. (Oxford, 1963), nos. 1563–64, p. 36, with facing plates.Google Scholar
3 Prag. Sacr., 28–31. For the lectionary see Vogel, C., Medieval Liturgy: An Introduction to the Sources, rev. ed. and English trans. by Storey, W. and Rasmussen, N. (Washington, 1986), 345; and see below for date.Google Scholar
165 mm (9.75 × 6.5 inches), and the gatherings of the volume vary between three and five sheets with four sheets predominating. The first 84 folios are written in a single column of 21 lines across the entire page, but folios 85–120 are written in two columns also of 21 lines each with marginal bounding lines drawn in an arrangement that is characteristic of Bavarian scriptoria in the Carolingian period. Four folios are now missing from the Sacramentary, three from the lectionary, and two from the penitential.Google Scholar
4 Bischoff, , Schreibschulen 2, 260: “so kann man nicht umhin, nach ihrem ganzen Schreibstil festzustellen, daß sie [the minuscule hand of the Sacramentary] sämtlichen südostdeutschen, den bayerischen und — außer Salzburg — auch den österreichischen Schriften des späten VIII. Jahrhunderts in der Entwicklung und in natürlicher Einfachheit weit voraus ist.” Google Scholar
5 Codices Latini Antiquiores, vol. 9, ed. Lowe, E. A. (Oxford, 1959), no. 1345, p. 31, with facing plate; Bischoff, , Schreibschulen 2, 186–87, 261.Google Scholar
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6 Bierbrauer, K., Die Ornamentik frühkarolingischer Handschriften aus Bayern , Abh. Akad. Munich, Neue Folge, Heft 84 (1979), 62–63.Google Scholar
7 There is a good, short introduction by R. Reynolds in his contribution “Sacramentary,” to the Dictionary of the Middle Ages, vol. 10, ed. Strayer, J. (New York, 1988), 605–6; and a very complete textual discussion in Vogel, , Medieval Liturgy, 61–134, with diagrams on 400–402, upon which the following discussion is primarily based.Google Scholar
8 The important church of St. Michael on an island in Lake Staffelsee, which was inventoried in 810, possessed three sacramentaries (libri sacramentorum III) as well as three lectionaries and two antiphonaries, clearly indicating this arrangement of separate volumes (MGH, Capitularia Regum Francorum, vol. 1, ed. Boretius, A. [Hannover, 1883], no. 128, p. 251). This church was located in the far southwest of Bavaria near the border with Alemmania at the River Lech. It may have been the seat of a small bishopric for a time in the late eighth century, but by 810 it had been (re-) incorporated into the Augsburg diocese and was part of its patrimony.Google Scholar
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10 In a pastoral letter from about 798–800 the newly created Bavarian metropolitan and confidant of Charlemagne, Archbishop Arn of Salzburg, directed that: “Sacramentarium unusquisque [presbyter] habeat, quod episcopus debet considerare quomodo scriptum sit secundum ordinem, ut lex Domini per neglectum non pereat” (Étaix, R., “Un manuel de pastorale de l’époque carolingienne (Clm 27152),” Revue Bénédictine 91 [1981]: 105–30, here 117–18; MGH, Concilia Aevi Karolini, vol. 2, ed. Werminghoff, A. [Hannover and Leipzig, 1906], no. 22c, p. 198; my emphasis). This provision for episcopal review of sacramentary texts may well indicate an attempt to eliminate older versions such as the Prague Sacramentary in favor of uniformity on the new Roman model (“missas secundum consuetudinem caelebrare sicut romana traditio nobis tradidit”).Google Scholar
11 This sacramentary survives only in three double-folio sheets that had been used for bookbinding. They have been edited by Siffrin, P., “Zwei Blätter eines Sakramentars in irischer Schrift des 8. Jahrhunderts aus Regensburg (Berlin, Preußische Staatsbibliothek. Ms. lat. fol. 877),” Jahrbuch für Liturgiewissenschaft 10 (1930): 1–39, here 32; and: “Das Walderdorffer Kalenderfragment Saec. VIII und die Berliner Blätter eines Sakramentars aus Regensburg,” Ephemerides Liturgicae 47 (1933): 201–24; and by Gamber, K., “Das Regensburger Fragment eines Bonifatius-Sakramentars. Ein neuer Zeuge des vorgregorianischen Messkanons,” Revue Bénédictine 85 (1975): 266–302. There are short notices of these three fragments in Bischoff, B., Die südostdeutschen Schreibschulen und Bibliotheken in der Karolingerzeit, part 1: Die bayerischen Diözesen, 3. Auflage (Wiesbaden, 1974), 183–84; and in his Schreibschulen 2, 235.Google Scholar
12 Gamber, K., Codices Liturgici Latini Antiquiores, Spicilegii Friburgensis Subsidia 1 (Freiburg, Switzerland, 1963), nos. 631, 632, 635, pp.117–18 (I have not been able to consult the second edition of 1968 nor the supplement of 1988), and his “Liturgiebücher,” 4. There is no evidence that an Irish Gallican sacramentary surviving in a St. Emmeram palimpsest was ever used for liturgical purposes in Regensburg.Google Scholar
13 Vogel, , Medieval Liturgy, 69; for comparison of the texts see Siffrin, P., Konkordanztabellen zu den römischen Sakramentarien, vol. 2: Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Aeclesiae (Cod. Vatican. Regin. lat. 316) Sacramentarium Gelasianum, Rerum Ecclesiaticarum Documenta, Series Minor, Subsidia Studiorum 5 (Rome, 1959), passim. Google Scholar
14 Moreton, B., The Eighth-Century Gelasian Sacramentary; A Study in Tradition, Oxford Theological Monographs (Oxford, 1976), 205: “It cannot be insisted too strongly that in terms of the formulae set out in the mass-sets this Prague Sacramentary agrees with the Vatican Gelasian against the eighth-century Gelasians. Though some ‘Gregorianizing’ of the mass-sets has taken place, in that they are cut down uniformly to single-collect sets, the collect given is nearly always the first of the pair in Reg. 316.” Google Scholar
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90 Prag. Sacr., no. 206, 3, p. 111*: “Haec tua, domine, veneranda potentia, cui merito omnes angeli et archangeli non cessant clamare dicentes: [Sanctus …]”. This prayer formula for the mass of St. Martin is found in both of these Gallican sacramentaries, where it designated as an “Immolacio” in the “Missale Gothicum” rather than a “Contestatio” as in the “Bobbio Missal.” But the “Missale Gothicum” also contains the first prayer formula from the Prague Sacramentary (Summi sacerdotis). Texts of the St. Martin formularies in these two sacramentaries are available in PL 72, 309–10 (Missale Gothicum), and 527–29 (Bobbio Missal); and in separate, modern, critical editions: Missale Gothicum (Vat. Reg. lat. 317) , ed. Mohlberg, L., Rerum Ecclesiasticarum Documenta, Series Maior, Fontes 5 (Rome, 1961), 112–13; The Bobbio Missal; A Gallican Mass-Book (Ms. Paris. Lat. 13246), Text , ed. Lowe, E. A., HBS 58 (1920) and 61 (1924), reprinted as one volume (Woodbridge, 1991), 107–10. For both see also Vogel, , Medieval Liturgy, 108.Google Scholar
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