2 folios. 16.5-17 x 27 cm. 1 column, 12 lines. Plenty of faded places occur especially in notation.
14th c. Large initials: 1) one blue ornamented with red hair-lines, 2) one red ornamented with blue hair-lines. Small initials filled in red.Text ink is darker than usually, textitalis semi-quadrata. Line-fillers (red braid-like ornament) under melismas. Quadratic notation on a red four-line staff (11-13 mm), custos.
ANTIPHONARIUM. Produced probably for the archdiocese of Uppsala, Breviarium Upsalense 1496 ff. [e iiij]" - [e v]r~".
F. 1 [In epiphania Domini] beginning [am\bulabimt of the 2nd resp. of the II nocturn, [Illuminare illuniinarc V Et], and ending dominus deus of the 2nd resp. of the III nocturn, Dies sanetificatus VVenite. F. 2 |Dominica I post octavam epiph.] beginning with the 1st ant. at II vespers, Scde a dextris; ¦*¦ Feria ij ending in a rather long rubric concerning the suffrages of ferial lauds (here the ortography is slightly modernized, boldfacing by the writer):"Suffiagia fiant: Primo de sancta cruce, deinde de Domina, de apostolis, de sancto Laurentio, de sancto Erico, de omnibus Sanctis et pro pace. Et hie ordo habeatur in feriis et festis trium lectionum per totum annum praeter quam a capite ieiunij vsque ad octavam trinitatis et in adventu Domini et in sabbatis, quando agitur officium de beata Virgine, quando tantum tunc fiunt tres memoriae, videlicet de sancto Laurentio, de sancto Erico et de reliquis". "3° The direction notes St. Lawrence and St. Eric, from of old typical of the rite of Uppsala, but St. Henry is ignored. The absence is remarkable. When the manuscript was made the martyr did not have a patronal status in the archdiocese, viz. in its cathedral.
Helander 2001 pp. 243-249 discusses thoroughly the adoption of St. Henry among the patrons of Uppsala. He mentions "en tidig liturgisk källa" (an early liturgical source), a breviary in which the saint is now mentioned as a member of a restricted group of suffragial saints. The manuscript dates in the mid-15th century showing thus the terminus post quem.The conlusive witness to the saint's exalted position is the consecration of the new altar of St. Eric in 1472. On that occasion St. Henry was mentioned as one of the cathedral patrons. Helander op.cit. p. 246. For instance, beside the Blessed Virgin, Lawrence and Eric, only Henry is mentioned by name among the perpetual suffrages in the printed breviary of 1496. Breviarium Upsalense 1496 f.f iij'*.
The last item of the rubric concerns the antiphon at prime. "3° Hymns: Lucis creator (ta), Sompno refiectis (ta), Splendorpaterne (ta).
No records about the acquisition. The parchment has functioned as a cover of a book or as a wrapper. Particles of red sealing wax remain which suggests folium portare, a dust wrapper for mailing purposes, cf. F.m. IV No. 102 f 2.
LITURGICAL USE: Probably archdiocese of Uppsala. ORIGIN: Added according to liturgical use.