Bod-Inc: R-072
Rituale Ambrosianum
Rituale Ambrosianum.
Analysis of Content
a1r ‘Ordo officii ad faciendum aquam benedictam'. Followed by the exorcismus salis. M. Magistretti, ‘Di due edizioni sconosciute del rituale dei sacramenti secondo il rito ambrosiano', in Miscellanea Ceriani (Milano, 1910), 87-120, at 93-4.
a3r ‘Ordo officii ad cathecuminum faciendum'. ed. Magistretti 94-8.
b1r ‘Letanie'. It includes Zacharia, Mames, Agapite, Tegla, Pelagia, Ursula, Apollonia, Martiniane, Auxanne, Arsati, Siste, Gaudenti, Galdine, Ambrosi. ed. Magistretti 97; according to Magistretti this list of saints suggests that the exemplar used for this edition must have come from the basilica of S. Stefano in Brolo, Milan.
b1v ‘Ordo ad comunicandum infirmum'. ed. Magistretti 98.
b2r ‘Ordo ad faciendum manuum impositionem'. It includes the seven penitential psalms. ed. Magistretti 98-103.
b7v ‘Letanie'. It includes Nazari, Celse, Victor, Nabor, Felix, Fortunate, Sisinni, Martyri(?), Alexander, Quirine, Nicomedis, Abundi, Kalocere, Faustine, Iouita, Mauriti, Candide, Victor, Exuperi, Aureli, sancta legio, Diogenis, Antime, Leonti, Euprepi, Solutor, Babilla, Petre, Ypolite, Cassiane, Firme, Rustice, Herasme, Tegla, Pelaya, Valeria, Eufumia(!), Lutia, Iustina, Sauina, Cristina, Eularia, Febronia, Mustiola, Eugenia, Eufraxia, Marina, Margarita, Iuliana, Marcellina, Grisante, Daria, Candida, Brigida, Scolastica, Iulita; Anatalon, Gay, Castritiane, Kalimere, Mona, Materne, Mirocles, Inuenti, Gaudenti, Iuli, Dati, Eustorgi, Ambrosi, Dionisi, Simpliciane, Veneri, Marole, Cliceri, Lazare, Martiniane, Eusebi, Gerunti, Benigne, Senator, Magne, Auxane, Arsati, Ampelli, Syre, Cesari, Satyre, Benedicte, Seuere, Gregori, Zeno, Gaudenti, Augustine, Nicolae, Galdine'. ed. Magistretti 99-101.
c4r ‘Officium in commendatione anime quando anima egreditur de corpore'. ed. Magistretti 103-5.
c7r ‘Ordo sepeliendi corpora mortuorum'. ed. Magistretti 105-8.
d8r ‘Letanie'. As b1r. ed. Magistretti 107.
e2r ‘Officium mortuorum'. The series of responsories (2, 6, -, 36/126, 67/9, -, 42, 62, -) corresponds to that of the Ambrosian use found in Breviarium Ambrosianum. Milan: [Jacobus de Sancto Nazario de Ripa], 17 Dec. 1487 (GW 5250; HR 3784); see Ottosen 99. ed. Magistretti 108-9.
g3v ‘Officium in septimis tricesimis et annualibus diebus defunctorum'. ed. Magistretti 110.
g3v [Benedictiones.] ed. Magistretti 110-14.
h4r Ambrogius [Pseudo?: Extracts from De sacramentis Liber II, Cap. VI‑VII.] PL XVI 428-30; see also A‑228.
h5v ‘Ordo officii ad cathecuminum faciendum'. A repeat of the office found on a3r. ed. Magistretti 114-19.
I3r Ambrogius [Pseudo?: Extracts from De sacramentis Liber III, Cap. I.] PL XVI 432-3; see also A‑228.
I4r ‘Ordo ad cathecuminum faciendum quando infans est in domo baptizatus'. ed. Magistretti 119-20.
I6r Ambrogius(?): ‘Oratio . . . quam sacerdos missam celebraturus dicit secrete post confessionem ante altare constitus'. Incipit: ‘[R]ogo te altissime deus sabbaoth pater sancte ut me tunicha . . .’ Explicit: leuiter quam suscipere
I6r ‘Hymnus angelicus'. Incipit: ‘[G]loria in excelsis deo . . .’
I6r ‘Orationes ad munus offerendum'.
[2a1r] [Ordo missae.] It includes Symbolum Athanasianum, prefatia, Canon.
b5r [Missae diversae et votivae.] It includes: In ecclesia maiore; in honore s Marie; unius confessoris; pro defuncto; in die depositionis defuncti; in anniuersario; plurimorum defunctorum; in honore sancti Gregorii.
Imprint
Imprint: [Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, c.1478]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–f8 g6 h8 I6 2[a]2 2b8 2c4, not as Bohatta.
Types: Types: 113 G; 128 G3.
Leaves: 82 leaves.
Line number: 30 lines (a2v).
Type area: Type area: 169 ×78 mm (a2v).
Illustrations: Lombards; also capital spaces.
Remarks: Leaf a1r: ‘(red) Incipit ordo officii ad faciendū aquā | benedictam. Sacerdos preparat ſe cum ſtolla circa collum. In primis incipit. D(black)Eus ī adiutoriū meū intende . . .'; I5v: ‘FINIS'; I6r: ‘(red) Oratio beati Ambroſij quam ſacerdos miſſam | celebraturus dicit ſecrete . . .';2 b1r: ‘[T]E igitur clementiſſime pater | . . .';2 c4r: ‘(red) Initiū ſancti euangelii ſecūdū Iohāneƺ.'; l. 31: ‘unigeniti a patre. plenuƺ gratie et ueritatis'.
References
ISTC: ir00200400
Proctor: Pr 5941A = 6082;
Others: Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 1047; Sheppard 4944-5.
LCN: 14110407
Copies
Copy number: R-072(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library. Gilt-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns.
Size: 235 × 165 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 228 × 150 mm.
Some marginal notes, mainly correcting and supplementing the text, in the sixteenth-century Italian hand identified below.
On a1r a five-line initial ‘E' is supplied in blue. A few other initials are supplied in brown ink with foliate pen-work decoration by the sixteenth-century hand that annotated the book.
Provenance: Italy, 1512; ‘M.D.XII' on the upper margin of g2r in the same Italian hand that made sums on c4v and wrote: ‘Carissimo hauendo la illustrissima signoria(?) di Venetia mand[at]o ad intimare [ ] alla illustrissima signoria di Genua de pagarle alla mea com. di Milano(?) per el reddito quale fano ogni anno alla reg. et duc[ale?] camera, et fisco'; on the same leaf, the drawing of a coat of arms, possibly with the initials ‘CI'. William Maskell (1814?–1900); signature and bibliographical note on verso of the front endleaf, in brown ink; his sale (19 May 1854), lot 1018. Purchased for £6. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1854), 51.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.39.
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