Images: Handrit.is
Other shelfmark(s): Gijsel A1e2
Physical description: 147 × 108 mm, 142 fols., 1 col.
Language: Latin and Danish
Date: ca. 1460–1480
Provenance: Denmark, Dominican house (possibly Northern Jutland or southwestern Sjælland)
Contents:
Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew (CANT 51; fols. 94v–104v), prefaced by the spurious letters between Chromatius and Heliodorus and Jerome
Additional contents: Miscellany containing the Book of Lucidarius in Danish (fols. 32r–91v), songs and hymns (some with musical notations), litanies, prayers, charms, masses, and sermons. Many of these concern Mary: songs to the Virgin Mary (fols. 2r–6r); “My Heart Doth Burn,” poem in praise of Mary in Danish (“Mit hierthæ thet brener,” fols. 8v–9r); “The Seventy-Two Names of the Virgin Mary” in Danish (fols. 10r–10v); “Oratio alphabetica ad beatem Virginem” (fols. 11r–13r); song in praise of Mary in Danish (“Crist vndhæ megh then helighanz,” fols. 16r–18r); “Ave Maria” in Danish (“Aue maria fuld met nadæ,” fol. 18v); “My Heart Doth Burn” in Latin and Danish (“Mith hierthæ brendher heth som boll,” fols. 28v–29r); “O rosa in Iherico,” macaronic song in praise of Mary in Latin and Danish (fols. 30v–31v); Mass for the Visitation of Mary (fols. 92v–94r); poem in praise of Mary in Danish (“Gudh fadhers makth keller iek oppa,” fols. 106v–108v).
Catalogs:
Katalog over den Arnamagnaeanske Handksriftsamling. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1889–1892 (vol. 2, pp. 377–79).
Gijsel, Jan, ed. Libri de nativitate Mariae: Pseudo-Matthaei Evangelium, textus et commentarius, Libellus de nativitate sanctae Mariae, textux et commentarius. CCSA 9. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997 (p. 114).
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Brandon Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 12 December 2018.