Thott 22 4°: Evangelia IV

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Thott 22 4°: Evangelia IV

Parchment, 215 ff., c. 18,5 × 13,2 cm; Denmark (Lund), 1100-1125

Thott 22 4° is the oldest of three surviving Gospel manuscripts from Lund (the two others being Thott 21 4° and ms. C 83 of the University of Uppsala)

In addition to canon tables and the Gospels (each preceded by argumentum or prologus and breviarium or capitula), the manuscript contains a list of pericopes or capitula euangeliorum de circulo anni, i.e. the texts from the Gospels that were to be read on particular days of the year. Both this list and an owner’s note on f. 1v (”plenarius capituli lundensis”) link the manuscript to Lund

For a period the manuscript belonged to the Danish nobleman Holger Parsberg (1636–1692), who wrote his name and the year of its acquisition (1682) on f. 3r. It is not known when and how it was acquired by count Otto Thott (1703-1785)

Bibl.: Catalogus Bibliothecæ Thottianæ, tom. VII, Hauniæ 1795, p. 381. - Ellen Jørgensen, Catalogus codicum Latinorum medii ævi Bibliothecæ Regiæ Hafniensis, Hafniæ 1926, p. 11. - Lauritz Nielsen, Danmarks middelalderlige Haandskrifter, København 1937, p. 30. - Per Ekström, Libri antiqviores ecclesiæ et capituli Lundensis, Lund 1985, p. 50-51. - Erik Petersen (ed.), Living Words & Luminous Pictures. Catalogue, Copenhagen & Århus 1999, p. 13 no. 7. - Erik Petersen in: CREDO. Christianisierung Europas im Mittelalter, II: Katalog, hg. von C. Stiegemann, M. Kroker & W. Walter, Paderborn 2013, no. 297, p. 347f.

Erik Petersen