Identifier:

*170/527.

Scope and content:

1) f. 1: Full-page watercolor (sixteenth or seventeenth century). Crucifixion with St. Mary and St. John, framed by a border of pale green acanthus leaves.

2) ff. 1v-2: Records of offerings to the church, in German mixed with Latin, from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and later, some dated: 1489, 1509 (written by “pastor Henrichus de Querenbach”), 1736.

3) ff. 2v-4v [Liber censuum of the church for the year 1453] Anno domini MCCCCLIII renovati sant census ecclesie in Okeroid presentibus iuratis et pastoribus, text in German; f. 4v additions up to the year 1487.

4) ff. 5-6v: [Calendar, mutilated at the end, containing January to August] Prima dies et VII^a fine timetur . . .; among the saints are Adelgundis (30 January); Polychronius (17 February), Pinnosa, translation (28 February), Suitbert (1 March), Heribert (16 March, stroked with red), Ludger (26 March), Evergisil, translation (28 March), Balbina (31 March), Bede (26 May), Augustine, Apostle of the English (27 May), Boniface (5 June), Medard (8 June), Maurinus (10 June), Ulric (4 July), Goar (6 July), Kilian (8 July), Agilulf (9 July), Pantaleon (28 July), Oswald (5 August), Privatus (21 August). The calendar contains numerous obituary notes, ranging from the early thirteenth century, to judge from the script, to the sixteenth; a dated one on f. 6v [12 July], Obiit Elizabet de Brylon mater domini Conradi pastoris anno 1442.

5) f. 7r-v: Records of gifts to the church and obituary notes, from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, including (f. 7) Obiit Aleidis de Bughusin begina que concidit ecclesie in Okirrode . . . , and records of two deeds of the year 1252, in one of which the witness is “Henricus plebanus de Okerode qui presentem conscripsit cedulam,” and (f. 7v) the record of an obligation written “per Iohannem pastorem anno domini M CCC [XX, expunged] nonodecimo.”.

6) f. 8:Sequitur missa de beata Virgine, Salve sancta parens . . . [RH no.18197].

7) f. 8r-v: Sequitur officium de sancta Cruce, including the sequence “Laudes crucis attollamus . . .”[RH no.103606; f. 8vb, note in German written in fifteenth- or sixteenth-century gothic cursive script, signed “Ego Stephanus pastor in Oeckenroit.”.

8) ff. 9-11v: [Ordinary of the mass, mutilated]//ac sereno vultu respicere . . . propiciabile in vitam eternam. Amen.

9) f. 11v: [List of mementos to be said during the mass, 1498] In nomine domini. Amen. etc. Anno MCCCCXCVIII. Item sal eyn pastor von Ockenroit . . .; [in the outer margin] Anno 1639 die 18 Junii renovatum ac reinceptum per me Henricum Georgii pro tempore pastorem.

10) ff. 11v-15, 17: Liber censuum of the church for the year 1503, with additions (f. 12, A.D.1516); insertions not concerning the Liber censuum on f. 12v (seventeenth century), 13v (A.D.1552).

11) ff. 15v-16v: Records of offerings to the church, six of them dated 1512; (f. 17, end of the Liber censuum for 1503) f. 17v notes dated 1539, 1556, 1605.

Acquisition information:

Written in Germany by or for the parish church of Uckerath, Siegkreis, in the archdiocese of Cologne, where it remained and continued in use from the twelfth through the seventeenth century or later; 1 concerning Uckerath see F.W. Oediger, ed., Die Erzdiözese Köln um 1300 1: Der Liber valoris , Publications of the Gesellsch. für Rhein. Geschichtskunde vol.12 (1967) p.101. Given to UCLA ca. 1936 by Edmund M. Riese. A palimpsest and a bifolium from Uckerath cataloged below among the loose leaves, 1/XII/Ger/4 and 2/XII/Ger/5, which were given to UCLA by Mr. Riese at the same time, probably once belonged to the missal; but the identification is not positive.

1. We are grateful to V. Honemann and the Institut für historische Landesforschung der Universität Güttingen for the identification of Uckerath.

Physical description:

Parchment, 17 loose folios of varying dates with an incorrect eighteenth-century foliation; original size ca. 380 × 265 mm., more or less deeply torn with damage to the text. 1 (frontispiece), s. XVI/XVII. 2-3, s. XV, in 2 columns of varying numbers of lines, unruled; written in gothic cursive scripts in grayish brown inks. 4, s. XII, written space 285 × ca. 240 mm., 2 columns of 33 lines ruled in hardpoint; written in a spiky twelfth-century ordinary minuscule in brown ink; 3-line yellow and green initials; dominical letters alternating in brown, red, green, and pale blue. 5, s. XIII-XV, in many hands. 6-7, s. XV, written space 285 × 195 mm., 2 columns of 50/51 lines; bounding lines only, ruled in ink; written in a running gothic bookhand in grayish brown ink; rubrics in red minuscule. 8, s. XV, written space 265 × 195 mm., 2 columns of 19 lines; frame ruled in ink; written in a spiky stately German gothic bookhand in liturgical style (littera textualis formata); 2-line initials alternately red and blue; initials and crosses in the text in red; rubrics in red minuscule. 9, s. XV . 10-11, s. XVI, severely damaged and reduced in size because of mildew and rodents; a varying number of lines, written in cursive gothic script. Notes of payments going back to the early sixteenth century (1512, 1517) are entered in the margins of ff. 10v-12v; on f. 9v a long note, dated 1609 and mentioning “Bavariae dux,” by the same hand as notes on f. 12v (undated) and f. 17v (1605); on f. 10, notes dated 1681, 1725. The name of the parish is spelled in different ways through the centuries: Ocherode, Ockenroit, Ockeroit, Oeckenroit, Oickerroide, Okeroide, Okerode, Okirrode, Okorode, Oykerode, Uckenrad, Uckenrade, Uckenraide, Uuckerode, etc.

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