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commemorationes habeantur ut pridie sancto. Gommemorationes
habeantur de apostolis. Oratio die post festum apostolorum. Com-
memoratio de beato Thorlaco.
The usual commemorations of St. John the Baptist and of the
Apostles are only indicated. The Masses (2 July) of St. Thorlak and
St. Swithun (see ON, p. 361, note 2) are intertwined. For the St.
Thorlak Mass, see below, p. 70.
The prayers for the Visitation of Our Lady, 2 July, have been added
in the lower margin of f. (2)r. This feast was introduced in the diocese
of Holar in 1477 (DI 6, pp. 103-07).
Missale Scardense
After our old Icelandic Missal, AM 98 I 8°, no very extensive
missal fragment seems to have survived before the Missale Scardense,
written c. 1470 by the outstanding scribe Jon Lorlåksson, together with
an equally outstanding colleague.6 7 Their fragmentary manuscripts are
the most important witnesses of the Icelandic liturgy in the late Middle
Ages. Largely used for the bindings of Icelandic manuscripts by Åmi
Magnusson, a great number of leaves from their manuscripts have been
detached from the bindings to form a separate collection; the leaves
containing sequences have been reproduced in facsimile in the second
volume of Eggen, op. cit.
Jon Lorlåksson’s identity is known to us from a fragment, MS AM
80 8°, a leaf in folio, subscribed and dated by himself. The book in
question, he says, had been ordered by an Icelandic nobleman for the
Benedictine monastery of Munkafcverå (Eyj.). The Munkaf>verå charter
of 1525 lists three noted graduals, the first of which is one given by
Bjami Ivarsson (see DI 9, p. 306), first-bom son of the hirdstjori Ivar
Vigfusson Holmur, who was killed in a feud in 1433 (see LÆ 2, p.
407). The leaf contains part of Agnus Dei, farsed with the trope
‘Clemens here’ (AH 47, no. 454), and the mass-creed, which extends
as far as ‘et unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam ecclesi[am]’, all
with musical notation for organum.1
6 On the scribe Jon borlåksson and his work, see Jon Helgason in: Eggen 1, Intro-
duction, pp. XLV sqq.
7 See K. Kålund, Småstykker udgivne af Samfund til Udgivelse af Gammel nordisk
Litteratur, no. 6 (København 1884-91), pp. 127-30; for a study of the music, see A.
Hammerich, Studier over islandsk Musik: Aarbøger for nordisk Oldkyndighed og
Historie, 11/14 (København 1899), pp. 273-316, with facsimile, reduced, after p. 296.