Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.2003, Síða 29
Liturgy of St Knud Lavard - Introduction
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smaller handwriting. The rubrics are in the usual red ink and the cues in
black, and the insertions are all tidily made; there is no question here of
emergency scribal repairs. The phenomenon occurs again at line 38r7,
which separates the collect of Terce from the chapter of Sext and con-
tains the rubric Ad sextam with the antiphon cue Rector potens Domine,
also here followed by the rubric Capitulum. At the bottom of f. 37v and
further down on f. 38r the versicle cues Gloria et honore, Posuisti
Domine, and Jvstus ut palma are similarly inserted between the chapters
and collects of Terce, Sext, and None (lines 37v20, 38rll, 38r20). The
rubric Ad nonam with the antiphon cue Rerum Deus is inserted between
the collect of Sext and the chapter of None (line 38rl6). In the four last-
mentioned instances the insertions do not run on into new lines; the an-
tiphon cue for None spilis over, however, into the right-hand margin, be-
traying a slight miscalculation of the space required. A credible scenario
is that the scribe, having reached the invitatory for Matins of the Trans-
lation, took note in the ordinal of the general rubric Ymnus. Antiphone.
et V(ersiculi) de passione. Hystoria per totum de passione (edition §
10:1), but chose not to transcribe the rubric at this time, instead tuming
his attention to the lectionary and copying from it in one stretch as far as
f. 37vl4. At this point he looked in vain in the ordinal for the conclusion
of Matins and the propers relating to Lauds (cf. §§ lOd, 11), but he did
find, and duly recorded, the antiphons of the first two minor hours. He
then continued with the chapters and collects of the remaining minor
hours, allowing space for the relevant versicle and antiphon cues. Later
he tumed back to the ordinal, first transcribing the general rubric - for
which he had not in faet left enough room, as it too is inserted in smaller
handwriting spilling over into the right-hand margin of f. 32r 10—11 -
and then supplying the remaining cues. Considering that the proper texts
cued for the minor hours are mere repetitions of those at the Passion, we
may exelude the possibility that Lauds was omitted through careless-
ness. There must have been some kind of defeet in the ordinal as con-
sulted by the scribe,28 for it is rather unlikely that the Ringsted liturgy
contained nothing at all for Lauds: at the very least a proper Benedictus
antiphon might have been expected, since that antiphon at the Passion
28 Another probable instance of this is the omission of the chapter and collect for Lauds of
the Passion, cf. edition lines 569, 581.