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vision somewhat carelessly adapted from a model of the type represen-
ted in MH; that book was not, however, the direct source of the Lund re-
vision, for in the Passion collect (§ 17:2:1) the latter has a few readings
in common with K against the private readings of MH.
4.2. Breviaries
Printed breviaries containing the Divine Office for one or both feasts of
St Knud Lavard - discussed below in chronological order of the earliest
known editions - survive from the dioceses of Odense, Schleswig,
Roskilde, Lund, and Århus as well as from Vasterås in Sweden. This geo-
graphical distribution, like that of the missals, tells us that St Knud was
venerated in most parts of Denmark, while the isolated case of Vasterås
may reflect the further spread of his cult via the merchant guild that ope-
rated under his patronage in the Baltic.68
4.2.1. A Breviarium Ottoniense was first published in Odense ca. 1482
(LN 29, here designated O; cf. SRD IV 273-74).69 This book must re-
flect the secular use that replaced the monastic liturgy in Odense when
the Benedictine cathedral chapter was suppressed in the mid-1470s. It is
therefore not so remarkable that the texts examined below seem partly to
have been imported from Roskilde; the reformer Karl Rønnow, who be-
came bishop of Odense in 1474, may well have found it expedient to
borrow liturgical material from his neighbour diocese on Zealand.70
O provides for the major hours of both feasts71 but in each case re-
duces First Vespers to a commemoration, thus bestowing absolute
precedence on Second Vespers of the concurrent feasts of the Epiphany
68 See inter alia Lauritz Weibuli, “S:t Knut i Osteried,” in: Scandia. Tidskrift for historisk
forskning 17, 1946, 84-101.
69 A second edition appeared at Liibeck in 1497 (LN 30) and a third probably at Basle ca.
1510 (LN 31; unknown to Gertz). Only the first edition has been collated by me.
70 For the secularisation of Odense Cathedral see Peter King, “The Cathedral Priory of
Odense in the Middle Ages,” in: Saga-Book 16, 1962-65, 192-214, here 210-12; reprint
with corrections in: Kirkehistoriske samlinger 7. række 6. bind, 1965-68, 1-20, here
17-19.
71 The Passion Office has, however, been overlooked in SRD and is cited here from sig. f
5v-7r in the first edition.