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Michael Chesnutt
810 quia] qui (so also at 820); 817 eis] eius; aurem] aure; 822 con-
sumatur] consumabatur; 823 collocatur] collocabatur.
4.2.2. A Breviarium Slesvicense was first published locally, as had been
the case shortly before with the Schleswig missal. This first edition was
printed by Steffen Amdes at Liibeck in or around the year 1489. The
unique but slightly imperfect copy is in the historical archives of the Sa-
cred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith at the Vatican (LN
33a, here designated S; cf. SRD IV 271-73).77 Another edition was
printed at Paris in 1512 (LN 33).
At both feasts S provides collects of the day78 and six lessons for
Matins, with explicit instructions that the lessons of the third noctums
should be a homily on the Gospel. The rubrics, as in O, direct that the
rest of the Office should follow the Common of One Martyr. Comme-
morations of the Epiphany and the Blessed Virgin are prescribed at the
Passion feast, and of St John the Baptist on the day of the Translation
feast; the presentation is not wholly unambiguous, but does not exclude
the possibility that First Vespers of the martyr’s Passion took precedence
over Second Vespers of the Epiphany. On the other hånd, Second Ve-
spers of St John the Baptist clearly took precedence over First Vespers
of the Translation.
The material for Matins of the Passion is as follows:
First noctum Lessons 1-3 (printed in SRD and in VSD 204-06)
Second nocturn Lessons 4-6 (printed in SRD and in VSD 207-11)
Third noctum Gospel: Si quis vult (as Ms)
Lessons 1-6 are extracted from the Vita altera in a manner quite diffe-
rent from that adopted by O. They omit all mention of the saint’s ances-
try and begin - as is natural in view of the book’s provenance - with a
selection of his achievements as duke of Schleswig (Lesson 1, cf. the
third and fourth lessons in K). Next the circumstances immediately pri-
77 Cf. Merete Geert Andersen, “An unknown edition of "Breviarium Slesvicense’. Printed
by Stephan Amdes in Liibeck ca. 1489,” in: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 64, 1989, 106-15.
78 These are the same as the First Vespers collects in K and the Mass collects in Ms. Vari-
ant readings (K] S, Ms): 38 inmerito] immerite; promeruimus] meruimus; meritis] + et
precibus; 688 qui] so also Ms, + hodie S.