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The Proprium Officii de Tempore in AM 241 b VI fol.
Michael Chesnutt
1.
Two articles in the previous volume of Opuscula testify to renewed in-
terest in the Latin fragments of the Amamagnæan manuscript collec-
tion. One deals with the so-called Munkajiverå Psalter, the other with
the remains of an English homiliary.1 For our awareness of this materi-
al as a whole we are still principally indebted to Lilli Gjerløw (1910-
1998), the Norwegian liturgical historian hest known for her magisteri-
al edition (almost exclusively based on Icelandic manuscripts) of the
medieval ordinal of the archdiocese of Nidaros, hereafter abbreviated
ON.2 As sequels to this edition Lilli Gjerløw published the Nidaros an-
tiphonal, abbreviated AN,3 and a collection in two volumes of Liturgica
Islandica, abbreviated LI.4 The present contribution is to be read as a
gloss on LI, ch. VIII § 1.
Our direct knowledge of the Divine Office as observed in the me-
dieval Icelandic church is limited to two leaves surviving from the
1 Mariane Overgaard, “En bog i Jomfru Marias bibliotek. Kalendariet AM 249d fol. +
‘Psalter VII’ i Acc. 7d,” in: Opuscula XI (Bibliotheca Amamagnæana 42), Copenhagen
2003, 193-228; Ian McDougall, “Acc. 7c, Hs. 94. Fragments of an English homiliary in
the Amamagnæan collection,” ibid. 268-88.
2 Lilli Gjerløw (ed.), Ordo Nidrosiensis Ecclesiae (Libri liturgici provinciae Nidrosiensis
medii aevi 2), Oslo 1968.
3 Lilli Gjerløw (ed.), Antiphonarium Nidrosiensis Ecclesiae (Libri liturgici provinciae
Nidrosiensis medii aevi 3), Oslo 1979.
4 Lilli Gjerløw (ed.), Liturgica Islandica. I. Text, II. Facsimiles (Bibliotheca Amamag-
næana 35-36), Copenhagen 1980. I refrain in the present context from discussing the
material catalogued in Merete Geert Andersen, “Katalog over fragmentsamlingen Acces-
soria 7 i Den Amamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling i København,” Copenhagen 1987
(unpublished). It is an anomaly that this excellent work has not appeared in print; cf.
McDougall (n. 1 above) 268-69.