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Necrologium Lundense

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224: 17: 119:) for the canons of the cathedral were added; they are statutes for the community serving as a complement to the Rule of Aachen. The customary rules are furthermore complemented by a number of short texts in the same vein as the Rule of Aachen. The customary rules and the complementary texts appears to have been conceived as a manuscript of its own before being merged with the slightly older text. It may have been written by 1196: 1206: 1186: 597: 159:. Like the Rule of Aachen, it was finished by 1123 but is based on an earlier martyrology, now lost but probably written for the cathedral at the end of the 11th century. It also contains lists of kings, bishops and monasteries and religious communities which were connected to Lund, and has served as an important source for historians, 189:
The canons of the cathedral used the book on a daily basis. Sections from it would be read when they gathered in their chapter house. A suitable part from the rules would be read aloud, and then the names of the martyrs, saints and deceased brethren relevant for that day would be announced as part of
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initial A is on folio 5 verso, and on folio 58 verso there is another inhabited initial, a Q. The two initials appear to have been made by different artists; the A has several features typical for Scandinavian art, some derived from
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was inaugurated and from then on the canons could start using it instead of the chapter house for their recitals. This coincided with a shift in liturgical practice, which meant that instead of the capitulary book, a new martyrology
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and a list of deceased canons from the cathedral and benefactors, listed according to the day on which they died. This is the second principal part of the book and sometimes referred to by its Latin description as
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in their daily life as a so-called capitulary book. The book consists of different parts which were written at slightly different times. The oldest part of the manuscript is also the main text: the
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was in use for a short period of time. The cathedral had been under construction since before the consecration of the crypt in 1123, but in 1145 the
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Many scribes have been involved in the production of the book, and there are added notes from as late as the 16th century. Three main types of
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and most of the rest of the book has been written with either minuscules with protogothic characteristics, or
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The size of the book is 24.8 centimetres (9.8 in) by 16.5 centimetres (6.5 in), and it contains 183
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Ciardi, Anna Minara (2012). "Consuetudines Lundenses". In Borgehammar, Stephan; Mortensen, Lars Boje (eds.).
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in Scandinavia. A third part of the book, though placed first in the manuscript, is a copy of a
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Medieval Nordic Literature in Latin. A Website of Authors and Anonymous Works (ca 1100–1530)
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Apart from these texts regulating the lives of the canons, the book also contains a
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in style. There are also 15 smaller, decorated initials throughout the manuscript.
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was used for their daily readings. For a while entries were still made in the
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The book is regarded as the oldest still intact manuscript written in
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are the only preserved statutes for a religious community from the
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Complete digitalisation of the book, together with annotations
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The book is bound in a late medieval brown goatskin binding
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have been used: King Canute's deed of gift is written in
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Some of the pages of the manuscript are decorated with
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in the manuscript. It shows influences derived from
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Index


Folio
verso
inhabited initials
Viking art
illuminated manuscript
Lund
canons
Lund Cathedral
Scandinavia
initials
Viking art
Lund University
Latin
canons
Lund Cathedral
Aachen Rule of canons
monastic
Rule of Saint Benedict
Hermann of Schleswig
bishop
scribe
Early Middle Ages
deed of gift
Canute IV of Denmark
martyrology
etymologists
philologists
Scandinavia
Latin

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