OSC Liturgical Manuscripts

Note from the Compiler: Research on the liturgical manuscripts Ordinis Sanctae Crucis has never been carefully organized. In the course of my research, I discovered that few bibliographies exist which covered these particular manuscripts. The bibliographic materials which do exist cover only very select manuscripts, particular libraries, or designated regions. On this Web page, I have compiled an up-to-date list of OSC liturgical manuscripts. Listed here are only those manuscripts which contain material original to the OSC (in whole or part). I have not listed manuscripts which were only used by OSC or are catalogued in libraries under OSC if they do not contain some text specifically from their liturgical Ordo.

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Aachen. Münsterstift.

	Antiphonarium. 1487. 26 (IX).
	Graduale. 1425. XXVII.

Achel. Kruisherenklooster.

Ordinarium. 19th century. A handwritten copy of Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum (Utrecht), hs. 49 (c. 1400 but destroyed in 1941).

Anvers. Musée Plantin.

Ordinarium. 1559-1583. 382.

Berlin. Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz.

	Missale. 15th century. Ms. theol. lat. fol. 436.
	Missale. 15th century. Ms. theol. lat. fol. 437.

Bruxelles. Bibliothèque des Bollandistes.

	Breviarium. 15th century. 656.
	Missale. 16th century. 617.

Bruxelles. Bibliothèque Royale.

	Antiphonarium. 15th century. IV 325.
	Graduale. 14th century. IV 324.

Darmstadt. Hessische Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek.

	Ordinarium. 1519. Hs 985 (Nr 158).
	Libellus Precum. 1591. Hs 1877 (Nr 19).

Den Haag. Koninklijk Bibliotheek.

	Lectionarium. 1598. 70 E 8.
	Martyrologium. c. 1500. 78 F 5.

Den Haag. Koninklijk Huisarchief.

Evangeliarum. c. 1435. Unnumbered.

Düren. Stadarchiv.

Breviarium. 15th century. Unnumbered.

Düsseldorf. Universitätsbibliothek.

	Antiphonarium. 1483. D 16.
	Antiphonarium. End of 15th century. D 22.
	Antiphonarium-Graduale. 15th century. D 14.
	Ceremoniale. 15th century. C 65.
	Graduale. 15th century. D 20.
	Graduale. 1502. D 30.
	Martyrologium. c. 1500. C 2.
	Martyrologium. c. 1500. C 3.
	Liber (Mass texts). 16th century. C 82.
	Psalterium. 15th century. D 31.

Ehrenstein. Kreuzherrenkloster.

	Breviarium. 14th-15th century. Unnumbered.
	Antiphonarium. 1520. Unnumbered.

Hasselt. Rijksarchief.

Martyrologium. 1507-1508. 1.

's Hertogenbosch. Bibliotheek Genootschap voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen in Noord-Brabant.

	Ordinarium. 1556. 668.
	Ordinarium (copy of (ms) 668, fol 1r-23v). 19th-20th century. 669.

Köln. Erzbischofliche Diozesan- und Dombibliothek.

	Antiphonarium. 1761. 237.
	Breviarium (choir). c. 1470. 18.
	Psalterium (choir). 1496. 147.
	Lectionarium. (Ms) 49.

Köln. Priesterseminar.

Graduale. (Three mss.) 10, 11, 13, 14. Note: This manuscript was possibly transferred to Dombibliothek in Köln.

Liège. Bibliothèque Grand Seminaire.

	Breviarium. c. 1500. 6 L 4.
	Kalendarium (attached to printed book). c. 1550. 6 G 11.

Liège. Bibliothèque de l'Université.

Evangeliarium. Second half of 15th century. 35c.

Lille. Département du Nord (Archives).

Martyrologium. 15th-16th century. 66 H 5.

Metz. Bibliothèque Municipale.

Ordinarium. 1471. 1218.

Münster. Bischofliches Generalvikariat Bistumarchiv.

Antiphonarium. 15th century. 16.

New York. New York Public Library.

Antiphonarium. 1695. 94.

Oldenburg. Landesbibliothek.

Martyrologium. c. 1450. Cim. I, 71.

Paris. Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal.

Ordinarium. 16th century. 198.

Paris. Bibliothèque Mazarine.

Breviarium. c. 1470. Ms. 372 (776).

Philadelphia. B. Franklin Free Library (J.F. Lewis Collection).

Antiphonarium. First half of 16th century. M67: 13-15.

St. Agatha (Cuijk). Kruisherenklooster Bibliotheek.

	Antiphonarium-Graduale-Collectarium. c. 1500. Hs 2.
	Antiphonarium (pars aestivalis). End of 15th century. Hs. 27.
	Antiphonarium. First half of 16th century. Ms 17.
	Collectarium. 1685. HO 179.
	Graduale. c. 1459-1461. Hs 3.
	Graduale. c. 1500-1512. Hs 1.
	Kalendarium. 1835. HO 194j.
	Martyrologium. Second half 15th century. Hs 31.
	Missale. 1518. Hs 18.
	Missale. 1517 printed OP missal with additions 1540-1550. HO 150.
	Processionale. 1633. Hs 99C.
	Processionale. 1665. HO 397.
	Processionale. 1771. HO 314.
	Processionale. Beginning 17th century. Hs 99B.
	Processionale. First half of 17th century. Hs 103.

Schwelm. Schwelmer Gymnasialbibliothek.

Missale. 15th century. Unnumbered.

Uden. Kruisherenklooster Bibliotheek.

	Missale. c. 1480. ß 22.
	Breviarium. First quarter 16th century. ß 112.
	Breviarium. 1618. ß 148.
	Martyrologium. c. 1500. Unnumbered.
	Kalendarium. c. 1538. Unnumbered.

Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

Martyrologium. 15th century. Cod. (series nova) 12752

As mentioned above, I only included those manuscripts which contain at least some text particular to the Crosiers. In other sources, two breviary manuscripts have often been listed as Crosier: a breviary at the city archives of Düren (Germany) and a breviary at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). Despite their classification as such, they are not Crosier manuscripts (though one of them was used at a Crosier monastery).

Düren, Stadarchiv.

Breviarium. Unnumbered. This manuscript contains 465 parchment folios which are bound in an oak cover. Various inscriptions link the manuscript to the Crosiers of St. Mathias Priory at Schwarzenbroich. Yet the main text, including the calendar, are not Crosier. The text is close enough to the Crosier liturgical practice that it could have been used with some modifications. So, the calendar, in fact the whole breviary, is filled with numerous corrections and additions to bring an obviously non-Crosier manuscript in line with the practice at Schwarzenbroich. Though the manuscript was used by Crosiers and has been identified as Crosier, the original text and calendar are not Crosier in origin.

Cape Town, J. W. Jagger Library, University of Cape Town

Breviarium. Unnumbered manuscript. Dr. Henri van Rooijen refers to this manuscript in an article on the liturgy of the Crosiers. The library identifies this manuscript as a fifteenth century Dutch breviary. The library has not identified it as being from the Crosiers and this is verified by examining the calendar. Though it contains the feasts of St. Augustine, it also contains numerous Flemish saints that have never found their way into the Crosier calendar. Further it is missing a number of important feasts common to the Crosiers (e.g. Helena, Odilia and Corone domini).

OSC Liturgical Manuscripts

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