Tyniec Sacramentarium
Template:Infobox manuscript The Tyniec Sacramentary is an Ottonian illuminated manuscript written in c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., probably near Cologne.Template:Sfn
History
It is one of the oldest surviving codices in Poland, where it first arrived during the Middle Ages, kept in Poland for almost 1,000 years.Template:Sfn It was transcribed and decorated with illuminations in Cologne, probably at the Monastery of St Pantaleon around 1072–75.Template:Sfn Shortly afterwards or in the 12th century it was offered to the Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec near Kraków.Template:Sfn It was stolen during the Swedish invasion in the 17th century.Template:Sfn Repurchased in Kraków, it returned to Tyniec.Template:Sfn In 1814 the manuscript was bought from the monks by Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski and included in the library of the Zamoyski family in the Blue Palace in Warsaw.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
During World War II the Nazis tried to take the manuscript to Berlin, but thanks to the endeavours of librarians, scholars and diplomats, they left it in the Zamoyski Library.Template:Sfn After the Warsaw Uprising the manuscript was secretly evacuated and hidden in the collegiate church at Łowicz.Template:Sfn After the war in 1946, Jan Zamoyski, the final owner of the Zamoyski family fee tail, deposited the family library with the National Library of Poland.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Since May 2024, the manuscript has been exhibited at the permanent exhibition in the Palace of the Commonwealth in Warsaw.[1]Template:Sfn
Description
The Sacramentary contains prayers for the priest celebrating Mass.Template:Sfn Magnificently decorated, it is one of the most precious artefacts of the Ottonian manuscript painting school.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn[2] The sumptuous form of The Sacramentary indicates that the codex belonged to the so-called king’s manuscripts, which reflected the monarchy’s splendour.Template:Sfn
The manuscript consists of 470 pages.Template:Sfn 38 of them is written in gold and silver on purple-stained parchment pages.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Pages 7–30 contains a calendar.[3] The manuscript contains 13 decorated initials (two full-page plaited initials) and two fullpage miniatures – the Crucifixion and the Maiestas Domini.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn It also contains the oldest musical notation in Poland in chironomic form.Template:Sfn
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