The Social Landscape of the Prague Sacramentary: The Prosopography of an Eighth-Century Mass-Book
Carl Hammer
The Prague Sacramentary is the only complete example of this important early-medieval liturgical book to survive from eighth-century Bavaria. But, as name implies, its present home in Czech Republic. manuscript (Praha, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituli, O. LXXXIII) was acquired 1776 for old metropolitan chapter library a private library, and nothing certain known about earlier location. That volume contains three works: itself (fols. 1–120) together with an abridged lectionary (121–30), which incomplete penitential (131–45) different hand added at early date, almost certainly before autumn, 792. page size 247 × 165 mm (9.75 6.5 inches), gatherings vary between five sheets four predominating. first 84 folios are written single column 21 lines across entire page, but 85–120 two columns also each marginal bounding drawn arrangement that characteristic Bavarian scriptoria Carolingian period. Four now missing Sacramentary, lectionary, penitential.
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