A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

196 leigh-choate, flynn, and fassler
Engelberg 103 is a composite source for the celebration of the Divine
Offfijice, copied primarily in the early 13th century for monastic use. Although
the psalter is noticeably absent, the manuscript contains a great deal of
Offfijice material; its various sections, however, do not always coordinate,
suggesting possible origins in independent, recopied libelli. These sections
are also often schematic or incomplete, whether through a deliberate
efffort to record only certain types of items or through simple oversight.
The manuscript is thus a witness of a living, changing practice of how to
join and standardize the various elements of the liturgy. Table 1 summarizes
the manuscript’s main sections and its material for St Disibod, titular
patron of the Disibodenberg monastery.
Table 1. Contents of Engelberg 103
Folios Main Divisions Disibod Material
1r–70v Lectionary for the temporale
and limited sanctorale
70v–71r Table of Gospel readings
for 12-lesson feasts of the
sanctorale
Dysibodi e[piscopi]: Sint lumbi
Oct. S. Disibodi: Homo quidam
peregre
71r–72v Litany and special prayers Sancte Dysibode (in confessor litany,
after four popes and St Martin)
73r–171v Antiphoner for the temporale
and sanctorale (notated in
non-diastematic German
neumes, modes indicated by
number alongside marginal
diffferentiae, short German
tonary)
In festo S. Disibodi (fol. 139):
neumed, generic antiphon for Vespers
psalms, Egregie confessor Dei;
neumed incipits for responsory
Iuravit Dominus, hymn Sancte
Dysibode, and Gospel antiphon
Iustum deduxit; all else de
confessoribus
172r–175v Canticle and hymn texts
(incomplete, lacuna follows)
176v–178r
179r–184v
184v–197r
197v–200r
Calendar (martyrology-like)
Biblical chapters (capitula)
for temporale and limited
sanctorale
Collects for the temporale and
comprehensive sanctorale,
other intercessory prayers
Various prayers, capitula, and
benedictions (in later hand)
Disibodi episcopi (fol. 190v): speaks
of his holy preaching as confessor
and bishop (and seems to be
repeated for octave); two prayers
calling him confessor and bishop
among special intercessory sufffrages
(fol. 195v, alongside Martin and
Benedict)