Liturgical manuscripts

Collection history: A considerable number of liturgical manuscripts entered the Library in 1819, with the collection of the Brussels nobleman JD Lupus.
Size: De collection spans some 90 manuscripts plus some fragments.
Accessibility: The collection has been made accessible by means of an extensive scholarly catalogue. The manuscripts can only be consulted in the Special Collections Reading Room and are made available for scolarly research only. A number of very unique manuscripts can merely be studied by means of microfilms and (colour) photographs.
More information:
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Collection description

With approximately ninety manuscripts and a few dozens of fragments, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek possesses the largest public collection of manuscripts destined for the liturgy, i.e. for the Latin church service. This comprises choir psalters for the Eucharist, breviaries and antiphonaries as well as missals, lectionaries and graduales, which were used during mass.
In the course of the last two centuries these manuscripts have ended up in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, usually as part of a larger collection. A considerable number of liturgical manuscripts entered the Library in 1819, with the collection of the Brussels nobleman J.D. Lupus, and in 1840, with the so-called Maastricht collection, a collection of books and manuscripts which had been discovered in a Maastricht attic a year earlier.

Literature:

Catalogus van de liturgische handschriften van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Samengesteld door P.C. Boeren. Met medewerking van A.S. Korteweg en G. Piket. 's-Gravenhage 1988.