The Gothic Missal includes prayers for the celebration of mass on the feast day of *Hippolytus (martyr of Rome, S00509). Written in Latin in Gaul, perhaps at Luxeuil for the Christian community of Autun, c. 680/710.
E08244
Liturgical texts - Sacramentaries
Late antique original manuscripts - Parchment codex
The Gothic Missal (Missale Gothicum)
MISSA SANCTI YPPOLITI MARTYRIS
399. Da nobis, omnipotens et misericors deus, ut beati Yppoliti martyris tui ueneranda sollemnitas et deuotionem nobis augeat et salutem. Per dominum nostrum filium tuum.
400. COLLECTIO SEQVITVR. Praesta nobis, omnipotens et misericors deus, ut beati Yppoliti martris tui repetita sollempnitas et liberationem nobis perfectam tribuat et salutem. Per dominum nostrum.
401. COLLECTIO POST NOMINA. Deus, tuorum gloria, martyri tuo Yppolito, quaesomus, ut pro nobis supplicantem omnia nobis prospera concide. Per dominum nostrum filium tuum.
402. COLLECTIO AD PACEM. Vt nobis tua, domine, remedia dent salutem, beatus Yppolitus martyr, quaesomus, pro nobis supplicans cupiosus audiatur. Per dominum nostrum.
403. IMMOLATIO MISSAE. Vere dignum et iustum est, omnipotens aeterne deus, qui beatum Yppolitum tyranicis adhuc obsequiis occupatum, subito fecisti Laurenti socium, qui spiritali ardore succensus, dum uinigenitum filium tuum dominum nostrum coram potestatibus ueraciter confitetur, poenis subicitur, uinculis inligatur, cardis configitur, aequorum ferocitate disiungitur, et adepta palma martyrii uita perpetua cum lucratore et magistro Laurentio coronatur. Per Christum dominum nostrum.
'Mass for the Feast of the Holy Martyr Hippolytus
399. Grant us, almighty and merciful God, that the venerable feast of your blessed martyr Hippolytus for us increases devotion and salvation. Through our Lord your Son.
400. Collect follows. Grant us, almighty and merciful God, that the recurring feast of your blessed martyr Hippolytus gives us perfect liberation and salvation. Through our Lord.
401. Collect after the names. God, glory of your people, grant us, so we ask, all prosperity because your martyr Hippolytus prays for us. Through our Lord your Son.
402. Collect at the kiss of peace. May the blessed martyr Hippolytus be heard when he copriously prays for us, so we ask, O Lord, so that your medicines give us salvation. Through our Lord.
403. Prayer of sacrifice. It is truly worthy and just, almighty and everlasting God, [that we praise you], who suddenly made the blessed Hippolytus, still occupied by his service to the tyrant, a companion of Laurence. Consumed by spiritual ardour, while he truthfully confessed your only-begotten Son our Lord in the presence of the powers (cf. Ps. 119, 46), he was subjected to punishment, bound with fetters, pierced with thistles and torn apart by the ferocity of horses. And after obtaining the palm of martyrdom, perpetual life, he is crowned with his converter and teacher Laurence. Through Christ our Lord.'
Text: Rose 2005, 503-4.
Translation: Rose 2017, 269-70.
Service for the saint
Eucharist associated with cult
Liturgical invocation
Chant and religious singing
Other liturgical acts and ceremonies
FestivalsSaint’s feast
Non Liturgical ActivityPrayer/supplication/invocation
Transmission, copying and reading saint-related texts
Source
The Gothic Missal (Missale Gothicum) is the standard editorial name used for Vatican City, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. Lat. 317, a liturgical manuscript (sacramentary) compiled in Burgundy at the turn of the eighth century. It provides an exceptionally rare witness to late antique liturgical practice in Gaul. The inclusion of an entry for the late Merovingian political martyr Leudegar of Autun (eastern Gaul) (ob. 677/9) gives both an earliest possible date for the manuscript's compilation, and, since it appears alongside an entry for the earlier Autun martyr Symphorianus, an indication of the community for which the codex might have been made. On palaeographical grounds, E.A. Lowe located the Missal's production to the scriptorium of Luxeuil (c. 130 miles northeast of Autun), at a date no later than c. 710.The full manuscript is now available to view online: https://spotlight.vatlib.it/it/latin-paleography/catalog/Reg_lat_317
Discussion
The codex as it survives includes entries for nine biblical saints and nine from the city of Rome (plus Cyprian of Carthage, commemorated with Pope Cornelius), alongside six Gallic feast days and one from Spain (Saturninus, Eulalia, Ferreolus and Ferrucio, Symphorianus, Maurice and the Theban Legion, Leudegar, and Martin). The Missal covers most feasts in roughly chronological order, beginning after Christmas with the feast of Stephen (usually 26 Dec.). The manuscript does not, however, provide any dates for the celebration of these feasts: presumably, its users would have also had a separate liturgical calendar at hand.For an overview of the contents of the Gothic Missal, see E08222.
The final section of this entry for Hippolytus (no. 403) draws upon the Roman Martyrdom of the saint (E02513, also incorporated into E02504) (Rose 2005, 285-8).
Bibliography
Edition and study:Missale Gothicum e codice Vaticano Reginensi latino 317 editum, ed. Els Rose (Turnhout, 2005).
Translation:
The Gothic Missal, trans. Els Rose (Turnhout, 2017).
Further reading:
Lowe, E.A., Codices latini antiquiores, 11 vols (Oxford, 1937-71), i. 32.
Benjamin Savill
04/09/2022
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00037 | Laurence/Laurentius, deacon and martyr of Rome | Laurentius | Certain | S00509 | Hippolytus, martyr of Rome | Yppolitus | Certain |
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