| NL-Uc BMH 7 |
Old call number: nr. 258. Notated missale, 2nd half 12th century or ca 1200; used in the parish church of Hellum near Groningen (the so-called 'Helmster Missale'). The Groningen saints Walfridus and Rafridus are mentioned in some of the prayers.
Staffles neumes of the Low Countries; occasionally flats and natural signs occur in the staffless neumes, espec. fols. 71r and further (e.g. fol. 75v: Alleluia Domine in virtute).
The manuscript is incomplete, and opens just before mid Quadragesima. Fol. 1 has the introit Verba mea auribus and fol. 3 has Dominica Laetare. After the Temporale is a lacuna; then follows on fol. 105r the Sanctorale, opening with Felicis confessoris. Fol. 166r: Dedicatio Ecclesiae; fol. 167r: Trinity; then the book ends with prayers for votive masses on fol. 169.
Fol. 45v contains an Easter play (Lipphardt 586).
 | PalMus II-III, pl. 134 (with call number 58) |
| | Middeleeuwse Boeken van het Catharijneconvent, p. 33 (incl. facsimile reproduction of the Easter play) |
| | Hel en Hemel, p. 124-125 |
| | Het Noorden in het midden, p. 227 (facs.) |
| | Groninger kerken 2006/4, p. 97-100 (incl. facs. and reconstruction of the Easter play) |
| | Hellum. Een parel in de Woldstreek dl. 2: Old/Nij (Bedum 2008), p. 17-20 (facs. and reconstruction of the Easter play) |