Bréviaire (abbaye Saint-Bavon de Gand, vers 1275-1325)

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Bréviaire (abbaye Saint-Bavon de Gand, vers 1275-1325)

0086

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Vers 1276-1325

Abbaye Saint-Bavon de Gand

ff. 1-6v, Calendar in red and black, graded; including Pharaildis (twelve lessons, 4 January), Amandus and Vedast (in albis, 6 February), Ansbert (twelve lessons, 9 February), Landrada, translation (twelve lessons, 5 March), Landoald (in red, in cappis, 19 March), Benedict (in red, in cappis, 21 March), Landoald, adventus (25 March), Macarius (in cappis, 10 April), Macarius, elevation, with octave (duplex, 9 May), Dedication of the Church of Ghent (principium, 10 May), Bavo, translation (10 May), Gudwal, with octave (twelve lessons, 6 June), Dedication of the Oratory of the Infirmary (7 June), Landoald, elevation, with octave (13 June), Livin, elevation and translation (27 June), Landrada (in cappis, 8 July), Benedict, adventus (in cappis, 11 July), Macarius, translation (11 July), Bavo, elevation (in red, duplex, 1 August), Lawrence (in red, in cappis, 10 August), Livin, adventus (in red, in cappis, 17 August), Vinciana (in red, in cappis, 11 September), Bavo (in red, principalis, 1 October), Livin, translation (2 October), Livin (in red, principalis, 12 November), Landoald, translation (in red, in cappis, 1 December), and Gudwal and Bertulf, adventus (twelve lesssons, 3 December).

ff. 7-64, Psalter, with major divisions at f. 15, Psalm 26, f. 20v, Psalm 38, f. 25v, Psalm 52, f. 30v, Psalm 68, f. 38, Psalm 80, f. 44, Pslam 97, and f. 51, Psalm 109;

ff. 64-69v, Gallican Canticles (see James Mearns, The Canticles of the Christian Church, Eastern and Western, in Early and Medieval Times [Cambridge, 1914], 80, number 1-6 and 11);

ff. 70-82v, Litany, with Livin, Adrian, Brice, Leodegar and Lambert among the martyrs, Bavo, Landoald, Macarius, Amand, Ansbert, Wulfram, Gudwal, Benedict, Wandregesil, and Bertulf among the confessors, and Vinciana, Landrada, Pharaildis, Amelberg and Scholastica among the virgins; ff. 72v-77, Service for Annointing the Sick, with a second litany (shorter) on ff. 75-76v; ff. 77-82v, Office of the Dead, with responses as follows: Credo quod redemptor, Qui Lazarum resuscitasti, Domine dum veneris, Subvente sancti, Heu mihi domine, Ne recorderis, Peccantem me cotidie, Domine secundum actum, and Memento mei (see Knud Ottosen, The Responsories and Versicles of the Latin Office of the Dead [Aarhus, 1993], 148-151, 285-293) and Burial Service [ending f. 82v, near the top of column A; followed by a blank space, and then the beginning of the Gospel of St. John];

The series of responses to the lessons for the Office of the Dead found in this manuscript was very widespread, and although Ottosen notes they are mostly associated with Benedictine monasteries associated with the reform movements of Cluny and William of Volpiano, this series is also found in a Breviary from St. Bavo’s neighbor in Ghent, the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter’s, now Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS lat 267.

ff. i-xiii v, Hymns, not noted, for the temporale, sanctorale, including Stephen, Holy Innocents, Agatha, Macarius, Benedict, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Mary Magdalene, Assumption of Mary, Archangel Michael, Bavo, and All Saints, and the Common of Saints;

ff. xiv-xix, Monastic Canticles (see James Mearns, The Canticles of the Christian Church, Eastern and Western, in Early and Medieval Times [Cambridge, 1914], 87-92, Advent (second set), Christmas, Lent, Easter, Sundays, and Common of Saints, set 9 [Mearns, p. 91], and set 1 [Mearns, p. 90], and Common of Saints for a Virgin, set 2 [Mearns, p. 92]); [ends f. xix v; f. xx rv blank.];

ff. xxi-ccxiiii, Temporal, from Advent through the twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity Sunday and the fifth Sunday before Christmas;

[twelve unfoliated leaves] De nova solempnitate institutionis sacramentum altaris. Urbanus quartus romanis pontifex huius sacramenti devotioni affectus pie statuit prefate institutionis memoravi. …. [Office for the feast of Corpus Christi by Thomas Aquinas];

ff. i-cxcviii v, [second series of original foliation beginning again at f. i] Sanctorale from Saturninus through Katherine.

ff. cxcix-ccxxxvii, Common of Saints;

f. ccxxxvii, Commemoration of St. Bavo to be said daily at vespers and lauds; concludes prayers, Adesto domine precibus nostris quas in sancti confessoris tui bavonis commemoratione …; Deus qui nos beati bavonis confessoris tui …;

ff. ccxxxvii v-ccxli, Suffrages, including suffrages of the Holy Trinity, Mary, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, all Apostles, the martyrs Livin, Adrian and Bavo, Nicholas, Benedict, Mary Magdalene, all Saints, and others; f. ccxxxviii v, prayer, “Propitiare quesumus domine nobis famulis tuis per sanctorum confessorum tuorum Landoaldi, Macharii, atque Amanti et sanctarum virginum tuarum Vintiane, Landrade, Pharahildis atque ceteorum quorum relique in presenti requiescunt ecclesie …”;

ff. ccxli-[242], Office of St. Katherine, added in the fifteenth century;

f. [242v], Added prayers for Saints Julian the Poor and Christopher.

Source : https://www.textmanuscripts.com/medieval/breviary-bavo-benedictine-60592?country[]=the-low-countries&inventorySearch=4&p=1

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181 x 123 mm

551 fol.

Parchemin

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Description codicologique complète : https://www.textmanuscripts.com/medieval/breviary-bavo-benedictine-60592?country[]=the-low-countries&inventorySearch=4&p=1

Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani, « Bréviaire (abbaye Saint-Bavon de Gand, vers 1275-1325) », in GUARD : Guarantee Unpreserved Archives Remain Documented, Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani et Sébastien de Valeriola (éds.), n° 0086, 2024, URL : https://guard.ulb.be/doku.php?id=notice:manuscrit:0086.