I am hoping for some clarification from members of the learned list about
the actual, pratical distribution of the psalms during the office.
My understanding is that the entire psalter was recited each week. But I
am unclear on the precise relationship between this fact and what I find
in the breviaries I am working with.
In my breviaries (mostly 14th c), the rubric signalling the antiphons for
1 Vespers often reads something like "ad vs super psalmos".
Then (and this is what most concerns me) following the antiphons for
Matins is an incipit for a psalm, begin with 1.1 (Beatus Vir), then 2.6
(quare fremuerunt), then 3.1 (Domine quid multiplicavit), and so
forth. As far as I can tell from the offices that I have been working
with, these do not vary. (Am I wrong here?).
My questions are:
1) What is the relationship between these lines and the run of psalms that
is to be recited each week. Are they the same thing or not.
2) How much of the psalm would be actually recited following the antiphon.
3) (As per above) am I right or wrong in my impression that the psalms in
this position don't vary -- or do they just not vary on the feast I am
working with.
4) Is it true that the antiphons from 1Vespers are not following by
Psalms, or is this just a pecularity of the mss.
Any and all help on this would by GREATLY appreciated. I kept thinking
that the question would clear itself up the more I read and the more mss I
looked at, but it hasn't.
Thanks in advance.
Cecilia
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