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here is the earliest example of an anniversary foundation that i know of from
the Chartrain, a charter of Abbot Udo of St. Peter's of Chartres, done shortly
before 1150:
http://ariadne.org/cc/abbeys/st-peter/CSP391-2.htm
property (appropriately enough, "rent" [in kind?] on a vineyard) from Udo's
family property given "...per annos singulos sollempniter celebretur
anniversarium....ut semper in die anniversarii nostri splendida refectio
paretur fratribus..."
based on this example (and a few others, though none quite so specific) i have
always assumed that an "anniversary" notice in a necrology referred to
something more than a simple mass by the chapter or members of the house.
c
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From: Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [M-R] anniversarium panis et vini
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> From: Aaron Hope <[log in to unmask]>
>
> >I am working on a capitular foundation agreement from the 1460s that
> established a yearly anniversary for a donor's soul. The document states
that
> the dean and chapter of the cathedral promised “librare seu librari
facere
> in eorum celtario panem et vinum inter presentes, ut in aliis anniversariis
> panis et vini in eadem ecclesia fundatis est fieri solitum”. My question
> is: what is meant by the phrase 'anniversary of bread and wine'? Is this
just
> another way of describing the mass,
>
>
> no, not to my best understanding of the term/institution (and i would
> appreciate being corrected if i'm wrong here).
>
> we have these "anniversary" foundations in the Chartrain region from the
12th
> c., becoming more common in the 13th and later (cf. the multiplicity of
them
> recorded in the Chartres cathedral necrologies, available on
> http://www.gallica.bnf.fr ).
>
>
> in my understanding it's a matter of a sum of money (or property) being
> bequeathed to the cathedral chapter (in this case) in return for an annual
> celebration of the death of the deceased.
>
> though this most likely did include an anniversary mass, because these
> "anniversary" entries (rather than the more common simple "obit. X"
notices)
> seem to have involved more expense, i have always assumed (and it's just an
> assumption on my part) that they also implied an anniversary meal of some
> sort.
>
> >or would they distribute unconsecrated bread and wine (as one would assume
> from the location mentioned, the 'celtarium', which I understand to be a
> storeroom or cellar)?
>
> yet another reason to see this as more than the foundation of a simple
> anniversary mass.
>
> >If the latter, was this a common practice?
>
> definitely.
>
> at least in the Chartrain.
>
> at least in the late 12th-13th + cc.
>
> c
>
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