medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Are we dealing here with Pitances?
Tom Izbicki
Christopher Crockett wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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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
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:21:49 AM EDT
> 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
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>> 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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