There's a medieval hymn to St. Anne that begins with the words "Ave mater
Anna." Dreves prints it in AHMA, vol. 19 (#72). I've found a version of
it in a Sarum breviary manuscript (BL Stowe 12) that dates back to 1322-25,
and it's a standard feature in the Sarum office for Anne from about 1400 on.
My notes say that it's also in the breviaries for Hereford [which is
sometimes quite similar to Rouen] and Amiens. The library's closed today
and tomorrow and I'm going out of town for ten days after that, so I can't
check the Franciscan sources for you any time soon-- but maybe somebody else
can. (If not, get back to me in mid-January, and I'll do it then.)
Happy New Year--
Sherry Reames (English Dept., U. Wisconsin)
At 02:00 PM 12/31/97 -0500, Jim Bugslag wrote:
>Since I have been frustratingly out of internet contact for several months,
>and thus sadly out of contact with Medieval Religion, I am taking the
>opportunity of using Claire's computer to ask a question which I have for
>some time wanted to pose to the members of this wonderful list. It involves
>an inscription which used to be found in the stained glass of Chartres
>Cathedral. In the central lancet under the north rose, there is an image of
>St Anne and the infant Virgin. The present inscription is modern, but
>antiquarian descriptions give it formerly as 'Ave mater Anna'. As it seems
>to have been in blackletter, it undoubtedly post-dates the early
>13th-century date of the original commission. Canon Yves Delaporte, in his
>1926 monograph on the stained glass of Chartres, says of this inscription,
>without citing a source, that it is Franciscan. Can anyone confirm this, or
>even better, does anyone know the exact source of this short phrase? More
>generally, I would also be grateful for references to any works on the early
>Franciscan history of France.
>Many thanks in advance for any replies, and happy New Year to all.
>Jim Bugslag
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