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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Dear Friends, A question I ought not have to ask. Where would one go if one wanted to find the office for Good Friday in the thirteenth-century medieval Roman Breviary? For the immediate context: In Geoffrey of Beaulieu's Life of Saint Louis he writes: In like fashion he learned that in certain monasteries, when these lines are said in the four “passions,” that are said in the holy week, commonly called penitential, “*Inclinato capite emisit spiritum*,” or “*expiravit*,” the congregation devotedly genuflected and lay flat down awhile for the prayer. Our pious king then made sure this practice was similarly observed in his own chapel and in many other churches. Therefore, also, at his request, this practice was approved in the Order Preaching Brothers and made a regulation. This line ends up in Bonaventure's Officio de passione (which someone somewhere said he wrote at Louis' commission - but I don't know if that's true), and a note in that edition tells me the line is taken from the Roman Breviary for "Fer vi, Parasceve" (or presumably, on several counts, the Franciscan Breviary, obviously). Can anyone send me to the best source edition for the basic Roman Breviary? That said, if anyone knows of this line in a monastic breviary for some monastery in the Ile de France region, even better (but not necessary)! Thanks much, cecilia gaposchkin from New Hampshire, where it is raining hard but is not (yet?) a hurricane ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html