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Hi Meg,
Best sources for this question would be books like William Durand’s Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, where 5th volume is dedicated to the Divine Office (it is translated into English by Thibodeau).
Some medieval cathedral ordinals (liber ordinarius) list what each office of clergy is supposed to do in the cathedral. I am copy-pasting the relevant section from the 13th c. Padua Ordinal. Ref: Giulio Cattin, Anna Vildera, Antonio Lovato, and Andrea Tilatti, Il" Liber ordinarius" della Chiesa padovana. (Istituto per la storia ecclesiastica padovana, 2002), 6.
Quid ad officium diaconorum spectat in ecclesia Paduana.
Ad offitium diaconorum, tam /4vl canonicorum quam mansionariorum
sive custodum, spectat in diebus dominicis et infestivitatibus
novem lectionum omelias et evangelium cantare et post
evangelium in die dominica festivitates, que infra ebdomadam
occurrunt, populo nuntiare et in diebus ferialibus terciam lectionem
legere, excepto tempore Quadragesime. Debent etiam diaconi
omelias quandocumque occurrunt legere, et omnia supradicta
et alia debent diaconi facere et adimplere unusquisque
in ebdomada sua, salva honestate et necessitate. Iterum debent
diaconi ad Matutinum in diebus novem lectionum unusquisque
in ebdomada sua cum subdiacono septimanario vitatorium cantare
<9) , exceptis sollempnitatibus.
Quid ad officium subdiaconorum in ecdesia Paduana
spectat.
Ad officium subdiaconorum, tam canonicorum quam mansionariorum
sive custodum, spectat in suis septimanis, tam in diebus
dominicis quam in festivitatibus novem lectionum si ve in diebus
ferialibus, regere chorum et in diebus novem lectionum simul
cum diacono vitatorium cantare (lO), exceptis sollempnitatibus.
De subdiaconibus. /Sr/ Item debent subdiaconi in diebus novem
lectionum sextam lectionem legere, in diebus vero trium lectionum
secundam lectionem legere.
De subdiaconibus. Item debent subdiaconi in ebdomadis suis in
ferialibus diebus ad Matutinum soli vitatorium cantare.
De subdiaconibus. Item debent subdiaconi conventuales Missas
in suis ebdomadis officiare et quando cantatur Missa in Tercia
debent epistolam legere et post epistolam debet <
11) librumevangelii supra altare ponere et post evangelium dictum librum
de altari deponere, et si tunc episcopus est presens, debet ei dictum
librum deferre ut ipsum osculetur; de be t etiam pacem accipere,
et si episcopus est presens debet ei primo pacem deferre,
deinde canonicis et primo debet incipere a maioribus ab utroque
latere, ita quod uni soli tantum ab utroque latere conferat pacem.
De diacono et 0 2) subdiacono.
Item quandocumque cantatur maior Missa debent diaconus et
subdiaconus ebdomadarii simul cum sacerdote se ad Missam
preparare; illud idem debent facere quandocumque Missa in Nonis
cantatur. Hec et alia debent subdiaconi facere, salva honestate
atque necessitate. /Sv/
Best wishes,
nesli
Neslihan Şenocak
Associate Professor of History (Medieval Europe)
Columbia University
(Fellows' Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 2015-2016)
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Greetings and Happy New Year to all!
I wonder if anyone can tell me how much of the Divine Office deacons were supposed to recite in the Middle Ages? Did it differ by time period?
Meg
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