medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Marjorie Greene <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>"Le jour de la Pentecote 27 mai 1792 fut le dernier jour ou furent chantes,
aux deux jubes de l'abbaye de Saint-Denis, les deux epitres et les deux
evangiles..."
>"Pentecost 27 May 1792 was the last day when the two epistles and the two
gospels were chanted at/on/by (?) the two 'jubes' (rood screens ?) of
Saint-Denis Abbey..."
>The text quoted may have been written by someone who didn't know the
difference between a jube and a pulpit as suggested by Brother Thomas
Sullivan, OSB.
yes, Brother Thomas’ interpretation certainly *sounds* reasonable and, as
sometimes happens with reasonable sounding explanations, may even be right.
However, thanks to Tennesse Bob’s Famous French Links
(http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html ) i was able to find the
on-line copy of the first (1694) edtion of the Academy’s Dictionnaire
(http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/dicos/ACADEMIE/PREMIERE/premiere.html
), which yields this entry:
“JUBÉ. sub. m. Espece de tribune, lieu eslevé dans une Eglise en forme de
galerie, & qui est ordinairement entre la nef & le choeur. Il estoit dans le
jubé. monter au jubé. il y a un beau jubé à, &c.
On dit prov. Venir à jubé, pour dire, Se sousmettre, venir à la raison par
contrainte, malgré qu'on en ait. Je le feray bien venir à jubé. il est venu à
jubé.”
The on-line 5th edition (1798)
(http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/dicos/ACADEMIE/CINQUIEME/cinquieme.html
), repeats this entry virtually verbatim.
perhaps the (single) jubé at St-D was of the type which had one or more
*pulpits* built into/on it (the only example i can think of at present is the
late medieval one in St-Etienne-du-Mont, in Paris).
curious also is this writer's "les deux....les deux" construction, which i
don't believe i've ever seen before and seems excessively florid, even for
French.
"le dernier jour ou furent chantes, aux deux jubes de l'abbaye de Saint-Denis,
les deux epitres et les deux evangiles..."
seems like it might have the sense of:
"the last day on which were chanted, from the two jubes [SIC] of the abbey of
St-D., [namely] [from the first of the] two the epistles and [from the second
of the] two the evangiles.
?
christopher
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