medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John McChesney-Young wrote:
>
> [[1]] I have a handy single-page 32KB .pdf file (written as I recall
> by Paul Ford) on the two number systems, with a chart of which is
> used in a small number of liturgical works. I'd be glad to e-mail a
> copy to anyone who writes me off-list.
I use the chart in Appendix 2 of: John Harper, The Forms and Orders of
Western Liturgy from the Tenth to the Eighteenth Century : A Historical
Introduction and Guide for Students and Musicians (Oxford UP, 1991). This
is particularly useful as it attempts to distinguish the different
splittings and placements in the Secular and Monastic Ferial Psalters.
Disentangling the numbering systems is actually straightforward: The
Protestant/Hebrew Psalter splits Psalms 9 and 113, but combines 114&115 and
146&147. Most numbers are thus one adrift.
In couldn't help noticing that the documents for the Pope's funeral gave the
traditional Vulgate numbering of the Psalms first, whereas the Nova Vulgata
(promulgated by him in 1979!) employs the Protestant/Hebrew numbering.
While we are on the subject, does anyone know of "Non nobis, Domine" (verses
9-26 of Psalm 113, 'In exitu Israel', Protestant/Hebrew Psalm 115) being
employed as a liturgical item? I can't find it as an incipit in CANTUS, for
example - although verse 9 may turn up as a versicle somewhere.
John Briggs
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