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Speaking of offices for the Immaculate Conception, I ran into a few examples in French books of hours printed in the early 16th century. Does anyone know if this is de Busti's office?
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Bill East wrote:
The care and consistency with which these texts were selected indicate a single mind, and in fact we know a good deal about the history of this feast. It was celebrated locally at the end of the Middle Ages * just squeezing into our period * and was officially granted to the Franciscans in 1530 for observance on 14th January. The observance gradually spread until it was finally prescribed in 1721 by Innocent XIII for the whole Church on the Second Sunday after the Epiphany. The Office and Mass were composed by Bernardino dei Busti (d. 1500) * anybody know anything about him? I think George's dictum about longue durée would allow us to say something about him. The office hymns, 'Jesu dulcis memoria', 'Jesu Rex admirabilis' and 'Jesu decus angelicum' were adapted for the feast from the work of a 12th century author. I shall do some work on these and let you know more anon!
Bernardino de' Busti was a Franciscan, born in Milan c.1450. He joined the Franciscans in 1475 or 1476, after studying law at the University of Pavia. He is the author as well of an Officium et Missa de gaudiis Beatae Mariae Virginis, an Officium et Missa Sanctae Crucis et Passionis Domini, an Officium de planctu Beatae Mariae Virginis, and the office for which he is best known, the Office for the Immaculate Conception, approved by Sixtus IV on 4 October 1480. He died between 1513 and 1515. There are a number of editions of his Mariale, and an interesting collection of prayers in his Thesaurus spiritualis cum quamplurimis alijs additis noviter impressus (one edition is Lyons, 1500).
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