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Bonjour,
le 18.10.2005, vous avez écrit:
> From: "Atkinson, Niall" <[log in to unmask]>
> Matins seems to designate sunrise, Compline, sundown. Now if the day
> were exactly 12 hours long, then Sext would be midday. Would the other
> hours be spaced, in general, equally apart from each other?
First, you have to tell if it is a feast or ferial day. A feast begins with
the first vespers, a feria begins with matutinum ("midnight" office).
As others have pointed out, hours were elastic, as sun rises always
at 6 am and goes always down at 6 pm. The practical organisation
of the hours could vary from one church to the other, but it can
roughly be (bear in mind that during most of the middleages the
ferial day office was followed by the office of the deads and the little
office of Mary):
Matutinum+Laudes: It should end at dawn (when the sky starts to
become clear). Both offices together last more or less 2 hours.
Prime: sunrise (6 am)
Terce: (9 am), followed by the Mass
Sexte: (12)
None: (3 pm. English word "noon", "afternoon")
Vespers: Sunset (6 pm)
Compline: (9 pm)
The little hours (pr. ter. sext. no.) could be paired by two. During fasting
days, roughly since the XIII Century, most churches anticipate
vespers before 12 am (and all other hours accordingly) in order to
eat at midday. Mass is officially after None.
Hope this helps
Avec mes meilleures salutations
--
Luca Basilio Ricossa
http://lrs.club.fr/
#Conservatoire de Genève--Schola Cantorum Basiliensis#
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