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From: Ms B M Cook <[log in to unmask]>
> Can anyone tell me what is the Me'nologue de Ci^teaux ?
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> Can anyone tell me what is was (a necrology ?) and roughly what is contains
and if it has been published anywhere ? (I tried for it under Title & Keyword
online at both the BL & the BNF and found nothing.
seems to me that the terms "necrology" and "obituary" are used interchangably
--or at least that the French translate our "necrology" as "obituaire."
either way, it's a question of a "Book of the Dead" of a religious community
--and its secular friends-- ultimately a liturgical service book recording
(day by day) those deceased who are to be celebrated in masses on any given
day.
on necrologies generally, see:
Huyghebaert, N.-N. (Nicolas-N.)
Les documents nécrologiques
Turnhout: Brepols, 1972.
Description: 75 p. 24 cm.
Series: Typologie des sources du Moyen Age occidental ; fasc. 4
to find out relatively easily the ms. sources for French houses which either
survive or were once known to exist (noting publications, when those have been
done) see:
Lemaître, Jean Loup.
Répertoire des documents nécrologiques français / publié sous la direction
de Pierre Marot par Jean-Loup Lemaître.
Paris: Impr. Nationale : Klincksieck, 1980-[1992 ]
Series: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres. Recueil des historiens de
la France. Obituaires. Série in-8o; t. 7
specifically, the Necrology for Citeaux (if it survived) should be in fourth
volume in this series:
Longnon, Auguste
Obituaires de la province de Sens / publié par Auguste Molinier sous la
direction et avec une préface de Auguste Longnon.
Paris: Impr. nationale : Librarie C. Klincksieck, 1902-1923.
4 v. in 5 : 27 cm.
Series: Recueil des historiens de la France. Obituaires ; t. 1-4
Contents:
t. 1. Molinier, A. Diocèses de Sens et de Paris. 2 v.
t. 2. Molinier, A. Diocèse de Chartres.
t.3. Vidier, A. et Mirot, L. Diocèses d'Orléans, d'Auxerre et de Nevers.
t. 4. Boutillier du Retail et Piétresson de Saint-Aubin. Diocèses de Meaux
et de Troyes.
these are available on line at: http://gallica.bnf.fr
the usefulness of these sources varies considerably --some are nothing more
than lists of names next to dates (rarely giving the *year* of death);
others contain a great deal of interesting, useful and always tantilizing
information about all sorts of stuff connected to the deceased and his/her
gifts/legacies to the institution.
for example, the Necrology of the cathedral of Chartres is a particularly rich
mine of information:
--there are a score or so obituary entries recording gifts made "ad opus
turris," which are generally taken to mean "for the construction of the [west]
towers" and many of these are datable to within a few years, giving us
(presumably) rough dates which can be applied to the work;
--shortly after 1100 Countess Adela, in return for her recently deceased
little boy Odo being entered into the cathedral's "Book of Life," promised the
chapter to move the stalls of the butchers which were at one of the "gates"
(the "Portam Novam") to the cathedral close and which were both a stinking,
smelly mess and were creating an obstacle to the passage of great poutres for
the re-roofing of Fulbert's cathedral. (those stalls are recorded as still
being in the same place nearly a century later, so it's not clear what the
state of little Odo's soul is, at present.)
etc.
c
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