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Rhymed Easter Officium BMV
A scholar has send me a query about a manuscript in the U.S.
containing a strange unidentified metrical office to be said
for
the Virgin in the Easter week. A transcript below from
the
pictures is giving an idea of the nature of the contents.
Can anybody on this list contribute to an identification?
(I have not checked the hymn in 'Repertorium Hymnologicum')
It is peculiar that the 'Psalm' only is four lines of a
psalm,
and also curious to me that the collect is a prayer that is
more about the passion of Christ than about the Virgin
Mary.
This manuscript dates from c.1400, written in Northern
France.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Erik Drigsdahl
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folio 1: Rubric:
/ Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis que debent dici
a domenica in ramis palmarum usque ad pascha.
Et notandum est quod sequens versus dicitur in principio
omnium horarum loco. Ave maria.
[V.] Sancta dei dulcis et decora
regem morti traditum pro nobis exora.
Ad matutinas. //
Ad Primam:
Hymnus.
Ihesu nate de virgine
sine virili semine
qui et mortem crucis pateris
offensus plagis asperis.
Amore matris anxie
nostre parcas miserie
suique fletus copia
nos ducat ad celestia.
[V.] Sit laus honor devocio, etcetera.
Ps. [ps.2, 1-4] Quare fremuerunt gentes ... et Dominus subsannabit
eos. Gloria patri.
Antiphona.
Stat Maria mater pia
foris plorans acriter
regem mundi furibundi
dum tractarent viriliter.
Capitulum.
Sit tuarum obsecro lacrimarum rivus
in corde lapideo meroribus motivus. Deo gracias.
V. Per Marie lacrimas mater pietatis.
R. Nobis veram gloriam confer cum beatis, Per. Gloria patri. Per
Marie.
V. Queso michi misero virginum regina.
R. Tecum flendi lacrimas uberes propina.
Domine exaudi. Oratio.
Domine Ihesu xpe qui hora diei prima Pilato presidi presentatus
et ab iniquis innocens spoliatus . facie velatus et colafizatus
et a matre inestissima lacrimis uberibus deploratus fuisti .
quesumus ut passione tua ubique armati hostes vincere .
et ad tuam valeamus gloriam pervenire. Qui vivis et regnat.
Ad tertiam.
Sancta dei genitrix, etc.
Deus in adiutorium, etc.
[Ant.] Quam putamus, etcetera.
Psalmus. [ps.68, 8-11] Quoniam propter te ... est in obprobrium michi.
Gloria patri.
Antiphona.
Quam putamus matrem inestissimam
cum videret prolis angustiam
non est dolor ut matris virginis
mortem probantis dei et hominis. //
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Erik
Drigsdahl
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