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The primary purpose of this study 1S to shed light on the solemn celebrations of the Roman curia during the first half of the fifteenth century, specifically during the pontificate ofPope Eugene IV (r. 1431-47). A further aim is to relate Du Fay)s well-known cycle of hymns as they appear in the manuscript tvlodena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, oc.X.1.11 (hereafter ModB)1 to the celebration of PapaI Vespers. Fìnally, I shall show that, in severai instances, Du Fay's settings of two versions of the same hymn text (one fully composed for three voices and another a fauxbourdon) were composed for use during certain seasons of the year when feasts of three to nine lessons of greater and lesser rank were celebrated by the Papal chapel. Papai manuscripts show considerable change and much t1exibility in papai liturgy in the years following the Great Schism and until Pope Eugene's retum to Rome, after nearly a decade of exile, in 1443. The rubrics found in these manuals provide evidence of a liturgical practice that changed and adapted to the needs of a papacy in transition. So it should not be surprising that instructions for any number of feast days, over time, may appear contradictory when placed side by side. Different circumstances required different solutions and the papai rite would only begin to be codified during the reign ofEugene's successor Nicholas V (r. 1447-55), the first pope in more than a century to spend his entire pontificate in Rome. Over the Iast few decades several modern editions, taking different points of departure, have illuminated papal practice from the time of the papacy's removal to Avignon in the early fourteenth century until its final re-establishment at Rome under NichoIas V 2 The appendix to this article, based on published and unpublished collections of papaI manuals, presents a collection of rubrics far solemn papaI celebrations. These give instructions L I betieve that ModB was prepared in Florence by a scribe, perhaps the composer Benoit, for the use of sìngers in the chapel of Pope Eugene IV. who was then resident in Florence. I have discussed the issue at length in my doctoral dissertation, Phelps, " and a study of the relevant materìal, in preparation.
2018
With this little paper I propose a synthetic and non abundant comparison of the Ritus ad Introitum, Offertorium and Ritus Communionis of the Mass of Pius V. and Paul VI. I tried to point out both continuity and discontinuity.
This new edition (currently in early draft) aims to replace that of H.J. Schmitz, now nearly 120 years old. It is based on a fresh assessment of all the available manuscript evidence as well as recent research into source material. The edition will include indices, commentary, translation (English), and exhaustive source information. A draft edition is currently available here for viewing or download as a PDF. More information available at http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/manuscripts/texts/poenitentiale_ecgberhti.html.
The principal thesis of this dissertation is that ModB was compiled to meet the needs of the cantores papalae serving in the chapel of Pope Eugene IV. My research suggests that a scribe working in Florence during the mid-1430s copied the majority of its pieces. He was still adding to this collection, albeit more slowly, after Eugene left Florence for Bologna, where he and his court resided from April 1436 through January 1438. Without doubt, ModB reached Ferrara sometime in the 1440s. The MS is both a compendium of early fifteenth-century sacred music and a liturgical manual, one designed specifically for the papal chapel. My conclusion followed a study of ModB’s repertory and rubrics and the contents of papal manuals. Once the liturgical implications of the texts in ModB’s central core are placed within their rightful context, the function of the MS’s fauxbourdon settings and three-voice settings becomes apparent: three-voice works were used for the most solemn feasts, those of the highest liturgical rank, while fauxbourdon settings were appropriate for solemn feasts of a somewhat lesser rank. The inclusion of several texts in praise of Florence argues for a Florentine origin as well and a close inspection of these works reveals that Du Fay composed Nuper rosarum flores and Salve flos as pendant works: both of which were heard on 25 March 1436 when Pope Eugene consecrated the high altar of Santa Maria del Fiore. This we learn from Giovanni Manetti’s description of the celebrations that day. In the final analysis it is the repertory recorded on ModB’s surviving folios that settles its Florentine origin. Only the much later additions of works by Fède and Brebis can be associated with Ferrara and the d’Este family. This leads me to conclude that the first and most extensive layer of copying was done by the composer Benoit during his time in Florence some time before the 1440s.
This project began with an attempt to edit the canonical contents of the Commonplace Book manuscripts, but very quickly ballooned into something much larger. The eventual edition, which will almost certainly be published online in hypertext, will be based on the preliminary edition and study undertaken as part of my doctoral dissertation (to be completed in Fall 2013). Partial transcriptions of four of the five extant redactions of the Wigorniensis are currently available for viewing or download as PDFs. More information available at http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/manuscripts/texts/wig.html.
2020
Questo lavoro si propone di offrire una versione critica del testo latino del Liber Pontificalis di Andrea Agnello e di presentarlo in una forma più vicina alle esigenze del ricercatore di storia. Allo stato dell'arte, il testo del Liber Pontificalis è presentato secondo la struttura che è stata via via imposta dal processo di trasmissione dell'opera, che ne ha inquinato e modificato struttura e corrotto i contenuti. Il primo obiettivo di questo lavoro èquindi quello di ripristinare l'antica struttura della ricerca storica di Agnello: una serie di seminari, durante i quali, l'autore, il presbyter Andrea Agnello, leggeva i risultati delle proprie indagini, e dei qualii in un secondo momendo distribuiva il testo in forma di dispense. Rimettendo in luce questa cornice (troppo a lungo e troppo colpevolmente messa in secondo piano) è possibile render conto della natura del Liber Pontificalis, del suo autore e del contesto culturale e del pubblico con cui si confrontava. L'intento è di restituire così un'immediata leggibilità al lettore contemporaneo. Il secondo aspetto che questo lavoro affronta è quello di rivedere criticamente la correttezza delle notizie di Andrea Agnello, e l'uso delle sue fonti. In questo, affianco alle mie notazioni, un ricco repertorio di commenti dell'edizione critica di Testi Rasponi, che per ricchezza di conoscenze topografiche, liturgiche, e acutezza delle osservazioni rimane un punto di riferimento e una miniera di spunti ancora insuperato. Sulla base di un testo depurato, e ripristinato nella sua corretta morfologia, il presente lavoro si propone di sviluppare due sezioni finali che hanno l'obettivo di catalogare e riorganizzare cronologicamente le informazioni di Agnello. In particolare nella seconda sezione, il testo 'restaurato' è catalogato a seconda della natura delle fonti utilizzate (topografiche, storiche, orali, epigrafiche/archeologiche). Nella terza sezione, i dati così isolati, verranno riposizionati, ricostituendo un quadro sinottico con cronologie parallele. In questo modo, sarà possibile isolare il cosiddetto 'chronicon Maximiani' (archetipo degli excerpta Sangallensia), oltre che la sequenza delle notizie architettoniche, e quelle episcopali. Queste linee temporali, restituite nella loro correttezza, offriranno allo studioso una adeguata mappa di navigazione per l'opera di Agnello. Il presente lavoro è in definitiva pensato per servire come materiale intermedio, nell'idea che anche la produzione letteraria di ambito ecclesiastico, se affrontata nell'ottica della Quellenforschung, possa aiutare a risolvere o integrare molte zone grigie dei secoli V-VII d.C. così spesso poco documentate, oltre che offrire inaspettati chiarimenti. Revisione 2: 25 ottobre 2020
2013
2001, Atti e memorie della Società Savonese di Storia e Patria
This new edition (currently in early draft) aims to replace that of P.W. Finserwalder, now nearly 100 years old. It is based on a fresh assessment of the manuscript evidence, and is the first edition to present together the texts of the Canones Basilienses, the Canones Cottoniani, the Capitula Dacheriana, the Canones Gregorii, and the Paenitentiale Umbrense, the latter also being presented for the first time in its original single-book form (rather than the later two-book form). The edition will include indices, commentary, translation (English), and exhaustive source information. Draft editions of all five versions (without sources) are available here for viewing or download as a PDF. More information, including a synoptic edition (wherein the chapters of all five versions are presented together in a single table) can be found at http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/manuscripts/texts/iudicia_theodori.html.
"Texte de travail" corrigeant et complétant l'édition du De actione missarum de Florus de Lyon par Paul Duc (1937). Nouvelles sources patristiques, parallèles carolingiens, index biblique et patristique.
The thesis starts with the research through pastoral visits, which revealed the frequent resurfacing of interior design up to what still presents, dated between 1766 and 1777. Particularly interesting are the altarpieces, two of which were attributed to Giovanni Molinari, pupil of Claudio Beaumont.
2015, La diocesi di Bobbio. Formazione e sviluppi di un’istituzione millenaria, , a cura di Eleonora Destefanis – Paola Guglielmotti, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2015
Abstract The books of the cathedral of Bobbio. Study and analysis of the century-old library (with a catalogue in appendix) Studying Bobbio’s cathedral – a recently-established institution when compared to the wellknowm monastery of Saint Columbanus and retaining a secondary role in administering pastoral care to the community – poses a series of difficulties to any research aiming at reconstructing its century-old library. Such a study in fact, is an absolute novelty when compared to the literature which has hitherto been produced. The first part of the paper provides a codicological, paleographic, philological and textual study of the surviving attestations, which have mostly been ignored and are preserved in a surprisingly unexplored institution: Bobbio’s Archivi Storici Diocesani. Thus, also thanks to invaluable inventories, the number of the armaria originally found in the sacristy, as well as a list of the volumes destined to the canons’ study, can be reconstructed. At least eleven ascriptions can be dated with certainty to the 14th-18th century. During these later centuries certain peculiar customs persevered, such as the celebration of Saint Columbanus, and a series of processions which took place intra et extra muros, with stationes in those places of worship which were of most significance to Bobbio’s ecclesiastical and devotional history.
2009
In the State Public Library of Huesca is preserved under the catalogue number Ms. 113, a small 15-16th century Gregorian Codex. It is a unknown handbook codex for cantor use, that sometimes directs the choir or sings as a soloist. The manuscript has three distinct parts: own songs for Beatae parvum Officium Virginis Mariae, antiphons and responses for both cursus (de tempore and de sanctis) of processions, and songs of soloist as the Praeconium Paschale and lamentations of Holy Triduum. Its origin is the cathedral of Lérida, with the musical complement for two contemporary sources, as the Breviarium secundum illerdensis ecclesiae consuetudinem (Lérida, Henricus Botel, 1479), and Consuetudines Sanctae Sedis illerdensis ecclesiae, a manuscript of the 14th century, preserved in the Cathedral of Lleida. The present study comprises first one explanation of the contents of Ms. 113, then their codicological study, and thirdly the index of all the elements of this unique Gregorian codex.
This document is intended to assist readers of the Eric Knibbs translation of the Liber officialis of Amalarius of Metz by reproducing the table of contents for each book and the indices offered in the critical edition of Jean-Michel Hanssens. For more information on the usefulness of these indices, see Innocent Smith, “The Freedom of Glory and the Liturgy of the Church,” Dominicana 57:2 (2014): 24–35. Amalar of Metz, On the Liturgy, trans. Eric Knibbs, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 35-36 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014). Amalar of Metz, Amalarii episcopi Opera liturgica omnia, ed. Jean-Michel Hanssens, Studi e testi (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana) 138-140 (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1948–1950).
Analisi dell’evoluzione dell’immobile trecentesco attraverso l’edizione delle visite compiute in quella chiesa esente dalla giurisdizione dell’Ordinario diocesano, da parte dei vescovi di Giovinazzo quali Delegati Apostolici, e di altri documenti dell’Archivio Diocesano e dell’Archivio di Stato di Bari.
Im Geist der Reformation verstand Heinrich Bullinger Theologie in erster Linie als Auslegung der Heiligen Schrift. Mit diesem Band – dem neunten in der Reihe seiner Theologischen Schriften – wird die Edition seiner Kommentare zu den neutestamentlichen Briefen abgeschlossen. Darin enthalten sind die Auslegungen des Briefs an die Hebräer sowie der Katholischen Briefe. Die Texte sind anhand der Erstauflage sowie der ersten Gesamtausgabe der Kommentare Bullingers zu den neutestamentlichen Briefen (1537) historisch-kritisch ediert worden. Erschlossen wird die Edition durch eine Einleitung und insgesamt vier Register (Bibelstellen, Quellen, Personen und Orte).
2013
This dissertation summarizes the evidence for the use of canon law collections in England during the Christian Anglo-Saxon period, that is ca 600–1066. The method is text-historical, the focus being firstly on the scientific description of the primary evidence, and secondly on the evaluation of that evidence to determine which canon law collections were in circulation in Anglo-Saxon England, and exactly when, where and (in some cases) to whom they may have been available. An attempt is also made (in Chapter 2) to find a place for future discussion of canon law collections within the field of Anglo-Saxon Studies, a field traditionally resistant to this particular aspect of early medieval legal culture. This dissertation has been envisioned as primarily descriptive. Here and there, however, attempts are made to venture beyond mere description of the evidence and explore the broader significance of canon law collections to Anglo-Saxon legal culture as a whole; however, given the still nascent state of the study of Anglo-Saxon canon law, such explorations are very often speculative and can only be considered preliminary to a more detailed investigation into the social, political and institutional significance of the evidence that is herein presented. This is simply to say that the goals of the present study are more humble than might be hoped. A solid foundation, rather than a consummate edifice of historical analysis, is sought after. Indeed, it bears advertising up front that not only has the definitive treatment of Anglo-Saxon canon law yet to be written; in all likelihood, it will still be many years before it is even prudent to attempt such a thing. The appendices contain a number of transcriptions of canon law collections from Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, including the first ever transcriptions of the Collectio Sanblasiana and Collectio Turonensis, as well as transcriptions of Book 4 of the Collectio quadripartita and of the Collectio Wigorniensis (or ‘Excerptiones pseudo-Ecgberhti’) in four of its five redactions. The appendices also contain a review of the complex historiography surrounding the latter two collections, as well as case studies of three texts that appear to have been crucial to the development of canon law in the Anglo-Saxon church, namely the Libellus responsionum, the Constitutum Silvestri, and Ecgberht of York’s Dialogus. While the appendixed material is intended primarily as support for the broader arguments developed in the dissertation proper, it is also hoped that scholars will find some of that material useful in its own right, and that it will serve to promote further discussion of the importance of canon law collections―especially Continental canon law collections―within the context of Anglo-Saxon history.
Analisi dell’evoluzione dell’immobile ritenuto uno dei più antichi luoghi di culto di Giovinazzo, attraverso l’edizione delle visite pastorali compiute in quella chiesa dall’Ordinario diocesano, e di altri documenti dell’Archivio Diocesano e dell’Archivio di Stato di Bari.
alguns textos de Abelardo reunido por http://www.forumromanum.org. i'm not the autor.
2009
2012
Catholics and Orthodox often desire and discuss modern and contemporary liturgical reform. There are many ways to go about such reform. The largest experiment to date occurred from 1964-1967, yet it is little known and little studied. Most scholarship concentrates on the "Novus Ordo Missae" (1969). My doctoral dissertation attempted to undercover the rationale and methodology for the original reform of the Mass that failed to gain general acceptance at a 1967 Synod of Bishops in Rome. The ambiguous results stemming from episcopal votes on the text and celebration of the "Normative Mass" nonetheless allowed it to survive in a modified version as the skeleton upon which the current dominant order of the Latin liturgy (Novus Ordo Missae) is now enfleshed. This investigation serves as a point of reflection to consider the adoption of consistent and a priori values of reform before engaging any practical reform process. Any particular or universal Church that does so will likely minimize mistakes and maximize its possibility of achieving its ends. Finally, this study shows the absolute necessity of a good analogical application of metaphysics (genus, species, specific difference, essential properties) in order first to come to a knowledge of "what specifies a rite" so as to avoid the risk of expunging defining characteristics....the nature of which is often debated among many liturgists and liturgiologists of the various rites of Christendom. I have attached organizational charts for individuals who are interested in the actual function of the reforming groups and their interaction with other quasi-agencies of the reform process.
Da pochi anni è stato scoperto un documento di archivio che permette di attribuire senza dubbi il grandioso pavimento cosmatesco della Cattedrale di Ferentino al maestro Iacopo di Lorenzo. Qui l'autore presenta una prima analisi dettagliata dell'opera.
Texte intégral des notices rédigées en 2011 et 2012 et accompagnant la numérisation de manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de Verdun réalisée par la Société Arkhenum en 2011.
The purpose of the study is to analyse the elephant iconography during the Middle Age. The first step of the study is to analyse the mosaic in the cathedral of Trani (Puglia, Italy), representing a scene having a complex meaning. The elephant, symbol of Christ and imperial animal, crowed the medieval bestiaries, and sculptured, the wall of the sacred buildings in Puglia.