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Funeral Offices, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Italy (perhaps Lombardy), late fifteenth century]
Description
- Paper
Provenance
1. Written for a community of monks in northern Italy in the fifteenth century, most probably that of the Carmelites of Oliveto, Brescia: seventeenth- or eighteenth-century inscription on fol.53v stating that it was used in the choir there.
2. Petrus Julius Genutti (perhaps "of Genoa"); his eighteenth-century inscription on fol.1r, above a note of much the same date describing the gift of the volume to the "Libreria de Pl. Capia" by "Fr. Costrizo Capano".
Catalogue Note
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This volume contains a detailed record of the offices of the funeral processions of a monastic community (most probably that of the Carmelites of Oliveto, Brescia), specifying not only the services, but also the actions of each group of the community taking part, and where those actions are to take place. After the main office, the Lamentations of St. Jerome begin on fol.40v, followed by musical chants to be sung as the body is carried into the sepulchre (49r) and as the monks leave the tomb (52v).