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The Office of St. Mary of Salome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2009

James John Boyce
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The manuscript Vatican City, Vatican Library, Vaticanus Latinus 10781 is a 15th-century antiphonal from Veroli, an Italian town located south of Rome and north of Cassino. It is particularly interesting for the study of late medieval chant, since it contains a virtually complete setting of the office of Mary, mother of the apostles John and James; a closer examination of the chant texts identifies the saint as Mary of Salome. Mary of Salome is also known as one of the Three Marys, the other two being Mary of Cleophas and Mary the mother of the Lord. Although two exemplars of an office of the Three Marys are preserved in Carmelite manuscripts, the office presented in our codex remains distinct from the office of the Three Marys.

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Journal of the Plainsong & Mediaeval Music Society , Volume 11 , January 1988 , pp. 25 - 47
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© The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society 1988

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[1] The manuscript is described in Iohannes Bapt. Borino, : Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae codices manu scripti… (Vatican City 1947), 246–247 Google Scholar. A marginal notation by a later hand on f.3r indicates that the codex comes from the church of St Erasmus in Veroli.

[2] For a discussion of the office of the Three Marys in Carmelite antiphonals, see my dissertation: carmelitana, Cantica: the chants of the Carmelite office, vol.1 (New York University 1984, University Microfilms no. 8505471), especially pp.210–214 Google Scholar. The office is transcribed in Vol.II, pp.267–341. For the next issue of this Journal I have prepared a new edition of the Carmelite Office of the Three Marys.

For information on the devotion to the Three Marys see Driscoll, Michael T., O.Carm.: ‘“L'Histoire des Trois Maries” by Jean de Venette, O.Carm.’, Cahiers de Joséphologie, 23 (1975), 231–254 Google Scholar, and Coville, Alfred: ‘Jean de Venette, auteur de l'histoire des Trois Maries’, Histoire Littéraire de la France, 38 (1949), 355–404 Google Scholar.

[3] All scriptural citations are taken from The New American Bible (New York 1970)Google Scholar.

[4] See Fenicchia, Vincenzo: ‘Salome, madre degli apostoli Giacomo e Giovanni, santa’, Biblioteca Sanctorum, vol. XI (Rome, 1961), 583–586 Google Scholar.

[5] Fenicchia, ‘Salome’, col. 584.

[6] AH 28, pp.36–38. My thanks to Professor Andrew Hughes of the University of Toronto and Dr. Angela Bussi Dillon of the Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana for supplying information about the Vallombrosan source.

[7] For a discussion of these manuscripts see my articles ‘Medieval Carmelite office manuscripts: a liturgical inventory’, Carmelus 33 (1986), 17–34 Google Scholar; ‘Die Mainzer Karmeliterchorbücher und die liturgische Tradition des Karmeliterordens’, Archiv für mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte 39 (1987), 267–303 Google Scholar; and ‘The Carmelite choirbooks of Florence and the liturgical tradition of the Carmelite Order’, Carmelus 35 (1988), 67–93 Google Scholar.