Le Cérémonial de Grégoire X (vers 1273)
The shortest and most ancient of the surviving general Ceremonials of the Roman Curia is still in large part unedited. It is the Ordinal written at the suggestion of Pope Gregory X, a short while after his election as Sovereign Pontiff. Its date can be determined, within a few months, as occurring i...
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Ed. Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana
1972
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Gregorianum
Year: 1972, Volume: 53, Issue: 3, Pages: 535-565 |
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| Summary: | The shortest and most ancient of the surviving general Ceremonials of the Roman Curia is still in large part unedited. It is the Ordinal written at the suggestion of Pope Gregory X, a short while after his election as Sovereign Pontiff. Its date can be determined, within a few months, as occurring in the year 1273. This is shown here by indicating the « terminus a quo » and the « terminus ad quem ». The « terminus a quo » is the consecration which took place on March 27, 1272; the « terminus ad quem », the famous constitution on the conclave which in July, 1274, astonished the participants at the Council of Lyons. The author must be sought among the pope's entourage, since the only conjectures possible indicate that one cannot go beyond this circle. The contents consist of three parts. The first, which treats the entrance of the Roman Pontiff (edited in the middle 17 century by Rinaldi, then by Mabillon, and again by Andrieu) is readily seen to be a very concise and well-ordered section. The properly liturgical parts which follow — the temporal cycle of feasts (printed in Mabillon's edition) and the Sanctoral cycle, as it was practiced in the Curia, — are a prelude to the description of the papal rite. The Sanctoral cycle and the section which concerns papal ceremonial (Masses at which the pope assisted, or for those which he himself chanted) have never before been published. The late Father S. J. van Dijk has rightly included this hitherto unedited text, among other sections, at the end of his splendid Ordinal of Innocent III. The new text of the Ceremonial of Gregory X was discovered by Paul Fabre in one Parisian manuscript. Similarly the Ordo of Pope Innocent III has been preserved in a single Parisian manuscript, discovered by Andrieu. This document is more extensive; it provides all essential data concerning the ceremonies of the papal chapel. It had been filled out with various interpolations from the time of Honorius III to that of Boniface VIII. The text of Gregory X complements it. These two documents taken together enhance our understanding of the entire papal liturgy of the 13th century. This important book is about to appear in the Spicilegium Friburgense. Our brief study serves only to introduce it. Some appended notes throw light on a few enigmatic points of the text: the date of a « blank » bull, the meaning of the word Ordo, the Golden rose, the altar of Sts. Peter and Paul at St. Peter's in Rome. |
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