Hore b.m.v. ad Completorium

Hore Beate Marie Virginis

Compline - Ad Completorium

The contents of Vespers and Compline were frequently standardized in late medieval Europe, to a degree where the basic incipits apparently become useless as indicators for the location. The predominant standard sequence at Compline is:
Ant. Cum iocunditate, Chapter: Sicut cynamomum, Ant. at Nunc dimittis: Ecce completa sunt (the last antiphon is also subject to changes within the same use!). This international uniformity is an incentive to pay a greater attention in the future to the minor variations that has been neglected in research of the past. Compline has the greatest variation in the selection of psalms, especially in monastic uses, and the list below is far from complete.

Appropiate notes from Compline
Psalms: Group: [128,129,130] [131,132,133] [12,42,128,130] [12,30,86,(-)] [12,42,133] [4,30,133] [4,30,90,133] [30,86,116]
First Antiphon: incipit
Chapter: incipit; (Optional: Responsory-verses after chapter or hymn: incipits)
Hymn: incipit (note sequence Hymn+Chapter+Versus or Chapter+Hymn+Versus)
Antiphon at Nunc dimittis: incipit
Prayer(s): incipit(s) (optional)

Checklist:
Converte nos deus salutaris noster -Deus in adiutorium meum intende etc.-

Antiphona

[No antiphon: (common) BR (Use of Rome)]
Alleluia (Southern France, Orders)
Beata mater et innupta
Beatam me dicent (Laon only)
Benedicta tu (Strasburg 1489)
Completi sunt dies (common)
Cum iocunditate (Standard)
Dignare me (Spain)
Dum esset rex (Rouen OSA)
Ecce completa sunt (Hortulus animae, Verdun St.Maur)
Gaude maria virgo (Spain)
In prole mater (France)
Ortus conclusus (Clermont, +)
Paradisi porta (Bazas, Dax)
Post partum
Rubum quem (Celestine, Langres) Thott 540
Sancta dei genitrix (Paris, Spain +) Thott 535
Sicut lilium (Münster 1497)
Speciosa facta es (Tournai, Palencia, Siguenza)
Sub tuam protectionem (Germany)
Sub tuum presidium
Virgo maria non est tibi (Dominican, Orders)
Virgo verbo concepit

Psalmi

(Psalmi graduales continued from none) Ps.128 Sæpe expugnaverunt Ps.129 De profundis Ps.130 Domine non est exaltatum	(Psalmi graduales continued from none) GkS 3445 Ps.131 Memento Domine David Ps.132 Ecce quam bonum Ps.133 Ecce nunc benedicite
Standard sequence: (GKS 1610, NKS 35, Thott 537,543,545) Ps.12 Usque quo Domine Ps.42 Judica me Deus Ps.128 Sæpe expugnaverunt [+Ps.129 De profundis] Thott 548 Ps.130 Domine non est exaltatum	Cambrai: (Thott 542) Ps.12 Usquequo Domine Ps.42 Judica me Deus Ps.133 Ecce nunc benedicite

Hymnus: see below after the chapter (the sequence of the hymn and the chapter is variable)

Capitulum

Ego mater pulchre [Common, use of Rome+, BR Eccli 24.24] GKS 1607 f.80, Thott 540 f.84v°, Thott 541 f.31, Thott 546 f.53,
Ab initio et ante (Carcassonne, Ambrosian 1487)
Beata es [virgo] maria (Liège, Lyon, Mâcon, Teutonic Order +)
Beatam me dicent (Tournus only)
Benedicta et venerabilis (Lagrasse, Solsona)
Ecce completa sunt (Marmoutier 1496)
Ecce virgo concipiet (common)
Ego flos campi (Trier, Southern France, Spain+)
Ego quasi vitis (rare) GKS 3445 f.46v°
Felix namque es
Gaude maria virgo (Laon, +)
Hec est que nescivit (Nivelles Ste-Gertrude, Troyes St-Loup)
Hec est virgo (Metz)
In omnibus requiem (Chalon-sur-Saone, Lérins) Thott 536 f.47v°
In plateis sicut (St-Pierre de Lille, Vercelli, Vallumbrosan)
Maria virgo semper letare (Limoges, Rennes, Saintes, +)
Multe filie congregaverunt (Germany, Scandinavia +)
Paradisi porta (Besançon, Gran, Zagreb)
Quasi cedrus (Toledo, Pamplona)
Sapientia vincit (Piacenza, Humiliati)
Sicut cynamomum (Standard) GKS 1608 f.69, GKS 1609 f.56v°, GKS 1610 f.63, Thott 535 f.71v°, Thott 537 f.57v°, Thott 542 f.103, Thott 543 f.79v°, Thott 544 f.45, Thott 545 f.60, Thott 548 f.51v°, NKS 35 f.41, 132,
Speciosa facta es (Limoges, Le Mans)
Trahe me post te (Prague, Olmütz, Würtzburg)
Transite as me omnes (Hamburg, Mainz, Utrecht, Windesheim)
Virgo dei genitrix
Virgo verbo concepit (Autun, +) Thott 539 f.63

Hymnus

Ave maris stella
De casta nobis oriens
Enixa est puerpera (Cistercian)
Fit porta christi: NKS 132 ( GKS 3445 before the chapter)
Ihesu salvator seculi
Lux mundi beatissima (Gran)
Maria mater gratie (Spain)
Memento salutis auctor
O gloriosa domina
O quam glorifica luce
Virgo dei genitrix (before the chapter: GKS 1608, Thott 535, Thott 536, Thott 540)
Virgo singularis (Standard) GKS 1610, Thott 537, Thott 543 etc.
- Ecce ancilla domini (Standard) Thott 545, NKS 132,

Canticum: Nunc dimittis [Cant. Simeonis Luc.2,29-32]

Antiphona super Nunc dimittis:

Sub tuum presidium (Use of Rome, +) GKS 1607, Thott 541, Thott 545, Thott 548, BR
Ave regina celorum (Ste-Gudule de Bruxelles, Liège, Worms)
Beata mater (Camaldolese, Laon, Lyons, Vercelli +)
Beata progenies (Tournai only)
Beatam me dicent (Nevers only)
Benedicta tu (St-Bertin only)
Cum iocunditate (Paris) Thott 535
Dignare me (Amiens, Taragona)
Ecce ancilla domini (Possible error?, normally versicle after the hymn or chapter!)
Ecce completa sunt (Standard) GKS 1609, Thott 537, Thott 540, Thott 543, NKS 35
Fons ortorum (Münster 1497)
Glorificamus te (common) GKS 3445, NKS 132
In prole mater (Poitiers only)
O florens rosa (Liège only)
Ortus conclusus (Arras, Cambrai, Thérouanne) Thott 542
Que est ista que progreditur (Gran only)
Rubum quem (common)
Salve regina (Autun, Besançon, Saintes, +) Thott 539 f.63v°
Sancta dei genitrix (common) GKS 1610, Thott 536
Sancta maria succurre (Agen, Genève, Speyer, +)
Sicut mirra electa (Sens, Troyes) GKS 1608
Speciosa facta es (Southern France, Portugal +)
Spiritus sanctus (Carthusian, Viviers)
Sub tuam protectionem (common)
Tota pulchra es (Angers, Nantes, Rennes,+) Thott 114
Virgo maria non est tibi similis (Southern France)
Virgo verbo concepit (Auxerre, Marseille)

Oratio

Gratiam tuam quesumus (Standard) GKS 1608 f.70, GKS 1609 f.58, Thott 537, Thott 540 f.85v°, Thott 542 f.106, Thott 543 f.80v°, Thott 544 f.45v°, Thott 545 f.61, Thott 548 f.51v°, NKS 35 f.42
Adiuvet nos quesumus (St-Martial de Limoges)
Beate et gloriose semper[que] virginis (Use of Rome, +) Thott 541 f.32, BR
Concede [...] misericors deus fragilitati Thott 536 f.48, Thott 539 f.64
Exaudi nos deus salutaris GKS 1607 f.82
Famulorum tuorum
Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui gloriose virginis GkS 3445 f.43v, (Thott 546 f.54?)
Protege nos quesumus domine famulos tuos (Cambrai-Tournai)
Salva nos omnipotens deus (Liège)

Many books of hours has here an extra concluding section with "Salve Regina ", versicles, and an additional prayer (note: beware of confusions between the function of the many prayers that can occur at the end of compline!).

Salutatio marie

Antiphona

Salve regina misericordie GKS 1607 f.82v°, GkS 3445, Thott 536 f.48v°, (Thott 539 f.63v°),
Gaude virgo mater xpi Thott 543 f.81

(followed by a prayer, for further details see the individual description of the manuscripts, - a survey will later be added here).

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