Hore b.m.v. ad Laudes

Hore Beate Marie Virginis

The Lauds - Ad Laudes

The Lauds is the most complicated part of the Hours of the Virgin, with the largest number of variant readings. First because the "Cursus beate marie virginis" (in the breviaries) often left the reader with the enigmatical choice between alternative antiphons (xxx vel xxx) without further explanation, and secondly because it underwent numerous changes over the centuries, resulting in several different versions of the lauds from the same diocese. The psalms at Lauds were always the same in all uses, with the only variation that the last (Ps.148) sometimes is supplemented with one or two of the following psalms (149 and 150). In that case was there not always an antiphon for each psalm in ordinary books of hours, but only a first and a last antiphon. The antiphons here [within brackets] are those from the present use of Rome, now the so-called "Officium parvum B.M.V." in the Breviarium Romanum (BR). Note that the four antiphons are identical with the antiphons that follow at the small hours and in the same order. It was originally also the intention, and is the case in some good texts from the 13th-14th Century, but unfortunately too often later ignored and changed by the many "improvements" made to many local uses. The complete set of antiphons to the Lauds in different sources is a complex matter, that I will leave out in this context (there were normally 5 antiphons to the psalms in liturgical uses).
At the end of Lauds were often placed some commemorations of saints "et fit commemoratio de sanctis" see also under Vespers where the commemorations were repeated in the same form.

Appropiate notes from the Lauds:
First antiphon (Ps.92): incipit
(Optional: incipit of the antiphons between the psalms for research purposes)
Hymn: incipit (or absence-!) (note sequence: Hymn+Chapter or Chapter+Hymn)
Chapter: incipit.(Optional: Responsory after Chapter or Hymn: incipit)
Antiphon at the canticle Benedictus: incipit
Presence of Salve Regina (with verses)
Prayer(s): incipit (optional)
Commemoration of special saints (i.e. patrons of location and/or owners)

Checklist:
Deus in adiutorium meum intende etc.-

Antiphon

Assumpta est Maria (Use of Rome +) GKS 1607, GKS 1609, GKS 1611, Thott 537, Thott 540, Thott 541, Thott 543, Thott 544, Thott 546, BR
Beata mater (Bayeux, Dijon, Saintes +)
Beata progenies (Liège only)
Benedicta tu (Paris +) Thott 535, NKS 131
Dignare me (Sens, Troyes, Nevers) GKS 1608,
Maria virgo assumpta est (Coutances only?) Thott 545, Thott 548
O admirabile (common) GKS 3445
Post partum (common) Thott 536, NKS 35
Sancta dei genitrix (Cambrai, Autun & Southern France) Thott 539, Thott 542
Sub tuum presidium (common) GKS 1610

Psalms [Pss. 92, 99, 62, 66, B, 148, (149, 150)]

Ps.92 Dominus regnavit, decorem	[Ant.Assumpta est (=Prime)]
Ps.99 Iubilate Deo...servite	[Ant.Maria Virgo assumpta est (=Terce)]
Ps.62 Deus Deus meus, ad te
[Divisio: Ps.66 Deus misereatur]
Canticum: Benedicite [Canticum trium puerorum]	[Ant.In odorem (=Sext)]
Ps.148 Laudate Dominum de celis	[Ant.Pulchra es (=None)]
[Ps.149 Cantate Domino...laus]
[Ps.150 Laudate Dominum in sanctis]

[The possible choices of antiphons here should in principle be the same as the list at None].

Hymnus: (See below) A hymn can be placed both before and after the chapter:
H+C: Hymnus - Capitulum - Responsory & Versicle.
C+H: Capitulum - Hymnus - Responsory & Versicle

Capitulum

Viderunt eam filie syon (Use of Rome) GKS 1607 f.49, GKS 1611 f.4, Thott 541 f.19, Thott 546 f.24, [BR Cant.6.9 Laudes]
Ab initio et ante: Thott 545 f.29v°, Thott 548 f.32v°, (Coutances +)
Beata es [virgo] maria (common) Thott 539
Ego mater pulchre (Premonstratensian)
Ego quasi vitis (common)
Felix namque es (France, Spain) GKS 1608 f.34
Hec est speciosior (Liège only)
Hec est virgo (Tournai, Oxford)
Gaude maria virgo (France: Angers, Langres, Le Mans, + ) Thott 540 f.56
In omnibus requiem (common) GKS 1609 f.31v°, Thott 537 f.36, 543 f.41v°, 544 f.28v°,
Maria virgo semper letare (Bourges, Metz, Sarum, Tours, +) GKS 1610 f.53, NKS 35 f.24v°
Te laudent/laudant angeli (common, Paris and others) Thott 535 f.49
Virgo verbo concepit (common, especially in Northern France) Thott 542 f.74,

Hymnus

No hymn (-)
O gloriosa domina (Standard)
Ave maris stella
Fit porta xpi
Ihesu salvator seculi
O quam glorifica luce
Quem terra ponthus
Vere gratia plena (Orders)
Virgo dei genitrix quem totus, Thott 535

Canticum: Benedictus [Cant.Zachariae Luc.1,68-79].

Antiphona

[O] Beata dei genitrix (common, use of Rome, and all mss. where the first antiphon is Assumpta est)
Alma virgo maria (Mainz, Chiemsee)
Ave regina celorum
Beata mater et innupta (OSA)
Dei genitrix virgo semper
Gaude dei genitrix (Orders)
Hec est regina Thott 535 f.50v°
Maria virgo semper letare
O florens rosa GKS 3445
O gloriosa dei genitrix (common) GKS 1610, Thott 543, Thott 545, Thott 548, NKS 35
Ortus conclusus (Orders)
Que est ista que ascendit
Rogamus te virgo
Salvator mundi Thott 536
Sancta dei genitrix
Sancta maria succurre Thott 539
Sub tuam protectionem
Sub tuum presidium (France only, GKS 1608, Thott 540)
Succurre alma dei genitrix (Tournai)
Succurre nobis genitrix
Vidi speciosam
Virgo dei genitrix

[Salve Regina (with verses)]
[Oratio: Prayer to the Holy Spirit]

Oratio (Collecta)

Deus qui de beate marie (Use of Rome+) GKS 1607 f.56, GKS 1608 f.43, GKS 1610 f.7, Thott 535, Thott 539, Thott 541 f.21, Thott 542 f.78, Thott 546 f.36, NKS 35 f.26, BR
Beate et gloriose semper[que] virginis
Concede [quesumus] misericors deus fragilitati (Arras, Cambrai)
Concede nos famulos tuos GKS 1609, 1610, 3445, Thott 537, Thott 540, 543, 544, 545 (cf. Vesper)
Deus qui salutis eterne Thott 542 f.77
Gratiam tuam quesumus GKS 1611 f.6

[Oratio: Prayer to All Saints]

[Commemoratio de Sanctis ] (cf.Vespers)

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