Hore b.m.v. ad Vesperas

Hore Beate Marie Virginis

Vespers - Ad Vesperas

The contents of Vespers and Compline were frequently standardized in Western Europe, to a degree where the basic incipits apparently become useless as indicators for the location. The predominant standard sequence at Vespers is:
Ant. Beata mater, Chapter: Beata es virgo maria, Ant. at Magnificat: Sancta maria succurre. 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.

Appropiate notes from Vespers:
First Antiphon: incipit
Psalms: Group: [109,112,121,126,147] [121,122,123,124,125] [128,129,130,131,132] [131,132,133]
Chapter: incipit; (Optional: Responsory-verses: incipits)
Hymn: incipit (note sequence Hymn+Chapter or Chapter+Hymn)
Antiphon at Magnificat: incipit
Prayer(s): incipit(s) (optional)
[Commemoration of saints, if present]

Checklist:
Deus in adiutorium meum intende etc.-

Antiphona:

Dum esset Rex (Use of Rome only, a reliable indicator for the use) GKS 1607, Thott 541, Thott 546, BR
Ave maria gratia plena
Ave regina celorum (Liège, Vienne 1489)
Beata mater et innupta (Standard) GKS 1608, 1609, 1610, 3445, Thott 537, Thott 540, Thott 542, Thott 543, NKS 35, 132,
Beata mater et intacta (Orders or 16th century printed sources)
Beatam me dicent (Chartres, Chalon-sur-Saône, Paris, +) Thott 535 f.67, Thott 536 f.44,
Benedicta tu
Celi regina
Ecce maria genuit
Ecce tu pulchra es (common)
Fons ortorum
In odore[m]
Maria virgo semper letare (Prague only)
Missus est gabriel (Die, Séez)
O admirabile (Genève, Verdun, +)
Ortus conclusus
Post partum (common) Thott 545, Thott 548,
Pulchra es et decora (Orders, Paris OSA)
Regali ex progenie (Autun, Nevers) Thott 539 f.57v°
Sancta dei genitrix (common)
Sancta maria virgo intercede (Gran, Zagreb, +)
Sicut lilium (Carthusian)
Sub tuam protectionem
Sub tuum presidium

Psalmi

Ps.109 Dixit Dominus
Ps.112 Laudate pueri
Ps.121 Lætatus sum
Ps.126 Nisi Dominus ædificaverit
Ps.147 Lauda Jerusalem

[Ant. Dum esset Rex]
[Ant. Læva eius]
[Ant. Nigra sum]
[Ant. Iam hiems]
[Ant. Speciosa facta es]

Ps.121 Letatus sum
Ps.122 Ad te levavi
Ps.123 Nisi quia Dominus
Ps.124 Qui confidunt
Ps.125 In convertendo

Ps.128 Sæpe expugnaverunt
Ps.129 De profundis
Ps.130 Domine non est exaltatum
Ps.131 Memento Domine David
[+Ps.132 Ecce quam bonum]

Ant. If there is an antiphon to each psalm is this the antiphon to the last psalm, before the hymn or the chapter, otherwise the first antiphon is repeated here in fulltext [incipits ut supra]

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

Capitulum

Ab initio et ante (Use of Rome +) GKS 1607 f.73, Thott 541 f.29, Thott 546 f.47v°, [BR Eccli 24.14]
Beata es [virgo] maria (standard) GKS 1608 f.64, GKS 1609 f.54, GKS 1610 f.60, Thott 535 f.67, Thott 536 f.44v°, Thott 537 f.52, Thott 539 f.57v°, Thott 540 f.78v°, Thott 542 f.96, Thott 543 f.73v°, Thott 548 f.48, NKS 35 f.39,
Beata et venerabilis es virgo maria (Tournai only)
Beatam me dicent (Beaune)
Dilectus meus (Germany)
Dominus possedit me (Chur, Konstanz)
Ecce tu pulchra es (Augsburg, Genève, Hortulus animae)
Ecce virgo concipiet (Grenoble, Lyon, Séez, Viviers, +)
Ego flos campi (Avignon, Metz St.Arnulf, Sion, +)
Ego mater pulchre (German observance OSB, Chaise-Dieu OSB)
Ego quasi vitis (common)
Emulor enim vos dei (Chartres, Josaphat)
Felix namque es (Felix valde es: Carcassonne, Lagrasse)
Gaude maria virgo (St-Martin de Tours)
Gaudens gaudebo [in] domino (Mâcon only)
Hec est virgo (St-Benigne de Dijon, Monti´ramey)
In dilectus meus (Würtzburg 1507)
In omnibus requiem (common, Cistercian, +)
In plateis sicut (Brixen 1516)
Maria virgo semper letare (Limoges)
Quasi cedrus exaltata (Carthusian, Vallumbrosan, Worms)
Quasi vitis fructificavi (Liège only)
Que est ista que (Cavaillon, Die)
Qui gloriatur in domino (Vienne 1489)
Sicut cedrus (Antwerpen 1496, Noyon Ste-Godeberte, Premonstratensian)
Sicut cynamomum (common)
Sicut lilium inter spinas (Regensburg 1495)
Speciosa facta es (Clermont only)
Te laudent angeli (Oxford, Tynemouth)
Transite ad me omnes (Delft? GkS 3445)
Virgo dei genitrix (St-Vaast d'Arras, St-Bertin, Hasnon, St-Quentin, St-Thierry de Reims)

Hymnus

- [No hymn]
Ave maris stella (standard)
O quam glorifica luce (Arras, Cambrai, Tournai, +)
Quem terra ponthus (Brixen 1516)
Virgo dei genitrix (Hasnon only)
Virgo singularis (Clermont only)

Canticum : Magnificat

Antiphona

Beata mater (Use of Rome, Celestine) GKS 1607, GKS 1610, Thott 541, BR)
Alma redemptoris mater (mostly Germany)
Ave maria gratia plena (Die, Séez)
Ave regina celorum
Beata dei genitrix
Beatam me dicent (Zagreb +)
Gaude dei genitrix (St-Sauveur d'Evreux, Metz St.Arnulf, Le Puy en Velay)
Glorificamus te (Genève only)
Hec est regina (Autun, Clermont, St-Germain des Près) Thott 539 f.59
O gloriosa dei genitrix
Ortus conclusus (Angoulême, Grandmontine)
Post partum (Douai, Ste-Croix de Poitiers, St-Denis de Reims)
Rogamus te virgo virginum (Besançon, Collegiale de Gray, Genève, Sion)
Salve regina (Hamburg, Speyer +)
Sancta dei genitrix (Bazas, Clermont, St.Emmeran, St-Victor de Marseille)
Sancta maria succurre (standard) GKS 1608, 1609, 3445, Thott 535, 536, 537, 540, Thott 542, 543, 544, 545, NKS 35,
Sancta maria virginum (Arles, Toulouse, +)
Sancta maria virgo semper (Chiemsee, Senones, Soissons)
Speciosa facta es (Breslau, Salzburg)
Sub tuam protectionem (Gerona only)
Sub tuum presidium (Camaldolese, Le Mans, Nevers)
Tota pulchra es (Carthusian, Würtzburg 1507)
Virgo maria non est tibi (Spain, Portugal)

Ora. (de sco spiritu) [Deus qui corda fidelium]

Oratio

Concede nos famulos tuos (standard) GKS 1607 f.77v°, 1610 f.60v°, 3445, Thott 539 f.59, 540 f.79, 541 f.29v°, 542 f.102, 545 f.56, 546 f.51, 548 f.49, BR (Hours from Rouen has "Concede nos" at all hours except compline: GKS 1609, Thott 537, 543, 544)
Concede [quesumus] misericors deus fragilitati (Arras-Cambrai-Tournai)
Deus qui de beate marie Thott 536 f.46
Deus qui salutis eterne (Paris, +) Thott 535 f.68v°
Famulorum tuorum NKS 35 f.40
Gratiam tuam quesumus

Ora. (de omnibus sanctis) [Ecclesiam tuam quesumus]
[Commemoratio de Sanctis ] (Repetition of the commemoration of the saints that sometimes follow Laudes)(See examples in the decription of the manuscripts and cf. the index: Suffragia sanctorum)

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