HV- Bruges St.Donatian

Hours of the Virgin
Hore Beate Marie Virginis - Use of Bruges St. Donatian 1520

Ad Matutinum	Invitatorium Ave maria
Hymnus	(No hymn)	Ant. ps. 8: Benedicta tu
Lectio i.	Sancta maria virgo	Responsorium i. Sancta et immaculata
Ad Laudes	Pss. 92, 99, 62, 66, B, 148
Antiphona	Sancta dei genitrix
Capitulum	Virgo verbo concepit	Hymnus O gloriosa domina
Antiphona super Benedictus	Beata dei genitrix
Ad Primam	Pss. 1, 2, 5
Hymnus	Gloria tibi domine
Antiphona	Sub tuam protectionem
Capitulum	Hec est virgo sancta	R. Ave maria V.Benedicta tu
Ad Tertiam	Pss. 119, 120, 121
Hymnus	Ave maris stella
Antiphona	Cum iocunditate
Capitulum	Paradisi porta	R. Sancta dei genitrix V.Intercede
Ad Sextam	Pss. 122, 123, 124
Antiphona	Sancta maria virgo intercede
Capitulum	Virgo dei genitrix	R. Dignare me V.Da michi
Ad Nonam	Pss. 125, 126, 127
Antiphona	Alma virgo maria
Capitulum	Per te dei genitrix	R. Post partum V.Dei genitrix V.Speciosa facta es
Ad Vesperas	Pss. 109, 112, 121, 126, 147
Antiphona	Beata mater
Capitulum	Beata es maria	Hymnus Ave maris stella
Antiphona super Magnificat	Sancta maria succurre
Ad Completorium	Pss. 12, 42, 128, 130
Antiphona	Post partum
Capitulum	Gaude maria virgo	Hymnus Fit porta christi
Antiphona super Nunc dimittis	Glorificamus te

Source: VL 183, B961 (Breviarium ad usum insignis ecclesie sancti Donatiani Brugensis diocesis Tornacensis, pars hiemalis, Parisius 1520)
ED notes:
Variants: The Hours of Daniel Rijm (Ghent c.1420, Baltimore Walters Art Gallery Ms.W.166) has a surprising similarity with this office, but the chapter at Sext is Gaude maria virgo, and the Compline very different. (Thanks to Dr. Elizabeth Burin who kindly supplied me with details on the manuscript in 1995). The logical explanation is probably that both compositions are reminiscenses of a very ancient 12th cent. source, reflected in some surviving old variants from Arras-Cambrai.
Other sources: No book of hours, produced in Bruges in the 15th cent., has so far been found to contain this office! I suspect that the editors of the breviary took recourse to an old source in the archives, and revived a long forgotten use.

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