Description
Following the different chroniclers of the Order since the early 16th century, it has been posited that the Hieronymites, at least in their Spanish monasteries, had adopted the Roman liturgy and the chant of Toledo Cathedral. A cursory examination of the characteristic series of responsories and their verses for the Sundays in Advent, the Triduum, and the Office for the Dead, and the canticle antiphons for the Sundays after Pentecost in the 1499 Breviarium Romanum moribus et consuetis fratrum ordinis sancti Hieronymi in parallel with a number of Portuguese Hieronymite manuscript antiphoners clearly shows that the Order indeed followed the Roman-Franciscan liturgy in the core texts of the Temporale. However, the origin of their corresponding chants is much more difficult to ascertain. Readings in late 15th- and 16th-century Portuguese Hieronymite antiphoners are rather uniform (to a degree comparable to Cistercian or Dominican antiphoners), but, on the whole, they are not traceable to a single use, not least a single model. In this paper, I explore different classes of variant readings in some of the Magnificat and Benedictus antiphons for the Sundays after Pentecost as found in Portuguese Hieronymite antiphoners, collating them with up to thirty sources from different uses and geographies, particularly Franciscans and central-Italians, Beneventan, Aquitanian-Iberians, and French.| Period | 10 Feb 2023 |
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| Event title | The Hieronymite Musical and Liturgical Tradition within the European Context (14th-16th c.) |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Lisbon, PortugalShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |