Original scientific paper

The Long Life of the Beneventan Tradition: the Relation between the Beneventan Pontifical of Kotor and the Gothic Pontifical of Dubrovnik

Richard F. Gyug ; Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York, USA

Abstract

The Vatican manuscript Burghes. 14 contains a pontifical or book of episcopal ceremonies written in Gothic script in the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century. Intended for the use of Dubrovnik it was later in Avignon and then Riga. Many of the manuscript’s ordines are based on ordines in the thirteenth-century Pontifical of the Roman Curia, a collection composed in Roman circles in several stages through the thirteenth century and the most-copied pontifical of the later medieval period. In addition to these ordines, the manuscript contains local elements, a number of which are based on texts like those copied in a twelfth-century Pontifical from Kotor in Beneventan script (St. Petersburg, BRAN, F. 200). Many of the local elements have been erased or otherwise modified to bring the manuscript into conformity with Roman practice.

Keywords

Città del Vaticano, BAV, Burghes. 14; St. Petersburg, BRAN, F. 200; Dubrovnik pontifical; Kotor lectionary-pontifical; thirteenth-century Pontifical of the Roman Curia; liturgy; Dalmatia; manuscripts

Hrčak ID:

133547

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/133547

Publication date:

13.11.2014.

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