This manuscript, substantially written before 1027, was produced for use at Chartres Cathedral.
It is one of the few medieval manuscripts to survive the accidental bombing of the municipal library on 26 May 1944. It had been removed from Chartres
around 1787, and was acquired from the municipal library of Saint-Étienne (Loire) in 1946. Its contents, many listed as links below, are principally
Usuard's Martyrology, music for the Office of St. Giles, and the Obituary of the Cathedral. Inserted into the Martyrology, in the first half of April,
are two leaves (mounted as a bifolio) devoted to Bishop Fulbert: on the first leaf is the obituary and eulogy of Fulbert within an architectural frame
(f. 33r) ending on the verso and followed by three lines giving the name of the artist, André de Mici (f. 33v). He painted the miniature on f. 34, showing
Fulbert in his Cathedral addressing a crowd of men and boys, and (under a separate arch) women. The Martyrology of Usuard (d. 875), a monk of St.
Germain-des-Prés, Paris, was the most popular one in use in Medieval Europe, and is a calendrical commemoration of the feasts of saints. The music for First
Vespers, Matins, Lauds and Second Vespers for the Feast of St. Giles, inserted between the Martyrology and the Obituary, has been attributed in whole or in
part to Fulbert, who also composed the text.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Tables of Rules and Moveable Feasts
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Insertion
Fulbert & his Cathedral
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Martyrology
October
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Two Charters |
Martyrology Prologue
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Martyrology
May
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Martyrology
November
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Short Litanies of the Saints
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Martyrology January
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Martyrology
June
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Martyrology
December
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Liturgical Ceremony: Hic est ordo... |
Martyrology February
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Martyrology
July
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Office of Saint Giles 1st Vespers Antiphon, Matins, Laudes, 2nd Vespers Antiphon |
Mass of the Dead: Lessons, Prayers
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Martyrology March |
Martyrology
August |
Mass of the Virgin: Collects |
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Martyrology April
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Martyrology
September
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Obituary Fulbert's obituary
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Charter
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A SELECTION OF FOLIOS
f. 9r Prologue |
f. 9v Prologue |
f. 12v January |
f. 19v February |
f. 25v March |
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f. 31r April |
f. 32v April |
f. 33r Fulbert: Obituary detail redrawn in Merlet & Clerval |
f. 33v Fulbert: Obituary detail redrawn in Merlet & Clerval |
f. 34r Fulbert: Miniature detail |
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f. 54v July |
f. 55r July |
f. 57v July |
f. 58r July |
f. 62r August |
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f. 70r September |
f. 77r October |
f. 84r November |
f. 90v December |
f. 96r Explicit & Office |
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f. 96v Office of St. Gilles |
f. 97r Office of St. Gilles |
f. 97v Office of St. Gilles |
f. 98r Office of St. Gilles |
f. 108r Obituary: Fulbert |
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