Ordines Coronationis Franciae - Volume 2. Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages - Middle Ages Series.

sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME II -- This is the second and last volume of all known medieval French coronation ordines and related texts. Every text in this volume dates after 1200, and every one, as explained in Vol. I: 3, is peculiarly French in that it provides not only for the king�s anointing with chrism from the Holy Ampulla, but also for the dominant ceremonial roles played by the peers of France. This distinguishes these texts from the first nineteen ordines, which are all generically Frankish or even western European. The General Introduction to Vol. I contains a full discussion of the texts selected, the manuscript sources, features of earlier editions, the development of the ritual, the reliability of the ordines, and the presentation of the edition. -- The ordines in this volume are very much based upon the traditions of the past. Every Latin formula in Ordo XXIIA appears in one ordo or another in Vol. I, and every formula in Ordo XXIV is to be found in an earlier ordo. Ordo XXIII adds nineteen formulas from several older sources, some of which cannot be precisely identified. The only novel formulas in Ordo XXV (nos. 26 and 28) are drawn from the liturgy of Reims cathedral. -- Four manuscripts in the cathedral of Reims were particularly important for the ordines in Vol. II, and they deserve a special note in this introduction. Two of them, both pontificals, survive to the present. Reims, Bibl. mun., MS 343 ( = Ordo XIX, MS A ) provided most of the text of Ordo XXI, and some readings in later ordines demonstrate that it was consulted several times thereafter. Reims, Bibl. mun., MS 342 ( = Ordo XV, MS G ) moved the coronation oath to a place very near the beginning of the ceremony, and it also continued to be consulted. ISBN 9780812235425