{"id":2487,"date":"2020-02-27T08:37:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T13:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2020-02-27T10:07:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T15:07:12","slug":"breviarium-romanum-and-the-origin-of-seton-halls-rare-book-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2020\/02\/breviarium-romanum-and-the-origin-of-seton-halls-rare-book-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Breviarium Romanum and the Origin of Seton Hall\u2019s Rare Book Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Monsignor Robert Wister<\/p>\n

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The Stuart Breviary, featuring the Cardinal Duke of York’s distinct coat of arms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The\u00a0Roman Breviary<\/em>\u00a0(Latin:\u00a0Breviarium Romanum<\/em>) is the book containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, psalms, and readings for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons of the Catholic Church. Currently, it is known as the Divine Office<\/em> or The Liturgy of the Hours.<\/em><\/p>\n

After the Council of Trent (1545-1563), the popes tried to impose a single standard version of the Breviary throughout the Church. They had some success, but many dioceses and religious orders retained their local customs.<\/p>\n

Seton Hall\u2019s Breviary is an unusual one. As its title indicates Breviarium Romanum ad usum Cleri Basilicae Vaticanae<\/em>, it is the Breviary for the Basilica of Saint Peter, the Vatican Basilica. Many cathedral churches and great basilicas especially in Europe, have a \u201cChapter of Canons.\u201d This group of priests have the responsibility to daily pray the Divine Office. This Breviary contains the ritual they would use, including prayers and hymns unique to the Basilica.<\/p>\n

As indicated by the inscription \u201cJoan. Nolin sculp.\u201d at the base of the column on the left of the title page, the title page was engraved by Jean-Baptiste Nolin\u00a0(c.\u00a01657\u20131708), who was a French cartographer and engraver. The page pictures Saint Peter\u2019s Basilica and Square, framed by large statues of Saints Peter (left) and Saint Paul (right). Above in the center is the coat of arms of Pope Clement X (1670-1676).<\/p>\n

Among his many offices, Cardinal Stuart was Archpriest of Saint Peter\u2019s Basilica from 1751 to 1807. This post included the responsibility to pray with the canons on specific occasions. Its well-worn condition attests to the Cardinal\u2019s fidelity to these responsibilities.<\/p>\n

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The spine of the Stuart Breviary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As noted on the second title page, our Breviary was printed in Paris by Sebastian Mabre-Cramoisy (1637? -1687), Printer to the King, in 1674. In the introduction, the editor notes that it contains certain prayers and scripture readings that are particular to the clergy of Saint Peter\u2019s Basilica. And that the last printing was more than eighty years before and few copies remain. Therefore, it is surprising that Cardinal Stuart would be using a book that is more than a century old since there is record of a 1740 printing. Of course, this version was printed by the renowned Mabre-Cramoisy and the cardinal had it rebound in magnificent red leather and adorned with his coat of arms.<\/p>\n

At the bottom of the page, in very small cursive script is the following:<\/p>\n

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Inscription by Bishop Bayley, describing the circumstances of its purchase. The inscription reads: “This Breviary was purchased at Rome from a lot of Books which had belonged to Henry Stuart, Cardinal of York. It bears his arms on the cover and probably was the one used by himself as Arch Priest of S. Peter\u2019s. It was brought from Rome to New York, and came into the possession of The Rt. Revd. Bp. Hughes from whom I obtained it. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St. John\u2019s Coll. Fordham May 6th MDCCCXLV”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0<\/em>This short note by Father Bayley, later Bishop Bayley, the founder of Seton Hall University, gives an insight into the manner in which fledgling colleges in the United States would stock their libraries. In later letters and diary entries after he became bishop of Newark, Bayley refers to purchasing large lots of books in Europe, often from shuttered colleges, convents, and monasteries. These volumes formed the core of the libraries of new American colleges. There are numerous examples of centuries-old books with the stamp Collegium Setoniense<\/em> in the Walsh Library collections.<\/p>\n

See the Stuart Breviary itself and learn more about the Cardinal Duke of York who owned it at the exhibit in the Monsignor William Noe Field Special Collections Center on the first floor of Walsh Library, through March 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Monsignor Robert Wister The\u00a0Roman Breviary\u00a0(Latin:\u00a0Breviarium Romanum) is the book containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, psalms, and readings for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons of the Catholic Church. Currently, it is known as the Divine Office or The Liturgy of the Hours. After the Council of Trent (1545-1563), the popes … Continue reading “Breviarium Romanum and the Origin of Seton Hall\u2019s Rare Book Collection”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4204,"featured_media":2490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}