The Ranums' Panat Times

Notes for "My Reading of the Evidence, 1672"

1. Gazette, January 1672, p. 119.

2. Sévigné, Lettres, April 24, 1672. By "M***" did Mme de Sévigné mean "Madame," who had died on April 3?

3. Sévigné, Lettres, January 20, 1672.

4. Thoinon and Nuitter, Origines de l'Opéra, p. 221.

5. The underlined words were added later: "Icy l'orgue joüe un couplet si l'on veut, ou s'il n'y a point d'orgue il faudra joüer quelques simphonie. Passez après le couplet de l'orgue au Christe (fol. 7). Icy l'orgue joue un couplet sur les petits jeux si l'on veut, après lequel les violons recommencent Le Prelude du Kyrie et les voix Reprenent ensuite le Kyrie, comme cy devant l'orgue finit, ou quelque simphonie."

6. The color of the ink changes abruptly, on the other hand, between the Magnificat (fol. 46) and the Prose pour le jour de Pasques (H. 13), fol. 47. The composer used a new bottle of ink for H. 13, H. 312 and H. 284.

7. Arsenal, 8^o S: 13746.

8. Gazette, March 1672, p. 335.

9. A.N., M.C., XCIX, 250, vendition, February 20, 1672.

10. A.N., M.C., XCIX, 249, mainlevée, November 20, 1671, where Bourdeilles, then "comte de Montrésor," was given the right to remérer within the space of four years.

11. A.N., M.C., LXXV, 161, renunciation, May 19, 1672.

12. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4668, June 29, 1669.

13. Med. del Prin., 4816, February 26 and March 4, 1672.

14. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4670, April 3, 1672.

15. Arsenal, 8^o S: 13746.

16. Gazette, April 1672, p. 359. For further information about this funeral. see B.N., ms. fr. 23322, pp. 37-43.

17. Gazette, April 1672, p. 360.

18. Gazette, April 1672, p. 370.

19. The ceremonial of the order tells of a high mass on the morning for "Jeudy Saint," after which "il leur est neantmoins permis de chanter les matines de Tenebres." Cérémonial of 1626, pp. 127-128.

20. Mazarine, ms. 2740, fols. 13v, 15v, ceremonial book of Sainctot.

21. See the breviary of Paris, 1669, and especially that published in 1682, which states that "Ah penis crucior," an excerpt from the Book of Job, was part of the second nocturne, and that "Miseremini mei" was recited during the third nocturne (and not during the first, as the modern breviaries consulted by Hitchcock show). These breviaries reveal that the three nocturnes were only recited in full on November 1 or on the day of a burial and that, for the monthly services in honor of the dead, only one nocturne was said. H. 311 was consequently written either for November 1 (and the chronological sequence of the notebooks contradicts this hypothesis) or for a burial that took place shortly after Lent.

22. Brevarium romanum (Paris: F. Coustellier, 1669), hivernalis, p. clxv. For vespers: "cujus loco ad Laudes dicitur psalmus De Profundis, qui psalmi non dicitur indie omnium fidelium Defunct."; and Breviarium romanum (Paris: Josse, 1682), concerning the same service: "A laudes on dit le psaume De Profundis, lesquels psaumes ne se disent point au jour des Trepassez."

23. The "Requiem aeternam dona eis....(etc)" was only said after the final psalm of the service, that is, the Lauda anima (Ps. 146), Rituale parisiense (Paris: Josse, 1697), p. 254.

24. Rituale parisiense, 1697, p. 309.

25. Mazarine, ms. 2740, fol. 18.

26. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4670, Sept. 23 and Dec. 2, 1672.

27. Mazarine, ms. 2740, fols. 18-20v. Mlle de Guise's accounts show that Louis-Joseph de Lorraine's funeral costs long went unpaid.

28. Mazarine, ms. 2740, fol. 20v.

29. Gazette, May 1672, p. 492; Med. del Prin., 4670, May 20, 1672.

30. See, for example, the Missale Romanum (Bordeaux, 1607) approved by Pius V, at the library of the Société des Lettres de l'Aveyron, Rodez.

31. This prose was also said on the day of a death, the day of a burial and during a requiem mass (including the masses held on the third, seventh and thirtieth day after a death, and also for the Bout de l'An).

32. This Prose was eventually given a new prelude, which was supposed to be in cahier XVII, which contains works written between March 1673 and the fall of 1674.

33. Gazette, August 1672, p. 792.

34. Rituale parisiense, 1697, p. 256.

35. Loret, Muze, II, p. 248.

36. The annual service for the anniversary of Madame's death sung at Charonne is mentioned in Med. del Prin., 4769, file 1: April 2, 1678, and the annual service for Gaston is mentioned in file 2: March 3, 1678. For another allusion to these services, see Med. del Prin., 4768, file 1: April 5, 1677: Mmes de Guise and de Toscane attended the "funerale che vi se fà ogni Anno" at Charonne.

37. Gazette, June 1672, p. 551.

38. What works that apparently belonged to the Jesuits did he reuse? The two psalms (H. 160 ad H. 161) from cahier IX, which are on similijesuit paper, and this Te Deum (H. 145), which is on the same type of paper. These three works date from the time when Father Verthamon was at the professed house.
       What works composed for Mlle de Guise were reused after 1688?

H. 157	cahier 6	Miserere	for two voices
H. 244	cahiers 23-24	élévation	for three voices
H. 246	cahiers 23-24	élévation	for three voices
H. 99-110	cahiers 26-28	Nine lessons for tenebrae (sung at the Abbaye-aux-Bois, 1680)	for four voices
H. 180	cahier 33	Exaudiat "pour Versailles"	for a large ensemble
H. 190	cahier 39	Dixit Dominus	for a large ensemble
H. 333	cahier 41	pour les fêtes de la Vierge	for the Guise ensemble
H. 193	cahier 43b	Miserere "des Jésuites"	for the Guise ensemble
H. 258	cahier 49	Elevatio	for one voice

These works can be subdivided into several categories. Six of them were written either for Mlle de Guise's full ensemble of the 1680s or the small one of the 1670s. One of the works was written for the nuns of the Abbaye-aux- Bois, where the musician Loulié's sister was a nun and where one of Mlle de Guise's relatives was abbess. I therefore propose that Marie de Lorraine gave the lessons to the nuns as a gift. The two works for her full ensemble were clearly written for specific church events, as yet unidentified. The allusions "pour Versailles" and "des Jésuites" are posterior to the original performance: the former appears in the memorandum of 1726; and the latter was added by Charpentier at an undetermined date, but surely after Mlle de Guise's death.

39. Gazette, December 1672, p. 1232.

40. Almanach du Palais, bound with the journals of President de Bailleul, Arsenal, 8^o 13762.

41. The lengthy description of these festivities is found in the Gazette de France, no. 102 (published in August 1672), pp. 873-854.

42. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 370.

43. A.N., LL 1559, fol. 85.

44. Mazarine, 42809, piece 2: Règlemens avec Instructions et prieres pour l'Association de l'Adoration perpetuelle du tres-saint Sacrement de l'Autel dans la Paroisse de saint Jean en Greve ("sous l'autorité" de Harlay), pub. Paris: Fr. Muguet, 1673.

45. Règlemens, p. 56.

46. Règlemens, pp. 16-17.

47. Règlemens, pp. 22-27.

48. Règlemens, p. 51.