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Office of the Dead

Latin Keywords	vigiliae, agenda, mortuorum, defunctorum, animarum
Short Description	A special Proper of the Divine Office for departed souls, also known from its first antiphon as the "Placebo". The Office contained only the first Vespers and Matins (including Lauds), omitting almost all parts that are also absent from the Hours of the Paschal Triduum. It was recited as a regular supplement to the daily Office, besides use on the actual day of burial and All Souls.

Documents

Book	Original Index Title	P.N
AD Les Bons 1100-1200, Sacramentary, Collectary, Bibl. Montserrat Ms. 72 \| 7824	Incipit officium defunctorum	57
AT Salzburg 1482, Breviary, Breviarium Salisburgense \| 566	Placebo Domino	512
AT Salzburg 1000-1050, Pontifical, BM Vendôme Ms. 14 \| 1022	Antiphonae et lectiones ac responsoria in vigilia defuncti	145
BE Tournai 1497, Breviary, Breviarium Tornacense \| 626	Sequuntur vigiliae mortuorum	192 (fo.87v)
CH Basel 1490 (about), Breviary, Breviarium Basiliense \| 782	Incipiunt vigiliae mortuorum	537
CH Basel 1498, Breviary, Breviarium Basiliense \| 198	Incipiunt vigiliae mortuorum	162
CZ Olomouc 1499, Breviary, Breviarium Olomucense \| 437	Sequuntur vigiliae maiores defunctorum	138
CZ Praha 1502, Breviary, Breviarium Pragense \| 545	Vesperae defunctorum	804
DE Augsburg 1485, Breviary, Liber horarum Augustensis \| 774	Incipit officium in agenda mortuorum	1217
DE Bamberg 1501, Breviary, Breviarium Bambergense \| 192	Sequuntur vigiliae seu vesperae mortuorum	405 (27v)
DE Eichstätt 1589, Breviary, Breviarium Eystetense \| 904	Vigiliae mortuorum	841
DE Erfurt 1518, Breviary, Breviarium Erfordiense \| 247	Vesperae mortuorum	40
DE Freising 1491, Breviary, Breviarium Frisingense \| 887	Officium in agenda mortuorum	170
DE Halberstadt 1510, Breviary, Breviarium Halberstadense \| 906	Placebo Domino	665
DE Havelberg 1300 (about), Gradual, Antiphonal, Psalter, StaBi Berlin Ms. theol. lat. fol. 319 \| 5523	Lectiones vigiliae defunctorum	5
DE Konstanz 1501, Breviary, Breviarium Constantiense \| 305	Placebo	757
DE Magdeburg 1514, Breviary, Breviarium Magdeburgense \| 361	Sequuntur vesperae vigiliarum	500
DE Magdeburg 1508 (after), Ceremonial, Ordinal, StaBi Berlin Ms. theol. lat. Quart. 113 \| 2918	In Commemoratione omnium fidelium	344
DE Mainz 1487, Breviary, Breviarium Moguntinum \| 367	Incipiunt vigiliae maiores	111
DE Mainz (OSB) 0950 (about), Sacramentary, ÖNB Wien Cod. 1888 (olim: Theol. 685) \| 4581	In agenda mortuorum	357
DE Meißen 1511, Diurnal, Diurnale Misnense \| 880	Vesperae vigiliarum	372
DE Meißen 1517, Breviary, Breviarium Misnense \| 881	Sequuntur vesperae et vigiliae mortuorum	517 (71v)
DE Trier 1501, Breviary, Breviarium Treverense \| 636	Vigiliae mortuorum	114 (49v)
DE Würzburg 1509, Breviary, Breviarium Herbipolense \| 907	Vigiliae mortuorum maiores	226
DK Odense 1510 (about), Breviary, Breviarium Ottoniense \| 430	Incipit vigiliae mortuorum	523 (264v)
DK Roskilde 1517, Breviary, Breviarium Roscildense \| 505	Vigiliae mortuorum	153 (61v)
ES Burgos 1480-1485, Breviary, Breviarium Burgense \| 219	In agenda mortuorum	488 (236v)
ES Lleida 1479, Breviary, Breviarium Illerdense \| 345	Incipit officium defunctorum	496
ES Mozarabes 1502, Breviary, Breviarium Mozarabicum \| 873	Incipit officium mortuorum	643
ES Santiago de Compostela 1569, Breviary, Breviarium Compostellanum \| 788	Officium defunctorum secundum morem almae ecclesiae Compostellanae	1218
ES Silos 1150-1200, Missal, BU Salamanca Ms. 2637 \| 3715	... dixi pater meus es mater mea et soror mea vermibus	500
ES Toledo 1492, Breviary, Breviarium Toletanum \| 612	In officio defunctorum	521 (252v)
ES Toledo 1515, Psalter, Psalterium Toletanum \| 613	In obsequio defunctorum	313
ES Zaragoza 1496, Breviary, Breviarium Caesaraugustanum \| 886	Incipit officium defunctorum	323 (100v)
FR Angoulême 1509, Ritual, Manuale Engolismense \| 917	Ad vesperas mortuorum	64 (28r)
FR Beaune 1517, Breviary, Breviarium Belnense \| 202	Incipiunt vigiliae mortuorum	740
FR Beauvais 1544, Ritual, Manuale Belvacense \| 909	Sequuntur vigiliae mortuorum	158
FR Cambrai 1497, Breviary, Breviarium Cameracense (pars hiemalis) \| 221	Sequitur officium mortuorum	324 (55v)
FR Cambrai 1497, Breviary, Breviarium Cameracense (pars aestivalis) \| 222	Sequitur officium mortuorum	292 (g7v)
FR Carcassonne 1350 (about), Breviary, BNF Paris Lat. 01036 \| 903	In die omnium sanctorum post vesperas diei festi ad generalem memoriam defunctorum ad vesperas	422
FR Elne 1500, Breviary, Breviarium Elnense \| 243	Incipit officium defunctorum	965 (202r)
FR Fréjus 1495, Breviary, Breviarium Foroiuliense \| 908	Incipit officium in agenda mortuorum	958
FR Fréjus 1495, Breviary, Breviarium Foroiuliense \| 908	In matutinis in agenda mortuorum	1023
FR Lagrasse 1075-1200, Collectary, Ritual, BNF Paris Latin 933 \| 6196	Incipiunt orationes defunctorum	204
FR Limoges 1518, Ritual, Manuale Lemovicense \| 1197	Sequuntur vigiliae mortuorum	224 (100v)
FR Mende 1260-1285, Treatise, Guillelmus Durandus \| 7830	10. Officium mortuorum, ad quid careat secundis vesperis	739
FR Mende 1260-1285, Treatise, Guillelmus Durandus \| 7830	CAPUT XXXV. De officio mortuorum	1337
FR Metz 0800-0851, Treatise, Amalarius Metensis - Opera omnia (ST) \| 7831	42. De officiis mortuorum	919
FR Metz 0800-0851, Treatise, Amalarius Metensis - Opera omnia (ST) \| 7831	79. De ordine sepulturae cuiuscumque Christianae	1074
FR Metz 1686, Ritual, Rituale Metense \| 7845	Officium defunctorum	268
FR OCist 1183-1188, Evangeliary, Mass Lectionary, Sacramentary, Collectary, Martyrology, Office Lectionary, Ritual, Custumary, BM Dijon Ms. 0114 \| 2332	Officium defunctorum	304 (150v)
FR OP 1492, Breviary, Breviarium Dominicanum \| 444	Orationes in officio defunctorum	742
FR OP 1311 (about), Ritual, OSZK Budapest Cod. lat. 69 \| 7738	Placebo Domino	162
FR OPraem 1490, Breviary, Breviarium Praemonstratense \| 459	Sequuntur vesperae mortuorum	132 (58v)
FR OPraem 1504, Breviary, Breviarium Praemonstratense \| 822	Ad vesperas vigiliarum	597
FR Paris 1500 (after), Breviary, Breviarium Parisiense \| 523	Vesperae mortuorum	850 (b.182v)
FR Soissons 1534, Breviary, Breviarium Suessionense \| 593	Incipiunt vigiliae mortuorum	145 (61r)
FR Vannes 1532, Ritual, Manuale Venetense \| 767	In agenda mortuorum	114 (70v)
FR Vannes 1559-1566, Pontifical, BM Vannes Ms. 2 \| 1021	De vesperis et matutinis pro defunctis	99 (91v)
FR Vienne 1489, Breviary, Breviarium Viennense \| 676	Hic incipit officium mortuorum secundum usum Viennensis ecclesiae	947 (yy3)
GB Aberdeen 1509, Breviary, Breviarium Aberdonense (pars hiemalis) \| 824	Placebo Domino in regione vivorum	211 (83r)
GB Aberdeen 1509, Breviary, Breviarium Aberdonense (pars aestivalis) \| 823	Placebo Domino in regione vivorum	201 (83r)
GB Guisborough 1200-1300, Breviary, Processional, BL London Add. Ms. 35285 \| 755	Incipit commendatio animae	425 (211v)
GB Salisbury 1531, Breviary, Breviarium Sarum \| 564	Placebo	79 (xlv)
GB Salisbury 1531, Breviary, Breviarium Sarum \| 564	Officium mortuorum	1022 (271)
GB Salisbury 1531, Breviary, Breviarium Sarum \| 564	Finitis his vesperis	1833 (981)
GB Winchester 1061 (about), Ritual, Corpus Christi Cambridge Ms. 422 \| 3900	Placebo Domino	476
HR Zagreb 1484, Breviary, Breviarium Zagrabiense \| 693	Consequenter subiiciamus officium mortuorum	94 (e10v)
HR Zagreb 1484, Breviary, Breviarium Zagrabiense \| 862	Placebo Domino in regione vivorum	117 (117)
HR Zagreb 1430, Breviary, Knj. Metrop. Zagreb MR 103 \| 5406	Sequuntur vigilae mortuorum	120 (73v)
HU Esztergom 1558, Breviary, Breviarium Strigoniense \| 255	Incipiunt vesperae mortuorum	327
HU Esztergom 1480, Breviary, Breviarium Strigoniense \| 259	Incipiuntur vesperae defunctorum	110 (39r)
HU OSPPE 1540, Breviary, Breviarium Paulinum \| 473	Incipiunt vigiliae mortuorum	168
HU OSPPE 1526-1550, Hymnary, Processional, Ritual, OSPPE Czestochowa R. 583 (olim: I-215) \| 7774	Placebo Domino	153
IL OCarm 1543, Breviary, Breviarium Carmelitanum \| 412	Incipit officium mortuorum	270
IT Bressanone 1516, Breviary, Breviarium Brixinense (pars hiemalis) \| 215	Sequuntur vigiliae mortuorum	179 (72v)
IT Capua 1489, Breviary, Breviarium Capuanum \| 874	In Commemoratione omnium fidelium defunctorum	979
IT Lodi 1200-1300, Ritual, BNF Paris NAL 1030 \| 3314	Ad vigiliam mortuorum	48 (47v)
IT Roma 1599, Breviary, Breviarium Romanum \| 483	Officium defunctorum	1015 (95v)
IT Roma 1614, Ritual, Rituale Romanum \| 1195	Officium defunctorum	117
IT Roma 1100-1200, Antiphonal, BAV Arch. S. Pietro B. 79 \| 6504	Incipit officium defunctorum ... Credo qui Redemptor meus vivit	389
IT Siena 1215, Ceremonial, Ordinal, Treatise, Bibl. Com. Siena G.V.8 \| 7848	Qualiter vigiliae et vesperae pro defunctis fiant in ecclesia nostra per totum annum	535
NL Utrecht 1497, Breviary, Breviarium Traiectense \| 659	Incipit commendatio animarum	38 (a5r)
NL Windesheim 1499, Breviary, Breviarium Windeshemense \| 679	Incipiunt vigiliae defunctorum	419 (h7v)
NO Trondheim 1519, Breviary, Breviarium Nidrosiense \| 642	Sequuntur vigiliae mortuorum	491 (239v)
PL Kraków 1507, Psalter, Psalterium Cracoviense \| 311	Placebo Domino in regione vivorum	218 (90v)
PT Braga 1494, Breviary, Breviarium Bracarense \| 213	Hic incipit officium defunctorum	95 (61r)
PT Coimbra 1300-1400, Missal, Arq. Distr. Univ. Coimbra Estante XVI, tab.5, nº 5 \| 1379	Placebo Domino	2
PT Évora 1548, Breviary, Breviarium Elborense \| 892	Incipiunt horae defunctorum secundum Eborensis ecclesiae consuetudinem	596 (Pp3v)
RO Oradea 1460, Breviary, BAV Vat. lat. 08247 \| 6500	Placebo Domino	634
SE Lund 1517, Breviary, Breviarium Lundense \| 347	Sequuntur vigiliae mortuorum	148 (60r)
SE Skara 1498, Breviary, Ritual, Breviarium Scarense \| 592	Placebo Domino	153
SE Uppsala 1496, Breviary, Breviarium Upsalense \| 653	In commemoratione defunctorum	759 (u2r)

Book
FR Saint-Malo 1503, Missal, Missale Macloviense \| 86
FR Albi 1100-1200, Pontifical, BM Albi Ms. 34 (20) \| 156
FR Angers 1543, Ritual, Manuale Andegavense \| 162
FR Besançon 1515 (about), Ritual, Manuale Bisuntinense \| 206
FR Bourges 1538, Ritual, Manuale Bituricense \| 212
IT Bressanone 1493 (after), Ritual, Obsequiale Brixinense \| 216
FR Coutances 1494, Ritual, Manuale Constantiense \| 275
DE Freising 1005-1039, Pontifical, BSB München Clm 21587 \| 287
CH Genève 1508, Ritual, Manuale Gebennense \| 291
FR Laon 1538, Ritual, Manuale Laudunense \| 321
CH Lausanne 1508-1510, Ritual, Manuale Lausannense \| 323
FR Le Mans 1511, Ritual, Manuale Cenomanense \| 327
FR Lisieux 1523, Ritual, Manuale Lexoviense \| 342
SE Lund 1250 (about), Hymnary, UB Uppsala C 515 \| 348
DE Mainz 1671, Ritual, Agenda Moguntina-Herbipolensis-Wormatensis \| 370
IT Messina 1300-1500, Pontifical, BNE Madrid Ms. 00715 \| 383
FR Nevers 1582, Ritual, Manuale Nivernense \| 402
IT Roma 1476, Ritual, Rituale Romanum \| 500
PL Płock 1554, Ritual, Agenda Plocensis \| 535
FR Poitiers 1587, Ritual, Manuale Pictaviense \| 539
CH Sankt Gallen 1100-1200, Ritual, OSB St. Gallen Cod. Sang. 0395 \| 572
BE Tournai 1591, Ritual, Manuale Tornacense \| 625
IT Troia 1300-1350, Pontifical, BN Napoli Ms. VI G 24 \| 640
FI Turku 1522, Ritual, Manuale Aboense \| 651
SE Uppsala 1487, Ritual, Manuale Upsalense \| 654
IT Siena 1100-1300, Pontifical, Bibl. Com. Siena Ms. F. VI. 8 \| 738
FR Limoges 1596, Ritual, Enchiridion Romano-Gallicum \| 762
FR Cahors 1593, Ritual, Manuale Cadurcense \| 768
FR Tours 1533, Ritual, Manuale Turonense \| 789
FR Arras 1600, Ritual, Manuale Atrebatense \| 812
FI Turku 1522, Ritual, Manuale Aboense \| 836
AT Salzburg 1000-1100, Pontifical, ÖNB Wien Cod. 1830 Han \| 882
IT Firenze 1000-1025, Sacramentary, Laurenziana Firenze Ms. Aedil. 122 \| 900
FR Aurillac 1050-1100, Antiphonal, BNF Paris Lat. 00944 \| 913
HU Esztergom 1583, Ritual, Agendarius Strigoniensis \| 919
HR Dubrovnik 1200-1400, Pontifical, BAV Borgh. 14 \| 1131

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