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| Title Page of the Humbert Codex |
A number of years ago, I provided links to download digital images of the Humbert of Romans Codex. Now I have the pleasure to announce that there are now new images, far better and more readable than the older set. They are available for download in a zip file here. This is a large file, so be patient as it downloads. If you merely want to consult the images themselves they can be viewed online here. Those who download these new images have permission to use them or pass them on to others. This manuscript (Rome: Santa Sabina MS XIV L1) is the prototype for the medieval (and early-modern) Dominican Liturgy.
The image to the left is the title page of this manuscript which lists its title and contents. Here is a transcription:
On margin: Ecclesiasticum Officium secundum Ordinem Fratrum Praedicatorum; in hoc Volumine per Quatuordecim Libros Distinctum hoc Ordine Continetur.
In the center:
Ordinarium: MS f. 0v - f. 12r
Martyrologium: MS f. 13r - f. 40v
Collectarium: MS f. 41r - f. 58r
Processionarium: MS f. 58v - f. 65v
Psalterium: MS f. 66r - f. 86v
Breviarium: MS f. 87r - f. 141v
Lectionarium: MS f. 142r - 230v
Antiphonarium: MS f. 231r - 323r
Graduale: MS f. 323v - f. 369v
Pulpitarium: 370r- f. 392r
Missale Conventuale: MS f. 393r - 421v
Epistolarium: MS f. 422r - f. 435v
Evangelistarium: MS f. 435v - 454v
Missale Minorum Altarium: MS f. 455r - 500v
I include the folios on which each section is found so that this list can also serve as a table of contents to the images. The new images show facing pages and the number of each image gives the standard folio number of the folio whose recto is on the right side of the image.
This manuscript was compiled by the Master of the Order Humbert of Romans in accord with the commission of the Dominican General Chapter of Buda in 1254 and approved by the General Chapter of Paris in 1256. Except for additional feasts and the Psalter Reform of St. Pius X, the texts of this document were authoritative as the prototype for our liturgical books until 1969.
If you are looking for a particular musical chant, you may download this index of the chants found in the Humbert Codex. But please note that this scan is not of good quality.
