The creators of the Poland-based website Caeremoniale Romanum have contacted us to share news of a couple of important new resources which they have recently added to the site.
At the following page: https://caeremonialeromanum.com/en/caeremonialia-papalia-dykmans/, you will find links to two different works by the Belgian Jesuit Fr Marc Dykmans. The first is his four volume series, “Le Cérémoniale papale de la fin du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance (Papal Ceremony from the end of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance)”, and the second is his edition (in two volumes) of the papal ceremonial of Agostino Piccolomini (died 1495), which became the basis of all the papal rites used in the Tridentine period. Note that these are critical editions of the relevant liturgical books in the original Latin, with copious notes, prefatory and explanatory in French. There is also a link to another ceremonial from one of the manuscripts in the Vatican Library (Urb. Lat. 469), which predates just predates Piccolomini’s reform, in the edition by Mons. Joaquim Nabuco. |
The frontispiece of a copy of Piccolomini’s Caerimoniale, ca. 1500. The kneeling man, whose identity is unknown, presents a copy of the book to Cardinal Georges d’Amboise; the inscription says “My Lord, on my return from Rome, I give you this book.” (Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des manuscrits. Latin 938) |
The second page: https://caeremonialeromanum.com/en/sacramentaria-romana-sacramentarium-leonianum-gelasianum-gregorianum/ has links to two different editions of the so-called Leonine Sacramentary, three of the Old Gelasian, and three of the Gregorian. We have previously highlighted the editions of the first two by Leo Mohlberg, which are the most recent and up-to-date, but all the subsidiary material on both of them is in German.
As a reminder, the site also has a YouTube channel with many interesting videos of papal liturgies (and not only papal ones.) Since tomorrow marks the first anniversary of Pope Leo’s election, here is a brief one which they posted today of the three occasions in the current century (2005, 2013 and 2025) on which the papal MC pronounced “Extra omnes! - Everyone out!” before the conclaves began.
