Manuscript FiD 7 (square notation; rubrics in Latin and Old French)
begins with the chapters (short readings) and the collects of the
sanctorale (folio 1r begins abruptly in the middle of the chapter
of the Terce for the birth of John the Baptist). It then contains
various rites, among them the Office of the Dead (with musical
notation on folios 40r-46v), as well as the one for religious
profession and for the investiture of nuns (f. 24v-26r). The vow
Ego soror ill. promitto (f. 24v) could indicate that it was meant
for Fille-Dieu. However, elsewhere the book contains rubrics and
prayers that are written in masculine form by the original hand,
and which are adapted to the feminine form through interlinear
annotations by a hand contemporaneous with the book (f. 20r, 27v,
30v-39v). Therefore, FiD 7 probably originated in a scriptorium of
monks, presumably from the Cistercians of Hautcrêt (Oron, VD) or
of Hauterive (FR).
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