Published: 2022-12-23

A Troped Marian Antiphon Salve Regina in a 15th-Century Olivetan Psalter from Łódź

Piotr Wiśniewski
Collectanea Theologica
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2022.92.4.04

Abstract

The article presents a hitherto unknown in scholarly literature, troped version of the oldest and most popular Marian antiphon, Salve Regina, recorded in the only Olivetan manuscript psalter identified in Poland so far. The texts added to the original form of this antiphon, which in its content is an invocation of Mary’s intercession to obtain salvation for people from God, call Her the Mother of the Church, the Gracious Virgin, the Mother of God and the Star of the Sea. These titles, constituting litany invocations to the Blessed Virgin Mary, comment on Her qualities: graciousness, mercy, and sweetness. Such an extension of the original antiphon, with a new theological content, implies that this prayer was particularly popular among the faithful turning to Mary, in order that She might hear their requests and open them the way to Heaven.

Keywords:

Mary, Marian antiphon, Salve Regina, psalter, troping, troped antiphon, Olivetans

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Wiśniewski, P. (2022). A Troped Marian Antiphon Salve Regina in a 15th-Century Olivetan Psalter from Łódź. Collectanea Theologica, 92(4), 121–138. https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2022.92.4.04

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