[MANUSCRIT]. [MISSEL]. [SAVOIE]. [CARMES]. - Lot 27

[MANUSCRIT]. [MISSEL]. [SAVOIE]. [CARMES]. Missal noted. In Latin, ornate manuscript on parchment. France (La Rochette in Savoy?) or Switzerland, circa 1500. 31 ff, bastard script in brown ink, 20 lines per page, ruled parchment (justification: 107x155mm), rubrics in bright red, capitals highlighted in red, initials painted red, music notated on 4-line staves drawn in brown ink (square notation). Bound in full dark-brown calf on wood, spine with 3 nerves, boards decorated with cold motifs (repeated column motif in the outer frame, crossed cold fillets in the central frame), brass bolt in the center of the boards, brass clasp with "JHS" in a circle with rays, brass fastener (damaged, detached from the lower board). Boards rubbed and worn; spine redone. Sheet size: 220x145mm; binding size: 240x155mm Manuscript copied in a Savoyard or Helvetic context with a particular devotion to Saint Bartholomew (see at the beginning the Mass noted in honor of Saint Bartholomew (ff. 2-6)). Further research will determine whether it was originally copied for a Carmelite foundation, or whether it was copied for a place with a particular devotion to Saint Bartholomew. Two inscriptions (fol. 26v) indicate that the work belonged to Carmelites associated with the Latin name "Ruppellensis": "Frater Claudius Jallieti carmelita conventus Rupelle"; "Friallonis carmellita Ruppeenlensis natione Anessici Veteris diocesis Gebencis M° V° 42 [1542]". The surname "Jalliet" is widespread in Savoie and Switzerland, notably in Geneva; "Friallon" is thought to be a Carmelite monk also from "Ruppeenlensis", coming from Annecy-le-Vieux, diocese of Geneva. There is the problem of the Latin form "Ruppellensis", which usually refers to La Rochelle, which would be difficult to explain given the context. There is a place called La Rochette (Savoie) with attested Latin forms in "Rupela" ("apud Rupeculam" in 1252; see E. Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France: étymologie de 35000 noms de lieux, Genève, 1990). The name La Rochette or Larochette refers to the rock on which the castle was built. Larochette is mentioned as early as 1176, in the Latin form "Rupe" (rupes in Latin for "rock"). In 1182, we find a Romanic form, which is a diminutive: "Roketa". In 1310, a Latin form is found, also a diminutive: "Rupella". In Larochette (Savoie), there are traces of the Carmes Abbey, with a "Place des Carmes" still named after it. The Carmes made their appearance in La Rochette, at the request of lords Hugues and Pierre, on March 20, 1329 [AD de Savoie, 25 H 1 et 2] (see Leguay, J.-P. "Urbanisme et ordres mendiants: l'exemple de la Savoie et de Genève (XIIIe-début XVIe siècle)", in Religion et mentalités au Moyen Age. Mélanges en l'honneur d'Hervé Martin, Rennes, 2003). Nothing remains of the Carmelite convent church at La Rochette, completed in December 1466. A 17th-century inscription on fol. 26v seems to suggest that the manuscript was still in Savoy: "Hodie vigesima quarta augusti anni 1680 benedicta fuit hoc oratorium de novo constructum...canonicum Sancti Petri Tharentasiae nec non Sancti Mauritii parrochia praepositum". He was probably a canon of Saint-Pierre cathedral in Moûtiers-Tarentaise (Haute-Savoie).