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early-eleventh century d<strong>at</strong>e would be prior to the ceremonial transl<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>of</strong> the Aredius<br />

relics reported ca. 1060 and in 1181, as discussed in Chapter II. 15 <strong>The</strong> transl<strong>at</strong>ions would<br />

have occasioned full solemnities for St. Aredius, specifically appropri<strong>at</strong>e for a carefully<br />

prepared Aredius Mass Proper as found in the St. Yrieix Gradual and discussed in detail<br />

in Chapter V.<br />

C. ELEMENTS OF USAGE IN PA903 AND RELATED SOURCES<br />

Examining the usage <strong>of</strong> St. Yrieix is essential for understanding the historical<br />

implic<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>of</strong> Pa903. Liturgical usage reflected the choices <strong>of</strong> liturgy for the Mass (and<br />

Office) throughout the liturgical year. Temporal and sanctoral feasts <strong>of</strong> the intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />

Gregorian liturgy domin<strong>at</strong>e the manuscript. 16 But the manuscript also includes additional<br />

Masses th<strong>at</strong> are not part <strong>of</strong> the Gregorian calendar. If the core liturgy was “Gregorian”<br />

based on the Romano-Frankish sacramentaries <strong>of</strong> the ninth century, then the additional<br />

regional and local feasts <strong>of</strong> the l<strong>at</strong>e tenth and eleventh centuries were chosen as “neo-<br />

Gregorian” feasts with chants selected or composed in the genres <strong>of</strong> the Gregorian<br />

formulary. In some cases the chants <strong>of</strong> the neo-Gregorian feasts are Gregorian,<br />

conventionally to be taken from a Common <strong>of</strong> Saints, but there are other feasts<br />

containing “neo-Gregorian” chants written in Gregorian style, but composed separ<strong>at</strong>ely<br />

from the Gregorian corpus.<br />

This practice was very common in the Middle Ages and allowed variability within<br />

an otherwise standardized canonical practice. 17 Typical regional feasts were those for (1)<br />

15 Abbé Arbellot, Vie de S. Yrieix ses miracles et son culte. (Limoges: Imprimerie Ve, H.<br />

Ducourtieux, 1900): 83-86.<br />

16 For the purposes <strong>of</strong> modern scholarship this repertory is authorit<strong>at</strong>ively represented in the<br />

AMS.<br />

17 This tradition is represented in the four Gallican sacramentaries th<strong>at</strong> have survived<br />

(but without music) from the seventh century. See J. M. Neale and G. H. Forbes, <strong>The</strong> Ancient<br />

Liturgies <strong>of</strong> the Gallican Church, New First Collected, with an Introductory Dissert<strong>at</strong>ion, Notes, and<br />

Various Readings together with Parallel passages from the Roman, Ambrosian, and Mozarabic Rites (New<br />

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