The Proper Office for St Pancras (Pancratius) in the Cluniac Breviary-Missal of Lewes, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Ms. 369

Abstract

A plainchant office (historia) for St Pancras was composed for the Cluniac monastery dedicated to the saint at Lewes, Sussex, England. The style of its Latin texts and melodies suggests a date close to the foundation of the monastery in 1077.

Keywords

• plainchant
• saints’ offices
• historiae
• Cluniac