Office of St. Scholastica in Notated Manuscripts of the St. George Monastery in Prague

This master thesis follows up the offce of St. Scholastica in medieval manuscripts of the female benedictine monastery of St. George at the Prague Castle. We can fnd two offces of the saint - older offce Quadam vero die and younger offce Regnum celi - in notated and unnotated manuscripts of the second half of the 12th century - frst half of the 15th century. The main goal of this work is to place these offces in the context of liturgy of the feast in european liturgical manuscripts, then classify the date and provenance of the chants. The frst chapter of this work deals with general chants for the Feast of St. Scholastica in European sources. As a starting point for research, I used the web text databases Latin sacred chant Cantus - Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant - and LMLO - Latin Medieval Liturgical Offces. Because of the absence of comparative material for the older offce Quadam vero die especially, I had to study a huge number of other liturgical sources, that are also commented in this chapter. The following chapters follow up the plainchant repertoire for the feast of St. Scholastica in the St. George's sources. The second chapter provides a general overview of the St. George's manuscripts, as well as an image of reverence to the saint in the liturgical calendars used at the St...