Offices of St. Catherine of Alexandria
A study of parchment fragments from Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet)
Czesław Grajewski
Instytut Historii Sztuki UKSW WarszawaAbstract
The Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet) houses the largest collection of parchment books’ fragments in Northern Europe (ca. 23 000), a great number of which is liturgical. Out of them a little over 5 000 were available online as of 2020. The author of this article isolated 67 fragments containing texts and chants of the Liturgy of the Hours in honour of St. Catherine of Alexandria. By the time of the Council of Trent numerous Offices of St. Catherine were created, out of which four became the most widely represented. These four Offices are characterized with a high degree of diversification, which can serve as a clue during provenance studies of the respective fragments.
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