Cappa parva

[Matthew_Holford]

I read statutes of a chapter of canons. One of the statutes described the canons’ choir dress. This included the cappa parva. Can anyone please tell me what the cappa parva is? Pictures or links to images would be appreciated.

 

[Stylites]

books.google.com/books?id=ecd-tgFx6p8C&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=cappa+parva&source=bl&ots=swcqfYLiJY&sig=e3t7D8-4E0X9FMpfrxAgTqb5f3w&hl=en&ei=b-oWTsaUBYy6sQP73pzBDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=cappa%20parva&f=false

And here: thefarsight2.blogspot.com/2009/03/found-in-life-collection.html



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In Ireland and Britain we call it cappa parva. Even today the canons at Westminster use it. The French call the funy tale “tortillon”.

 

[Matthew_Holford]

Thank you for answering my question Stylites and for the photo too. I was expecting folks to say it was another name for the mozzetta. I’ve seen canons in purple mozzettas with white fur and assumed that was the cappa parva. The insignia of canons is the same for all chapters in England and Wales granted by Blessed Pius IX in an Apostolic Brief dated 14th May 1858. However, I thought things like the cappa parva had been abolished when the dress and insignia of cardinals, bishops, and prelates had been simplified post-Vatican II.

 

[TheMc]

Thank you for answering my question Stylites and for the photo too. I was expecting folks to say it was another name for the mozzetta. I’ve seen canons in purple mozzettas with white fur and assumed that was the cappa parva. The insignia of canons is the same for all chapters in England and Wales granted by Blessed Pius IX in an Apostolic Brief dated 14th May 1858. However, I thought things like the cappa parva had been abolished when the dress and insignia of cardinals, bishops, and prelates had been simplified post-Vatican II.

It’s another name for a mozzetta.

 

[Matthew_Holford]

It’s another name for a mozzetta.

OK, that explains my confusion. However, the garment in the picture doesn’t look like a mozzetta.

 

[TheMc]

OK, that explains my confusion. However, the garment in the picture doesn’t look like a mozzetta.

I was joking…

You said:

I was expecting folks to say it was another name for the mozzetta.

I guess it was a bad joke on my part. I would reffer to the second post in this thread.

 

[MarkThompson]

If I’m not mistaken, the picture Stylites posted is the folded cappa magna. Certain prelates such as canons to whom the cappa has been granted by indult are privileged to wear a cappa magna but never to let down its train except at the Adoration of the Cross on Good Friday, while others such as bishops are privileged to let down the train in some circumstances (where they exercise ordinary authority) but not others (only a cardinal may let down the train of the cappa magna in the presence of the pope). When not let down, the train must be folded and tied up on the left side. Properly done, it looks like the picture below, and is sometimes informally called a cappa parva.

It is admittedly a little difficult to make out exactly what is going on in that picture; if it’s true that there are arm-holes, that is incorrect practice but a common enough abuse. I think that what we are seeing on his left-hand side there is the rolled-up portion.

And if it’s not a folded cappa magna, then it is the mantellone (which is not the mantelletta), although why it looks rolled up at the bottom I couldn’t say.

http://books.google.com/books?id=FA...9ylv6biZy5wdq1yv6Q&ci=125,216,800,1259&edge=0

 

[Matthew_Holford]

I was joking…

You said:

I guess it was a bad joke on my part. I would reffer to the second post in this thread.

I think I understood your posts but may be I’m just getting more confusèd

Our canons wear a mozzetta like the one Pope Benedict is wearing in the attached image; only theirs are purple (or should that be crimson?) where His Holiness’s is red.

 

[Mattapoisett64]

If I’m not mistaken, the picture Stylites posted is the folded cappa magna. Certain prelates such as canons to whom the cappa has been granted by indult are privileged to wear a cappa magna but never to let down its train except at the Adoration of the Cross on Good Friday, while others such as bishops are privileged to let down the train in some circumstances (where they exercise ordinary authority) but not others (only a cardinal may let down the train of the cappa magna in the presence of the pope). When not let down, the train must be folded and tied up on the left side. Properly done, it looks like the picture below, and is sometimes informally called a cappa parva.

It is admittedly a little difficult to make out exactly what is going on in that picture; if it’s true that there are arm-holes, that is incorrect practice but a common enough abuse. I think that what we are seeing on his left-hand side there is the rolled-up portion.

And if it’s not a folded cappa magna, then it is the mantellone (which is not the mantelletta), although why it looks rolled up at the bottom I couldn’t say.

http://books.google.com/books?id=FA...9ylv6biZy5wdq1yv6Q&ci=125,216,800,1259&edge=0

That’s interesting. I’ve never seen these details before. Just wondering how it came to be that Good Friday Adoration was the one time those clerics got to let down the train. I would have thought that Good Friday, of all days, would have been the worst possible time to participate in a liturgy with a regal, flowing train.