"Templar assets, including liturgical books, instruments and garments, but also all other writings which the Templars had possessed or produced, dispersed widely and were absorbed into the treasuries and sacristies of laymen and ecclesiastics after the disintegration of the Order around 1312. Only few religious books once pertaining to the Order have as yet been discovered. They shed light on the question whether or not the Templars used a uniform liturgy and what they used it for. (...)
At the archives of the cathedral of
Modena a precious
liturgical code is preserved. According to some authors, the
medieval code would come from a local scriptorium. Others
believe it would come from Piacenza where was the House of S. Mary of
the Temple, one of the most important Templar foundations of Italy. What is the importance of this liturgical manuscript?
