Description: Ambulatory
Capitals are no longer in situ but have been attributed to the ambulatory. Currently housed in Musée Farinier. Two capitals are inscribed and are thought to have occupied the 8th and 9th columns when turning from left to right in the ambulatory
Reference: See K. Meyer article, "The Eight Gregorian Modes of the Cluny Capitals," AB 34.
Face:
1st tone: HIC TONUS ORDITUR MODULAMINA MUSICA PRIMUS
2nd tone: SUBSEQU[ITU]R PTONGUS NUMERO VEL LEGE SECUNDUS
3rd tone: TERTIUS IMPIGIT CHRISTUMQUE RESURGER FINGIT
4th tone: SUCCEDIT QUARTUS SIMULANS IN CARMINE PLANCTUS
The first tone organizes musical harmonies
The one who follows is the second by number or law
The third celebrates and depicts Christ's resurrection
The fourth follows imitating mourning in song
Face:
1st tone: HIC TONUS ORDITUR MODULAMINA MUSICA PRIMUS ;
2nd tone: SUBSEQU[ITU]R PTONGUS NUMERO VEL LEGE SECUNDUS;
3rd tone: TERTIUS IMPIGIT CHRISTUMQUE RESURGER FINGIT;
4th tone: SUCCEDIT QUARTUS SIMULANS IN CARMINE PLANCTUS
The first tone organizes musical harmonies
The one who follows is the second by number or law
The third celebrates and depicts Christ's resurrection
The fourth follows imitating mourning in song
Face:
5th tone: OSTENDIT QUINTUS QUAM SIT QUISQ[U]IS TUMET IMUS;
6th tone: SI CUPIS AFFECTUM PIETATIS RESPICE SEXTUM;
7th tone: INSINUAT FLATU[M] CU[M] DONIS SEPTIMUS ALMUM;
8th tone: OCTAVUS SANCTOS OMNES DOCET ESSE BEATOS
The fifth shows how each treble swells
If you desire to prepare your soul to piety consider the sixth [tone]
The seventh penetrates the breath of the Spirit and its gifts
The eighth leads all the saints to bliss
Description: Capital is no longer in situ but has been attributed to the ambulatory. Currently housed in Musée Farinier.
Seasons and Virtues are personified on faces of capital; contained in mandorlas. The inscriptions run along the interior of the mandorlas. The text accompanying Spring and Prudence are still legible. However, the inscription for Summer is fragmentary and the text for Justice has completely disappeared.
Reference: Around the figure representing Spring, the inscription reads: VER PRIMOS FLORES PRIMOS PRODUCIT ODORES
Around the figure representing Prudence it reads: DAT COGN[OSCEN]DUM PRUDENTIA Q[U]ID SIT AGENDU[M]
Around the figure representing summer, accroding to the restitution of Abbot Pougnet: [FALX RESECAT SPICAS FER]VENS Q[U]AS DECO[QUIT] A[E]STAS.
Face:
VER PRIMOS FLORES PRIMOS PRODUCIT ODORES; DAT COGN[OSCEN]DUM PRUDENTIA Q[U]ID SIT AGENDU[M]; [FALX RESECAT SPICAS FERV]VENS Q[U]AS DECO[QUIT] A[E]STAS