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doctoral biretta

There are variations in the doctoral biretta. The 4th ridge is the essential difference. The piping/tuft is apparently optional, although I suppose anyone who went out of their way to get one would get the colored options too.[1] The only link a google search for "licentiate biretta" gives is a store, which only has it available with blue tuft/piping for all subjects.[2] Gimmetrow 04:38, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Peakless Corner

Does anybody know why the flat side goes on the left? There must be some reason.72.227.136.130 23:48, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can't say with certainty that this is where it came from, but as birettas are used it is practical: One generally holds the birreta by one of the peaks or blades (grasp it between the index and middle fingers). Because most people are right handed, it is easiest to put a biretta on with a peak to the wear's right. Now if someone hands him his biretta it means that the person presenting it to him has to have a peak facing himself, and a peak facing the wearer. Since the biretta is usually give to the wearer by someone to his side (shoulder to shoulder) the only way the works out consistently is to have the middle peak to the right. So if I am handing you a biretta from the left, I hold it by the back peak, the middle peak is facing you--for you to take it by--, and the empty spot is to my left. You reach over with your right hand, take it by the middle peak and put it on your head--empty spot to your left. If I am handing it to you from the right, I hold it by the front peak, the middle peak is facing you--for you to take it by--, and the empty spot is to my right. Again you reach over with your right hand, take it by the middle peak, which is facing you, and put it on, and again the empty spot is to your left. Like I said, I don't know that this is the origin, but it does work out well in practice. 76.5.80.182 (talk)

Tuftless birettas

Do deacons'/seminarians' birettas have the pom?

The reason for the flat side on the left, is because the Priest/seminarian elevates the biretta off the head with the right hand, during doxologies and the name of Our Lord.

In answer to the seccond question: Seminarians, Sub-Deacons, Deacons and Priests wear the same kind of biretta. So they will have Tufts, or not, depending on the type they wear.

(Reminder: Cardinals' birettas are tuftless as well.)

Userbox anyone?

This user knows a Biretta is different from a Beretta

:) - Gobeirne (talk) 07:35, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos! -- Secisek (talk) 07:47, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

need one? you can buy a good one at this web site http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30009010&id=94300045 "the best ever" according to the FSSP —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.168.214.144 (talk) 03:39, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

academic biretta outranked by prelatial one

OK, there is the reference to academic biretta. It is no longer to be used by a priest who has reached a prelatial rank (cardinal or bishop). (I don't know the source, but I do remember reading that.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.20 (talk) 20:30, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Jewish biretta and other types of caps also called bireta

The historical uses of the biretta do not seem to be restricted to the liturgy or the academy. Hans Dernschwam, in his Tagebuch einer Reise nach Konstantinopel und Kleinasien (1553/55), quoted by Cecil Roth in his Doña Gracia of the House of Nasi, 1946, states that: "Just as the Turks wear white turbans, the Jews wear yellow. Some foreign Jews still wear the black Italian birettas [square caps]. Some who pretend to be physicians or surgeons wear the red, pointed, elongated birettas."

Further, Gonzalo Menéndez Pidal (La España del siglo XIII leída en imágenes, 1986) states that "Hay también un tocado en que coinciden clérigos, médicos y otras gentes que aparentan respetabilidad. Me refiero a la que con un vocablo actual llamaríamos boina. Es posible también que ese vocablo de los clérigos del s XIII fuese el aludido por el Vocabulista in Arabico como una especie particular de capellus a la que llama bireta. Se trata probablemente de una prenda de punto abatanado, de ahí ese rabito en lo alto que, hasta hace poco, era consecuencia forzada de su elaboración, y que en la boina actual, cuando existe, es puramente decorativo y postizo". According to this description, the term biretta has also likely been used for types of head cover other than what the entry identifies as biretta. Rigonz (talk) 18:28, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]