Academic Biretta

© picture: Que

Lluís Cardinal Martínez Sistach, archbishop of Barcelona, during the confering of the honorary doctor's degree of the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of the University of Warsaw.

Academic biretta made out of burgandy velvet

See as well:

The Polish Academic Biret and the Biret of the Dean

Biretta of Cardinal de Rohan-Guéméné

© picture: Virtual Memeories

Louis René Edouard de Rohan-Guéméné,  French diplomat, cardinal and politician
This kind of biretta is worn by the doctors of theology of Sorbonne university, too.

The basis of this biretta is the pileus rotundus but with 6 edges and a pompon on his top.

Goff, Philip: University of London - Academic Dress

The University London Press, London 1999

ISBN 0-7187-1608-6

French academic biretta (8 segments), worn as well by lawyers in court

Some times you can also see this style of biretta worn by Jewish cantors

© picture: Yale Alumni Magazine

Family tree of the mortarboard

Academic Biretta of the "Misioneros del Sagrado Corazón en el Peru"

© picture:  Misioneros del Sagrado Corazón en el Peru

INVESTIDURA DE DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA 

DEL EMMO. Y RVDMO. SR. CARDENAL

DR. D. PAUL JOSEF CORDES

© picture: Facultad Pontificia de Teología "Redemptoris Mater"

Inauguración del Año Académico 2011

at the "Facultad Pontificia de Teología "Redemptoris Mater" La Punta - Callao - Peru"

Similar biretta to this one (but without pompon) worn by H.H. Pope John Paul II:

see here

Academic Biretta of the University of Malta

Academic biretta with 4 blades (wings, horns), made of cotton with moiré-effect

and a pompon in white/scarlet

Inside the biretta is lined in scarlet red

Made for the PhD robes of the University of Malta

Academic Biretta, Toque, Mortarboard, Tudor Bonnet

© The Liturgical Institute

University of St Mary of the Lake

Mundelein, Illinois, USA

Group picture of 4 different academic headgear

Mortarboard - Tudor bonnet  - Biretta with 3 wings (horns, blades) and toque

© The Liturgical Institute

The toque, worn by the director of the Liturgical Institute, Fr. Douglas Martis,

was a professor's hat form the University of Paris (Sorbonne IV),

Professeur de Lettres, Philosophie ou Sciences sociales

- Couleur: Jonquille
- Matière: Ottoman 

- Bandeau: Velours Noir

- 1 Galon Or Large
made by Maison Bosc, Paris

© Orbis Catholicus 7th of June 2006

Academic birettas made by Ditta Annibale Gammarelli, Rome

(click to enlarge)

Get a copy of this wonderful book:

Goff, Philip: University of London - Academic Dress

The University London Press, London 1999

ISBN 0-7187-1608-6

See my post:
The Polish Academic Biret and the Biret of the Dean

as well

The Polish Academic Biret and the Biret of the Dean

(c) http://archiwalna.polsl.pl/alma.mater/ogolne/edrhc.html

The Silesian University of Technology
Politechnika Śląska,Gliwice, Poland
The "birety akademickie" and "birety dziekańskie" in Poland has no wings (horns, blades)

and no pompon.

Karol Józef Kardinal Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II., wearing a "biret dziekański"