| B-AVERBna IV 418 |
Book with both Office and Mass chants; square notation on red staves; 1550. Script: chant texts: textualis; rubrics and incipits: hybrida. Belonging to the Lambertuskerk of Hechtel, a parish church of Averbode.
The book is dated: front flyleaf verso: Istum librum matutinalem scribi curavit frater ac dominus Andreas Kemps ab balen. Curatus ab hechtelt. Expensis mamburnorum [?] ecclesie pretacte Anno xv-c quinquagesimo Junii xxix. And in the back of the book Hoc presens Matutinale scriptum est in oppido Thenensi. In cenobio carmelito. Per manus fratris Nycholai oliveri a lovano. Anno Domini 1550 Junii xxix. HSS Maria.
The book contains both Mass and Office chants, but not a complete cycle for the liturgical year, only the main Temporale parts and high feasts.
Office part; fol. 102r: In festo sancti lamberti patroni hius ecclesie ad primis vesperis antiphona (ant. Erat vere dignus beatus lambertus ...).
Fol. 129r: Sequuntur festorum precedenti ymni, primo de ascentione domini
Fol. 132r: Hic sequitur officium de sancto iohannis baptista. Ad primas vesperas
Fol. 135r: Hymns
Fol. 138v: Mass chants for Easter tide.
Fol. 148r: Sequuntur sequentie de sanctis primo de sancto andrea apostolo. Fol. 156v: De sancto lamberto patrono nostro (seq. Unus amor et unus concordia); fol. 163v: De sancto jacobo Gaudeat hyspania.
Fol. 164: Liber generationis secundum Mattheum.