B-Br 4767

Graduale, diocese Utrecht, 1542 or slightly earlier.

Notation: Hufnagelschrift; text script: cursiva.

Early possessors according to the card tray of the library: Den Bosch: Jesuiten; Gent: Jesuiten.

Contents

1r: Colophon

3r: Table of contents

8r: Asperges me, Kyriale chants; 10r: Credo IV, slightly rhythmicized; 19v: Benedicamus-tropes: Benedicamus celestis filio patris de virginali edito gremio matris marie Domino and Benedicamus in laude Ihesu qui sue matris ...; 20r: Tu es Petrus

23r: Dom. I Adventus

72r: Sanctorale (this part contains very few rubrics)

83r: Requiem

85v: Salve sancta parens; off. Recordare with trope:
O vera o pia o gemma splendida
O via libera Maria libera
A via devia nos alma libera
Fac pura opera domina propera
Nos salva ne nostra subita ruina
Fit acta peracta in aula regia
Da vera et summa gaudia nobis

88r: Commons

111v: Missa de s. Anna; Chants for the Lady Mass; 119r: tractus for pre-Lent, then Holy Week etc.

124r: Super psalmos feriales ad vesperas de s. Joseph, then follows a full office and a Mass.

141r: de s. Anna, incl. off Recordare Anna mater with trope:
Ave tu rosa mater serena
O generosa clemens et pia
Da nobis vera frui sophia
Et da salutis uti gracia
Et tu repelle nostra vicia
Ut te laudemus cum melodia
Anna matrona da gaudia nobis

180r: sequentiae. 128r: Ave summa presulum for Martin's Translation; 187r: In omnem terram exivit sonus eorum. Et in fines orbem terrarum verba eorum. Is this in 2 parts?
Then sequences again. 202v: Eya christo cantica for Bartholomeus; 203v: Speciali gloria for De spina et corona, Laudes deo dicat for Transfiguratio Domini, etc. Fol. 206v: Hec est dies fidelis chorus for Simon & Judas.

207v: Te Deum

Literature

* AH, 53: 182; 54: 111; 55: 173
* Man. Datés, t. VI: 1541-1600, nr. A 419 (p. 99)
* PalMus II-III, pl. 148B
* Suñol: Intr. à la pal. mus. greg. (1935)
* Parrish: The notation of medieval Music (1957/1978), pl IX
* Its sequences are discussed by Calvin Bower in TKVNM 53

Not mentioned in Van den Gheyn, vol. I.


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