D-Mbsb Clm 28546

Book with liturgical and paraliturgical songs, ca 1500 or second half 15th century (?), once belonging to the chapter of Xanten (fol. 66v: Istud sequens legitur in collegio Xantensis in domo capitulari ...); see also fol. 64v.

Several hands. The chants are for the most part Latin, and provided with Hufnagelschrift on staves drawn in ink. The maior part of the book probably served as a processional.

Contents

Fol. 1: Psalterium BMV

Fol. 5: Abc-poem (German)

Fol. 6v: Marian antiphons (with notation)

Fol. 8v: Ecce karissimi (In dom. precedenti dom. Adv. Dom.). Then follow responsories etc. for (the processions?) of Advent, Christmas, etcetera. Fol. 14r: Media vite in morte. Then chants according to the liturgical year up till Holy Week. Fol. 17r: Simon dormis non potuisti una hora vigilare mecum Vel iudam non vides ... followed by some verses: Hoc recordare in mente tua quere veni visitare presentis mundi mare ut tu sis liberior lucidior et forcior kelydro repugnare pro te probra pacior et crucior amare pro te morior stude mecum vigilare. Then the ms continues with chants for Holy Week.

Fol. 22v: Chants for the Rogation days, among which Ardua spes.

Fol. 30r: Pater noster with tropes: Pater noster - Ex quo omnia - Qui es in celis - Omni tempore secli - Sanctificetur - Coram hominibus - Nomen tuum etc. With notation.

Fol. 31r: Credo with tropes: Credo in deum - Cum throni et dominaciones occurrunt - Patrem omnipotentem - Regem regum - Creatorem celi et terre - Maris angelorum et hominum etc. With notation.

Fol. 33v: Regina celi in semimensural notation.

Fol. 34: Iubilus in die communionis devotorum: Dies est leticie in domo mentali Nam advenit hodie vi sacramentali Ihesus ammirabilis multum delectabilis in humanitate Qui est ineffabilis et inestimabilis in divinitate etc. (7 strophes).

Fol. 35r: Kyrie fons bonitatis, Johannes postquam senuit, Anima mea liquefacta.

Fol. 36r: Chants for Easter vigil: Inventor rutili, Exultet, Cum rex glorie, Salve festa, etc.

Fol. 44: Audi tellus

Fol. 45v: De miseria huius mundi: Mirum est si non lugeat

Fol. 46r: Discubuit iesus

Some empty pages

Fol. 48r: Ave preclara crucis ara / Ave preclara maris stella.

Fol. 51: Hec est preclarum vas, 5th mode melody.

Fol. 53r: Christus natus est in bethelehem Iam processit virginis utero tamquam sponsus de thalamo suo. V. Dicant nunc iudei quare unctio cesset eorum nisi quia advenit sanctus sanctorum ...

Fol. 53v: Ave pulcherrima regina, 1 part.

Fol. 54v: devote poems

Fol. 57v: ant. Beata Agnes in medio flammorum

Fol. 59r: Angelorum si haberem linquas necnon hominis te laudare non valerem (Melody: hymn Urbs Jerusalem beata)

Then several texts.

Fol. 64r: Droch cosmos ... and Droch werlt myr gruset voir dijn wesen waer sijn mi die resen die nesen nyet en konden sij sijn soe gaer verswonden des dronich ich mir etc.

Fol. 64v ff: texts on the 'deportatio sancti victoris': Anno domini M cccc xlv die vero sextadeciam die mensis novembris de mane hora octava vel circiter tribus vel quatuor canonicis exeuntibus in choro xantensi Et eciam quam pluribus (?) aliis personis in ecclesia xantensem extra choro existentibus. Factus est quidam sonus sive verberacio ac si fortis vir haberet magnum malleum unius fabri in ambabus maioribus percuteret quod super ianuam ascensus coclee stantem in choro prescripto prope altare sancti victoris versus aquilonem. Quiquidam (?) sonus factus est quinquies sed ultima verberatio non adeo vehementer intonuerat sicuti (?) prime verberaciones quatuor Quibus verberibus factis venerunt canonici tunc in choro exeuntes (?) ad extra choro exeuntes illi que illis occurentes venerunt quesitum quidnam hoc esset qui se invicem respondentes dixerunt nescimus audivimus nos sicuti et bos sed quid est quod ve significat penitus ignoramus Istud di??lgabatur (divulgabatur?) non tamen (?) per totam civitatem sed per totam patriam et suspirabatur a multis signis future deportacionis [sancti ...?] (bottom margin cut off).
Then follows a poem Iure quidem perdecorum and more on the deportation of st Victor.

Literature

	Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München, Tomus IV, pars 9 (Wiesbaden 1991), pp. 137-141
	Ulrike Bodemann in Ons Geestelijk Erf