NL-M, Jägers 523

Choir book, Rijksabdij in Thorn, ca 1600. Hufnagelschrift on ink staves. It is supposed to be a copy of a 14th or 15th century book, and hence it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a 15th century rituale (e.g. see: R. Rasch: Cantiones natalitiae, p. 8).

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Chants for the liturgical year, perhaps for the cantrix or for processions, starting with Palm Sunday; some Christmas songs: (Dies est leticie, Puer nobis nascitur. Several troped Benedicamus-formulas (p. 218-219: Corpus christi; p. 241: Mary; p. 282: church dedication). P. 385: Marian ant. Hec est preclarum vas (mode 5).

For Nicolaus: Gaude gaude gaude gaude gaude pater Nicolae (Benedicamus-trope)

Literature

* Some articles of Smits Van Waesberghe: Van een merkwaardige voor-vigilie-viering van Kerstmis en Kerstnachtviering in de oud-adellijke abdij van Thorn Sint-Gregoriusblad 57 (1932), pp. 287-295 and 314-319; Driekoningenviering in de oud-adellijke abdij van Thorn, Sint-Gregoriusblad 58 (1933), pp. 9-11
* R.J.M. van Acht: Officia propria nobilium virginum Thorensium, de muzikale en liturgische gebruiken in de oude adellijke abdij van Thorn (Den Haag, [s.n.], 1985), incl. microfiches

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