Marian chants

For votive services also see the Laudes de BMV.

The oldest extant Salve regina of the Low Countries is recorded on a 12th office fragment kept in Abdij Keizersberg.

Among the many chants for Maria are:

Ant. Haec est praeclarum vas

This chants is used as a prayer against the plague, as a votive antiphon with a versicle and a collect.

Mode 5 melody

See for this chant E. Bruning's Cantuale Romano-Seraphicum (1951), nr. 92 (pp. 98-99).

	NL-Uu 421, processional, 15th century
	NL-Hs 184 C 6, psalter, 1480, Laurentiuskerk in Heemskerk (fol. 85r, 2nd scribe)
	NL-Hs 184 C 3, noted breviary, late 15th century, Laurentiuskerk in Heemskerk (circa fol. 200)
	NL-DHk 71 J 70, hymnal-processional, Rijnsburg abbey, 15th century (fol. 183v, 2nd scribe) (Tijdschr. v. Gregoriaans 27 (2002), p. 7)
	B-Br II 2631, song book, ca 1525 (fol. 92v)
	A-Wn sn 12875, song book (fol. 150r)
	P-Ln 3985 FG, processional (fol. 77v, 2nd scribe)
	NL-DHk 68 A 1, Gregoriushuis in 's Hertogenbosch
	NL-Uc BMH 25 (ending ... domina nostra fac nos tuis precibus a peste et subitanea morte et ab omni tribulatione liberatos consortes celestis glorie alleluia)
	NL-M Jägers 523, Rijksabdij Thorn, ca 1600, also with the phrase ... domina nostra fac nos tuis precibus a peste et subitanea morte ...
	NL-Avu xv 00101, with the phrase nos a peste et subitanea ... added in the margin
	D-Mbsb Clm 28546, processional, ca 1500 (?), chapter of Xanten

Mode 1 melody

NL-DHk 73 E 8, summer antiphoner, Rijnsburg abbey, 2nd half 15th century (fol. 233v, 2nd scribe) (Tijdschr. v. Gregoriaans 27 (2002), p. 6); facs: O florens rosa

Melody unknown

	D-KNd 1063, Dominican processional from Köln (fol. 61r)
	US-W, Dominican convent, ms 1 (fol. 95r, 2nd scribe)
	US-Cn Case 119, fol. 98r
	NL-SHra IllLVrBr Codex Smijers from 's Hertogenbosch, fol. 10r

Literature

	Pohl IV p. 348
	RISM XIV-1-2, Huglo: Les mss du processional (for the references of the processioners)

Ant. O flos florum o domicilium

	B-Br II 2631, song book, ca 1525 (fol. 92v)
	NL-Hs 184 C 5
	NL-Uc BMH 24 (fol. 267r)

Seq. Gaude virgo mater christi quae per aurem

	D-Bsb Germ. oct. 190, song book (fol. 65r)
	A-Wn sn 12875, song book (fol. 86r)
	B-TO 57, p. 552 (different melody), used as a sequentia in the Missa de Beata

Literature

N. Bisson: English polyphony for the virgin Mary: the votive antiphon, 1430-1500 (Diss., Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1998), pp. 96-104.

Resp. Vidi speciosam (1st mode melody)

	D-Bsb Germ. oct. 190
	NL-Hs 184 C 3
	NL-Uc BMH 25

Te Deum Marianum

Several Marian paraphrases of the Te Deum are known. A Te celi reginam is preserved in D-Bsb Germ. oct. 280. A Te matrem dei laudamus is preserved in the song book A-Wn SN 12875, fol 95r, as well as in an Utrecht song book D-Bsb Germ. oct. 190, fol. 62r. A Te matrem dei laudamus is also in B-Br 4860 (for the conclusion of the Laudes de BMV, for a facs: O florens rosa).

Literature

	B.J. Blackburn, 'Te matrem dei laudamus. A study in the musical veneration of Mary', in Musical Quarterly 53 (1967), 53-76
	I. de Loos in: TKVNM 53 pp. 38-41

Ave pulcherrima regina

	NL-Au I C 17
	D-Bsb Germ. oct. 190
	D-Mbsb Clm 28546
	NL-Nu 475, fols. 73r ff