Echternach: Willibrordusabdij

Founded by St Willibrord in 698, who is buried here.

Secular stift till 973, then reformed by the Benedictine monks of St. Maxim at Trier, and transformed in a Benedictine abbey.

Manuscripts

Many manuscripts have been preserved, among which:

	D-DS 1946, Graduale-sacramentarium, ca 1030
	L-Ln 105, Antiphoner summer part, 15th century
	F-Pn lat 10510, Graduale-Prosarium of Echternach (microfilm in Utrecht Lett.bibl.)

Literature

	Abteistadt Echternach
	Die Abtei Echternach 698 - 1998, hrsg. von M.C. Ferrari, J. Schroeder und H. Trauffler, in Zusammenarb. mit J. Krier (1999); see a.o. H. Yen: The early liturgy of Echternach, pp. 53-64
	F.Chr. Lochner: La culture musicale de l'abbaye d'Echternach au Moyen Age (Diss. Brussels 1988, unpublished)

For the many liturgical manuscripts of Echternach, see:

	S. Corbin: Le fonds d'Echternach à la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, in: École pratique des hautes études, IVe section: Sciences historiques et philologiques, 1971-1972 (Paris 1972), pp. 369-379
	F. Lochner: La 'notation d'Echternach' reconsiderée, in: Revue Belge de Musicologie, Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap 44 (1990), pp. 41-55