B-TONGLna V 326 |
Graduale Praemonstratense, from the premonstratensian women's convent De Besloten Hof in Herentals. The book bears a date: 1559, and the scribe's name: Prioress Sophia Nollens. Square notation on red staves, with many erasures and corrections.
The liturgy is identical to that of B-TONGLna V 327, a.o. the same tropes and rubrics for performance practice and tasks.
Fol. 1: Temporale (Ad te levavi). Fol. 79r: Popule meus / Trishagyon (rubrics: Presbiteri, Pueri and Chorus).
Fol. CLXXIX-v: De s. Maria Salve sancta parens, incl. grad. Benedicta, all. Virgo dei genitrix, all. Virga yesse, all. Per te dei genitrix, all. Post partum, off. Felix namque, comm. Beata viscera, all. O graciarum balsamo, off. Recordare with trope O vera o pia o gemma splendida O via libera maria libera a via de manos alma de via fac pura opera domina propera nos sana ne nostra subita ruina sit acta peracta in aula regia da vera et summa gaudia nobis. alleluia, comm. Ave regina celorum mater regis angelorum (see also Borremans, p. ?).
Fol. CLXXXV-r: commemoratio animarum
P. 191: gathering in humanist script: sequences (Victime, Veni sancte spiritus, Lauda Sion, Letabundus; chants for Nomen Jesu, Ioseph, Waldetrudis & Elisabeth, Transfiguratio, Silvester & Hubertus, seq. Dies ire.
F. 202: Kyriale (Kyriale Marianum with the rubric Cantrix to the tropes; Credo I more or less rhythmicized by a younger hand)
After the Kyriale follows the Sanctorale section (intr. Michi autem nimis) with a new foliation. Fol. VI: Barbara (intr. Gaudeamus, grad. Dilexisti, all. O remedium salutis, off. Filie regum, comm. Diffusa); fol. XI: Nicasius & soc., XVII: Sulpitius; XXX: Waldetrudis (intr. Gaudeamus, grad. Propter veritatem, all. Waldetrudis o matrona, off. Filie regum, comm. Dilexisti); XLII: Dimpna; XLIX: Ded. eccl.; LXIII: Gaugericus; LXI: Augustini patris nostri; LXVIII: Hieronymus (intr. In medio, grad. Os iusti, all. O doctorum speculum, off. Desiderium anime, comm. Fidelis).
The sequentiarium has a separate modern foliation from fol. 1 to
fol. 96. Square notation on red staves.
Measures of the folia:
45<147>45 (237) x 28<222>85 (335).
1 | Letabundus exultet fidelis chorus |
2 | Iubilemus salvatori (Ad secundam missam) |
4 | Eya recolamus (In die) |
6 | Heri mundus exultavit (Stephani martiris) |
9 | Christo laudes decantet (De sancto iohanne evangelista) |
10v | Celsa pueri (In innocentibus) |
13 | Ecce iam votiva (In octava domini) |
15 | Festa christi omnis (In epiphania domini) |
17 | Post partum virgo (In purificatione beate marie) |
18 | Salve porta perpetue lucis (In annunciacione dominica) |
19v | Fulgens preclara (In die pasche; the verses Pollentem and Patris sedens are sung by the cantrix) |
23 | Mane prima sabbati (feria secunda) |
25 | Victime paschali laudes (feria tertia) |
26v | Virgini marie laudes (de sancta maria) |
27v | Laudes crucis attolamus |
31 | Rex omnipotens (In ascencione domini) |
33v | Sancti spiritus assit (In die penthecostes; the verse Infunde has the rubric ii; the verse Ergo nos has the rubric Bis) |
35v | Veni sancte spiritus (de sancto spiritu) |
36v | Benedicta semper (de sancta trinitate; the verses O ammiranda trinitas and O veneranda unitas are sung by the cantrix) |
39 | Lauda syon salvatorem (In venerabile sacramento) |
42 | Sancti baptistae christi (De sancto iohanne baptista) |
43v | Petre summe christi pastor (Passio petri et pauli) |
45v | Clara chorus dulce (In dedicacione ecclesie) |
47 | Quam dilecta tabernacula (In octava dedicacionis) |
50v | Laus tibi christe (De sancta maria magdalena) |
53 | Gaude mater anna (De sancta anna) |
54v | Stola iucunditatis (De sancto laurentio) |
56v | Area virga prime matris (In assumpcione marie) |
59 | Hac clara die (In octava assumpcionis) |
60v | Interni festi gaudia (Sancti Augustini) |
63 | Salvatori iubiletur (In decollacione beati iohannis baptiste) |
65 | Alle celeste necnon perhenne luya (Nativitas marie) |
67v | Ad celebres rex celice (Michaelis archangeli) |
70 | Gaude prole grecia (De sancto dyonisio) |
72v | Sacerdotem christi martinum (De sancto martino) |
74v | Laudes deo debitas (de sancta katherina) |
78 | Sacrosancta hodierne (De sancto andrea) |
81 | Congaudemus exultemus (De sancto nicholai) |
83v | Clare sanctorum senatus (De apostolis) |
84v | Jocundare plebs fidelis (De evangelistis) |
87v | Ave maria gracia plena (De domina nostra) |
89 | Ave mundi spes maria (Spes eadem) (incomplete) |
90 | Ave virgo graciosa |
92 | Ave preclara maris stella |
94 | Ave plena singularis |
96 | Tibi cordis in altari (incomplete) |
Corthouts: Inventaris ..., pp. 27-28 (for further bibliography) | |
Prosae seu sequentiae ex veteri missali ordinis Praemonstratensis desumptae (Tongerloae, typis abbatiae B.M.V. 1893) (Edition of the texts of the sequentiae) | |
Voorlopige editie F-Pa 8228, pp. 182-183 (incl. a list of sequences) |