D-Ngm 4984

Premonstratensian antiphoner, 13th century.

According to Hesbert's CAO (t. V, p. 12, nr. 349) diocese Utrecht. This is incorrect and probably based on the Hymnus de s. Odulpho: Dies reductus annus Odulphi clari obitus nobis refulset aureus ut solis nitor igneus (p. 531).

According to Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Ergänzungsband 1: S. Krämer: Handschriftenerbe des Deutschen Mittelalters Tl 2: Köln-Zyfflich, p. 794, it is from Varlar near Coesfeld, which had both Our Lady and Odulphus as its patron saints.

See also Von Huebner: Frühe Zeugnisse Bd I, p. 221. Von Huebner also says: compositum pro praepositura Varlariensi ... ; Diastematicae neumae Metenses sc XIII./XIV. in quattuor lineis colore nigro inscriptae. Linea-'fa' plerumque colore rubro. Omnia systemata habent custodes et claves Ut, Fa et Sol.).


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