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Processionale (sometimes incorrectly called Antiphonarium), 16th century (or ca 1600), from Groningen.
Front flyleaf: Ex Lib. Everardi d'Embda Groningensis
20 x 15,5 cm, paper, Hufnagelschrift on ink staves of 5 lines, 199 written folia and some blank ones.

The book is said to be from the Martinikerk in Groningen; the Byvanckgenootschap inventory (see below) from 1993 says: 'Provenance: Everardus de Embda, Councillor of Groningen (1601)'.

Contents

Often rubrics are lacking

f. 1: Advent and Christmas
f. 8: Christmas songs: Magnum nomen domini Emanuel ... modern notation; f. 9v: Dies est leticie in ortu with Dutch translation, Hufnagelschrift; f. 11v: Puer nobis nascitur and 12v: Dies est leticie nam processit, modern notation
f. 15r: Chants for Purificatio BMV
f. 24r: Septuagesima
f. 36r: Palm Sunday
f. 50r: Easter etc (Vidi aquam)
f. 60: [In letania] Exurge domine adiuva nos, ps. Deus auribus, Gloria, Surgite sancti de mansionibus

f. 92r: [Ascensio ?] resp. Ite in orbem universum
f. 102: [Corpus Christi] resp. Homo quidam fecit cenam
f. 126r: resp. Planxit autem david planctu magno

f. 134v: Walburga: Sancto de semine orta, In circuitu tuo domine lumen est
f. 144: Domine qui creasti famulos
f. 158v: De s. Odgero (resp. Celorum rex omnipotens tuam in sancto odgero confessore tuo, 5th or 6th mode)

f. 169r: Te deum
f. 174r: Laudes de BMV: Salve regina with several sets of verses: Virginalis castitas - Supernorum civium - Da virtutes anime; aliae prosa: O virgo spes humilium - O portus navigantium - O rosa odorifera; 3. Iesum fructum tuum dignum - O maria mater pia - Iesu fili summi patris; 4. Salve celi digna mitis - Salve christi cella nobis - Vale pulchrum lilium, all in Hufnagelschrift
f. 180v: Ave spes et salus infirmorum, in modern notation, but ending with the repetendum O from the Salve regina in Hufnagelschrift; apparently this is a verse to the Salve regina too.
f. 185r: Psalm- and Magnificat-tones

Literature

	The catalogue vol. II: De handschriften der Stedelijke Bibliotheek ..., nr. 1516, p. 241 (incorrectly calling the book an Antiphonarium)
	P. van Boheemen, N.P.J. van der Lof & E. van Meurs: Het boek in Nederland in de 16e eeuw (Den Haag 1986), nr 15 (p. 63; incl facs)
	Alexander Willem Byvanckgenootschap: Illuminated manuscripts in Dutch collections, an inventory compiled by the Alexander Willem Byvanck Foundation. Preliminary precursor, part 2-3 (Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Hague, 1993), p. 8
	Hel en Hemel, III-19, p. 61, incl. facs.