NL-HEESWab 19

Graduale (sanctorale only), 15th-16th century. Hufnagelschrift on ink staves. The front flyleaf bears the remark Liber presens est ecclesie xenodochij maioris civitatis busciducensis (= Groot Gasthuis in 's Hertogenbosch).

The names of the cantores have been written on the flyleaves (perhaps the book was used in St.-Janskerk); several feasts and sequences display a special devotion for Franciscus; many saints point towards the diocese of Luik.

Sequentiae

The sequentiary starts on fol. 117r with Sacrosancta hodierna festivitate. Nevertheless some sequences are written in the Graduale-part. Among the sequences:

* Theodardus: fol. 144r: Urbs legia leta plaude
* Lambertus: fol. 145v: Christi laude predicemus
* Maternus: fol 147v: Sion gaudens flore verna
* Franciscus: fol. 152r: Letabundus francisco decantet; fol. 152v: Surgit victor; fol. 155r: Eructetur dulce melos
* Triumphus Lamberti: fol. 158r: Letabundus laus beato
* Martinus, fol. 167r: Sacerdotem christi martinum
* Quattuor doctores, fol. 172v: Sancti visu columbino

Rhythmicized chants

Some chants are written in rhythmicized notation:

* fol. 104: Credo I
* fol. 105v: Credo IV
* fol. 91: another rhythmicized Credo
* fol. 75r: sequentia Mittit ad virginem
* fol. 115r: a Sanctus with trope Qui ianuas morte confregisti

Simple polyphony

There are some 2 part troped Sanctus:

* fols. 115v-116r: Sanctus O quam dulciter ... / Sic et nos laudemus ... / Tu qui solus facis ...
* fols. 116v: Sanctus Ab eterno pater ... / Sanctus Incarnatus patris ... / Sanctus Ab utroque ...

Tropes

Besides the tropes mentioned above, there are:

* fol. 114: Sanctus ... Osanna Angeli et Archangeli throni dominatusque celi te laudant cherubin et seraphin Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus in excelsis ... Osanna Tibi laus salus sit christe benedictus
* fol. 177r: Kyrie Magne deus
* ibidem: Kyrie Fons bonitatis
* ibidem: Kyrie inclyte pater et rector virginis marie (rubric: De domina)

Some Marian tropes are in the Kyriale cycles elsewhere in the manuscript

Varia

Fol. 62r: All. Vox exultacionis (ded. eccl.) is sung by the cantores, and interspersed with melisms sung by the choir.


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