| Solemn Readings etc |
Passions (or fragments of it) without a notated melody but with letters are B-Br IV 625, nr 12.
Tones for the four passions, to be read in Holy Week, can be found in a manuscript from Emmerich: D-EMMm B I 90: Cantus Passionis (16th century; Hufnagelschrift) and in D-X H 44 from the Stevenskerk in Nijmegen.
B-AVERBna IV 133 contains the 4 passions as sung in Averbode. Fragments of a passion are in B-AVERBna IV 417 (preliminary number 29).
The Liber Generationis (Matth. 1: 1-20) is found in the many books, among which:
 | The Liber Aureus of the Walburgiskerk, Zutphen, in Hufnagelschrift |
| | D-EMMm B I 90, Cantus Passionis of Emmerich mentioned above |
| | NL-SHsj 216-1, of the St. Jan at 's Hertogenbosch |
| | NL-DHk 70 E 1, Evangelia & epistola, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, Maastricht, mid 15th century, fols. 29r-31v |
| | D-X H 44 from Stevenskerk in Nijmegen, fols. Vv and 42r |
| | NL-Uu 405 has this lesson in the first mode (fol. 171v) and in the 4th mode (fol. 173r; Sunday after Pentecostes) |
| | NL-TILtf Haaren 20 has a Liber generationis in the 4th mode (fol. 192r) |
| | NL-Uc BMH Warm 92 H 1, fol. 133v (mode 4) |
| | NL-ARNbu PG 2, plenarium, 14th century, from klooster Bethlehem near Doetinchem has some solemn readings |
| | NL-DHk 70 E 1, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Maastricht, fol. 29r (mode 5) |
A Liber generationis with a 2-part conclusion
is in B-TO olim 85, evangeliary from
Our Lady's in Tongeren.
Something similar (also with a 2-part
conclusion) is on some loose leaves belonging to the Luik ordinal
NL-TILtf Haaren 14.
In the Abdij Rijnsburg this lesson was sung by chaplains and cantrices (Hüffer pp. 174-175).
The D-EMMm B I 90 Cantus Passionis of Emmerich contains the Liber Generationis according to Luke 3: 20-38, for the octave of Epiphany, with indications for an alternatim practice by two singers: In octava epiphanie. Sequencia sancti evangelii secundum lucam. Pariter Factum est autem cum baptizaretur ... Primus Qui fuit heli Qui fuit mathat ... Alter Qui fuit mathathie ... Primus Qui fuit mathathie ... This practice is probably familiar to that mentioned in the ordinal of Mariakerk Utrecht (ms GB-Lbl Add. 9769) on fol. 3va: ewangelium per quatuor dyaconos in aquila cantetur.
Ms D-X H 44 from Stevenskerk in Nijmegen, fols. 44r has the lesson without any indications.
Manuscripts of the Commanderij Jan Baptist in Haarlem: NL-Hs 184 C 1 has the first mode Liber generationis sec. Mattheum on fol. 19, and a 4th mode Liber generationis sec. Lucam on fol. 30v; NL-Hs 184 C 4 has the 4th mode Liber Generationis sec. Lucam following after Oct. Epiphany.
Among many others:
 | NL-DHk 70 E 1, Evangelia & epistola, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, Maastricht, mid 15th century, fols. 29r-31v |
| | NL-Uc ABM 62 fol. 126r ff. |
| | NL-DHk 70 E 1, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Maastricht, fol. 31v |
The solemn readings of the office for Christmas (Primo tempore alleviata est terra sabulon, Consolamini consolamini popule meus and Consurge consurge induere fortitudinem) are preserved in B-Br II 2631, preceded by Gaudent in domino ... dic Jube domine and the Jube domine itself, and followed by a Te Deum.
The Christmas lessons in 2 parts are in NL-DHmw 10 B 26, Calendarium Ultraiectensis, psalterium, antiphonarium, etc., 2nd half 15th century.
In D-X H 105 a 12th century bible of the Dom of Xanten, an elaborate tone has been added to the Lamentations by a slightly younger hand, using staffless neumes.
A late medieval lamentation tone is found in a manuscript from the Mariakerk, Utrecht: NL-Uu 419, written in the late 13th century and containing only the offices for Dedicatio Ecclesiae and the Triduum Sacrum. The tone has been added in the margins. It displays a large ambitus, and has several reciting tones, varying from c to c'.
Lamentations are in Luik, UB 224-225, fols. 235r-237v (with staffless lorraine neumes) and fol. 296v (staff notation) (Hss uit de Abdij van St.Truiden, pp. 103-106).
Lamentations are also in NL-Lu BPL 2777, in NL-Hs 184 C 4 and in GB-Ob lat. lit. d 1.
Lamentations are in NL-Uc BMH 25, fol. 21r ff.
And in NL-Uc BMH 27 (fol. 153r ff.)
The Commanderij Jan Baptist in Haarlem had a special tone (nota iohannitarum or nota secundum iohannitas) for some of the prefaces; see NL-Hs 184 C 1.