Catalogue of Notated Office Manuscripts Preserved in Flanders (C.1100 - C. 1800) - Volume 1: Averbode, Dendermonde, Diest, Geel, Ghent, Tongeren (English, Latin, Paperback)

The present volume of manuscript antiphoners and other office books containing music in the collections of Averbode, Dendermonde, Geel, Ghent, and Tongeren is the first of a series entitled Antiphonaria: A Catalogue of Notated Office Manuscripts Preserved in Flanders (c.1100 - c.1800). The over 50 notated liturgical books in this volume represent those currently held at the abbey archives of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw en Sint-Jan de Doper Abdij in Averbode, which represents one of the most cohesive Premonstratensian collections in the Low Countries; the Sint-Pieter en Paulus Abdij in Dendermonde, which preserves a very precious volume containing the music of Hildegard of Bingen; the Archief Sint Dimpnakerk in Geel, whose holdings include one of the few surviving sixteenth-century antiphoners for a secular church; several archives in Ghent, including the Universiteitsbibliotheek, the Sint-Baafskathedraal, the Musea voor Schone Kunsten, and the Rijksarchief; and the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Geboortebasiliek in Tongeren, which preserves one of the most substantial and homogeneous groups of sources from a collegiate church in the Low Countries. An introduction presents a summary of each collection and the inventory parameters. Each catalogue entry contains a codicological description of the manuscript; a detailed description of its origin, usage, and history; and a full inventory of its contents paying special attention to the hymns, first Matins responsories, and first Lauds antiphons. In addition, there are three chant indices at the end of the volume.