Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1968, Side 51
The following list, compiled by the editor of the series, is a supplement,
almost exclusively from Icelandic sources, to the information which
Dr. Eggen gathered about sequences and related poetry. A few texts
without music, which he perhaps left out deliberately (cf. p. XXXIV)
are included. No doubt more material of this kind will turn up in the
future.
1. In one version of Sverris saga (Flateyjarbok II, 1862, pp. 583-4)
it is told that during a battie in 1181 King Sverrir sang “the sequence
Alma chorus dei”, cf. p. 106. (The text is printed in AH 53, No. 87;
the editors find it improbable that Notker is the author).
2. The MS AM 98, 8vo, consists of two parts. The first part is a
defective Latin MS, dated c. 1200, which has come from Iceland. The
second part, which was used by Dr. Eggen (see p. XLIII), is much
later (15th century).
In the first part some sequence texts, without music, have been writ-
ten in the margins. The following have been identified:
P. 4. “Mirabilis Deus”. Printed in AH 53, No. 231.
P. 7. “Adest nobis dies alma”, cf. p. 296. The Space for the name
in 3a, 5ab is filled “Martine”.
P. 18. “Virgini Marie laudes intonent”, cf. p. 168.
Pp. 20-21. “Benedicta es celorum regina”. Printed in AH 54,
No. 252.
P. 20 bottom. “Gaude Maria virgo, cunctas hereses sola interemisti”.
Cf. Ulysse Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum III, p. 241.
P. 21. “Post partum virgo Maria”. Printed in AH 53, No. 109.
P. 25. “Clare sanctorum senatus”, cf. p. 285.
P. 42. “Unus amor et una concordia”, cf. p. 295. The name in 8b,
10b is only given as “N”.
3. A leaf, probably from a Sequence Book with text and music, is in
Ny kgl. sml. 1265, fol. (Royal Library, Copenhagen); a marginal note,
“Pad giore eg torfe fusa son godum monum kunigtt med [pessu] minu
opnu brefe at eg hefe huorke giof”, shows that is must have come from
Iceland. There are 10 text-lines to a page. The leaf has been used as a
book-cover and both edges are trimmed; the recto is more worn than
the verso. The recto contains the latter part of a sequence on St. Augu-
stine; in 11. 2-4 can be read: rosea pro castitate candida. Datur et .. .
pro doctrina catholica. Qua prefulget august [i] nus in summi regis curia.
In 1. 3 from the bottom the sequence on St. Aegidius “Exultet in gloria”,
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