Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1968, Síða 167
OMNES GENTES PLAUDITE - SANCTI SPIRITUS ASSIT . . . QUE CORDA
nominis; — in j: 2a (2) habitaculum] habitacula, 5b (9) interioris]
interiores, 8b (15) numen] nornen, 12b (23) saeculis] seculi.
The words are also printed in the Missale Nidrosiense.
Lines of music under the last lines of text are seen on fac. 94 (the
rest of vv. 5a, 5b, and the first two syllables of 6a), fac. 95 (the rest
of vv. 10a, 10b, and the first two syllables of 11a), fac. 159 (the rest
of vv. 5a, 5b, and some syllables of 6a, “Ut videri supremus”), and
fac. 160 (the rest of v. 12b).
The melody has the title “Occidentana”; and it is in substance
the same as that of“Celsa pueri” and “Rex omnipotens”, although the
number of syllables in the lines of verse which are to correspond,
is not always the same. In Moberg, therefore, the music of “Sancti
spiritus” (No. 14b), although parallel with that of “Rex omni-
potens” (No. 14a), is written separately.
MS. j gives the melody in its correct and genuine form. The
divergences in the other MSS. will be discussed below; suffice it
here to say that it is more in agreement with that of “Rex omnipotens”
(and Moberg, No. 14b).
The other document which gives the entire sequence is Z; but its
music is in places unreliable. Often the staves are indiscernible, so
that the notes have to be read with the aid of other documents.
Where the music of the two halves of a verse does not seem to be
identical, as it ought to be, the one of the two forms which cor-
responds best to the presumably normal one, has been chosen in the
following transcription.
One very interesting feature of Z is that after the first verse it
adds “Alleluia”, and moreover with a melody which is mainly iden-
tical with that of the “Amen” which in A ends the great Olavus-
sequence “Lux illuxit letabunda”.
The following transcription represents all the sources mentioned
above as far as v. 10 (incl.); from v. 11 on, the melody-form of j
is dropped, to be taken up afterwards.
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