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Sources for Matins chants

As those familiar with this blog will be aware, there is, as far as I know, no single book that provides all of the chants for the Benedictine Office of Matins.

I have been gradually trying to collate sources for the major feasts and seasons however, and this blog includes some posts collating this for particular feasts, as well as lists of sources for individual responsories (cross-indexed by incipits, feast etc).

I thought it might be useful though, to provide an overview of the key sources.

Document/
book
Where to obtain it
What it contains
Notes
Ferial Psalter draft (Peter Standhofe)
Ferial invitatory antiphons, hymns and antiphons
The psalms contain
 a lot of errors, and some of the cross-references to Invitatory antiphon tones are incorrect.

Liber Responsorialis
Buy or download.

Invitatory antiphon tones, Te Deum, Te Decet; antiphons, hymns and responsories for commons, selected feasts and some Sundays during the year.

Odd gaps (no Advent for example!).
Nocturnale Romanum
Purchase (hard to obtain) or download.
Most antiphons and responsories for the Office throughout the year.
Arranged for Roman not Benedictine Office and so missing some antiphons and responsories.

Psalmus Venite Exsultemus per varios tonos cum invitoriis pro officiis de tempore et de sanctis
Secondhand only, rare book.
Invitatory antiphons for most feasts of the year.
Rare but some scanned onto Benedictine Responsory website
Gregofacsimil website
Responsories transcribed from the c10th Hartker mss and selected others.
Good source for missing responsories, but verses frequently diverge from breviary.

Liber Hymnarius
Available for purchase through online monastic websites (Le Barroux, Solesmes etc)
Supplementary responsories, invitatory antiphons and hymns.
Hymns sometimes differ from 1962 breviary, selected responsories and invitatories only.

Antiphonale Synopticon
Antiphons for the Office transcribed from MSS with variants noted.
 Useful source for unpublished antiphons.

Processionale Monasticum, 1887
Available for purchase but check edition (later versons remove a number of chants).
Responsories and antiphons for selected feasts.