Complementary material to a forthcoming musicological edition of a liturgical versified office for St. Anne (AH 25:21),
presumably written around the year 1390 and ascribed to Nicolaus Hermanni (1325/6-1391), bishop of Linköping (1375-1391).
In Sweden, St Anne was celebrated on December 9. This historia was sung in the diocese of Linköping and elsewhere in medieval Sweden;
Analecta Hymnica gives it from the printed Breviary for Nidaros (1519).
Edition and complementary material was prepared by Ann-Marie Nilsson during a
research project (2006-2008) ”Medieval chant for
Swedish saints”, financed by the Swedish Research Council.
Most of the melodies in this office are, like those in the Swedish historia for St. Ansgar, adapted from the office for St. Dominicus
and St. Peter the martyr (OP). See comparative table between melodies from these three offices on this site.
Remarks to variant tables contains general remarks on the notation in the sources and
the comparative tables as well as abbreviations.
Sources are listed in a separate file.