Complementary material to a musicological edition of a liturgical versified office for the
Swedish saint Eskil, presumably written around the year 1300: variant tables of chant
melodies.
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.
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.
The breviarium strengnense imprimatum (1495) contains five psalm antiphons for vespers,
for which no notated sources have been found.
Some of the melodies from this office have served as models for later (around 1400)
added chants in Matins for St. Erik. (MA1 also served as model for an antiphon in the office for
Nicolaus Hermanni, who was considered to have compiled those chants.) In such cases, those
melodies are added for comparison at the bottom of the tables. See Ann-Marie Nilsson,
S:t Eriks hystoria. The historia of St. Erik, king and martyr, and patron saint of Sweden (Stockholm 2000).