Modern Sources

This page lists modern publications (post-1870), some of them extremely rare in paper format, that contain one or more chant pieces that are useful to the Nocturnale Romanum Project.

They may be drafts of the abandoned Nocturnale from Solesmes in the 1910s-1920s, drafts of pieces composed by Solesmes monks (Gajard, Mocquereau, Sainte-Beuve, etc.) but never published and uncovered by us in the Solesmes archives, typicæ editions of the Office of new feasts published by the Vatican but never sold at large, or typicæ editions of proper Offices published by singular dioceses or communities.

Ordinarium & Psalterium

An early draft (pre-1912) of the Common tones of the Office and Mass that eventually would find its way into the 1912 AR, with (many!) corrections from an unnamed hand at Solesmes (Mocquereau?)

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The common tones for Matins according to Mocquereau's 1916 draft.

ToniCommunes_Matutinum_mocquereau_1916

The weekly Matins psalter according to Mocquereau's 1916 draft.

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Proprium de Tempore

All of the Proprium de Tempore for Advent, according to Mocquereau's 1919(?) draft. This is where the project was shelved.

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Matins of Palm Sunday according to Mocquereau's 1920 draft

Matutinum_Dominica_Palmarum_1920_Mocquereau

The Office of the first three days of Holy Week, with the Bea Psalter, published following the 1955 reform, interesting due to the presence of proper Responsories for those days and also the ferial antiphons for Monday-Wednesday

Officium_Majoris_Hebdomadae_1956_Bea

The Matins of Sacred Heart, drafts by dom René de Sainte-Beuve found in the Solesmes archives and copied by Dominique Crochu, never published

Matutinum_Sacratissimi_Cordis_Jesu_domRenedeSainteBeuve_DCrochu

Proprium de Sanctis

The Office and Mass for Our Lady of Lourdes (editio typica, Monastic rite)

Officium_et_Missa_BMV_Lourdes_Monasticum_Solesmes

The Office and Mass of St. Joseph the Worker (editio typica)

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The new Office of the Assumption published along with the dogma (editio typica), with added rythmic signs from the hand of dom Gajard

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The Matins of Christ the King (editio typica) with added rhythmic signs of unknown origin

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In aliquibus Locis

The proper offices of the diocese of Angers, without Matins, but with Responsories sung during Processions

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Two successive versions of the Office and Mass for St. Joan of Arc (the second one approved as "exemplar typicum"), with notes from Solesmes

Officium_Missa_Joannis_de_Arc_EdTyp_1910

The proper Office and Mass of St. Jean Eudes, published by Dessain (no typica found) in 1928

OfficiumMissa_St_Jean_Eudes_1928

The Matins of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, approved by the SCR (no typica found) and published in 1932 with rhythmic signs by Deslcée.

Matutinum_Teresiae_a_Jesu_Infante_1932_Desclee

The proper Office and Mass of St. Francis of Assisi, published by Desclée (no typica found) in 1926

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