Haec est virga - antiphon from the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception

veromary

I've tracked it down to here:
https://cantus.uwaterloo.ca/chant/686227
Is the next step a trip to Quito to check out the manuscript?

Context:
I'm reproducing a booklet on the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception
here's the work in progress on gitlab
Page 34 has the antiphon: "Haec est virga in qua nec nodus originalis nec cortex actualis culpae fuit".
I'd like to include the chant - and this is the one single solitary antiphon in the whole little office and the tune has to be out there somewhere!

tomjaw

Have found this, https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/3/3a/Donati-Nihil_est_candoris.pdf

igneus

The single source known to the Cantus Database is of Hispanic Franciscan origin. The National Library of Spain has indexed its chant books https://www.bne.es/es/catalogos/cantorales and previously I had some luck looking there for newer Hispanic and Franciscan chant stuff, so I tried and found one occurrence: MPCANT/46, an 18th c. choir book once owned by some convent of the Trinitarians, Haec est virga is on scan no. 18.

veromary

Thank you @igneus! That's fantastic!
I wonder how this particular Antiphon ended up in the Little Office. I'll have a go at transcribing it - the notes are clear, but might be a bit fudgy mapping across to gabc neumes.
I'm adding it to gregobase, but not sure what version to put - Hispanic/Franciscan? I'll put this thread in the reference field.

veromary

Here's the new Gregobase listing:
https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=18852

igneus

I wonder how this particular Antiphon ended up in the Little Office.

The antiphon&versicle&prayer at the end are taken from the official liturgical texts, sort of a commemoration of the feast of Immaculate Conception. It's somewhat unusual to take a psalm antiphon for this purpose (instead of a Benedictus/Magnificat one), but it's a lovely piece and expresses the particular idea of the feast well, while the Benedictus and Magnificat antiphons are just general stuff from the Song of songs.

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