Hello everyone,

I am researching historical organ accompaniments to Gregorian and devotional chant and am trying to locate a particularly scarce series connected with René Paris’s Manuel des Processions et Bénédictions du Très-Saint-Sacrement.

The publication I am looking for is:

Accompagnements à mesures rythmiques du Manuel des Processions et Bénédictions du Très-Saint-Sacrement
Méthode R.P. — Harmonisation A.V.
Bonne Presse / Desclée, ca. 1921–1923.

I want to emphasize that I am not looking for the much more common melody-only Manuel by René Paris. I am looking for the separate organ-accompaniment fascicles issued to accompany it.

I have been able to verify the existence of the following parts through European library holdings:

I — Pour l’exposition du Saint Sacrement
II — related Eucharistic sections
III — En l’honneur du Sacré-Cœur
IV — En l’honneur de la B. Vierge Marie
V — Propre des Saints
VI — Le Pape et l’Église
VII — Tantum ergo et Motets

Contemporary material connected with the Manuel also states that the rhythmic accompaniments were realized under the direction of Mgr Louis-Lazare Perruchot.

I have located institutional copies in Europe, but the cost of obtaining a complete reproduction from one source is several hundred euros, so I am hoping that someone here may own one or more of these accompaniment fascicles, a bound set, or know of a private collection or digitized copy.

Even simple page-by-page photographs would be extremely useful for my private research.

I noticed that members here have previously discussed and shared material from René Paris’s Manuel, so I thought this might be the best place to ask.

If anyone has ever encountered these separate accompaniment fascicles — even under a different cataloguing name — I would be extremely grateful for any lead.

Thank you very much,
Nellie Santee

@JonathanKK @tomjaw @chonak — I hope you don’t mind the tag; I noticed your earlier discussions of René Paris and historical chant sources.