Meant for the title to say "Matins." I really dislike auto-correct.

Actually, when first I saw it, I thought it was going to be about Marin Marais.

Thanks! I was hoping for something free online like the 1912 Antiphonale, but I do like being able to hold a physical copy and leaf through as necessary. Very cool stuff.

I have found the chants for almost all feasts according to the old pre-Pius X psalter. The one source I used is an Antiphonarium manuscript from a Capucine monastery in Switzerland, and the other is the Antiphonarium dominicarum secundum consuetudinem sanctae Romanae ecclesiae from shortly before the Medicean edition and the Hymn revision by Urban VIII (thus it has Conditor alme siderum and the like).

The propers for the Feast of St. Joseph (May 1) are in the Liber usualis of the year 1961.
As to the Nocturnale romanum, H. P. Sandhofe has composed there quite a lot: many of the antiphons for the psalter 'per hebdomadam', and most of the chants for the new feasts or new propers introduced after the 1st world war (Sacred Heart, obviously St. Joseph the Worker, too).
It appears that there was very little demand for notated Matins already more than a century ago. The OSB Liber responsorialis (1895) contains only a small part of the nocturnal chants. The OP Nocturnale (1936) even less. Could it be that those religious who had choir obligation in those days just cantillated recto tono?

Thank you all for the info. Just how much did he compose, and were these completely new or adapted from Grgorian melodies?

Very interesting. Thank you so much.

There's a book in the Vatican Library entitled "Liber Nocturnalis ... Basilicae Vaticanae" from 1930. (Last time I was there it was, however, unavailable due to maintenance work.) It contains most of the night office as sung in St Peter's Basilica at the time (except for Holy Week.)
Sandhofe was aware that such a book existed, but he couldn't find a copy. Therefore he had to rely for the ferial antiphons on the Officium Majoris Hebdomadae which has antiphons only for Sunday through Wednesday. The antiphons for Thursday, Friday and Saturday as well as the antiphons for the Paschal Season he mostly composed himself.
In the attached PDF I have transcribed the ferial antiphons from this book. The layout is admittedly ugly, but it's certainly interesting to see what might be a draft of the (never published) official Nocturnale Romanum.

Many thanks, Joerg. If only the whole book could once join the Musica Sacra's pdf vault. Since this is a printed book and relatively recent (1930) there should be more copies around.

I have obtained a pdf of this book from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana but the condition was that I don't put it online. According to WorldCat the only library other than the BAV which has a copy of the book is Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Felicity

I thought the Liber Responsorialis... was already online. When I get back from holiday I will have a look.

Felicity,
the Nocturnale has the reformed office of Pius X, which is quite different from the monastic office. So I guess there will be little overlap with the Responsoriale (which I have never seen). Also the Nocturnale doesn't have any Great Responsories, it just gives relatively simple melodies in the 8 tones to which one would sing any responsory. A possible overlap might be in the tones for psalm 94. The Nocturnale has 11 of them. I've transcribed them in the attached pdf.

Protasius,
unfortunately sending my pdf via private mail is also explicitely forbidden. The condition of the BAV reads as follows:

1. The material will be used only for purposes of private study and only by me and will be kept in my personal custody and control at all times;

Ratzlfratz!!

It's not likely that the copyright was renewed when its first term finished. You can search Stanford's database to verify this: http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home

I've made some progress in my bilingual Latin/German edition of the Nocturnale Vaticanum. But over the next months I won't have the time to complete it. So I decided to put here, what I've done so far: It covers the first 99 pages of the Nocturnale, i.e. the weekly psalter and the Proprium of the seasons. The Proprium of the Saints (140 pages) and the Communia (40 pages) still have to be done. The edition turned out to be much more work than I anticipated. First of all the Nocturnale is hand written with numerous errors both in the text and in the music. While the text could easily be emendated according to the 4 volume "Breviarium ad Usum Cleri Basilicae Vaticanae" from 1925, the music had to be checked by internal criteria. Furthermore the pitches are not always indicated clearly. Also the psalm text used at St Peter's is from the "Psalterium Romanum" not from the Vulgate, so there is no reliable online version of the psalms. But the hardest part was translating the hymns. The canons of St Peter's never accepted Urban VIII's revised hymnary. So they retained all the difficult passages of the medieval hymns. It turned out that for none of the passages that I found difficult could I find a satisfactory explanation in the literature. Of the 20 hymns occurring so far I only found 1 translation which I considered adequate (St Thomas' hymn for Corpus Christi).

The Liber Responsorialis is online as a Google Book now, I am happy to report:
(click here)
As I had previously had a look at it through inter-library loan, I rather found this amusing.

Thank you.

"I am working on a singer's book for the entire Officium Parvum 1962" - so am I. I haven't taken anything from the Nocturnale, as I didn't have it at the beginning of the work, but found the chants in manuscripts instead. The book isn't ready yet, but the gabcs may be found here:
https://github.com/igneus/Editio-Sti-Wolfgangi/tree/master/Conventus/OfficiumParvumBMV
(in directory "cantus")

Joerg,
Thanks, although I think you've made some couple scribal errors.
This may give me the push to not use HPS's versions of these antiphons, after I compare more closely and think some more deep thoughts (grin).
Basically, I am trying to make everything in my book as 1962-ish as possible, and I sometimes suspect HPS of being a bit modern - he has changes in the Responsories, for example. The antiphons of your source are basically the same as the LR with the exception of Sicut myrrha, but Angelus Domini has been "updated" to the 1949 AR version - this therefore gives the antiphons in LR a 35 year boost, which is welcome.
Also, your Venite 7a looks like just the thing - it is much closer to HPS than LR is, but does not go quite so extreme.
The invitatory you sent is however, much different, and less ornate - I don't think it is good. Although, you may have a different one "Ave Maria", I don't know.
I am assuming that your book doesn't have Responsories? The advent ones would be helpful, especially Suscipe Verbum.
If I make some comparison booklets later, maybe I'll post them here - this is very interesting stuff to think about, at least to me.

Are you only interested in the antiphons or also in the responsories? I have finished the antiphons for the first nocturn of Trinity and I am pondering whether I should work on the responsories or the antiphons.

Sorry, I just noticed the Holy Trinity antiphons in your attachment above.

Basically, I am trying to make everything in my book as 1962-ish as possible

Just as a curious aside - and apologies for the distraction - I'm curious why one would restrict themselves to musicological research as it stood in 1962? Perhaps I'm naive (or maybe a modernist) but even in the EF, would it be wrong to use chant melodies that were updated by Solesmes (for example) based on recent research? Had the Council not altered the liturgy at all, surely these newer editions would have still been issued eventually.

Or to sum up the crux of my confusion - where does musicological research stand on the spectrum of liturgical vs. musical concerns? (To me, it is almost exclusively musical and not liturgical. If the melody was updated in - for example - 2006 - I'd have no qualms about using it in an EF liturgy - as long as the text is the same and the melody was only altered slightly to reflect recent research - clearly coming from the same melodic source, i.e, the chant not newly composed.)

Why not use something that has been given more attention and study than make do with the research in place when older editions were published?

Here are some more antiphons:

March 25 (For the Invitatorium "Ave Maria")
May 8 (Apparition of St.Michael, for the Invitatorium of Dedication of St. Michael)
July 1 (Most Precious Blood)
August 6 (Transfiguration)
September 29 (Dedication of St. Michael)
[The Antiphons for the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity are already contained in the
large PDF of the Proprium de Tempore, I posted on April 4]

@joerg: The Antiphons for Trinity in the Antiphonary for St Peter's Canons are not the same as the ones in the Roman Breviary, although they are similar.

A question to those in possession of the Nocturnale Romanum edited by Holger Peter Sandhofe: Does it contain the chants for Matins of the Solemnity of Saint Joseph (celebrated on the third Wednesday after Easter)?