'Blóð várs herra Jesv Christi kom til Niðar ós' ('The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ came to Nidaros') - with these words the Icelandic Annales regii for 1165 record the arrival of a drop of Christ’s blood in Nidaros, today’s Trondheim, in Norway, and, if the information is correct, then it was in fact one of the first places to receive such a prominent relic.

The chant cycle for the Susceptio sanguinis feast, called today the 'Holy Blood office', has survived in just one manuscript. It consists of ten parchment folios, and is all that remains of a book with chants for the Divine office. This antiphonary was written between 1250 and 1275, probably for Nidaros cathedral.

Schola Sanctae Sunnivae and conductor Anne Kleivset have worked on this material for many years, and they give here the first complete recording of the 'Holy Blood office'.

Track Listing:
Ad primas vesperas
1. Super precipuos (Antiphon) 
2. Ecce advenit dominator Deus (Antiphon) 
3. Salus aeterna nobis (Antiphon) 
4. Christus Deus noster (Antiphon) 
5. Exultemus in Domino (Antiphon) 
6. Jesu bone (Responsorium) 
7. Salve lux mundi (Hymnus) 
8. Ave pater gloriosae (Antiphon und Magnificat) 

Ad matutunas
9. Filie Sion venite (Antiphon ad invitatorium) 
10. Christe redemptor omnium (Hymnus) 

In primo nocturno
11. Auctor salutis omnium (Antiphon) 
12. Beata vere civitas (Antiphon) 
13. Clementissime Domine (Antiphon) 
14. Dignus es, Domine (Responsorium) 
15. O vere digna hostia (Responsorium) 
16. Domine Jesu Christe (Responsorium) 

In secundo nocturno
17. Domine rex omnipotens (Antiphon) 
18. Gregem tuum Domine (Antiphon) 
19. Da, benignissime Deus (Antiphon) 
20. Verbum patris aeterni (Responsorium) 
21. Primogenito patris (Responsorium) 
22. Completis scriptis (Responsorium) 

In tertio nocturno
23. Gratia Dei per Jesum Christum (Antiphon) 
24. Domine fons misericordiae (Antiphon) 
25. Ave regum rex et Domine (Antiphon) 
26. Sanguis tuus Domine (Responsorium) 
27. Gratia dominica (Responsorium) 
28. Summa laus (Responsorium) 

Ad laudes
29. Crux benedicta nitet, Dominus (Antiphon) 
30. Salvator mundi, salva nos (Antiphon) 
31. Orabat Christus in caelum (Antiphon) 
32. Redemisti nos, Deus (Antiphon) 
33. Ecce de quo Johannes dicit (Antiphon) 
34. Magne Deus potentiae (Hymnus) 
35. Laetentur omnes populi (Antiphon und Benedictus) 

Ad secundas vesperas
36. Rex seculorum