Abstract
In the Innichen/San Candido Abbey Museum in Pustertal/Val Pusteria (South Tyrol), sacred works of art, liturgical instruments and vestments as well as a remarkable collection of manuscripts bear witness to the spiritual and intellectual achievements of the oldest Tyrolean monastery. Founded in 769 by Duke Tassilo III as a Benedictine monastery, San Candido Abbey ceased to exist around 920, only to be resurrected around fifty years later as a collegiate monastery. Both the canons themselves and the school attached to the monastery or convent needed numerous books, many of which were produced in the monastery. The scriptorium of San Candido/Innichen experienced a real heyday between 1602 and 1620, when numerous liturgical books were rewritten and notated by the then organist and the Junkmeister. Around fifteen of these manuscripts and choir books are on display in the Abbey Museum. Among them is a Directorium chori from 1617 (Shelf mark: VIII.b.3), which contains a detailed description of the liturgy and above all the processions for the whole year. The article provides an initial analysis of the structure and content of the Directorium chori.