a)  This copy of CHRISTUSLOB, 1977 edition, was provided by Eric Steinhauer, who has an extensive website on the Liturgy of the Hours in German. Herder continues to publish the text, and has done so from the first days of Officium Divinum Parvum.

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b)  Vespers of Saturday are the 1st Vespers of the Sunday.

c)  As with earlier editions of Christuslob and Officium Divinum Parvum, this text was approved by Bishops' Conferences of  countries with German-speaking populations.

d)  This edition, as is any edition with Heinrich Rohr as co-compiler and co-editor, is printed with musical notation and is intended to be sung in common, though the book can be used by an individual.  The music is chant-based and melodies for psalm tones, hymns and other selections are familiar to those who come with a tradition of a sung office.

e)  Some of Fleischmann's principles (Officium Divinum Parvum) were retained in Christuslob, e.g., most hymns with no more than 3 verses (Sunday Lauds and Vespers being one exception), shortened psalms, no more than 3 psalms at an hour, etc.  The structure of Christuslob is decidedly post-Vatican II:  placement of the hymn at the beginning of the hour; the invitatory at the start of the first prayer of the day (in the case of Christuslob, Morning Prayer), the addition of the interecessory prayers at Lauds and Vespers, etc.  One of the beauties of the original Fleischmann editions was that they emphasized the seasonal office and were restrained in the use of festal celebrations;  in Christuslob, additional "Common" offices are included, thus providing for additional options for celebrations......the simplicity of the original short breviary is lost (this was also the case in an another attempt at an American post-Vatican II short breviary text).