Actually the text with music is not in (High) German but in Eastern Middle Dutch, or, if you prefer, Lower Middle Saxonian. The text without music lower on the page is indeed in High German. The provenance of this text may be de Broeders des gemenen levens lead by Geert Grote in Deventer, translated into High German somewhere in the High German language area. The Broeders favoured hymn singing in the vernacular.
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You are right, "gebleven" and "geloek" (you might pronounce the "g" with affricata sound) is not exactly German!
In linguistics we say Mittelhochdeutsch, Middle means the German is between Althochdeutsch and Neuhochdeutsch, and the classification Hoch/Nieder is related to the sound shift of the Benrath line near Köln (Appel/Apfel) which also concerns Dutch and English (therefore Netherlands).
Thank you very much. I think you're talking about that?
https://gregorian-chant.ning.com/group/german-music/forum/topics/ein...
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