A unique Pauline manuscript from the 16th century was published by the Musicology Institute of the ELKH Humanities Research Institute.
BTK researchers published a volume jointly published with the Hungarian Pauline Order on the Pauline cantuále of Częstochowa. The 16th-century liturgical sheet music manuscript preserved in the Clarus Mons library of the Pauline monastery in Jasna Góra - Częstochowa, Poland - is one of the important sources of medieval and early modern Hungarian music and language history.
It was certainly copied in the scriptorium of a Pauline monastery in Northern Hungary in the 16th century, but it was transferred to the sister monastery in Poland during this century.
In 1601, the new owner registered the fact of ownership in the manuscript.
The manuscript does not belong to the list of decorative codices of the late Middle Ages with a splendid display and elaborate design. In its content and structure, it does not preserve the usual strict order of earlier liturgical mass and psalm sources.
Its value and special appeal lies precisely in its usability.
It contains what the particular monastic community needed the most: practical guidance for daily psalms, it contains the procession songs of special holidays, and the acts of the mourning ceremony.
The studies of the volume follow each other according to the content division of the manuscript: after the complete table of contents of the cantuále with apparatus (Zsuzsa Czagány) and an overview of the sheet music (Gabriella Gilányi), separate chapters deal with the tonaire (Ágnes Papp), the hymns (Szoliva Gábriel), and finally in the manuscript with recorded guest text in Hungarian (Haader Lea). The only non-Hungarian author of the volume is Jakub Kubieniec, a professor at the Department of Musicology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, who reviewed the Polish source environment of the kantuále, performing a Central European comparative study of the individual chants.
The volume was published jointly by the Lendület Digital Music Fragmentology Research Group at the Department of Old Music History of the ELKH Humanities Research Institute (BTK ZTI) and the Hungarian Pauline Order Cantuale Paulinorum s. XVI – Music and language history studies on the Pauline cantuále from Częstochowa. The publication - which includes six studies - was edited by Zsuzsa Czágány and Gábor Sarbak.
Source: vasarnap.hu
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