Barokní rukopisné kancionály z Valašska
The Baroque Hand-written Hymn-books from Moravian Wallachia

Summary/Abstract: This article is based on an analysis of four hand-written hymn-books: the hymnal by Mikuláš Zigmundík from Lidečko (1696), Martin Mužikovský from Pržno (before 1755), J. Mžík from Vsetín (1731–1734) and Ondřej Štefek from Vsetín (1769–1770). The aim of the article is to present some unknown sources of the Czech spiritual song of the 17th and 18th century. The hymnological studies in the Czech milieu focus still in the first place on the printed production, but the hand-written production was no less plentiful. This study focuses on four handwritten baroque hymn-books from Moravian Wallachia which is a unique cultural region in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. These sources are accessible in some regional museums and have not been described yet in any reference book. The article deals with the detailed description of the manuscripts: the date and the place of origin, the authorship, the extent of the manuscript. The study deals briefly with the illumination, language and music notation, focusing especially on the song repertoire. The literary-historical analysis of the hand-written hymn-books shows that the manuscripts differ from the printed hymn-books in the high number of ordinarium tropes [the addition to the ordinarium missae] and in the fact that a specific part of the repertoire survived only in the manuscript form, not in the printed form. The ordinarium tropes [the addition to the ordinarium missae] demonstrate that the practice of the Catholic Church singing was a little different from the official church regulations. These regulations forbade to replace the Mass texts with vernacular songs. The occurrence of the specific repertoire is a proof of some independence of the printed hymnography. The article offers some provisional results of the large research (focused on Moravian hand-written hymn-books). Much information is still unknown (e. g. about the authors), much is waiting for the next specification.

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