STREDOVEKÉ NOTOVANÉ FRAGMENTY ZO SLOVENSKÉHO NÁRODNÉHO ARCHÍVU, FOND HODNOVERNÉHO MIESTA KONVENTU PREMONŠTRÁTOV V LELESE
Medieval Notated Fragments from the Slovak National Archives, Collection from the Leles Premonstratensian Monastery Place of Authentication

Summary/Abstract: Source research into medieval musical materials from the territory of Slovakia has brought many new and valuable findings in recent times. The sources include newly discovered musical fragments from various archive, book and museum collections from the 11th to the end of the 15th centuries. Almost all the surviving musical sources contain monophonic Latin liturgical song, so-called Gregorian chant (in Latin cantus planus) of domestic and foreign origin. The manuscript materials from the Kingdom of Hungary include fragments in the Slovak National Archives from the Leles Premonstratensian Monastery place of authentication (locus credibilis). Fragments of four manuscripts with notes represent a scriptorium tradition that is specific from the points of view of content and musical notation. The medieval fragments with notation are preserved as the packaging for documents (Acta anni – varia). They come from four different liturgical books: a Sequentiar from the second half of the 14th century, a Missal from 1350–1375, an Antiphonar from 1350–1375 and a Psaltar with notes from about 1400. The aim of the study is to present the content and significance of these musical materials for research on medieval musical culture, religion and manuscript production in medieval Slovakia.

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