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What are the manuscripts of Old Hispanic chant?
Topic Started: Jan 19 2015, 05:38 PM (638 Views)
Emma Hornby
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A question I received via email:
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As “the Hispanic land is a very large geo Iberian domain”, please show
where from are the docs you’ll prefer first, to Re-imagine the Old Hispanic musical culture


There are several types of evidence to draw on.

1. There is a different discussion thread on the buildings.

2. THere are manuscripts containing just the text of the liturgy, or else Bibles, like this one or this one (Biblia de Quisio). There is some wonderful discussion about manuscripts on http://litteravisigothica.com/ (Ainoa Castro's blog).

3. There are images that relate to the liturgy, most of which turn up as miniatures in the liturgical manuscripts.

4. The musical manuscripts.

THere is just one page from most of the Old Hispanic musical manuscripts (And some Roman liturgy ones as well) here the image quality is not very good on google books, but it gives you some information about each manuscript.

Here are some more beautiful images:

British Library Add. 11695
Just a couple of images at the bottom of the page of some of the Toledo MSS

One of the Toledo manuscripts - this is one of the three 13th-14th century manuscripts that have a rather different liturgical and musical tradition from all the other manuscripts (we usually call it "Tradition B" in the scholarship)

One of the San Millan de la Cogolla manuscripts and also another of them

And here there is a pdf of one of the beautiful royal Leon books - it has the liturgical canticles in, plus a book of hours, and there are musical materials near the back of the manuscript. And this one is the companion manuscript to the other royal book - they are very similar in content and presentation.
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Kati Ihnat
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Following on from Emma's links to some of our sources, it may also be helpful to note that actually they don't come from the full extent of the Iberian peninsula. We don't actually have manuscripts from the South (the area covered by Al-Andalus), except for a small handful from Toledo. Most of our manuscripts come from the northern kingdoms of Leon, Castille and Navarre. These either remained or became Christian in the centuries following the conquest of the Peninsula by the Umayyads in 711. There's a conversation thread on this here.

Here's a little map of the areas we mean (ca. 1000):
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Emma Hornby
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I am just updating this thread because someone just asked me via email how to get hold of images of the manuscripts. The first post in this thread has some links to online images of some of the manuscripts.
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