GB-Lbl (London) Add MS 30844

Description: 

Most folios of this manuscript (ff. 1-172v), belonged to a liber misticus (type of Old Hispanic manuscript with chants, readings and prayers for the cathedral cursus, i.e. vespers, matutinum and mass, and, only on penitential days, also the hours of tertia, sexta and nona), with several lacunas. Its ff. 1773r-177v have canticles and have thus been classified as part of a liber canticorum (Pinell, 1965); only this last section has musical notation.

This manuscript has the only surviving misticus with sermons for all of its offices. It begins in the middle of Idelfonsus of Toledo's De uirginitate perpetua beatae Mariae, which was read in the vigil of the office for Saint Mary. F. 32v has the first vespers of this office followed by the rest of its services (matutinum, mass and second vespers). Until f. 110v it has no important lacuna (presenting the offices of Saint Thomas, Christmas, Saint Stephen, Saint Eugenia, Saint James, Saint John Apostle and Saint Columba of Sens). After this there is a lacuna: f. 111r starts at the end of first vespers of the Circumcision office which is incomplete also at its end (f. 124v, with the Pater Noster and Benedictiones of the mass and the second vespers missing). After this we find another lacuna: the office of Initio Anni and the beginning of the Epiphany office are missing. F. 125r has the Epiphany office, starting halfway through the first prayer of the sixth missa of its matutinum; it has the full mass until f. 137v. Here there is another lacuna: all offices from the Epiphany (6 January) to the Chair of Saint Peter (22 February). Ff. 138r-148v has the Chair of Saint Peter office. After this there is another lacuna: all offices between the Chair of Saint Peter and the Ascension of the Lord are missing (i.e. the end of Christmastide, all Lent and great part of Eastertide). Ff. 149r-167r have the Ascension office. In f. 167v an "OFF[FICIU]M D[E] LETANIAS ANTE PENTECOSTEN" was copied in an unusual place (all other Old Hispanic manuscripts preserving these Litanies have them after the office for the Sunday after the Ascension); this office consists of just one vespers and was written there very likely to take advantage of the available parchment. After this there is another lacuna: f. 168r starts in the middle of the mass of the office for the Sunday after the Ascension. After the end of this mass, in f. 170v, there are readings for the office of the Canonical Litanies, also copied here in an unusual placement - other manuscripts have these Litanies in November, so perhaps this litany was added later or trying to make the most of available space in the manuscript. The liber canticorum in ff. 173r-175v has cantciles 2-7, and 10-15, according to Brockett, 1968.

Date: this manuscripts lacks musical notation despite the fact that the text of all of its chants were copied leaving enough space for the music (it seems incomplete), and it also has the peculiarity of including sermons. These features strongly suggest that this manuscript was copied at a late date, near the official suppression of the Hispanic rite. The inclusion of material for litanies offices in unconventional places within the manuscript, give the impression of a scribe hastily writing down liturgy which only existed in the Old Hispanic rite and which was about to disappear. Previous authors have dated it as tenth century (Clark, 1920; García Villada, 1923; British Museum, 1968; Randel, 1973; Fernández de la Cuesta, 1980; Gómez Muntané, 2001); early-tenth century (Vivancos, 2007, but also quoting Millares Carlo's eleventh century date); late-tenth century (Gros, 1978); tenth to elevent century (British Library, 2017); eleventh century (Férotin, 1912; Millares Carlo, 1961 and 1999; Díaz y Díaz, 1983; Walker, 1998). Some authors believe that the liber canticorum section is earlier, i.e. late-ninth to early-tenth century (García Villada, 1923; Pinell, 1965; Díaz y Díaz, 1983), or tenth century (Brockett, 1968).

Origin: it was preserved at the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos for several centuries until it was sold in the nineteenth century to UK owners. Díaz y Díaz, 1983 believed that it was copied in this abbey but that its ff. 173r-177v were not from there but from the East of the Iberian Península, probably from La Rioja or from a scriptorium with influences from La Rioja. There are no definitive proofs for any of the proposed provenances.

Liturgical tradition: A.

Randel responsorial tone tradition: unknown (not enough notated responsorial tones).

Archive: 
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Add MS 30844
Century: 
Provenance: 
Preserved for long at Santo Domingo de Silos, but there is no evidence to confirm this origin in the manuscript (see "Description" above).
Rite: 
Script: 
Cursus: 
cathedral
Category: 
Manuscript / Print: 
Material: 
Page layout (mm): 
390x300
Notes: 
(bibliography of this entry is to be completed)
Date: 
Eleventh century, before 1080 (see "Description" above)
Indexed by: 

Raquel Rojo Carrillo

Bibliography: 

BRITISH MUSEUM (ed.), Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881, facsimile reprint of ed. originally published: London: published by the Trustees of the British Museum, 1882 (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1968)
British Library (2017)
BROCKETT, Clyde W., Antiphons, Responsories, and Other Chants of the Mozarabic Rite (Musicological Studies, 15. Brooklyn, New York: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1968).
CLARK, Charles Upson, Collectanea Hispanica (Paris: Libraire Ancienne Honoré Champion Édouard Champion, September 1920).
DÍAZ Y DÍAZ Manuel C., Códices visigóticos de la monarquía leonesa (León: Centro de Estudios e Investigación “San Isidoro”, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de León, y Archivo Histórico Diocesano, 1983)
FERNÁNDEZ DE LA CUESTA, Ismael, Manuscritos y fuentes musicales en España: Edad Media (Opera Omnia: Colección dirigida por Rodrigo de Zayas. Madrid: Editorial Alpuerto, 1980).
FÉROTIN, D. Marius, Le Liber Mozarabicus Sacramentorum et les manuscrits mozarabes (F. Cabrol, H. Leclercq, & M. Férotin (eds.), Monumenta Ecclesiae Liturgica, Vol. 6. Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1912), pp. 804-20.
GARCÍA VILLADA, Zacarías, Paleografía española (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Históricos, 1923), Vol. 1, p. 115.
GÓMEZ MUNTANÉ, Maricarmen, La música medieval en España (Kassel: Edición Reichenberger, 2001).
Gros (1978)
MILLARES CARLO, Agustín, Corpus de Códices Visigóticos, ed. M. C. Díaz y Díaz and others (Canarias: Fundación de Enseñanza Superior a Distancia de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1999).
—"Manuscritos visigóticos. Notas bibliográficas", Hispania Sacra, Vol. 14, N. 28 (1961), 337-444.
PINELL, Jordi, "Los textos de la antigua liturgia hispánica. Fuentes para su estudio", in Rivera Recio, Juan Francisco (ed.), Estudios sobre la liturgia mozárabe (Publicaciones del Instituto Provincial de Investigaciones y Estudios Toledanos, serie 3. Toledo: Diputación Provincial, 1965), Vol. 1, 109-64.
VIVANCOS, Miguel C., Catálogo del Archivo del Monasterio de Santo Domingo de Silos (Santo Domingo de Silos: Junta de Castilla y León. Abadía de Silos, 2006).

Submitted by Raquel Rojo Carrillo
Post date: 12 Apr 2017 | Last update: 08 Oct 2023

Chants of the source

Displaying 301 - 400 of 690 chants.
Folio Incipit Feast Mode Cantus ID
090v 1 Omnes viri atque mulieres mente... MASS SCR Eugeniae * h00636
090v 2 Quis similis tibi in diis domine MASS SCRV Eugeniae * h00636a
090v 3 Populum tuum domine hunc quem... MASS SCRV Eugeniae * h00636b
093v 1 Gloria et honore * V VPR Jacobi fratris Domini * h00185
093v 2 Alleluia in memoria aeterna erit... V SNO Jacobi fratris Domini * h01591
093v 3 Paratum est cor ejus sperare in V SNOV Jacobi fratris Domini * h01591a
093v 4 Posuisti domine super ejus corona... V ANT Jacobi fratris Domini * h03979
093v 5 Beatus vir qui non abiit in V ANTV Jacobi fratris Domini * h03979a
093v 6 Protexisti eum domine a conventu... V ALL Jacobi fratris Domini * h01598
093v 7 Jucundus homo qui miseretur et... V ALLV Jacobi fratris Domini * h01598b
094r 1 Clara sanctorum una Jerusalem... V H Jacobi fratris Domini * a06476
094r 2 Clara sanctorum una Jerusalem... V HV Jacobi fratris Domini * a06476:01
094r 3 Jacobus ob hoc vocitatur justus... V HV Jacobi fratris Domini * a06476:02
094r 4 Carne hic ferret domini vocatur... V HV Jacobi fratris Domini * a06476:03
094r 5 Ardua ob hoc positus in arce V HV Jacobi fratris Domini * a06476:04
094r 6 Ad hoc impulsus solo et prolectus V HV Jacobi fratris Domini * a06476:05
094r 7 Poscimus maesti pie et benigne... V HV Jacobi fratris Domini * a06476:06
094r 8 Sit salus aegris sit qui es V HV Jacobi fratris Domini * a06476:07
094r 9 Sit domino laus patri adque nato V HV Jacobi fratris Domini * a06476:08
094v 1 Gloria et divitiae in domo ejus V VRS Jacobi fratris Domini * h04385
095r 1 Gloria mea * MH ANT 3 Jacobi fratris Domini * h01599
095r 2 Fortitudo simplicis via domini... MH ANT Jacobi fratris Domini * h04101
095r 3 In aeternum servabo illi... MH ANTV Jacobi fratris Domini * h04101a
095v 1 Os justi meditabitur sapientiam et... MH ANT Jacobi fratris Domini * h03848
095v 2 Junior fui et senui et non MH ANTV Jacobi fratris Domini * h03848a
095v 3 De ore justi procedunt mella... MH ALL Jacobi fratris Domini * h01200
095v 4 Exaltent eum in ecclesia plebis et MH ALLV Jacobi fratris Domini * h01200a
095v 5 Hic est vir qui servavit mandata MH RS Jacobi fratris Domini * h02269
096r 1 Homo iste in vita sua multa MH RSV Jacobi fratris Domini * h02269a
096r 2 Laudavit * MH ANT 50 Jacobi fratris Domini * h01737
096r 3 Ecce servus meus suscipiam * MH ANT C Jacobi fratris Domini * h01759
096r 4 Benedictio domine in mercedem * MH BNMT Jacobi fratris Domini * h00202
096r 5 Exaudisti me deus et liberasti me MH SNO Jacobi fratris Domini * h00193
096r 6 Laudate dominum * MH LDMT Jacobi fratris Domini * h00194
096r 7 Beatus vir alleluia qui implevit... MASS PRLG Jacobi fratris Domini * h00689
096r 8 Potens * MASS PRLGV Jacobi fratris Domini * h00689a
096r 9 Os justi meditabitur sapientiam et... MASS PSLM Jacobi fratris Domini * h00195
096r 10 Lex dei ejus in corde ipsius MASS PSLMV Jacobi fratris Domini * h00195a
096r 11 Alleluia ex quo honoravit te dicit MASS LDS Jacobi fratris Domini * h00884
096r 12 Alleluia Oblatio justi inpinguabit... MASS SCR Jacobi fratris Domini * h00942
096r 13 Alleluia sacrificium justi... MASS SCRV Jacobi fratris Domini * h00942a
098v 1 Gloria et honore * V VPR Joannis Evang. * h00185
098v 2 Justus ut palma florebit sicut... V SNO Joannis Evang. * h02911
098v 3 Bonum est confiteri domino et... V SNOV Joannis Evang. * h02911a
098v 4 Liberasti corpus meum ab omni... V ANT Joannis Evang. * h03660
098v 5 Propter innocentiam autem meam... V ANTV Joannis Evang. * h03660b
098v 6 Vidi te dominum facie ad faciem V ALL Joannis Evang. * h01969
098v 7 O domine ego servus tuus ego V ALLV Joannis Evang. * h01969a
098v 8 Iste electus Joannes diligendi... V H Joannis Evang. * 008324
099v 1 Potens in terra erit semen ejus V VRS Joannis Evang. * h04355
099v 2 Gloria mea deus MH ANT 3 Joannis Evang. * h01599
099v 3 Vir iste sustulit mortuos ab... MH ANT Joannis Evang. * h04102
099v 4 Os justi meditabitur sapientia et... MH ANTV Joannis Evang. * h04102b
100r 1 Justum in vinculis non dereliquid... MH ANT Joannis Evang. * h03618
100r 2 Dominus conservet eum et vivificet... MH ANTV Joannis Evang. * h03618b
100r 3 Dilectus a domino testimonium... MH ALL Joannis Evang. * h01227
100r 4 Beatus vir qui timet dominum in MH ALLV Joannis Evang. * h01227a
100r 5 Qui diligit me diligitur a puere MH RS Joannis Evang. * h02482
100r 6 Et pater meus diligit eum et MH RSV Joannis Evang. * h02482a
100v 1 Auxiliabo puero meo dicit dominus... MH RSV Joannis Evang. * h02482b
100v 2 Invitatus ad convivium tuum venio... MH ANT Joannis Evang. * h03568
100v 3 Dedisti laetitiam in corde meo a MH ANTV Joannis Evang. * h03568b
101r 1 Vox tua melliflua suavitate plena... MH ANT Joannis Evang. * h04103
101r 2 Domine dominus noster quam... MH ANTV Joannis Evang. * h04103a
101r 3 Posuisti in ore meo verbum... MH ALL Joannis Evang. * h01583
101v 1 Jucunditatem fecisti cum servo tuo... MH ALLV Joannis Evang. * h01583a
101v 2 Suscipe me domine ut cum fratribus MH RS Joannis Evang. * h02565
101v 3 Tu es enim Christus filius dei MH RSV Joannis Evang. * h02565a
101v 4 Laudavit lingua * MH ANT 50 Joannis Evang. * h01737
101v 5 Danti mihi sapientiam dabo gloriam... MH ANT C Joannis Evang. * h02785
102r 1 Priusquam errarem quaesivi... MH ANTV C Joannis Evang. * h02785a
102v 1 Anima justi sedis est sapientia MH BNMT Joannis Evang. * h03566
102v 2 Exaudisti me deus et liberasti me MH SNO Joannis Evang. * h00193
102v 3 Tu formasti me posuisti super me MH SNOV Joannis Evang. * h00193a
102v 4 Alleluia * MH SNOV Joannis Evang. * h00193b
102v 5 Laudate dominum in sanctis ejus... MH LDMT Joannis Evang. * h03013
102v 6 [...] MASS PRLG Joannis Evang. *
103r 1 [...] tuis MASS Joannis Evang. *
103r 2 Alleluia beati qui habitant in... MASS LDS Joannis Evang. * h00432
103r 3 Mirabilis deus in sanctis suis... MASS SCR Joannis Evang. * g03516
103r 4 Montem dei montem uberem mons... MASS SCRV Joannis Evang. * g03516a
103r 5 Currus dei decem milium multiplex... MASS SCRV Joannis Evang. * g03516b
104v 1 Me expectant justi quoadusque... V VPR Columbae * h01026
104v 2 Audi filia et vide et inclina V SNO Columbae * h01628
104v 3 Ipse est dominus deus tuus et V SNOV Columbae * h01628a
104v 4 Offerentur regi virgines post eam... V SNOV Columbae * h01628b
104v 5 Columba mea quam pulchra es et V ANT Columbae * h02702
104v 6 Audi filia et vide et inclina V ANTV Columbae * h02702b
104v 7 Columba me a surge est veni V ALL Columbae * h01176
104v 8 Lauda Jerusalem domino con lauda... V ALLV Columbae * h01176a
104v 9 Nardus Columbae floruit ligustra... V H Columbae * a06509
105r 1 Speciem et pulchritudinem tuam... V VRS Columbae * h03939
105v 1 Gloria mea deus MH ANT 3 Columbae * h01599
105v 2 Una et perfecta Jerusalem quae... MH ANT Columbae * h04108
105v 3 Omnis gloria ejus filiae regis ab MH ANTV Columbae * h04108b
105v 4 Audi filia et vide et inclina MH ANTV Columbae * h04108a
105v 5 Una es proxima mea una est MH ANT Columbae * h04109
105v 6 Deus deorum dominus locutus est et MH ANTV Columbae * h04109a
105v 7 Bona es proxima mea ut bona MH ALL Columbae * h01164
106r 1 Lauda Jerusalem dominum collauda... MH ALLV Columbae * h01164a

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