The “Esztergom Antiphoners” (Cathedral Library of Esztergom, Ms. I. 3c, d) in the Context of Musical Notation

Gilányi, Gabriella (2019) The “Esztergom Antiphoners” (Cathedral Library of Esztergom, Ms. I. 3c, d) in the Context of Musical Notation. In: NOTATED SOURCES FROM MEDIEVAL EUROPE / MEDIEVAL HUNGARY. Transregional Research and Online Database Building, Bratislava, pp. 1-9. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The “Esztergom Antiphoners” are sources of prime importance to reconstructing the 15th-century office tradition of Esztergom, the see of the primate of Hungary. Full musical and liturgical research into these sources has classed them as belonging to the purest form of the Esztergom rite (Ritus Strigoniensis), but major questions ‒ the location of their scriptoria, and the age, connection and history of the manuscripts ‒ remain open. Such doubts are compounded by conclusions that art historians have reached about them, and by the discovery of some codex fragments of them in Hungarian and Slovakian collections. A detailed music palaeographical comparison perhaps reveal some new clues about the codices and their inter-regional connections.

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