Fragmentary source consisting of a section of parchment taken from a rotulus and attached as a pastedown (now, as a flyleaf) to the cover of a fifteenth-century book from the Cistercian nunnery of Lichtenthal that contains a collection of diverse texts in German. The musical fragment contains the end of the second voice of the Fa fa mi fa motet known from the Codex Las Huelgas, the upper part of Flos vernalis, known from the Robertsbridge Codex, and polyphonic settings of Virgo Dei genitrix and Ave sidus lux dierum.
| Archive | Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe, Germany (D-KA) |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | Lichtenthal 82 |
| Image Availability | The images on this record are linked using IIIF. |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Format | portrait |
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| External Links | |
| Contents | Contains 4 compositions, 4 are anonymous. |
General Description
DIAMM Note
Inventoried by Felix Heinzer and Gerhard Stamm, 1987. Concordances discovered by Cristina Alís Raurich, January 2011.
Note that the attached edge of the musical flyleaf is visible between folios 164v and 165r, and contains the visible initial F for Flos vernalis which begins halfway down on the verso side. The backboard also contains an offset of the verso side of the leaf.
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‡ denotes primary source study
‡ Raurich, Cristina Alís. 2019. The flores of Flos vernalis: Robertsbridge Codex, Lichtenthal Codex, and the creation of intabulation in the 14th century. MedRen Conference, Basel, 2019.
Catalunya, David. 2017. Nuns, Polyphony, and a Liégeois Cantor: New Light on the Las Huelgas ‘Solmization Song’. Journal of the Alamire Foundation, 9: 89-134. Pages: 89-133.
Heinzer, Felix, and Gerhard Stamm. 1987. Die Handschriften von Lichtenthal. Die Handschriften der Badischen Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe. XI vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. Pages: 199-200.
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