Jan Olbracht Gradual from the Archives of the Wawel Cathedral. Physical description

Journal Title: Edukacja Muzyczna - Year 2018, Vol 13, Issue 13

Abstract

Research on Gregorian chant in Poland is necessary to establish the origin, specificity and the uniqueness of the Polish musical culture which grew on the foundation of the European artistic creation. Tracing the development of the Gregorian chant in Poland is also of great interest on account of its impact on other forms of sacred music which develop in our country already since the 14th century. Furthermore, this research has another significance as well, namely complementing the general musicological literature with information contained in Polish medieval sources. The reason for this is that Western European publications sometimes present our medievalistic culture in a one-sided manner without taking into account the results of research of Polish musicologists in this field. Source analyses of Polish medieval liturgical manuscripts are of a particular importance these days as only a tiny percentage of their former corpus has survived in Poland. That is undeniably evidenced by the information provided in early library inventories and records from bishops’visitations. The subject matter of this paper is focused on the physical description of the three-volume Jan Olbracht Gradual. In dealing with this issue, I used heuristcs, the method commonly used in the first stage of source analyses. The paper begins with presenting the subject literature. Afterward, it contains the physical description of the codex, comprising the circumstances and the date of production of the gradual, book format, bindings’ description of all three volumes, writing material, internal structure of the books’ blocks and their losses, foliation, additions and palimpsest, and also the state of preservation. The last section of the paper is dedicated to the paleographic analysis focused on the issues such as: the visual aspect of the leaf, textual and musical script, and decoration.

Authors and Affiliations

Marta Popowska https://orcid. org/0000-0002-6093-2796

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  • DOI https://doi.org/10.16926/em.2018.13.11
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Marta Popowska https://orcid. org/0000-0002-6093-2796 (2018). Jan Olbracht Gradual from the Archives of the Wawel Cathedral. Physical description. Edukacja Muzyczna, 13(13), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-756413