Un missel ibérique de la seconde moitié du XIIe ou du début du XIIIe siècle (Salamanque, Biblioteca General Histórica, ms. 2637)

Abstract

The missal of Salamanca, now fully digitalized and available in the Portuguese Early Music Database (PEM), was notated in the second half of the twelfth century or the beginning of the thirteenth century. Although it is usually said to come from Silos or San Millán de la Cogolla, none of these hypotheses can be considered as certain. The aim of this article is to present a description and analysis of the manuscript in order to propose some possible answers concerning its origin. I thus analysed the script and the notation, the sanctoral, the alleluias, the chants for the processions, the Kyriale and the Prosarium (both incomplete) and also some noteworthy chants (particularly two troped Benedicamus domino and two particular masses). Three appendices with the litanies of the saints, the alleluias and the chants for the processions complete this overview. At the end of this study, the origin of the manuscript remains uncertain. The sanctoral shows the strong influence of French sanctorals with several saints from the North West of France, and overall, it does not correspond to the sanctoral of the manuscripts from Silos or San Millán. On the other hand, the musical repertories have many things in common with those of the South of France: several antiphons for the processions, troped Kyries and also some alleluias were only sung in these regions. But other alleluias and some additions (two troped Benedicamus domino, a prosa and a troped Kyrie) can be found only in manuscripts from the Iberian Peninsula.