IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 717: Cultural and Religious Networks in Medieval Iberia, III: Iberian Liturgical Manuscripts

Tuesday 4 July 2023, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	University of Bristol / Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Organiser:	Kati Ihnat, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Moderator/Chair:	Kati Ihnat, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Paper 717-a	Identification of Music Scribes and Their Roles in the 10th-Century Old Hispanic Manuscript Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia, MS 30 (Language: English) Emma C. Hornby, Department of Music, University of Bristol Index terms: Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music
Paper 717-b	Old Hispanic Music Notation: Notational Style, Vocabulary, and Grammar in Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia, MS 30 (Language: English) Marcus Jones, Department of Music, University of Bristol Index terms: Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music
Paper 717-c	San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca, MS I.III.16: Identification of a Monastic Breviary of the 12th Century (Language: English) Juan Pablo Rubio Sadia, Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, Pontificio Ateneo Sant' Anselmo, Roma Index terms: Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music
Abstract	This session showcases three complementary ways of investigating the cultural networks in which medieval Iberian liturgical manuscripts participated. Rubio Sadia illustrates how close investigation of manuscript contents (including liturgical structures, repertoire and layers of additions) can point to a manuscript's origins and position within wider liturgical transmission patterns. Hornby and Jones present companion papers. Hornby identifies 12+ music scribes in one 10th-century manuscript, interrogating their roles and interrelationships. Jones examines each scribe's idiosyncratic use of musical notation, identifying the extent to which they participate in wider networks of notational practice.