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Vyssí Brod 42: A Unique Music Source from Pre-Hussite Bohemia

Vyssí Brod 42: A Unique Music Source from Pre-Hussite Bohemia

Vlhová-Wörner, Hana
Hlávková, Lenka
Ciglbauer, Jan

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Series: Prague Medieval Studies

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ISBN10: 8024659581
ISBN13: 9788024659589
Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University
Published: Jun 10 2026
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.47 Depth: 8.83
Language: English
An in-depth study of a medieval manuscript of songs from the Cistercian monastery in Vyssí Brod.

Manuscript 42 from the Cistercian monastery in Vyssí Brod (Hohenfurth), Czech Republic, compiled in 1410, today represents one of the most important music sources from medieval Bohemia, providing insight into the rich and varied liturgical and devotional repertory circulating in Central Europe just before the outbreak of the Hussite Wars in 1419. The manuscript's collection of monophonic and polyphonic songs, one of the oldest ones in Europe, serves as a starting point for studies of the Latin mensural cantio, an important late medieval music form and cultural phenomenon.

In Vyssí Brod 42, three extensive studies explore various aspects of the manuscript and its contents. In the first, Jan Ciglbauer examines its creation process and the involvement of various scribes in noting down new texts and melodies. In the second, Hana Vlhová-Wörner delves into the variety of late medieval chant compositions contained within it and the relationship of this truly novel repertory to the formalized Cistercian liturgy. The last chapter, co-authored by Lenka Hlávková and Pavel Kodýtek, scrutinizes the manuscript's remarkable collection of spiritual songs and identifies their inscription as snapshots of a vivid oral tradition.

Together, these three studies bring a new perspective on musical life in Cistercian monasteries in Central Europe in the late Middle Ages, a topic that has received very little exploration until now.

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