'Secundum notulam dominorum teutonicorum': A New Look at the Repertoire and Genesis of Manuscript PL-GD MAR. F 406
'Secundum notulam dominorum teutonicorum': A New Look at the Repertoire and Genesis of Manuscript PL-GD MAR. F 406

Summary/Abstract: In the wake of publications by Maciejewski and Jasiewicz devoted to manuscript PL-GD Mar. F 406, the present article offers a fresh perspective on this Gdańsk source and revises some of those researchers’ opinions. The structure of the manuscript is re-examined, as is the repertory of the Ordinary. Chants for the Offertory and the Feast of the Visitation, as well as the body of compositions for the Holy Week and Eastertide (some of which are unica), are analysed here for the first time. The presented findings make it possible to relate this source unequivocally to the liturgy of the Teutonic Order, and especially to the church of St Mary in Gdańsk. Also shown are the codex’s links to Central European traditions (to manuscripts from Poland and Bohemia). Analysis of the repertoire also allows us to establish more accurately the order in which the volume was compiled and date its individual sections to the period between the first quarter of the fifteenth century and the turn of the sixteenth century. The compilers’ motives are analysed, and attention is drawn to the range of themes covered by the codex, not previously noted to such an extent: apart from Marian piety, also the cult of the Holy Sacrament and elements of the Holy Week and Easter liturgies.

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