The Cantorales in the Americas and Beyond project aims to catalog manuscripts of plainchant outside of Europe that were produced in the Iberian peninsula and across the Spanish diaspora 1300-1800, with a principal focus on the Americas.
Project Team
- Virginia Blanton
- University of Missouri–Kansas City, team lead
- David Andrés Fernández
- Universidad Complutense Madrid
- Richard Haefer
- Arizona State University
- Jane Morlet Hardie
- University of Sydney
- Martha E. Thomae Elías
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Cantorales in the Americas and Beyond is an initiative of the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT) Project.
Background image is from New York, Hispanic Society of America, MS HC392/249 fol. 42r. With the permission of the Hispanic Society of America.
Support for the project has been provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.
Funding for student internships provided by the UMKC School of Humanities and Social Sciences through the Fostering an Entrepreneurial Spirit for Humanities and Social Sciences Students initiative and the Mellon Humanities Internships Program.
Research travel support offered by the UMKC Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship.
Digitization of some items made possible by the CODICES Digital Humanities Lab.
Displaying 1-6 of 6 sources.
| City + Holding Institution | Cantus Siglum | Summary | Date/Origin | Image Link |
Chants
/ Melodies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London (ON), University of Western Ontario - Archives and Research Collections Centre (ARCC) | CDN-Lu M2150 15-? | Sixteenth-century “mutilated” antiphoner, possibly from the Burgos monastery, Spain. Square notation on five-line black… |
16th century
Spain, possibly Burgos (?) |
292 | |
| Quito, Iglesia de San Francisco - Archivo | EC-Qsf 18P16 | Fragmented Gradual used in the Church of San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. Undated but likely from late 16th century; 14… |
16th century (1575-1600)
Franciscan |
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| Quito, Iglesia de San Francisco - Archivo | EC-Qsf 4 | Fragmented Hymnal used in the Church of San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. Dated 1648 by unknown copyist. Vellum; good co… |
17th century
Franciscan |
124 | |
| Kansas City (MO), University of Missouri-Kansas City - LaBudde Special Collections - Miller Nichols Library | US-KClbsc M2147.C53 1500z |
"Adair Chant Book"
Spanish gradual and kyriale dating approximately from the late fifteenth century, with some office chants. Contains fou… |
15th century (1475-1500)
Spain |
Images | 142 |
| Princeton, Princeton University Library | US-PRu 67.4 | 17th-century antiphoner for use in Franciscan-Conceptionist community of nuns. Dimensions 45 x 91 cm; covers made of wo… |
17th century
Toledo |
13 | |
| Stanford, Stanford University - Green Library - Department of Special Collections | US-STu MSS CODEX 0734 FF | Large choir book with sung Liturgy for the Dead. Late seventeenth or eighteenth century. Mexico. 780 x 550 mm. Square n… |
17th century (1675-1700)
Mexico |
Images |
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