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CmV - Communion verse
Cn - Cantio, Cantiones (paraliturgical sacred songs with poetic and often strophic Latin or vernacular texts)
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Co - Collect
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Gl - Gloria
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GrV - Gradual verse
H - Hymn
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I - Invitatory antiphon
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InV - Introit verse
Ite - Ite missa est
Ky - Kyrie
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Of - Offertory
OfV - Offertory verse
Or - Oratio / Prayer
PRCS - Preces (Old Hispanic)
PRCSV - Verse for the Preces (Old Hispanic)
PS - Psalm
Pc - Postcommunion
Pn - Pater noster
Pr - Prefatio (when written out and notated)
Psa - Prosa
Psl - Prosula (a type of trope - Tp): A prosula is a text created to fit a melisma in Gregorian chant. Alternative terms similarly employed in the medieval manuscripts include ‘prosa’, ‘tropus’ and ‘verba’. (Steiner, Oxford Music Online).
R - Responsory
Sa - Sanctus
Sec - Secret / Oratio secreta
Sq - Sequence
SqV - Sequence verse
Tc - Tract
TcV - Tract verse
Tp - Tropus
TpAg - Troped Agnus dei
TpAl - Troped Alleluia
TpBD - Troped Benedicamus domino
TpCm - Troped Communion
TpGl - Troped Gloria
TpIn - Troped Introit
TpIte - Troped Ite missa est
TpKy - Troped Kyrie
TpOf - Troped Offertory
TpSa - Troped Sanctus
V - Responsory verse
Va - Varia
VaHW - Varia within Holy Week
W - Versicle
[?] - Unknown, ambiguous, unidentifiable, illegible
[GV] - Verse for a Mass chant (a generic code used in the earliest Cantus indices)
[G] - Mass chant (a generic code used in the earliest Cantus indices)
[MO] - Mass Ordinary (a generic code used in the earliest Cantus indices)
[M] - "Miscellaneous" (a descriptor used in the earliest versions of Cantus for the Te Deum, Versus in Triduo, prosulae - to be replaced by Va=Varia)
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V-CVbav San Pietro B.79
180r
Justus non conturbabitur quia dominus
Justus non conturbabitur quia dominus firmat manum ejus
Comm. unius Martyris
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003551
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