Budapest, Egyetemi Könyvtár (University Library), lat. 118

Cantus Siglum

H-Bu lat. 118

Holding Institution

Budapest, Egyetemi Könyvtár (University Library) (H-Bu)

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Summary

Franciscan Antiphoner. Fourteenth century. 485 x 325 mm. Square notation on a four-line staff. Cathedral cursus. 249 folios, including three interpolated leaves (ff. 85, 135, and 235).

Liturgical Occasions

Ff. 1-249: Winter Temporale. 1r, First Sunday of Advent; 53r, Christmas; 61v, Stephen; 106r-133r, Ferial Office; 134v, Septuagesima; 159r, Ash Wednesday; 227r, Maundy Thursday.

Description

Together with H-Bu lat. 119, 121, and 122, these four manuscripts record the Office for the entire liturgical year. The history of these manuscripts is little known before they were acquired by the University Library of Budapest during the reign of Joseph II of Hungary (1780-90). That they were used by the Franciscan Order, however, is clear from a number of inscriptions in the manuscripts and the occurrence of saints especially venerated by that order (i.e., Peter of Alcantara, Anthony of Padua, Clare, and Francis of Assisi).

The Office of Anthony of Padua appears in full in Analecta hymnica, vol. 5, pp. 126-9; the Offices for Clare and Francis appear in the same volume, pp. 157-60 and 175-8, respectively. The Office for Elizabeth of Hungary appears in full in Analecta hymnica, vol. 25, pp. 253-8. An edition of the text and music has been published by Barbara Haggh-Huglo.

In addition to the code assigned from the Differentiae Database, the older style of Cantus Database differentiae for each mode uses numbers and letters with a two-digit system: an upper-case letter indicating the final pitch of the differentia and a sequentially ordered numeral. Differentiae that vary in terms only of immediately repeated notes, presence/absence of liquesence or neumation are give the same differentia code, but are distinguished with a lowercase letter in the first column of the “Extra” field.

The coding of differentiae and assignment of chants is similar across the other Franciscan sources in the Cantus Database, such as:
Assisi, Biblioteca comunale, 693
Assisi, Biblioteca comunale, 694
Assisi, Cattedrale San Rufino - Archivio e Biblioteca, 5
Chicago, Newberry Library, 24
Città del Vaticano (Roma), Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, lat. 8737
Fribourg (Switzerland), Bibliothèque des Cordeliers, 2
München, Bayersiche Staatsbibliothek, 12o Cmm 1 (St. Anna Kloster)
Napoli, Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, vi. E. 20

Selected Bibliography

• Haggh, Barbara. Two Offices for St Elizabeth of Hungary: Introduction and Edition. Musicological Studies LXV/1. Ottawa: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1995.


• Rado, D. Polycarpus. Libri liturgici manuscripti bibliothecarum Hungaricae et limitropharum regionum. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1973, especially pp. 523-27.

Notes on the Inventory

The index for H-Bu lat. 118 was prepared by Andrew Mitchell at The University of Western Ontario, with the editorial assistance of Keith Glaeske (The Catholic University of America). The source description was edited by Debra Lacoste in April 2025.

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Debra Lacoste

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