Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 Containing Music

摘要

In the preface to this book, published in association with The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, Hartzell explains that he startedrnwork on a catalogue in the 1970s, basing his researches on work done by earlier scholars. Since then further studies have appeared, and he now thinks it right to include in this impressive volume as many manuscripts as he has been able to identify. With only one exception he has seen all the items included, not only the purely musical manuscripts - graduals, missals, psalters, breviaries and others - but music in as many other documents as he could find, some very fugitive. Considering that many manuscripts have been lost through deliberate or accidental destruction during the centuries since 1200 it is remarkable that Hartzell has identified as many as 364.