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Breviarium notatum Strigoniense (saeculi XIIT).

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Edited and introduced by Janka Szendrei. (Musicalia Danubiana, 17.) Budapest: Magyar Tudomanyos Akaddmia Zenetudomanyi Intezet, 1998. [Introd. in Hung., Eng., p. 7-58; bibliography, p. 59-60; index of chants, p. 61-73; facsim. reprod, of the MS., 328 fols. ISBN 9-63707-465-1. 88.50. [euro]]

The city of Esztergom (Lat. Strigonium), on the Danube across from Slovakia, was from the eleventh century home to both Hungarian royalty and the see of the Hungarian primate. The music and ritual of the archdiocese of Esztergom, the oldest and most important of three medieval archdioceses in Hungary, is thus of great historical significance. Accordingly, the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has made available in facsimile or transcription manuscript sources that are representative of this use: the notated (and disassembled) missal dating from before 1341 now mostly in Bratislava (Hung. Pozsony; Ger. Pressburg), Archiv mesta Bratislavy (Municipal Archives), MSS EC.Lad.3, EL.18, and other fragments (Missale notatum Strigoniense ante 1341 in Posonio, ed. Janka Szendrei and Richard Rybaric, Musicalia Danubiana, 1 [Budapest: Magyar Tudomanyos Akad6mia Zenetudomanyi Intezet, 1982]); the fifteenth-and sixteenth-century two-volume gradual (Bakocz Gradual), Esztergom, Foszdkesegyhhazi Konyvtar (Cathedral Library), MS I. 1a-b (Graduale Strigoniense (s. XV/XVI), ed. Szendrei, Musicalia Danubiana, 12 [Budapest: Magyar Tudomfinyos Akademia Zenetudomanyi Intezet, 1990-93]); and the antiphonary of about 1360 (known as the Istanbul Antiphonal), Istanbul, Topkapi Sarayi Muzesi, MS Deissmann 42 for the use of Esztergom (The Istanbul Antiphonal: Facsimile Edition with Studies, ed. Szendrei [Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1999; 2d ed. as Musicalia Danubiana, 18, 2002], recently reviewed by me in Notes 59, no. 4 [June 2003]: 975-78). A considerable secondary literature on the Esztergom liturgy, includes an index of the chants for the feasts of the Temporale (Laszlo Dohszay and Gabor Proszeky, Corpus antiphonalium officiiecclesiarum centralis europae: A Preliminary Report [Budapest: Zenetudomhnyi Intezet, 1988], 275-37(I);...

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