LIMVP - Preface

Grant project GA ÈR no. 401/02/0042/A

Žùrek, Jiøí. LIMUP - The Database of Liturgical Manuscripts of the Utraquist Provenance Preserved in the Czech Republic [on-line]. Available from the WWW: http://www.clavmon.cz/limup

In the course of 3 years, a team of researches lead by ThLic. Jiøí Žùrek collected detailed information about the content of the liturgical manuscripts of the Utraquist provenance which are preserved in the Czech Republic. These data were loaded into the LIMUP Database which is available on-line at http://www.clavmon.cz/limup. In addition, the database contains basic information about 1198 extant liturgical manuscripts from 9th - 19th centuries which may be of Catholic, Utraquist or Protestant origin but used in the Czech lands. The detailed catalogue of the content is offered in 162 cases of manuscripts from 15th, 16th and the beginning of 17th century. Every chant, antiphon, prayer and liturgical texts of any kind may be found together with its rubrics, with the information about notation, liturgical specification and the location within the manuscript. In the sum, there are 96.463 items stored in the database. The LIMUP Database is fully searchable with various criteria which may be combined together. It is also possible to browse the content of individual manuscripts and to compare different manuscripts among themselves. The LIMUP Database is unique worldwide since the content of the Utraquist liturgical manuscripts was never before captured on a large scale in such a detailed manner.

Selected bibliography on the Utraquist liturgical manuscripts:

  • Dobroslav Orel, Kancionál Franusùv z roku 1505. Praha: Jednota Cyrilská, 1922
  • Detlev Bosse: Untersuchung einstimmiger mittelalterlicher Melodien zum Gloria in excelsis Deo. Erlangen, 1954.
  • Margaretha Landwehr-Melnicky: Das einstimmige Kyrie des lateinischen Mittelalters. Regensburg: Bosse, 1955.
  • Josef Thannabaur: Das einstimmige Sanctus der römischen Messe in der handschriflichen Überlieferung des 11. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. Erlangen, 1962.
  • Martin Schildbach: Das einstimmige Agnus Dei und seine handschriftliche Überlieferung vom 10. bis zum 16 Jahrhundert. Erlangen: 1967.)
  • Series Corpus Antiphonalium Officii - Ecclesiarum Centralis Europae (Zsuzsa Czagány)
  • Series Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice - in print form or in on-line form.
  • Barry F. H. Graham: The Litomìøice Gragual of 1517. Brno: L. Marek, 1999.
  • Barry F. H. Graham: The evolution of the Utraquist Mass, 1420-1620. The Catholic Historical Review, 2006, v. 92, pp. 553-573.
  • Barry F. H. Graham: Bohemian and Moravian Graduals 1420-1620. Turnhout - Brepols, 2006