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Nardini has pointed out that the feast of St. Benedict in Pa776 is provided with
two Masses: one contains the Mass in Pa903 (Beneventan texts, Aquitanian melodies),
the other contains the Beneventan Mass, text and melodies. 16 She suggests a dual
distribution of this Mass from Benevento in which the first distribution may have
involved only the texts. The result is the version of the Mass in Pa903 with Beneventan
texts and Aquitanian music. A second distribution including both texts and music, say in
the later eleventh century, was copied at Gaillac and included as the second Mass in
Pa776, in addition to the earlier version with Aquitanian music (e.g., from Pa903 as a
possible exemplar). 17
This scenario relating to the Benedict Mass provides a distinctive instance in
which Pa903 could have served as exemplar for Pa776 for this Mass, and it furnishes
further plausibility to the suggestions in Chapter IV regarding Pa903 as exemplar for the
antiphons and prosulas of Pa776. Concordances of the neo-Gregorian chants in Pa903
with Pa776 are addressed in section F of this chapter.
Other instances of significant concordances with the Beneventan repertory
include the Mass for the Finding of the Cross, including the offertory Veniens uir and
communion Per lignum servi found in Pa903. This Mass has been shown to be of
Aquitanian origin. 18 The pattern of concordances among the Beneventan and Aquitanian
formularies of this Mass is summarized in Appendix A5-2. Of interest is the communion
Per lignum servi, found only in Pa903, which is concordant only with Vat699, a twelfth-
16 Nardini, Neo-Gregorian Chant in Beneventan Manuscripts, forthcoming. The concordances of
this Mass with the Aquitanian graduals, summarized in Appendix A5-1, show that the Beneventan Mass
texts are provided only in Pa903 and Pa776; the other graduals provide different formularies for this Mass.
17 The neumation of the Aquitanian music in Pa776 closely matches that of Pa903. Further
comments on the pattern of concordances between Pa903 and Pa776 are reserved for Chapter VI.
18 Luisa Nardini, “In the Quest of Gallican Remnants in Gregorian Manuscripts: Archaisms in the
Masses for the Holy Cross in Aquitanian Chant Books,” In Music and Censorship, Patricia Hall, ed.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
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