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288 MUSIC IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY
of nine
Calixtinus and the Martial-Tropers. There is also a group
pieces in the Cambridge University Library MS. Ff. i.
are eleven other more or less isolated specimens:
17; and there
Madrid, Bibl. Nac. 19421 (from Catania).
Douai, 90 and 274.
Lille (see Oxford History of Music, i, p. 110; 2nd ed. i, p. 83).
London, British Museum, Burney 357 (from Thame).
Oxford, Bodleian, Bodley 572 (from Canterbury), Lat. Liturg. d 5 (from
Alta Ripa in Switzerland).
Corpus Christi College 59 (from NewLantony, near Gloucester).
Rome, Vatican, Ottob. 3025.
Burgos, Parish of St. Stephen (unnumbered).
Tortosa, Cathedral Library, C 135.
Transitional between this period and the next, but belonging more
closely to the earlier stage than to the latter, and therefore treated
at the end of this chapter, is the eleventh fascicle of the St. Andrews
manuscript (Wolfenbiittel 677).
THE CALIXTINE AND ST. MARTIAL MANUSCRIPTS
The manuscript in the Cathedral Library of Compostella in north
western Spain which passes under the name of the Codex Calixtinus
was written about 1137 according to Angles, 1 or after 1139 according
to Walter Muir Whitehill and Dom Germain Prado, who have pub
lished a complete edition in three volumes, with facsimiles, notes, and
transcriptions of all the musical parts of the manuscript. 2 Thirteen
years before this full edition appeared
the music alone was edited
and published by Peter Wagner. 3 The manuscript contains a plentiful
collection of services with music for the vigil and feast of St. James
the Great, the patron saint of Compostella, whose relics are there
enshrined. To this place a vast number of pilgrims journeyed in the
Middle Ages. The pilgrimages to Rome, to Compostella, and to
Jerusalem were, and still officially remain, the three pilgrimages of
greatest dignity in Western Christendom: in England they were outrivalled
only by the two best-loved national pilgrimages, to St.
Thomas the Martyr at Canterbury and to Our Lady of Walsingham.
The Compostella manuscript thus contains a good deal of 'special
music *
in addition to the ordinary liturgical chants for the festival,
and we may lawfully call some of its contents pilgrims' songs, and
may suppose that they would have been sung on the road to and from
1
/ Cddex musical de Las Huelgas (Barcelona, 1931), i, p. 59.
3
Liber Sancti Jacobi Codex Calixtinus (Santiago de Compostela, 1944).
8 Die Gesange der Jakobusliturgie zu Santiago de Compostela (Freiburg, 1931).