Notes on the provenance of Lucas Lossius’ 'Psalmodia' (PL-WRu OSD 351352)
Abstract
This text presents new findings concerning the provenance of a printed copy of Lucas Lossius’ Psalmodia, hoc est Cantica sacra (Wittenberg: Johannes Schwertelius 1569), currently held in the Old Prints Department of Wrocław University Library (shelf-number 351352). To date, it has not been known where this printed copy, to which numerous margin notes and a vast manuscript supplement of musical compositions were added, was used. Inscriptions on endpapers and the identification of one of the authors of the manuscript supplement have enabled the author to establish that the place where the copy was used during the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth century was probably Namysłów. During that period, Lossius’ Psalmodia was very popular in German-speaking Evangelical circles; extensive annotations concerning local performance practice and a handwritten supplement containing previously unknown compositions make this copy valuable evidence of the musical culture of the place where it served performers.
Keywords:
Lucas Lossius, Psalmodia, Namysłów, sixteenth-century music, seventeenth-century music
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Katarzyna SpurgjaszUniversity of Warsaw Library Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2696-1577
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