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The Dom
Mocquereau Collection
Collection Description
This microfilm collection of liturgical chant manuscripts was
initiated in 1974 with funding from the Dom Mocquereau Foundation,
which has provided additional funding each year since for the
acquisition of new films. The collection is intended for use by
faculty, visiting scholars, and advanced graduate students who have
chosen the medieval chant tradition as a subject for research.
The availability of so many sources in a single archive
enormously facilitates
the research of those whose investigations involve comparing chant
repertories
or the readings of a chant as they appear in multiple sources. Many
scholars
who have used the collection have referred to it in their
publications--it
has been mentioned several times in the Journal of the American
Musicological
Society and also in other leading scholarly periodicals.
The database is placed here at the disposal of colleagues in accordance
with the aims of the International Musicological Society Study Group
"Cantus Planus," which promotes cooperation in computer-assisted
projects and the exchange of data in electronic form.
Models for the collection include the archive of microfilms developed
by Bruno Staeblein at the University of Erlangen and the collection of
photographic
reproductions of chant manuscripts at the Abbey of Solesmes.
The Dom Mocquereau Microfilm
Collection is housed in the Microfilm Room
on the first floor of Mullen Library, where microfilm readers
and
printers are available. The Collection is arranged by call number, and
a print version of the catalog is shelved with the Collection.
For more information about the Dom Mocquereau Collection, contact
Maurice Saylor at saylor@cua.edu
or 202-319-5424.
[The Catholic University of America Libraries, Washington,
DC 9/94]
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In the catalog of the collection each film is identified
by the city, library, and call number of the manuscript. (The
collection
is arranged by call number.) The type of liturgical book to which the
source belongs is indicated ("antiphoner," "gradual," etc.), as are
date and place of origin, type of notation, and number of folios. For
some sources additional comments
are provided.
The call numbers are the designations used for manuscripts in the
system devised for the International Inventory of Musical Sources
(RISM): a capital letter (or letters) indicating country, then a
dash, then an abbreviation for the city, then a small letter indicating
the library, an abbreviation representing the collection within the
library (if any) to which the manuscript belongs, and a call
number. In the case of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, a
typical designation would be F-Pn lat 776.
A Note about the Catalog
The information in the catalog, like the information on the boxes
containing the individual films, is subject to correction. Each
scholar who wishes to cite one of these sources is urged to verify all
such data. References consulted by faculty and graduate students who
have catalogued the collection include Corpus Antiphonalium Officii, Le Graduel Romain: Les Sources, the
article "Sources: Plainsong" by John Emerson in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians, lists of sources in the publications of Corpus Troporum, and such articles
as David Hiley's "The Norman Chant Traditions--Normandy, Britain,
Sicily."
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D.C. 2/94]
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