Canadian Chant Database

Folio 2r from the Salzinnes Antiphonal, held at the Patrick Power Library at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada (M2149.L4 1554)

The Canadian Chant Database is an initiative of the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT) Project.

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The goal of the Canadian Chant Database is to catalogue–and eventually inventory–all manuscripts and manuscript fragments containing plainchant derived from the medieval European tradition in libraries, archives, institutions, and private ownership in Canada. Printed chant books are limited to those sources that were published specifically for use in Canada.

Personnel

Jennifer Bain

DACT Project Director

Dalhousie University, Halifax

Debra Lacoste

DACT Project Manager

Dalhousie University, Halifax

Julie Cumming

DACT Manuscripts and Printed Chantbooks - McGill University, Team Lead

McGill University, Montreal

D. Linda Pearse

DACT Encounters in Kahnawà:ke, Team Lead

Kate Kennedy Steiner

DACT Manuscripts and Fragments - Central & Eastern Canada, Team Lead

Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo

David Watt

DACT Manuscripts and Fragments - Western Canada

University of Manitoba

Support for the database has been provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.

Displaying 1-62 of 62 sources.

City + Holding Institution	Cantus Siglum	Summary	Date/Origin	Image Link	Chants / Melodies
Halifax, St. Mary’s University - Patrick Power Library	CDN-Hsmu M2149.L4 1554	Cistercian antiphoner from the Abbey of Salzinnes, Namur, in the Diocese of Liège. Manuscript produced on vellum and co…	16th century (1550-1575) Salzinnes	Images	2932 / 2052
Kitchener, Private collections	CDN-KIlacoste D:0uhiz Fragment	Single parchment leaf from an antiphoner. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staves with F- and C-clefs; 7 l…		Images	13 / 5
London (ON), Western University Canada - Archives and Special Collections	CDN-Laspc M2150 15-?	Sixteenth-century “mutilated” antiphoner, possibly from the Burgos monastery, Spain. Square notation on five-line black…	16th century Spain, possibly Burgos (?)		292
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0020 Fragment	Missal, one leaf, 15th century, 370 x 260 mm. No musical notation.	15th century	Images	7
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0021 Fragment	Gradual. Adiastematic notation (St. Gall notation). 290 x 220 mm	11th century/12th century (1st half)	Images	28
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0024 Fragment	Missal, one leaf, French?, early 14th century. No musical notation. 31.0 x 23.0 cm with a writing space 23.0 x 15.5 cm.	14th century France	Images	25
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0025 Fragment	Gradual, two leaves, German, 15th century. Hufnagelschrift on five-line staff. 31.0 x 22.5 cm. Writing surface: 24.5 x…	15th century Germany (south)	Images	18 / 16
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0064 Fragment	Gradual, one leaf, Italian, late 14th century. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff (seven staves per pa…	14th century Italy	Images	3 / 3
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0065 Fragment	One leaf from a gradual, late 14th-century Italian, on vellum. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff. 531…	14th century (2nd half) Italy	Images	2 / 2
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0072 Fragment	Antiphonal, one leaf, Italian, mid-15th century. 530 x 350 mm. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff.	15th century Italy	Images	5 / 5
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0073	Miscellaneous choirbook from Northern Italy, made of 10 independent codicological units produced in different periods f…	14th century Dominican		446
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0078 Fragment	Single leaf from an antiphonal; 76 x 54 cm. Square notation on five-line red staff that suggests Spanish (or Mexican) p…	16th century	Images	4 / 2
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0080 Fragment	Single leaf of a 15th century Italian gradual (in a frame), verso side visible. 53 x 39 cm.	15th century	Images	1 / 1
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0081 Fragment	Gradual, six leaves, Italian, 2nd half of 15th century. 580 x 390 mm. Square notation in black ink on red four-line sta…	15th century (2nd half) Italy	Images	42 / 18
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0086 Fragment	Single page of a Kyriale, likely 17th c. Spanish or Mexican. 710 x 500 mm.	17th century	Images	2 / 2
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0087 Fragment	Antiphonal, one leaf, probably German, late 15th century. 55 x 38 cm. Square notation in black ink on four-line staff,…	15th century/16th century Germany	Images	9 / 9
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0088 Fragment	Gradual, one leaf, Italian, late 15th century. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff. https://fragment…	15th century Italy	Images	1 / 1
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0089 Fragment	Antiphonal, one leaf, Spanish or Spanish Americas, late 17th century, 700 x 500 mm. Square notation in black ink on re…	17th century	Images	2 / 2
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0092 Fragment	Two leaves from an antiphonal(?) and hymnary. The recto and verso of the first leaf do not appear to be in sequence. Sq…	17th century Spain	Images	11 / 5
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0169 Fragment	Missal, one leaf, Italian, 15th century. No musical notation.	15th century Italy	Images	8
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0170 Fragment	Antiphonal, one leaf, 550 x 410 mm. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff.	16th century Italy	Images	2 / 2
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0171 Fragment	Missal, fragment from one leaf (top portion), date and provenance uncertain, contains prayers for the Mass (collects, s…	13th century (1st half)	Images	16
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0172 Fragment	Antiphonal, two leaves, late 15th century. Square notation in black ink on red five-line staff.	15th century	Images	15 / 7
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0176 Fragment	Gradual, one leaf, German? Adiastematic notation.		Images	12
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0184 Fragment	Responsorial (bifolio). Partially mensural notation on red five-line staff (isolated diamond shape notes).	16th century/17th century	Images	20 / 19
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0186 Fragment	Missal, one leaf, 14th century. No musical notation. 321x227 mm.; writing surface 210x160 mm. Likely related to McGill …	14th century Italy	Images	5
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0204 Fragment	Missal, one leaf, 15th century. No musical notation. 296 x 210 mm., writing surface 189 x 138 mm.	15th century	Images	4
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0205 Fragment	Noted breviary, one leaf, Spanish, 16th century. 344x240 mm., writing surface 250x165. Square notation in black ink on…	16th century Spain	Images	4 / 1
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0206 Fragment	Missal, two leaves, Italian?, 15th century. No musical notation.	15th century	Images	19
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0207 Fragment	Psalter, one leaf, English? 15th century. No musical notation. 220 x 145 mm, writing surface 150x90 mm.	15th century	Images	1
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0208 Fragment	Missal, fragment of bifolium, 13th century. German notation on four-line staff.	13th century	Images	6 / 5
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0209 Fragment	Gradual, one leaf, Italian? late 15th century. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff.	15th century	Images	2 / 2
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0210 Fragment	Antiphonal, one leaf, probably Italian. Square notation in brown ink on red four-line staff. 432x301 mm., writing surfa…	15th century (2nd half)/16th century Italy	Images	10 / 10
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0211 Fragment	Missal, one leaf, Italian, mid-14th century. No musical notation. LIkely related to MS 0186	14th century Italy	Images	8
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0212 Fragment	Psalter, one leaf. No musical notation. Time and place of origin unknown.	13th century (1275-1300)/14th century	Images	2
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0215 Fragment	Hymnary (section), one leaf, Spanish, early 16th century. Mensural notation. 773x392 mm., writing surface 405x274 mm.	16th century Italy	Images	2 / 2
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0216 Fragment	Large noted breviary, one bifolium from the Psalterium section, Italian, 15th century.	15th century	Images	6 / 2
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0217 Fragment	Missal, one leaf, mid-15th century. No musical notation.	15th century	Images	3
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0218 Fragment	Antiphonal, one leaf, 16th century. Musical notation on one side only. 575x376 mm., writing surface 460x270 mm.	16th century	Images	3 / 2
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0219 Fragment	Antiphonal, one leaf, Italian, late 15th-early 16th century. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff.	Italy	Images	7 / 5
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0220 Fragment	Antiphonal/breviary, two leaves, Spanish, early 16th century. No musical notation. 57 x 38 cm	16th century Spain	Images	22
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0221 Fragment	Antiphoner or breviary, one leaf, mid-16th century. No musical notation.	16th century Italy	Images	2
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0222 Fragment	Missal, one leaf, damaged, 2nd half of the 14th century. No musical notation.	14th century (2nd half)	Images	19
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0231 Fragment	Gradual, two leaves, 15th century. Square notation in black ink on red five-line staff.	15th century Italy	Images	8 / 7
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0234	Responsoriale including incipits of Magnificat and Benedictus antiphons (often notated in the low margins), invitatorie…	16th century (1575-1600) Germany	Images	2036 / 33
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0237 Fragment	Bifolio from medieval antiphoner or choirbook. German?, XV century. Square notation in black ink on red five-line staff.		Images	4 / 4
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection	CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0239 Fragment	Single leaf from a notated breviary. 182 x 127 mm; writing area 140 x 88 mm.	13th century (1275-1300) Troyes	Images	13
St. Catharines (ON), Brock University Library - Archives and Special Collections	CDN-STCbul RG 394 Fragment	A single parchment leaf from a liturgical manuscript. Square notation in black ink on five-line red staves with F clefs…	16th century	Images	3 / 3
Toronto, University of Toronto - Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library	CDN-Ttfl MSS 09700	Antiphoner covering Lent, Easter, and Eastertide up to the sixth week after Easter.	15th century (1st half) Florence (Firenze)	Images	737
Waterloo (ON), University of Waterloo - St. Jerome’s University Library - DRAGEN Lab	CDN-WAdl MS Medieval 26 Fragment	"Music Fragment M6366" Heavily-damaged fragmented strip from an antiphoner. Gothic script in brown-black ink copied in two columns with square…	14th century		4 / 4
Waterloo (ON), University of Waterloo - St. Jerome’s University Library - DRAGEN Lab	CDN-WAdl MS Medieval 27 Fragment	"Music Fragment M6364" Fragmented strip from an antiphoner. Gothic script in brown-black ink copied in two columns with square notation on 4-l…	14th century		6 / 5
Waterloo (ON), University of Waterloo - St. Jerome’s University Library - DRAGEN Lab	CDN-WAdl MS Medieval 48 Fragment	"Musical Leaf 'Dicit Dominus'" One leaf of a gradual. Gothic script in brown-black ink copied in two columns with square notation on 4-line red staves…	16th century	Images	2 / 2
Waterloo (ON), University of Waterloo - St. Jerome’s University Library - DRAGEN Lab	CDN-WAdl MS Medieval 49 Fragment	"Vellum Choir Book Fragment" Single parchment leaf with square notation and F and C clefs on red 4-line staves. Northern Textualis Quadratus script …	15th century	Images	7 / 7
London (ON), Private collections	Cantus D:01oko Fragment	Single parchment leaf from a gradual. Black square notation on four-line red staves with F- and C-clefs. 5 staves per f…	16th century	Images	3 / 3
North Vancouver, Private collections	Cantus D:02csu Fragment	Single parchment leaf in private ownership. Square notation in black-brown ink on red 5-line staves, with F- and C-clef…		Images	4 / 4
Halifax, Private collections [1]	Cantus D:02fkm Fragment	Single parchment folio from an antiphoner, with black square notation on red, 5-line staves. 575 x 393 mm. Southern Tex…		Images	3 / 3
Calgary, Private collections	Cantus D:04sqa Fragment	Single leaf of a Gradual, likely Spanish, 16th or 17th c. Writing area 406 x 279 mm; full dimensions not given.	16th century/17th century Spain	Images	3
Victoria, Private collections	Cantus D:0es6l Fragment	Single leaf containing part of the Tract and Litany for Easter Vigil. 520 x 375 mm; writing area 410 x 265 mm.	14th century		7
Halifax, Private collections [1]	Cantus D:0nmt3 Fragment	Two pages from a printed gradual, re-purposed as the covers of a notebook. Red four-line staves with black square notat…	Florence (Firenze)	Images	7 / 6
Halifax, Private collections [2]	Cantus D:0pb1q Fragment	Single, large parchment leaf with distinctive large "S" in red and blue. Square notation in black ink on 5-line red sta…		Images	1 / 1
Halifax, Private collections [2]	Cantus D:0r3b4 Fragment	Single page from a printed chant book. Paper. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staves. Principal writing s…		Images	9 / 8
Halifax, Private collections [2]	Cantus D:0soou Fragment	Single, very large parchment leaf, likely from a gradual. Humanistic script in black ink with square notation in black …		Images	3 / 3