Arti musices, Vol. 42 No. 2, 2011.
Prethodno priopćenje
The 14th Century Manuscript R81 with Music Topics from the Franciscan Monastery in Zadar
Stanislav Tuksar
orcid.org/0000-0002-7171-2801
; Muzička akademija Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This article consists of the first preliminary description of the second part of the manuscript R81 (here entitled De artibus liberalibus), written at the beginning of the second half of the 14th century and kept in the manuscript collection of the Franciscan monastery library in Zadar. The manuscript was discovered at the end of the 1970s or at the beginning of the 1980s by Vinko Velnić, and was subsequently included in an informative manner in Žarko Dadić’s Povijest egzaktnih znanosti u Hrvata (History of Natural Sciences among the Croats, vol. 2, 1982) and in Ennio Stipčević’s Hrvatska glazba (Croatian Music, 1997). No study on this manuscript has been published in Croatian musicology up until today. It is a short text (encompassing less than two pages) written in Latin and in Gothic script. It is situated in the unpaginated appendix (the second part of the manuscript) bound together with the first part. Its contents are rudimentary musico-theoretical assertions from the basic quadrivium repertoire (numerological articulation of intervals and their ratios), as taught in the church schools and universities of the Late Middle Ages. Its author is supposedly Father Nikola from Zadar, schooled at Oxford University. Along with other texts covering the trivium and quadrivium repertoire, as well as the general theological topics of which the major part of the text consists, it offers a compendium of specific knowledge following particular areas as taught at the Franciscan theological studies organized in Zadar during the 14th century.
Concerning the context of the manuscript copying, it is suggested that, on the one hand, future investigation should involve a comparative study of manuscript musicotheoretical sources in Oxford, dated in the 13th and 14th centuries (those by Robert Grosseteste, Robert Kilwardby, Roger Bacon, the treatise Quatuor principalia musice, today attributed to John Tewkesbury); on the other hand — within a broader Croatological context — the difference in the dating of both manuscripts (either 1355 or 1360, or even later for the De artibus liberalibus manuscript) could point to the fact that the Zadar manuscript under consideration might be understood as a direct temporal and contextual reflection of broader social processes following the Zadar peace treaty of 1358, after which scholarship and culture in Zadar, Dalmatia and in the Croatian-Hungarian Kingdom witnessed a considerable upsurge and blossoming. The possibility is also mentioned that this manuscript might be considered as a document produced by the Dominican cultural circle from Zadar in the period preceding the so-called Solemn Study of the Dalmatian province, organized in 1396 as the first Croatian university.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
85695
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Datum izdavanja:
15.11.2011.
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