El Gradual de Blanca d'Anglesola (s. XIV): litúrgia, creació i memòria. Estudi codicològic del manuscrit 19 del fons musical de l'arxiu del Reial Monestir de Santa Maria de Vallbona de les Monges

Identifier:  TDX:4546

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX4546

Authors:  Mingote Álvarez, Margarita

Abstract:
The study is in the same ambit as the codicological works that contemplate a manuscript from different points of view, where aspects related to liturgy, creation and memory converge. Based on the observation and analysis of manuscript 19 and its comparison with other manuscripts in the musical background of the monastery's archive, a series of hypotheses is established. These hypotheses raise the use and functionality of these books in the community. This doctoral thesis proposes not only a codicological study of manuscript 19, but also a review of the classification of liturgical books from the archives of the monastery of Vallbona de les Monges. It also analyses how the community studied these documents and the way they were adapted by the autograph intervention of the nuns who consulted the manuscripts, giving evidence of the transmission of liturgical and musical knowledge within the community. In this way, the study of this fourteenth-century gradual, supervised by Blanca d'Anglesola, shows us the literary, liturgical, musical and philosophical concerns of the Cistercian female community led by this abbess and its evolution within the monastery until the eigthteenth-century, showing the manuscripts as living witnesses of the life of this community.