Engelberg Codex 314
Abbey of Engelberg (Switzerland)
Codex 314
Date of Publication of the Facsimile: 1986
Publisher: Amadeus Verlag (Bernhard Päuler), Winterthur (Switzerland), for the
Sociéte Suisse de Musicologie
Series: Monuments de la Musique Suisse
Production, Graphics, and Montage: Bernhard Päuler, Winterthur (Switzerland)
Composition: Bibliomania GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Four-color lithography and black-and-white lithography: Weber, Repro+Litho,
Schaffhausen (Switzerland)
Printer: Druck AG, Hombrechtikon (Switzerland)
The original manuscript contains materials copied over an extended period of time
and by several different scribes. This is obvious from the differences throughout
the manuscript in ink colors, types of script, note shapes and rubrics. A full
facsimile of this type makes it possible to identify and examine these variations at
leisure, and to draw useful conclusions on the development of the
codex
without necessarily having to consult the original. One can determine for instance,
that in many instances the copying of the text preceded that of the music, though some
scribes could alternate between individual syllables or words and the corresponding
phrases of music.
A manuscript often must be unbound in order to obtain optimal photographs for facsimile
reproduction. In this case, this was out of the question, so that in order to document
the evidence fully, whenever each separate page was photographed, a small section of
the opposite page was included in the frame. Thus, while the size is correctly
reproduced, and the pages are in the proper sequence, the overall impression is
somewhat misleading.
