This database of plainchant sources used in studies at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft at Erlangen-Nürnberg University was created with the programme dBASE III PLUS. Its purpose is primarily to inform the user which sources were utilized, and part of their contents listed, in the following studies:
| Hy | Bruno Stäblein: Hymnen (MMMA 1) |
| A1 | Karlheinz Schlager: Alleluia-Melodien I (MMMA 7) |
| A2 | Karlheinz Schlager: Alleluia-Melodien II (MMMA 8) |
| AK | Karlheinz Schlager: Thematischer Katalog der ältesten Alleluia-Melodien |
| Re | Helma Hofmann-Brandt: Die Tropen zu den Responsorien des Officium |
| Ky | Margaretha Landwehr-Melnicki: Das einstimmige Kyrie |
| Gl | Detlev Bosse: ... Melodien zum 'Gloria in excelsis Deo' |
| Sa | Peter Josef Thannabaur: Das einstimmige Sanctus |
| Ag | Martin Schildbach: Das einstimmige Agnus Dei |
A small amount of information about the sources themselves is also included in the database, but must not be regarded as totally reliable. Citations of source location and shelfmark, type of source, provenance, and date are naturally not consistent throughout the above studies, and many inconsistencies remain in the present database.
The material on which the above studies were based was provided by the microfilms collected by Bruno Stäblein at the Erlangen Institute. But the database was created neither with the knowledge of nor in collaboration with my colleagues there. They are therefore responsible neither for the conception of the database nor the errors it contains.
The database is placed here at the disposal of colleagues in accordance with the aims of the IMS Study Group 'Cantus Planus', which include the exchange of data in electronic form.
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| Field | Name | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | HS | 60 |
| 2 | TYPUS | 60 |
| 3 | PROV | 60 |
| 4 | DATUM | 20 |
| 5 | LIT | 50 |
| Total length of record | 251 | |
Field 1 HS gives the location and shelfmark of the source. For the purposes of indexing, the Roman numerals in some (but not all) shelfmarks have been converted to Arabic.
Field 2 TYPUS gives the type of source. Many sources have mixed contents, and these are stated as far as possible, with the main contents appearing first (for the purposes of indexing).Field 3 PROV gives the provenance of the source. Many place-names have been left in their German form. Generalized assignations to countries or religious orders are given in adjectival form: e.g. französisch, zisterziensisch. Names of persons who copied or owned the source are given in this field.
Field 4 DATUM gives the approximate or exact date of the source. For shorter or longer periods, such as a century, or the beginning or end of a century, dates are given in a form such as 1100-1200, 1100-1120, or 1180-1200. Many conflicting dates given in the above-mentioned studies have been left unresolved.
Field 5 LIT gives the studies which utilized the source, in the order and with the abbreviations given above. For Ky Gl Sa and Ag, the numbers assigned to the source by Landwehr-Melnicki, Bosse, Thannabaur and Schildbach are given.