ZLOMOK GRADUÁLU 860 Z KNIŽNICE EVANJELICKEJ CIRKVI A. V. V KREMNICI

This study deals with a fragment of Gradual 860 from the early thirteenth century, recently discovered in the Library of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Kremnica. It is one of the oldest medieval sources of music from Kremnica, brought to Slovakia in its secondary function as the cover of Nicodemus Frischlin’s Nomeclatur tri linguis Graeco-Latino Germanicus printed in Frankfurt in 1614. The fragment contains some chants of the liturgy of the Holy Mass in the wintertime, specifically for the feasts of Saints Nicholas, Odile, Lucy, Stephen, and John the Evangelist and a sequence for the Feast of the Nativity of the Lord, (Sq. Eia recolamus, Natus ante saecula). Especially the Almae Odiliae interventu Alleluia verse for the Feast of Saint Odile is a rare repertoire element of this fragment.