Use this Cantus Manuscript Database if you are:
- looking for the complete contents of an indexed source
- investigating a particular manuscript or liturgical centre (monastery or cathedral)
- seeking quick access to the online archives that hold digital images for many of the sources indexed by CANTUS
- searching for a chant by text
- searching for a chant by melody - use Melody Search Tool
- wondering which chants were sung on a particular Saint's day or any other feast throughout the year
- searching for concordances of a chant
- analyzing the usages of particular chants in sources from across medieval Europe
- creating a new index
Access to the database is free, in accordance with the aims of the International Musicological Society’s Study Group Cantus Planus which include the exchange of data in electronic form.
Cantus Manuscript Database is a part of the Cantus Index network of manuscript databases
Use the CANTUS Index website if you:
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would like to confirm the full text and Classical Latin spelling of any of the indexed chants
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want to broaden your search for a chant to sources beyond the CANTUS Database:
- Cantus Manuscript Database (Debra Lacoste, University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Portuguese Early Music Database (Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Lisboa, Portugal)
- Slovakian Early Music Database (Eva Veselovská, Bratislava, Slovakia)
- Hungarian Chant Database (Gábor Kiss, Budapest, Hungary)
- Fontes Cantus Bohemiae (Jan Koláček, David Eben, Praha, Czech republic)
- Cantus Planus in Polonia (Bartosz Izbicki, Warszawa, Poland)
