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Venite a laudare

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Sources

Arezzo: Biblioteca Comunale 180 della Fraternita dei Laici, fol. 66 (text);
Cortona: Biblioteca del Comune e dell'Accademia Etrusca 91, fol. 1-3v (1/1);
Milan: Biblioteca Trivulziana 535 (text).

Facsimiles

1. LIUZZI, Fernando. La lauda e i promordi della melodia italiana, 2 vols., Rome: Libreria della Stato, 1935, p. 256.
2. Laude cortonesi dal secolo XIII al XV, edited by Giorgio Varanini, Luigi Banfi, Anna Ceruti Burgio and Giulio Cattin, [4] vols., Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1981, plate 1 (fols. 1-1v).
3. BARR, Cyrilla. The Monophonic Lauda and the Lay Religious Confraternities of Tuscany and Umbria in the Late Middle Ages, Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1988, plate 6 (fol. 1).

Editions

1. LIUZZI, Fernando. La lauda e i promordi della melodia italiana, 2 vols., Rome: Libreria della Stato, 1935, Vol. I, p. 257.
2. Il laudario cortonese, n. 91, edited by Pellegrino M. Ernetti O.S.B. and Laura Rossi Leidi, Rome: Edi-Pan, [1981?], p. 21.

Text Editions

Laude cortonesi dal secolo XIII al XV, edited by Giorgio Varanini, Luigi Banfi, Anna Ceruti Burgio and Giulio Cattin, [4] vols., Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1981, p. 85.

Literature

JEFFREY, David. 'The earliest lyrics in Italy', [chapter 4 of his] The Early English Lyric and Franciscan Spirituality, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975, pp. 126-127.

Recordings

1. Laudario di Cortona: Laudes from the Codex 91 of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona, Quartetto polifonico italiana: Ars Nova VST 6113 (ITA).
2. Gregorian Chants from Assisi. Vol. I: Medieval Lauds., Coro della Cappella Papale di San Francesco d'Assisi, directed by Padre Maestro Alfonso Del Ferraro (1966): Deutsche Grammophon Privilege 2726 004 (2 discs).

Text

This is a test of lauda