Liturgical Music: 1470–1530

Abstract

The earliest Spanish book on the date of which incunabulists agree — the Manipulus curatorum printed by Matheus Flandrus — appeared at Saragossa in 1475. Only a decade later the first Spanish imprint containing music appeared in the same city. Since but a single copy of the 1485 Missale Caesaraugustanum printed by Paul Hurus survives, and since the unique exemplar in the Saragossa Cathedral Library was not brought to light until 1917, the existence of such an early Spanish liturgical imprint containing music has not been as widely advertised as it deserves.¹