Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A note on the musical examples and the edition
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Adémar de Chabannes and Saint Martial de Limoges
- Chapter 2 Music scribe
- Chapter 3 Compiler
- Chapter 4 Editor
- Chapter 5 Composer
- Chapter 6 Singer
- Chapter 7 Conclusion: The success of the apostolic campaign
- Appendix A Manuscripts with Adémar's music hand
- Appendix B Adémar's original compositions
- Bibliography
- Index of chants
- Index of manuscripts
- General index
Chapter 7 - Conclusion: The success of the apostolic campaign
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A note on the musical examples and the edition
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Adémar de Chabannes and Saint Martial de Limoges
- Chapter 2 Music scribe
- Chapter 3 Compiler
- Chapter 4 Editor
- Chapter 5 Composer
- Chapter 6 Singer
- Chapter 7 Conclusion: The success of the apostolic campaign
- Appendix A Manuscripts with Adémar's music hand
- Appendix B Adémar's original compositions
- Bibliography
- Index of chants
- Index of manuscripts
- General index
Summary
On 4 August 1029, Adémar departed Limoges in disgrace and returned to his home abbey of Saint Cybard in Angoulême. There, he spent the next few years compiling the forgeries he hoped would eventually provide incontrovertible evidence of Martial's apostolic status. The most notable among these are the proceedings of the Council of Limoges in 1031 and the letter from Pope John XIX, both of which survive in Adémar's autograph and unequivocally endorse Martial as an apostle. He also devoted some of his time to the production of music manuscripts, as the fragmentary antiphoner in the endpapers of Pa 1978 and the addition to Pa 1118, discussed in Chapter 2 above, show. As well, he altered the liturgy for Martial in Pa 1120 and 1121. He passed his last years at Saint Cybard friendless in lonely isolation.
When he resolved to quit this difficult situation in Angoulême and to assuage his guilt by embarking on pilgrimage for Jerusalem, he decided to leave his library behind at Saint Martial. There, some years after his death, a sympathetic monk entered the following colophon in the most elaborate codex he had produced, Lei 8° 15.
Hic est liber sanctissimi domni nostri Marcialis lemouicensis ex libris bonae memoriae Ademari grammatici. Nam postquam idem multos annos peregit in domini seruicio, ac simul in monachico ordine in eiusdem patris coenobio, profecturus Hierusalem ad sepulchrum domini nec inde reuersurus, multos libros in quibus sudauerat eidem suo pastori ac nutritori reliquid ex quibus hic est unus.
(This is the book of our most holy lord Martial of Limoges, from the books of Adémar the grammarian of good memory. For after he spent many years in the service of the Lord, and at the same time in the monastic order in the monastery of the same father, about to set out for Jerusalem to the sepulchre of the Lord, nor would he return from there, he left behind for the same pastor, his own, and the one who nurtured him, many books on which he had laboured, from which this is one.)
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- The Musical World of a Medieval MonkAdémar de Chabannes in Eleventh-century Aquitaine, pp. 296 - 326Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006