The Chapter Archive of San Lorenzo in Florence houses a manuscript which
served to record church properties. However, its parchment leaves
originally belonged to a music manuscript compiled around 1410–20 in
Florence. Later, the music was erased to create space for new content.
Although its musical origins are known for over thirty years, its 216
compositions have been considered largely illegible. Recently, scholars
and scientists from the University of Hamburg were able to render it
visible again, using the technology of multispectral imaging. The San
Lorenzo Palimpsest, as the collection is known today, is an invaluable
source of secular polyphonic music composed between the fourteenth and
the beginning of the fifteenth centuries. The anthology not only
includes new readings for compositions known from other contemporary
manuscripts, but contains completely unknown works by Florentine composers. La Morra breathes new life into these rediscovered musical
treasures, most of which are recorded here for the first time. The Chapter Archive of San Lorenzo in Florence houses a manuscript which
served to record church properties. However, its parchment leaves
originally belonged to a music manuscript compiled around 1410–20 in
Florence. Later, the music was erased to create space for new content.
Although its musical origins are known for over thirty years, its 216
compositions have been considered largely illegible. Recently, scholars
and scientists from the University of Hamburg were able to render it
visible again, using the technology of multispectral imaging. The San
Lorenzo Palimpsest, as the collection is known today, is an invaluable
source of secular polyphonic music composed between the fourteenth and
the beginning of the fifteenth centuries. The anthology not only
includes new readings for compositions known from other contemporary
manuscripts, but contains completely unknown works by Florentine composers. La Morra breathes new life into these rediscovered musical
treasures, most of which are recorded here for the first time.
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