Codice di Staffarda explained

The Codice di Staffarda is a musical codex from Staffarda Abbey (Santa Maria di Staffarda), a Cistercian monastery located near Saluzzo in north-west Italy. The codex includes works by composers including the otherwise unknown Engarandus Juvenis and Antoine Brumel.^{[1] [2]} In all, there are 48 pieces in the manuscript, including eight masses, eleven Magnificat settings, fourteen motets of various types and twelve chansons. The composers of only nineteen of these works have been identified, mostly by comparison with other sources.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Gramophone - Volume 75 - Page 42 1998 "Daltrocanto's "Music from the Staffarda Codex" introduces a previously unrecorded Mass by Brumel, and one of the very first polyphonic Requiems, by the very obscure Engarandus Juvenis: ."
2. Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide 1998 - Page 200 "... known of Engarandus Juvenis, the composer of this Mass for the Dead, whose music is found only in the Staffarda Codex."
3. Book: Basso, Alberto . Booklet notes to CD "Il Codice di Staffarda" OPS 30-162 . Opus111 . 1996 . Paris . 12–13.