The archive of the Abbey in Celje holds a substantial number of early music manuscripts, dating approximately to the second half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th Century. Since the manuscript collection has not yet been comprehensively researched, the aim of the thesis was to systematically arrange it and catalogue the data in the online database of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM, “The International Inventory of Musical Sources”). Particularly due to the presence of the stamp of the Jesuit College in Gorizia on several of the manuscript copies, the collection stands out among other similar collections from eastern Slovenia. The concluding analysis of the collected data provides a first impression of the musical life of Celje and its surroundings in the 18th and 19th Centuries and will enable its future placement in the broader contexts of both Slovenia and Europe.
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