This database of hymn melodies edited by Stäblein, Rajecky and Moberg and Nilsson was created with the programme dBASE III PLUS. Its purpose is to help users ascertain whether melodies with a particular melodic incipit appears in one of the following editions:
Bruno Stäblein: Hymnen I. Die mittelalterlichen Hymnenmelodien des Abendlandes, Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi 1 (1956)
Benjamin Rajecky and Polycarp Radó: Hymnen und Sequenzen, Melodiarum Hungariae medii aevi, 1 (Budapest 1956; rev. edn. 1982 with new supplementary vol.)
Carl Allan Moberg and Ann-Marie Nilsson: Die liturgischen Hymnen in Schweden 2. I: Die Singweisen und ihre Varianten. II: Abbildungen ausgewählter Quellenhandschriften, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia musicologica Upsalienisia, Nova series, 13:1-2 (Uppsala 1991).
The database is placed here at the disposal of colleagues in accordance with the aims of the IMS Study Group 'Cantus Planus', which include the exchange of data in electronic form.