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The Laudarium of Cortona ( Cortona , the Municipal Library and the Etruscan Academy, Ms. 91) is an Italian manuscript music code from the second half of the 13th century , containing a collection of laude. It is believed to have been copied between 1270 and 1297 . It belonged to the Fraternity of Santa Maria delle Laude, the church of St. Francis of Cortona. In 1876 it was found, in a pitiful state, by the librarian of the Municipal Library and the Etruscan Academy of Cortona, Girolamo Mancini, who added it to the Cortona library, where it is currently preserved. The Laudarium of Cortona and Laudario Magliabechiano 18 ( Florence , Central National Library, Magliabechiano II I 122, Banco Rari 18) are the only manuscripts of Italian laude with musical notation that came to us. Some songs are in both manuscripts. Other pieces of the Laudario di Cortona are found in other laudars without music (texts only), such as Laudario Magliabechiano 19 (Florence, Central National Library, Magliabechiano II I 212, Banco Rari 19), Laudario di Arezzo ( Arezzo , Municipal Library 180 of the Fraternity of the Laity), Laudario of Milan ( Milan , Biblioteca Trivulziana 535) and other scattered fragments. The Laudario di Cortona precedes Laudaario Magliabechiano 18 and is the oldest known collection of Italian music in the vulgar language and the only one of the thirteenth century. The manuscript consists of 171 parchment sheets and is free of thumbnails . The text is written in Gothic charac
