“Allora più gradito, che più battuto”

Manuscript SIKKP D A 15 from the Central Library of Srečko Vilhar in Koper is a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century kyriale from the Franciscan Observant Monastery of St Anne in Koper (Capodistria). Because of its explicit connections to this town, it is the most important local source of the cantus fractus repertoire. This paper offers preliminary observations on the manuscript and its contents, while also discussing the local role and relevance of the cantus fractus repertoire within a broader monastic context.