A musician named Sant Omer or hailing from the Flemish town of

Saint-Omer Saint-Omer (; ; Picard: ''Saint-Onmé'') is a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department in France. It is west-northwest of Lille on the railway to Calais, and is located in the Artois province. The town is named after Sa ...

near (the then English town) of

Calais Calais ( , , traditionally , ) is a French port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Calais is the largest city in Pas-de-Calais. The population of the city proper is 67,544; that of the urban area is 144,6 ...

is specified as the composer of a three-voice

Sanctus The ''Sanctus'' (, "Holy") is a hymn in Christian liturgy. It may also be called the ''epinikios hymnos'' (, "Hymn of Victory") when referring to the Greek rendition and parts of it are sometimes called "Benedictus". ''Tersanctus'' (Latin: "Thr ...

in the early fifteenth century music manuscript,

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, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 1475. Fragments of the Sanctus are also found in a manuscript formerly in

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, discovered in 1990 but now lost. The style of the piece has been described as "archaic" with modal rhythms resembling those of the Mass of Tournai. It is one of several pieces described as part of the "''Stili Vaganti''" by Francesco Facchin. Adjacent to the Paduan Sanctus is an

Agnus Dei is the Latin name under which the "Lamb of God" is honoured within Christian liturgies descending from the historic Latin liturgical tradition, including those of Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism and Anglicanism. It is the name given to a spec ...

in similar style which may be by the same composer.Cuthbert, Michael Scott. "Trecento Fragments and Polyphony beyond the Codex." Ph.D. dissertation: Harvard University, 2006. Chp. 2. The Sanctus has been edited and completed by Giulio Cattin and Francesco Facchin in ''Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century'' vol. 23B, pp. 434–44, though it is marked as an anonymous composition.

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