The table of contents describes the following chapters: Pre-Visigothic hymnody - literary hymnody by Prudentius; An early specimen of Iberian hymnody - Staturninus hymn; Hymnody of the Visigothic and Mozarabic period; Medieval hymnody - general observations; Hymns of the eleventh and twelfth centuries - a period of transition; French influence - the Codex Calixtinus; Sequences of the twelfth century; Other hymns of the twelfth century; Sequences of the thirteenth century; Monuments of Iberian polyphony, I; Pilgrim songs of Montserrat and hymns on the turn of the century; Monuments of Iberian polyphony, II - the Las Huelgas manuscript; Hymnody in the fourteenth century; Hymns on Rio Salado and the Reconquista; Sequences in the fourteenth century; Manuscripts and hymns of the 'fin de siècle'; Pia dictamina; Hymns, sequences, and poetic offices in handwritten books in the fifteenth century; Hymns and sequences: second half of the fifteenth century - printed sources; Closing of the medieval tradition - an inventory of the sixteenth century; General list of later Iberian hymnody (after 1084); Hymns of Saint James; Texts in the Codex Calixtinus; Saints and feasts; Historical notes on Saint James hymns.