Hana Vlhová-Wörner studied musicology in Prague and Basel, Switzerland. From 1993 to 2006, she worked at the Institute for Musicology, Charles University Prague (Ph.D. 2000, Habilitation 2009). Since 2006, she has lived in the U.S.A. where she has taught at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill. She is the author of numerous publications on church music and Latin liturgical poetry in Bohemia and Central Europe from the 11th to 16th centuries and one of the editors of the Jistebnice Kancionál.

The third volume of the complete edition of mass tropes from Bohemian manuscripts of the 12th to 16th centuries includes 50 tropes to the Sanctus. Older repertory is represented by the collection of chants from the so-called St Vitus Troper from the 12th century, which is one of the most extensive medieval collections of tropes to the Sanctus. The newer repertory from the 14th and 15th centuries includes tropes from Central Europe and Bohemia, some of which reflect in their texts the Utraquists' communion with the Body and Blood of Christ. A considerable number of texts and most of the melodies are presented for the first time in this publication. Both the full chant of the Sanctus and the tropes are edited. This publication will be of interest to both the academic community as well as those interested in performance.