A single folio containing polyphonic music (f. 36) in a miscellany of burnt fragments of Cotton manuscripts which escaped the fire. It was apparently a flyleaf in Cotton MS Titus A XVIII. I. Probably from Adel (Addle in Yorkshire). The work on the recto appears to be a motet. The script is a typical minuscule as often found in musical manuscripts of this period.
GB-Lbl Cotton Fragment xxix
British Library, London, England
Codex fragment (polyphony), within fragment collection: mid-13th century
| Archive | British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl) |
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| Shelfmark | Cotton Fragment xxix |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | now c 190 x 140 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 2 compositions, 2 are anonymous. |
General Description
Notation
English mensural notation. There are no minims or Ars Nova traits in the notation, which suggests a date c. 1300.
Date
dated 1349 in a document at the bottom of the recto side
Ruling
five-line red stave
Foliation
36, 36v
Surface
Parchment
RISM Description
RISM B/IV 1: The volume is a 19th century miscellany of burnt fragments of Cotton manuscripts which escaped the fire. The folio containing polyphonic music is f. 36 and now meas. c. 190 x 140 mm. It dates from the 14th century and was apparently a flyleaf in Cotton ms Titus A XVIII. It is dated 1349 in a document at the bottom of the recto side and is probably from Adel (Addle in Yorkshire). The notation is English mensural notation on a five-line red stave. The work on the recto appears to be a motet. There are no minims or Ars Nova traits in the notation, which suggests a date c. 1300. The script is a typical minuscule such as we find so often in musical manuscripts of this period.
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36v
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‡ denotes primary source study
Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1960. Popular and Secular Music in England (to c. 1470). New Oxford History of Music, edited by Manfred F Bukofzer, London: Oxford University Press. Pages: 112, 116 (transcription of no. 1; also no. 2 after Cambridge, Add. 710); 111f, 115ff.
Hughes, Dom Anselm, and Gerald Abraham (editors). 1953. The History Of Music In Sound Vol III: Ars Nova and the Renaissance, 1300-1540 . Pages: 24f (transcription of no. 2 after Cambridge, Add. 710); 26.
Levy, K J. 1951. New material on the early motet in England. A Report on the Princeton MS. Garrett 119. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 4: 220-239. Pages: 225.
Reese, Gustave. 1940. Music in the Middle Ages: With an introduction on the music of ancient times. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Pages: 244, 390, 404f.
Ludwig, Friedrich. 1923. Die Quellen der Motetten ältesten Stils. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 5: 185-222, Vol. 5 (1924) 273-315. Pages: 277.
Wooldridge, Harry Ellis, and H V Hughes (editors). 1897 and 1913. Early English Harmony from the 10th to the 15th Century. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: pl. 46-47 (facsimile of no. 2 after Cambridge, Add. 710).
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