| Archive | Cathedral Archive, Wells, England (GB-W) |
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| Shelfmark | X4/34/3 (Fayrfax fragments) |
| Surface | Paper |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 283 x 145, 283 x 198, 277 x 152, 277 x 189 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 5 compositions, 4 from 1 composer, 1 is anonymous. |
Remnants of a choirbook of unknown original size; other fragments from same manuscript now preserved in CleveC D24 and Drexel 4185. These and other related fragments are brought together in a ‘virtual manuscript’ here.
Copied by a single scribe. Copied in England. Folios removed from original context and used as endpapers for ecclesastical law book in 1581. Music folios removed from law book c. 1880, but subsequently mislaid; rediscovered in 1952.
Folios now kept loose in modern paper folder.
hand with six-petalled flower (not in Briquet); same mark also found in one fragment of CleveC D24.
not indicated
Staff height 13-16 (variable)
(1-4v). Folios numbered per FallDrex, using Fallows' identification of correct sequence. They are the remains of 2 bifolios, 1-4 and 2-3
No foliation or pagination.
No initials or decoration.
No index remains.
Paper
Included in the Tudor Partbooks project at the Universities of Oxford and Newcastle.
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("Fayrfax Fragments") [see also CleveC D24]
1 English secular piece, 3 textless pieces = 4 (all fragmentary or incomplete)
Fayrfax-2, anon-2
4 fragmentary paper folios (= 2 bifolios), 283 x 145, 283 x 198, 277 x 152, and 277 x 189 respectively. Remnants of a choirbook of unknown original size; one or two other fragments from same manuscript now preserved in CleveC D24. No foliation or pagination. Folios now kept loose in modern paper folder. No index remains. Copied by a single scribe. Staff height 13-16 (variable). No initials or decoration. Watermark: hand with six-petalled flower (not in Briquet); same mark also found in one fragment of CleveC D24.
Early 16th century. Copied in England. Folios removed from original context and used as endpapers for ecclesastical law book in 1581. Music folios removed from law book ca. 1880, but subsequently mislaid; rediscovered in 1952.
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Hamilton, Elizabeth Patricia Kathleen. 2009. A Study of Early Sixteenth-Century English Music Fragments from the DIAMM Database. University of Ottawa, MA. http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/handle/10393/20241.
Fallows, David. 1993. The Drexel Fragments of Early Tudor Song. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 26: 5-18. Notes: discussion; contents list; description of MS.
Bent, Margaret. 1984. The Progeny of Old Hall: More Leaves from a Royal English Choirbook. Gordon Athol Anderson (1929-1981) in Memoriam, Musicological Studies, vol. 49. 2 vols.1-54. Henryville, Ottawa, and Binningen: Institute of Mediaeval Music.
Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.
Bent, Margaret. 1972. A Lost English Choirbook of the Fifteenth Century. International Musicological Society: Report of the Eleventh Congress, 257-62.
Bray, Roger W. 1969. The Interpretation of Musica Ficta in English Music, C. 1490-C. 1580 [dissertation]. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 1,164-5; 11,73.
Warren, Edwin B. 1969. Life and Works of Robert Fayrfax. Musicological Studies and Documents, vol. 22. American Institute of Musicology. Pages: 38-9,44,61,149, 157,172ff.
Ward, John M. 1966. John qd John and Other Fragments at Western Reserve University. Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music: A Birthday Offering to Gustave Reese, 832-55. New York.
Stevens, John E. 1961. Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court. Cambridge. Pages: 362,407,468.
Warrem, Edwin B (editor). 1959-66. Robert Fayrfax (ca. 1464-1521): Collected Works. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 17. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: III, 19-20,51,54-5,57.
Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music. London. Pages: XVIII,43,106,110; XXXVI, 161.
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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Watermark Note; Notation Note; Ruling Note; Foliation Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Contents Note; Surface Note
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description