AUS-CAnl MS 4052/2/1 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

National Library of Australia Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection, Canberra, Australia

choirbook fragment: 15th century: c. 1420-30

Archive National Library of Australia Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection, Canberra, Australia (AUS-CAnl)
Shelfmark MS 4052/2/1 (Part of Royal Choirbook)
Surface Parchment
Numbering System None
Format landscape
Measurements 218 x 320 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: CanberN 4052/2/1
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • coloration in red
  • red mensural
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External Links
Provenance
Contents 2 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Once part of same original manuscript as CambriU 4435, CambriU 5963, OxfBDON b.31-2, ff. 27a-28 of OxfBU 192, and ff. 89-92 of OxfM 267. Of English origin; possibly copied for chapel of King Henry VI (BentP). Owned in 20th century by the London art dealer Rex Nan Kivell (1899-1977); acquired by present library in 1969.

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Notation

Black mensural with red coloration

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Date

Ca. 1420-30 (BentP).

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Ruling

red staves; 13 mm

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Foliation

r+v

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Decoration

Blue or black Gothic initials, with red or black tracery

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Surface

Parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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2 Gloria fragments

Anonymous

1 fragmentary parchment folio, 218 x 320. Once part of same original manuscript as CambriU 4435, CambriU 5963, OxfBDON b.31-2, ff. 27a-28 of OxfBU 192, and ff. 89-92 of OxfM 267. Black mensural notation on red staves, with red coloration. Blue or black Gothic initials, with red or black tracery.

Ca. 1420-30 (BentP). Of English origin; possibly copied for chapel of King Henry VI (BentP). Owned in 20th century by the London art dealer Rex Nan Kivell (1899-1977); acquired by present library in 1969.

see also CambriU 4435, CambriU 5963, OxfBDON b.31-2, OxfBU 192, OxfM 267

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
[-] Gloria fragment - Anonymous

Gloria fragment

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Gloria fragment
[-] Gloria fragment - Anonymous

Gloria fragment

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Gloria fragment
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Gloria fragment Anonymous [-]
Gloria fragment Anonymous [-]

Images © National Library of Australia Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection

Set: Royal Choirbook

Type: Fragments of a whole

AUS-CAnl MS 4052/2/1 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Cu Add. 4435 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Cu Add. 5963(8) (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Lv Circ. 526-1923 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Ob MS. Don. b. 31 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Ob MS. Don. b. 32 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Omc MS Lat. 267 (Part of Royal Choirbook)

GB-Ouc University College MS. 192 (Some leaves part of Royal Choirbook)

‡ denotes primary source study

Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 1-69.

Bent, Margaret. 1984. The Progeny of Old Hall: More Leaves from a Royal English Choirbook. Gordon Athol Anderson (1929-1981) in Memoriam, Musicological Studies. 2 vols.1-54. Henryville, Ottawa, and Binningen: Institute of Mediaeval Music.

Manion, Margaret, and Vera Vines. 1984. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections.  London. Pages: 130, Fig. 109.

Bowers, Roger, and Andrew B Wathey. 1983. New Sources of English Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Polyphony. Early Music History, 123-73. Pages: 124.

Anderson, Gordon Athol, and Luther A Dittmer (editors). 1981. Canberra, National Library of Australia, Ms. 4052/2 1-16: The Musico-Liturgical Fragments from the Nan-Kivell Collection. Facsimile Reproduction of the Fragments. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts.  Henryville, Ottawa, and Binningen: Institute of Mediaeval Music, Ltd. Pages: l-2; first two plates following 19.

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Notation Note; Date Note; Ruling Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description