GB-AR M534

Castle Archive, Arundel, England

fragment: 15th century: c.1460-80

Archive Castle Archive, Arundel, England (GB-AR)
Shelfmark M534
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements orig. 420 x 351, trimmed to 338 x 216 and 335 x 351 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: ArunC 534
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • coloration in red
Relationships
Provenance
Contents 3 pieces from 3 composers
General Description

Apparently the only surviving remnants of large choirbook containing Masses. Copied in England. Removed from original context and used as covers for court book recording business transacted in 1595 in county of Sussex. Court book subsequently deposited in Arundel Castle; music discovered in 1982 by William Summers.

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Physical Description

Poor condition due to dirt and water damage; some music now illegible.

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Notation

Black mensural with red coloration

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Date

Ca. 1460-80 (BowersNSE).

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Ruling

red staves; height approx. 16.5 mm

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Foliation

A-Bv

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Foliation

No foliation visible.

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Decoration

Space left for principal initials, but initials never added; minor initials in red ink.

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Surface

Parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 Gloria, 1 Sanctus-Agnus pair = 2 (fragmentary and incomplete)

(Plummer)-1, anon-1

2 parchment folios, originally ca. 420 x 351, later trimmed to 338 x 216 and 335 x 351 respectively. Apparently the only surviving remnants of large choirbook containing Masses. Poor condition due to dirt and water damage; some music now illegible. No foliation visible. Black mensural notation on red staves, with red coloration. Space left for principal initials, but initials never added; minor initials in red ink.

Ca. 1460-80 (BowersNSE). Copied in England. Present fragments removed from original context and used as covers for court book recording business transacted in 1595 in county of Sussex. Court book subsequently deposited in Arundel Castle; music discovered in 1982 by William Summers.

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
A–Av Sanctus -
Plummer, John (ca. 1410–ca. 1484) (?)
Binchois, Gilles (ca. 1400–1460) (?)

Sanctus

Plummer, John (ca. 1410–ca. 1484) (?)
Binchois, Gilles (ca. 1400–1460) (?)
Appears on: A–Av
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Sanctus (Mass)
General Note

M1
Av–B Agnus Dei -
Binchois, Gilles (ca. 1400–1460)

Agnus Dei

Binchois, Gilles (ca. 1400–1460)
Appears on: Av–B
Genres: Agnus Dei, Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Agnus (Mass)
General Note

M1
Bv Et in terra pax [Gloria] - Anonymous

Et in terra pax [Gloria]

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

G1
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Binchois, Gilles (ca. 1400–1460)
Plummer, John (ca. 1410–ca. 1484)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Agnus Dei
Binchois, Gilles (ca. 1400–1460)
Av–B
Et in terra pax [Gloria] Anonymous Bv
Sanctus
Plummer, John (ca. 1410–ca. 1484) (?)
Binchois, Gilles (ca. 1400–1460) (?)
A–Av

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‡ 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.

Bowers, Roger, and Andrew B Wathey. 1984. New Sources of English Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Polyphony. Early Music History, 299-349. Pages: 306-15.

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.

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