GB-Cclc Archives Acc. 1988/17

Clare College, Cambridge, England

fragment: 13th or 14th century

Archive Clare College, Cambridge, England (GB-Cclc)
Shelfmark Archives Acc. 1988/17
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Parchment
Numbering System None / Unknown
Format portrait
Measurements 305 x 215 (originally 330 x 335) mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: GB-Cclc 1988/17
Notations
  • Gothica textualis quadrata
  • unstemmed semi-breves, without dot of division
Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 2 compositions, 2 are anonymous.
General Description

Written space originally at least 260 mm high, and at least 160 mm wide; the script is a gothica textualis quadrata. Written in England. Used to form the rear pastedown for a book, unidentified but probably in the Clare College Fellows' Library, bound with pith boards, s. xvi ex. or s. xvii (see marks on recto). Pen trials on verso 'Amen dico vobis' and 'quam ...'. The fragment was removed s. xx in., and placed with other fragments from bindings at Clare College in a guard-book in the Fellows' Library. Transferred to the College Archives, 1988.

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Notation

unstemmed semibreves, without dot of division, used melismatically

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Ruling

probably nine (now eight) freely-ruled red five-line staves (21-24 mm); frame rules and text guides on verso.

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Foliation

unfoliated

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Foliation

17 r+v

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Decoration

capitals one-stave high, in red and blue, flourished in blue and red, at opening of 2 on recto; one-line flourished capitals for opening of single voice of 1.

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Surface

parchment

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RISM Description

RISM Supplement: 1 fol. (fragmentary; unfoliated). Parchment. Now 305 x 215 mm; originally c. 330-335 mm high. Written space originally at least 260 mm high, and at least 160 mm wide. Ruling: probably nine (now eight) freely-ruled red five-line staves (21-24 mm); frame rules and text guides on verso. Script: gothica textualis quadrata. Notation: unstemmed semibreves, without dot of division, used melis-matically. Decoration: capitals one-stave high, in red and blue, flourished in blue and red, at opening of 2 on recto; one-line flourished capitals for opening of single voice of 1.

Written in England. Used to form the rear pastedown for a book, unidentified but probably in the Clare College Fellows' Library, bound with pith boards, s. xvi ex. or s. xvii (see marks on recto). Pen trials on verso 'Amen dico vobis' and 'quam ...'. The fragment was removed s. xx in., and placed with other fragments from bindings at Clare College in a guard-book in the Fellows' Library. Transferred to the College Archives, 1988.

NOTES ON CONTENTS

1 One of three voices. Text tropes Kyrie Rex virginum amatör. 2 All voices incomplete. Opening of Mot and T, recto; Tr and remainder of T, verso. Ed. PMFC 14, pp. 219-221 (App., No. 21). T carries plainsong Kyrie Lux et origo (F-Pa, MS 135, fol. 231). Also in WOc, Add. MS 68, frag. X, fols. lv-2v (facs. in Ob, MS Lat. liturg. d. 20, fols. 1v-2v). Text tropes Kyrie Lux et origo.

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
recto O paraclite regens corpus marie qui t- 1 - Anonymous

O paraclite regens corpus marie qui t-

Anonymous
Appears on: recto
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: [c4]
Voice Text: O paraclite regens corpus marie qui t-
Layout

parts
r–v Lux polis refulgens ... laus egregia que candoris / Lux et gloria regis caelici Maria / Kyrie eleison 3 - Anonymous

Lux polis refulgens ... laus egregia que candoris / Lux et gloria regis caelici Maria / Kyrie eleison

Anonymous
Appears on: r–v
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: [Lux polis refulgens ... la]us egregia que candoris
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Lux et gloria regis celici Maria
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: K[yrieleyson]
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Lux polis refulgens ... laus egregia que candoris / Lux et gloria regis caelici Maria / Kyrie eleison Anonymous r–v
O paraclite regens corpus marie qui t- Anonymous recto

‡ denotes primary source study

Lefferts, Peter M, and Margaret Bent (compilers). 1982. New Sources of English Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Polyphony. Early Music History, 2: 273-362. Pages: 277-288 (facs. pp. 279-280).

Sanders, Ernest H (editor). 1979. English Music of the 13th and Early 14th Centuries. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, vol. 14.  Monaco: Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre. Pages: 14, p. 247.

Bent, Margaret. 1973. The Transmission of English Music 1300-1500: Some Aspects of Repertory and Presentation. Studien zur Tradition in der Musik: Kurt von Fischer zum 60. Geburtstag, edited by Margaret Bent, 65–83. Munich: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler. Pages: pp. 67-68.

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