A single fragmentary folio containing bassus part of 'Stabat mater' setting. Apparently not a remnant of a bassus partbook, and large size of surviving bassus fragment indicates it was never part of a manuscript in choirbook format. Probably copied from a choirbook by a bass singer who wished to study his own part (FenCM). Possibly copied at St. Mary's College, in Mettingham, Suffolk (Roger Bowers). By 1600, fragment was incorporated in cover of book relating to manor of Banyard's Hall in Bunwell parish, Norfolk (inscriptions on verso). Later became part of miscellaneous collection of Buxton family papers deposited in Cambridge University Library in 1902.
GB-Cu Buxton MSS Box 96 (music fragment)
University Library, Cambridge, England
fragment: Late 15th or Early 16th century
| Archive | University Library, Cambridge, England (GB-Cu) |
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| Shelfmark | Buxton MSS Box 96 (music fragment) |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 420 x 315; original probably c. 625 x 400 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition from 2 composers. |
General Description
Binding
Fragment now preserved loose in modern paper folder within modern cardboard box labelled 'BUXTON MSS. / Box / no. 96.'
Notation
not indicated
Ruling
Staff height 15-17 (not consistent).
Foliation
r+v
Decoration
Some letters of text decorated in red.
Surface
Parchment
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 motet (fragmentary) J. Browne
1 fragmentary parchment folio, ca. 420 x 315 (original size probably ca. 625 x 400), containing bassus part of "Stabat mater" setting. Apparently not a remnant of a bassus partbook, and large size of surviving bassus fragment indicates it was never part of a manuscript in choirbook format. Probably copied from a choirbook by a bass singer who wished to study his own part (FenCM). Fragment now preserved loose in modern paper folder within modern cardboard box labelled "BUXTON MSS. / Box / no. 96." Staff height 15-17 (not consistent). Some letters of text decorated in red.
Late 15th or early 16th century. Possibly copied at St. Mary's College, in Mettingham, Suffolk (Roger Bowers). By 1600, fragment was incorporated in cover of book relating to manor of Banyard's Hall in Bunwell parish, Norfolk (inscriptions on verso). Later became part of miscellaneous collection of Buxton family papers deposited in Cambridge University Library in 1902.
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‡ denotes primary source study
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.
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, 27: 1-69.
Fenlon, Iain (editor). 1982. Cambridge Music Manuscripts, 900-1700. Cambridge. Pages: 114-7.
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.
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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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