Music-bearing flyleaves to a MS of 292 folios, containing a number of edificatory and religious treatises written in various small Gothic hands. Contains Tro and conductus in two-and three-part polyphony of St. Martial type. All are in fact two-part works except no. 6. Roughish minuscule script in the same brown ink as the staves. In score, with rudimentary bar-lines (indicative of an early date). The notation is in many cases om., as in the monodic Licet eger which may be by Johannes de Garlandia; here even the staves are om.
GB-Cu Ff.i.17
University Library, Cambridge, England
Codex fragment (polyphony), removed from host manuscript: 12th century
| Archive | University Library, Cambridge, England (GB-Cu) |
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| Shelfmark | Ff.i.17 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 145 x 198 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 35 compositions, 35 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
modern black cloth binding by Gray of Cambridge; dated 1918.
Notation
halfway between neumatic and square notation, reminiscent of StG A
Ruling
five- and four-line staves
Foliation
1-8v
Foliation
modern pencil foliation at t.r.r. Any old one would have been cut away with the top margin.
Surface
Parchment
RISM Description
RISM B/IV 1: A 12th century parchment manuscript meas. 145 x 198 mm. The musical flyleaves are now kept in a separate binding to the main codex, which consists of a number of edificatory and religious treatises written in various small Gothic hands. This part of the source is written on 292 folios + 2 more recent unnumbered paper leaves at each end. The binding is of dark brown leather. In 1664 the manuscript was in the library of Richard Holdsworth, Master of Emmanuel College. The musical flyleaves consist of 8 folios only + 3 modern, blank, unnumbered paper folios at the front and 7 at the back. The modern black cloth binding by Gray of Cambridge is dated 1918. This important source, also dating from the 12th century, contains Tro and conductus in two-and three-part polyphony of St. Martial type. All are in fact two-part works except no. 6. The notation is reminiscent of StG A, a half-way stage between neumatic and square notation. The roughish minuscule script is in the same brown ink as the five- and four-line staves. The score notation with rudimentary bar-lines is indicative of an early date. The notation is in many cases om., as in the monodic Licet eger which may be by Johannes de Garlandia; here even the staves are om. There is a modern pencil foliation at t.r.r. If there was an old one, it would have been cut away with the top margin.
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‡ denotes primary source study
‡ Stevens, John E. 2005. The Later Cambridge Songs. An English Song Collection of the Twelfth Century. Oxford University Press.
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1954-60. New Oxford History of Music. Pages: 304 (transcription of no. 6).
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. History of Music in Sound. Pages: 40 (transcription of no. 6).
Handschin, Jacques. 1952. Conductus-Spicilegien. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 9: 101ff. Pages: 114ff.
Schumann, O. 1943-50. Die Jüngerer Cambridger Liedersammlung. Studi Medievali, 16: 48-85. Pages: 48 ff.
Schneider, Màrius. 1935. Geschichte der Mehrstimmigkeit. 2 vols. Pages: nos. 65-70 (partial transcription of nos. 12, 9, 4, 10, 2 and 9); nos. 124-125 (do. of no. 1).
Handschin, Jacques. 1928. Angelomontana Polyphonica. Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, 3: 64ff. Pages: suppl. no. 25 (transcription of no. 13); 93f.
Ludwig, Friedrich. 1910. Repertorium organorum recentioris et motetorum vetustissimi stili. I. Catalogue raisonné. 1. Handschriften in Quadratnotation. Halle: Niemayer. Pages: 326.
Wooldridge, Harry Ellis, and H V Hughes (editors). 1897 and 1913. Early English Harmony from the 10th to the 15th Century. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: pl. 25-30 (facsimile of f. 8-8v, 3-4v).
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