Masses and devotions of St. Augustine's, Canterbury; only ff. 1 and 246 have music. These two folios once served as flyleaves, and may have been part of the same page. Different scribes copied the two pieces; the hand of the textless piece seems later. Copied in England (Canterbury?).
GB-Cu Ff.vi.16
University Library, Cambridge, England
Missal with added polyphony: 14th century music, copied early 15th century
| Archive | University Library, Cambridge, England (GB-Cu) |
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| Shelfmark | Ff.vi.16 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | landscape |
| Measurements | 161 x 107 (RISM); 160 x 110 (CCM) mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
New covers of brown leather over pasteboard with gilt on spine.
Notation
1st piece in black notation with no mimims, second piece in black notation with some minims, semi-minims and hollow notes (15c hand)
Date
Early 15th century (RISM); the book itself dates from the late 15th or early 16th century
Ruling
red staves
Foliation
1 & 246 (r+v) (RISM gives f.245)
Foliation
New pencil foliation
Surface
Parchment
RISM Description
RISM B/IV 2: A 15th or early 16th century paper manuscript meas. 161 x 107 mm. and containing 245 folios. The main contents are prayers with rubrics and initials in red. The two musical fragments are included in the main foliation, which is in modern pencil at t.r.r. It would appear that the two fragments are the upper and lower part of one and the same page, with a strip missing in the middle. The 14th century music written in three-part score on red five-line staves contains no minims, but a later scribe added a second piece, still in black notation but with a few minims, semiminims and hollow notes, in an early 15th century hand. The binding is of medium brown leather over pulp boards, with gilt on the spine.
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Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 motet (incomplete), 1 textless piece = 2
Anonymous
246 paper folios, 160 x 110. New pencil foliation. New covers of brown leather over pasteboard with gilt on spine. Black mensural notation on red staves. Different scribes copied the two pieces; the hand of the textless piece seems later. Small red initials. The book contains Masses and devotions of St. Augustine's, Canterbury; only ff. 1 and 246 have music. These two folios once served as flyleaves, and may have been part of the same page.
Early 15th century (RISM); the book itself dates from the late 15th or early 16th century. Copied in England (Canterbury?).
246
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‡ denotes primary source study
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.
Russell, Theodore C. 1967. Cantus Firmus Technique in the Music of Fifteenth Century Manuscripts of English Provenance. Student Musicologists at Minnesota, 2: 52-77.
Hughes, Andrew. 1963. English Sacred Music (Excluding Carols) in Insular Sources, 1400-C.1450. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation.
Apfel, Ernst. 1959. Studien zur Satztechnik der mittelalterlichen englischen Musik. 2 vols. Pages: I, 78.
Davey, Henry. 1921. History of English Music. London.
Frere, Walter Howard. 1894-1932, repr. Hildesheim, 1967. Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica: A Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society.
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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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