Mass fascicle (ff. 219-228) used as cover padding beneath original binding, removed & incorporated in ms. (Add 2764 (1), q.v., was removed from the same manuscript where it was a quire liner.) Copied in England.
GB-Cu Ii.v.18
University Library, Cambridge, England
non-music MS with interpolated music: Mid-15th century
| Archive | University Library, Cambridge, England (GB-Cu) |
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| Shelfmark | Ii.v.18 |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 290 x 221 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 5 compositions, 5 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Modern cardboard covers with black leather spine.
Liminary Note
The names of former owners, Henry Byllinge, Wm. Ravenscroft, and Thomas Rauncroft (Ravenscroft?), appear on the flyleaves.
Notation
not indicated
Ruling
14.5 mm
Foliation
219v-228
Foliation
Original foliation and new pencil foliation.
Surface
Paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 Mass
Anonymous
ii + 325 + ii paper folios, 290 x 221. Original foliation and new pencil foliation. Modern cardboard covers with black leather spine. The names of former owners, Henry Byllinge, Wm. Ravenscroft, and Thomas Rauncroft (Ravenscroft?), appear on the flyleaves. Ff. 219-228, on which the Mass is found, were originally part of the binding of this manuscript; they were removed on 15 July 1915 and placed in the manuscript proper.
Mid-15th century (HugESM); before 1480 (DaveyH). Copied in England.
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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, 27: 1-69.
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.
Bent, Margaret (editor). 1979. Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music II: Four Anonymous Masses. Early English Church Music, vol. 22. London: Stainer and Bell.
Russell, Theodore C. 1967. Cantus Firmus Technique in the Music of Fifteenth Century Manuscripts of English Provenance. Student Musicologists at Minnesota, 2: 52-77.
Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music. London: Stainer & Bell.
Hughes, Andrew. 1963. English Sacred Music (Excluding Carols) in Insular Sources, 1400-C.1450. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation.
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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Margaret Bent
Monday, 12 November, 2018
Description of GB-Cu Ii.v.18 updated to correct mis-description that these were flyleaves; also that of Add 2764 (1).
DIAMM, 2016
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Liminary Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Ruling Note; Foliation Note; Foliation 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