GB-Cu Kk.i.6

University Library, Cambridge, England

non-music MS with interpolated music: Early 15th century

Archive University Library, Cambridge, England (GB-Cu)
Shelfmark Kk.i.6
Surface Other
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 272 x 185 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: GB-Cu 6
  • CCM: CambriU Kk.1.6
Notations
  • Ars Nova
  • black full mensural
Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 5 compositions, 5 are anonymous.
General Description

Collection of religious texts, translations and English poems, with five polyphonic pieces are copied on the last two folios. Copied by two scribes. Copied in England.

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Binding

Modern covers of leather and mottled paper over boards (either wood or pulp). Black leather spine (dated 1958) has the words 'Alyanore || Hull, & c.', in gilt.

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Notation

Black mensural notation. Ars nova notation

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Date

ca. 1350 (DaveyH).

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Ruling

3 red five-line staves per page

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Foliation

246-247v

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Foliation

New pencil foliation at t.r.r.

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Decoration

Red initials in the main corpus and in the music text

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Surface

paper and parchment (mainly paper but a parchment bifolio begins each fascicle)

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 2: A 15th century manuscript meas. 271 x 190 mm. and containing 247 folios +1 blank unnumbered paper flyleaf at each end belonging to the modern binding of dark brown half-leather and mottled paper over boards (these may be wood, but, since they cannot be seen, there is a possibility they are of pulp). The binding is dated 1958; it has a gilt title on the spine: "Alyanore || Hull, & c.". There is a modern pencil foliation at t.r.r. This codex is mainly a paper one, but a parchment bifolio begins each fascicle. The contents, which are written in English, consist principally of "The VII Psalmes the wheche Dame Alyanore Hull translatted out of Frensche in to Englesche" (f. 2-147), "Meditacyons upon the VII dayes of the woke", again translated by A. Hull (f. 148-179v), and poems by J. Lidgate (f. 194-214v). Initials are red-blue in the corpus. The 2 music folios at the end are notated by 2 different hands: (a) a neat Ars Nova notation in 3 accolades of 3 red five-line staves per page with red initials; (b) the staves remain the same, but there are no red initials, while the Ars Nova notation is in a rougher hand with rectangles replacing squares.

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Répertoire International des Sources Musicales
Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 Magnificat, 4 motets = 5

Rychard-2, anon-3

i + 247 + i paper and parchment folios, 272 x 185. New pencil foliation. Modern covers of leather and paper, with black leather spine. Black mensural notation. Copied by two scribes. Red initials. The five polyphonic pieces are copied on the last two folios of this collection of religious texts, translations and English poems.

Early 15th century (RISM, FrereB); ca. 1350 (DaveyH). Copied in England.

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

247

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
246 Deo gratias - Anonymous

Deo gratias

Anonymous
Appears on: 246
Genres: Deo gratias, Motet
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Deo gratias
Layout

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246 Deo gratias - Anonymous

Deo gratias

Anonymous
Appears on: 246
Genres: Deo gratias, Motet
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Deo gratias
Layout

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246v Paradisi porta per Evam - Anonymous

Paradisi porta per Evam

Anonymous
Appears on: 246v
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Paradisi porta per Evam
Layout

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246v Sancta Maria virgo, intercede - Anonymous

Sancta Maria virgo, intercede

Anonymous
Appears on: 246v
Genres: Marian antiphon
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Sancta Maria virgo, intercede
Layout

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247–247v Magnificat primi toni: Et exultavit [K.117] - Anonymous

Magnificat primi toni: Et exultavit [K.117]

Anonymous
Appears on: 247–247v
Genres: Magnificat, Motet
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c4
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Et exultavit spiritus
Layout

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Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Deo gratias Anonymous 246
Deo gratias Anonymous 246
Magnificat primi toni: Et exultavit [K.117] Anonymous 247–247v
Paradisi porta per Evam Anonymous 246v
Sancta Maria virgo, intercede Anonymous 246v

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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 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.

Schlager, Karlheinz (editor). 1971-. Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. Series A/I, vol. Einzeldrucke vor 1800.  Kassel. Pages: B IV/2, 212-4.

Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts.  Tutzing. Pages: 130.

Apfel, Ernst. 1959. Studien zur Satztechnik der mittelalterlichen englischen Musik. 2 vols. Pages: I, 62 f, 65 f.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1958, second ed. 1963. Music in Medieval Britain.  London: Routledge. Pages: pl. XIV, no. 22 (facsimile of Cu 6 3-4), p. 296 (transcription of opening of Cu 6 4), p. 345 f (transcription of opening of Cu 6 5); 296, 345 f.

Gennrich, Friedrich. 1956. Abriß der frankonischen Mensuralnotation.  2nd ed. Pages: pl. IIa (facsimile of Cu 6 1-2).

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1954-1960. New Oxford History of Music. 89ff. Pages: 97 (transcription of Cu 6 1-2).

Davey, Henry. 1921. History of English Music.  London. Pages: 27.

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. Pages: II, 119.

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Friday, 20 September, 2019

'Paradisi portam' un-assigned from Escribano & rendered anonymous.

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Ruling Note; Foliation Note; Foliation Note; Decoration 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

Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. RISM Description