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.
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) |
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| Shelfmark | Kk.i.6 |
| Surface | Other |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 272 x 185 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 5 compositions, 5 are anonymous. |
General Description
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.
Notation
Black mensural notation. Ars nova notation
Date
ca. 1350 (DaveyH).
Ruling
3 red five-line staves per page
Foliation
246-247v
Foliation
New pencil foliation at t.r.r.
Decoration
Red initials in the main corpus and in the music text
Surface
paper and parchment (mainly paper but a parchment bifolio begins each fascicle)
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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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.
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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.
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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Edward Tambling
Friday, 20 September, 2019
'Paradisi portam' un-assigned from Escribano & rendered anonymous.
DIAMM, 2016
Monday, 23 January, 2017
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