The two folios were used as flyleaves at the end of the Coventry Leet Book (a collection of legal records written in Coventry from 25 Jan 1421 to 14 May 1555). These folios are the remnants of a collection of cyclic Masses; the Gloria and Credo are from the same Mass, although the two folios are not consecutive, and the Agnus is from the Missa Caput that was previously ascribed to Du Fay.
| Archive | City Archives, Coventry, England (GB-CO) |
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| Shelfmark | BA/E/F/37/1/2 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | c. 394 x 300mm (originally much larger); written space 350 x 260 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 3 compositions, 1 from 1 composer, 2 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Leaves trimmed for use as flyleaves, with loss of some music and possibly foliation and composer attributions.
Binding
Now kept separately and loose in an envelope
Notation
Full black mensural notation with red coloration. Written by a single scribe, using unusually widely and evenly spaced notation. The text is also in a single hand, employing a textura semi-quadrata script.
Ruling
Twelve black ruled staves (of 14-18 mm)
Foliation
No original foliation or pagination: [i]-[ii verso]
Decoration
Red ink has been used for large initials and elaborated finals.
Surface
Parchment
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 Gloria, 1 Credo, 1 Agnus = 3 (all incomplete)
(Dufay)-1, anon-2
2 parchment folios, 387 x 267, serving as flyleaves at the end of the Coventry Leet Book, a collection of legal records written in Coventry in the 15th and 16th centuries. No foliation or pagination remaining; the folios were originally larger but were trimmed for use as flyleaves, with loss of some music and possibly foliation and composer attributions. These folios are the remnants of a collection of cyclic Masses; the Gloria and Credo are from the same Mass, although the two folios are not consecutive, and the Agnus is from Dufay's Missa Caput. Black/red mensural notation.
Probably ca. 1450-60 (PlanFC); 1460-70 (BukCR). Copied in England
Vol 4
Date: Probably ca. 1450-60 (PlanFC).
[i] recto
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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.
Planchart, Alejandro Enrique. 1981. Fifteenth-Century Masses: Notes on Performance and Chronology. Studi Musicali, 10: 3-29. Pages: 20-5,29. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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, and Ian D Bent. 1969. Dufay, Dunstable, Plummer-A New Source. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 22: 394-424.
Walker, Thomas. 1969. ‘A Severed Head: Notes on a Lost English Caput Mass’. Abstracts of Papers Read at the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Saint Louis, 1969, American Musicological Society. Notes: Argues (compellingly) for English origin of the Missa Caput, overturning the attributions in Tr88 and Tr89 of the whole mass to ‘Duffay'.
Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1951. Caput Redivivum: A New Source for Dufay's Missa Caput. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 4: 97-110. Notes: physical description; contents list; transcription (partial); facsimile.
de Van, Guillaume, and Heinrich Besseler (editors). 1948-66. Guillaume Dufay: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 1. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: II,ii, passim. Notes: mention of MS; facsimile (partial).
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Margaret Bent
Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
Notified of the fact that the 'Missa Caput' is no longer ascribed to Du Fay but now accepted as an anonymous English work (as argued in Walker 1969).
DIAMM, 2016
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Physical Description Note; Binding Note; Notation 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