GB-DRc Endpapers and Bindings 25

Chapter Library, Durham, England

fragment: 15th century: c.1450

Archive Chapter Library, Durham, England (GB-DRc)
Shelfmark Endpapers and Bindings 25
Surface Parchment
Numbering System None
Format portrait
Measurements c.175-275 x 420-53, trimmed from original c. 320 x 460 (i.e., folio size of c. 320 x 230) mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: DurM 25
  • olim (Former shelfmark): Miscellaneous Charter 7175
Relationships
Provenance
  • England
Contents 4 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Apparently the only surviving remnant of a Superius partbook (from an original set of 3?). Copied by a single scribe. Probably copied in Durham, for use at Cathedral Priory (Benedictine).

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Physical Description

Poor condition; some music now illegible. Wright 2013 reports that the work on f. 2v previously reported to be a Credo (Bowers 1983) is no longer decipherable and its classification therefore cannot be confirmed.

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Binding

Restored and mounted within protective sheets; preserved loose in modern paper folder.

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Notation

Black chant: mensural values greater than one beat indicated by repeated notes on same pitch

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Date

Ca. 1450 (BentSF).

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Ruling

on red staves; staff height 14.

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Foliation

1-2v

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Decoration

No initials or decoration.

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Surface

Parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 K-G-C Mass (incomplete), 1 Agnus (fragmentary) = 2 Anonymous

1 fragmentary parchment bifolio, ca. 175-275 x 420-53, trimmed from original size of ca. 320 x 460 (i.e., folio size of ca. 320 x 230). Apparently the only surviving remnant of a superius partbook (from an original set of 3?).

Poor condition; some music now illegible. Restored and mounted within protective sheets; preserved loose in modern paper folder. Black chant notation on red 5-line staves; mensural values greater than one beat indicated by repeated notes on same pitch. Copied by a single scribe. Staff height 14. No initials or decoration.

Ca. 1450 (BentSF). Probably copied in Durham, for use at Cathedral Priory (Benedictine).

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
1 Agnus Dei (fragment) - Anonymous

Agnus Dei (fragment)

Anonymous
Appears on: 1
Genres: Agnus Dei, Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Agnus Dei (incomplete)
1v–2 Kyrie [Tro] Fons Bonitatis - Anonymous

Kyrie [Tro] Fons Bonitatis

Anonymous
Appears on: 1v–2
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Troped Kyrie
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin, Greek
Voice Text: Kyrie. Fons Bonitatis
2 Et in terra pax [Gloria] [fragment] - Anonymous

Et in terra pax [Gloria] [fragment]

Anonymous
Appears on: 2
Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Et in terra pax (incomplete)
2v Credo fragment - Anonymous

Credo fragment

Anonymous
Appears on: 2v
Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem)
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Patrem Omnipotentem (incomplete)
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Agnus Dei (fragment) Anonymous 1
Credo fragment Anonymous 2v
Et in terra pax [Gloria] [fragment] Anonymous 2
Kyrie [Tro] Fons Bonitatis Anonymous 1v–2

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‡ denotes primary source study

Wright, Peter (editor). 2013. Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, VIII: Settings of the Gloria and Credo. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer and Bell for the British Academy. Notes: edition of Gloria on 2r-2v.

Wright, Peter (editor). 2006. Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, V: Settings of the Sanctus and Agnus dei. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer and Bell for the British Academy. Pages: No. 23 is an edition of a work from this MS.

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, 1-69.

Bowers, Roger, and Andrew B Wathey. 1983. New Sources of English Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Polyphony. Early Music History, 123-73. Pages: 128-36.

Bent, Margaret, and Roger Bowers. 1981. The Saxilby Fragment. Early Music History, 1-27. Pages: 17.

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.

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Wednesday, 17 January, 2018

Bibliography udpdated and physical description note added.

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