GB-DRc MS A.IV.23

Chapter Library, Durham, England

Bible with interpolated music: Early/Mid-15th century

Archive Chapter Library, Durham, England (GB-DRc)
Shelfmark MS A.IV.23
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 164 x 106 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: DurC 23
Notations
  • black void mensural
Provenance
  • England
Contents 1 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

A copy of the Old and New Testaments. The polyphonic piece is found on the second front flyleaf; the verso of this flyleaf contains chant. Copied in England.

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Binding

19th-century covers of red-brown leather with gold title on spine

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Notation

black void mensural notation

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Ruling

red 5-line staff; 8 mm

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Foliation

ii

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Foliation

Modern pencil foliation, 1-329.

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Surface

Parchment

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RISM Description

RISM

  1. Jh.; 329 Blätter Pergament + 2 Vorsatz- und 1 Nachstoßbll. Pergament, 164 x 106 mm. Moderne Bleistiftfoliierung von f. 1-329 (ab 2. Vorsatzbl.). - Einband : 19. Jh. (1846 ?); rötlich-braunes Leder mit Goldtitel auf dem Rücken des Einbandes.

Die Handschrift enthält das Alte und Neue Testament in einer Minuskel des 15. Jh. Auf dem 2. Vorsatzbl., das verkehrt steht, findet sich die einzige musikalische Eintragung: je Seite 5 rote Fünfliniensysteme mit weißer Mensuralnotation des frühen 15. Jh. auf f. recto und Choralnot. auf f. verso.

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1 Gloria (fragmentary)

Anonymous

ii + 329 + i parchment folios, 164 x 106. Modern pencil foliation, 1-329. 19th-century covers of red-brown leather with gold title on spine. The polyphonic piece, in white mensural notation on a red 5-line staff, is found on the second front flyleaf of this 15th-century copy of the Old and New Testaments; the verso of this flyleaf contains chant.

Early-middle 15th century. Copied in England.

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
[-] Et in terra pax [Gloria] - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Gloria
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Et in terra pax [Gloria] Anonymous [-]

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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.

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.

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.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1961. Some Little-Known Sources of Medieval Polyphony in England. Musica Disciplina, 15-26. Pages: 23.

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Wednesday, 17 January, 2018

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Monday, 23 January, 2017

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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