GB-DRc MS C.I.20

Chapter Library, Durham, England

non-music MS with interpolated music: 15th century

Archive Chapter Library, Durham, England (GB-DRc)
Shelfmark MS C.I.20
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 340 x 222 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: GB-DRc 20
Notations
  • Ars Nova
  • post-Franconian
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • France
Contents 19 pieces from 2 composers
General Description

The main contents are Huguitio's Summa super derivationibus and Isidore's Etymologies written in 2 cols. 4 flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end (like Ob 7) contain three- and four-part, apparently English motets. Concordances prove that the last 4 folios contain predominantly French works, including some in the French language and others by Philippe de Vitry. The 2 pieces in three-part score on f. 4v appear to be a slightly later addition to the repertory of Petronian motets, for they use Ars Nova notation.

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Binding

brown leather over wooden boards; modern. 1 extra parchment flyleaf at each end belongs to this binding.

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Notation

Petronian (f. 1-4); Ars nova (concluding flyleaves)

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Ruling

12 brown five-line staves per page at the beginning of the codex and 13 at the end. Staff height:13.5-14.5mm; systems 54-57.5 mm in threes

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Foliation

1-8v

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Foliation

modern pencil foliation at t.r.r.; the last 4 pages are wrongly numbered 336*, 337, 338, 339 instead of 337-340

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Decoration

blue-red initials

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Surface

parchment

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 2: A 14th century parchment manuscript meas. 340 x 222 mm. and containing 340 folios. There is a modern pencil foliation at t.r.r., though the last 4 pages are wrongly numbered 336*, 337, 338, 339 instead of 337-340. The main contents are Huguitio's Summa super derivationibus and Isidore's Etymologies written in 2 cols, with blue-red initials. The 4 flyleaves at the beginning and the 4 at the end, which date from the mid-14th century, are like Ob 7 in containing three- and four-part, apparently English motets in Petronian notation on f. 1-4 and motets in Ars Nova notation on the concluding flyleaves. Concordances prove that the last 4 folios contain predominantly French works, including some in the French language and others by Philippe de Vitry. The 2 pieces in three-part score on f. 4v appear to be a slightly later addition to the repertory of Petronian motets, for they use Ars Nova notation. There are 12 brown five-line staves per page at the beginning of the codex and 13 at the end. Like the ms corpus, the music sections also employ blue-red initials. 1 extra parchment flyleaf at each end belongs to the modern binding of brown leather over wooden boards. There are 2 clasps, a gilt title on the spine and arms on the cover. DRc 20 was evidently bought for Durham by John Wessyngton, a prior there, presumably in the 14th century (cf. fol. 5).

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336v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
1 Herodis in pretorio fit emulatio / Herodis in atrio rabidi / Hey, lure, lure, hey, hor pendoy - Anonymous

Herodis in pretorio fit emulatio / Herodis in atrio rabidi / Hey, lure, lure, hey, hor pendoy

Anonymous
Appears on: 1
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Herodis in atrio rabidi
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Hey, lure, lure, hey, hor pendoy
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Herodis in pretorio fit emulatio
Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 149.

1v Fusa cum silentio grata / Labem lavat criminis / Manere - Anonymous

Fusa cum silentio grata / Labem lavat criminis / Manere

Anonymous
Appears on: 1v
Genres: Troped chant
2 Jesu fili Dei patris / Jesu lumen veritatis / Jesu fili virginis - Anonymous

Jesu fili Dei patris / Jesu lumen veritatis / Jesu fili virginis

Anonymous
Appears on: 2
Genres: Troped chant
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Iesu lumen veritatis
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Ihesu fili virginis
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Iesu fili dei patris
Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 151.

2v Princeps a postolice turme - Anonymous

Princeps a postolice turme

Anonymous
Appears on: 2v
Genres: Motet
Voice: Triplum
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Princeps a postolice turme
General Note

isolated Tr

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plates 142, 152.

3 Dei preco fit baptista - Anonymous

Dei preco fit baptista

Anonymous
Appears on: 3
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Dei preco fit baptista
General Note

isolated Mot

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 153.

3 Barabas dimittitur dignus / Barrabas dimittitur in merito / Babilonis flumina - Anonymous

Barabas dimittitur dignus / Barrabas dimittitur in merito / Babilonis flumina

Anonymous
Appears on: 3
Genres: Troped chant
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Barrabas dimittitur in merito
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: f4
Voice Text: Babilonis flumina
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Barabas dimittitur dignus
Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plates 53, 153.

3v–4 Origo juri jam propalatus / Virga Jesse que stas in signum - Anonymous

Origo juri jam propalatus / Virga Jesse que stas in signum

Anonymous
Appears on: 3v–4
Genres: Troped chant
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Virga Iesse que stas in signum
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Origo iuri iam propalatus
Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
General Note

Orto sole serene novitatis

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plates 132-133, 154-155.

4v Virgo Dei genitrix quem totus non capit - Anonymous

Virgo Dei genitrix quem totus non capit

Anonymous
Appears on: 4v
Genres: Gradual
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Virgo dei genitrix
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c3
General Note

V to Gradual Benedicta

Layout

score

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 156.

4v Deo gratias - Anonymous

Deo gratias

Anonymous
Appears on: 4v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Deo gratias
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c2
Layout

score
336 Virginalis concio virginis - Anonymous

Virginalis concio virginis

Anonymous
Appears on: 336
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Virginalis concio virginis
Voice: Contratenor
Languages: none
Clef: c4
Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 157.

336 Amer, Amours, est l'achoison pour quoy / Durement au coeur me blece / Dolor meus -
Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361) (?)

Amer, Amours, est l'achoison pour quoy / Durement au coeur me blece / Dolor meus

Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361) (?)
Appears on: 336
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Amer, Amours, est l'achoison pour quoy
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Dolor meus
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Durement au cueor me blesce
General Note

2nd half of Tr only, beg. "lequel de trois jeo doi", + Mot and T

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 157.

336v–337 Ad lacrimas flentis dolorem / O speculum spericum / Dulcis virgo - Anonymous

Ad lacrimas flentis dolorem / O speculum spericum / Dulcis virgo

Anonymous
Appears on: 336v–337
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: f3
Voice Text: Dulcis virgo
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: O speculum spericum
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Ad lacrimas flentis dolorem
Layout

parts

General Note

Though notated in 3 voice parts, the triplum (Ad lacrimas) splits into two vocal lines for the last two lines of each stanza - so this is a 4vv motet. The following piece in the ms is attributed to Vitry, and his name has sometimes been associated with this motet, although there is no direct evidence for this.

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plates 158-159.

336v–337 Vos quid admiramini virgines / Gratissima virginis species quam decorat -
Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361)

Vos quid admiramini virgines / Gratissima virginis species quam decorat

Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361)
Appears on: 336v–337
Genres: Motet
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Gaude, gloriosa
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Vos quid admiramini virgines
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Gratissima virginis species quam decorat
Voice: Contratenor
Languages: none
Clef: c5
Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plates 158-159.

337v O vos omnes quibus est aditus / Locus iste - Anonymous

O vos omnes quibus est aditus / Locus iste

Anonymous
Appears on: 337v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: O vos omnes quibus est aditus
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Locus iste
Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 160.

337v O canenda vulgo per computa / Rex quem metrorum depingit / Rex regnum -
Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361)

O canenda vulgo per computa / Rex quem metrorum depingit / Rex regnum

Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361)
Appears on: 337v
Genres: Motet
Voice: Contratenor
Languages: none
Clef: c4
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: [O canenda vulgo per compita]
Voice: Motetus
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Rex quem metrorum depi[n]git
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: f3
Voice Text: Rex regum
General Note

Mot and T only

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 160.

338 L'amoureuse flour d'esté qui en sa novolté / En l'estat d'amere tristour - Anonymous

L'amoureuse flour d'esté qui en sa novolté / En l'estat d'amere tristour

Anonymous
Appears on: 338
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c1
Voice Text: L'amoureuse flour d'esté qui en sa novolté
Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
Clef: c4
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c2
Voice Text: En l'estat d'amere tristour
General Note

Tr only

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 161.

338v–339 Musicorum collegio in curia / In templo Dei posita / Avete - Anonymous

Musicorum collegio in curia / In templo Dei posita / Avete

Anonymous
Appears on: 338v–339
Genres: Motet
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Avete
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Musicorum collegio in curia
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: In templo dei posita
Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plates 162-163.

338v–339 Apta caro plumis ingenii / Flos virginum, decus et species / Alma redemptoris mater -
Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361) (?)

Apta caro plumis ingenii / Flos virginum, decus et species / Alma redemptoris mater

Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361) (?)
Appears on: 338v–339
Genres: Alma redemptoris mater, BVM, Motet
Voice: Motetus
Languages: Latin
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Flos virginum, decus et species
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Alma redemptoris mater
Voice: Triplum
Languages: Latin
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Apta caro plumis ingenio
Layout

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339 Mon chant en plaint, ma chancon en clamour / Qui dolereus onques n'a cogneü / Tristis est anima mea - Anonymous

Mon chant en plaint, ma chancon en clamour / Qui dolereus onques n'a cogneü / Tristis est anima mea

Anonymous
Appears on: 339
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Qui dolereus onques n'a cogneü
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Tristis est anima mea
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Mon chant en plaint, ma chancon en clamour
General Note

Tr only

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 164.

Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Ad lacrimas flentis dolorem / O speculum spericum / Dulcis virgo Anonymous 336v–337
Amer, Amours, est l'achoison pour quoy / Durement au coeur me blece / Dolor meus
Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361) (?)
336
Apta caro plumis ingenii / Flos virginum, decus et species / Alma redemptoris mater
Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361) (?)
338v–339
Barabas dimittitur dignus / Barrabas dimittitur in merito / Babilonis flumina Anonymous 3
Dei preco fit baptista Anonymous 3
Deo gratias Anonymous 4v
Fusa cum silentio grata / Labem lavat criminis / Manere Anonymous 1v
Herodis in pretorio fit emulatio / Herodis in atrio rabidi / Hey, lure, lure, hey, hor pendoy Anonymous 1
Jesu fili Dei patris / Jesu lumen veritatis / Jesu fili virginis Anonymous 2
L'amoureuse flour d'esté qui en sa novolté / En l'estat d'amere tristour Anonymous 338
Mon chant en plaint, ma chancon en clamour / Qui dolereus onques n'a cogneü / Tristis est anima mea Anonymous 339
Musicorum collegio in curia / In templo Dei posita / Avete Anonymous 338v–339
O canenda vulgo per computa / Rex quem metrorum depingit / Rex regnum
Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361)
337v
O vos omnes quibus est aditus / Locus iste Anonymous 337v
Origo juri jam propalatus / Virga Jesse que stas in signum Anonymous 3v–4
Princeps a postolice turme Anonymous 2v
Virginalis concio virginis Anonymous 336
Virgo Dei genitrix quem totus non capit Anonymous 4v
Vos quid admiramini virgines / Gratissima virginis species quam decorat
Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361)
336v–337

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‡ denotes primary source study

Hamilton, Elina G. 2018. Philippe de Vitry in England: Musical Quotations in the Quatuor Principalia and the Gratissima Tenors. Studi Musicali, Nuova serie, 9-46.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1978. Polyphonic Music for a Chapel of Edward . Music & Letters, 420-428. Pages: 420-428.

‡ Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1967. Ars Nova in England: a New Source. Musica disciplina, 67-85.

Günther, Ursula (editor). 1965. The Motets of the Manuscripts Chantilly, musée condé, 564 (olim 1047) and Modena, Biblioteca estense, a. M. 5, 24 (olim lat. 568). Corpus mensurabilis musicae.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: no. 3 (transciption of DRc 20 18); XXIVff.

Apfel, Ernst. 1959. Studien zur Satztechnik der mittelalterlichen englischen Musik. 2 vols. Pages: 51; 64 f, 74 f (diplomatic facsimile in score of DRc 20 2 after OHa 81 and DRc20 7 after CG C, with ligatures reduced to single notes).

Schrade, Leo. 1956. Philippe de Vitry: Some New Discoveries. Musical Quarterly, 330ff. Pages: 334, 343f, 353;.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1954-1960. New Oxford History of Music. 89ff. Pages: III, 89ff.

Schrade, Leo (editor). 1954 -1956. The Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. 3 vols. Pages: I, 76ff, 106ff (transcription of DRc 20 13 and 15).

Zwick, Gabriel. 1948. Deux motets inédits de Philippe de Vitry et de Guillaume de Machaut. Revue de musicologie, 27-57. Pages: 40 ff (facsimile and transcription of DRc 20 15 after CH-Fc 260).

Besseler, Heinrich. 1926. Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters: II. Die Motette von Franko von Köln bis Philipp van Vitry. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 137-258. Pages: II, 250ff; 254 ff (transcription of DRc 20 13 and 18 after l-IV); 196ff.

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James R. Tomlinson

Monday, 29 July, 2024

Inage order corrected. Added motet on f.1v with concordance in Hatton 81

David Chappuis

Tuesday, 29 August, 2023

'O speculum' is not attributed to Vitry in the ms, though the following text is; therefore the attribution in DIAMM has been removed. A fortcoming article will discuss & cast doubt on Vitry's authorship.

Elina Hamilton

Thursday, 5 September, 2019

Bibliography item added

Margaret Bent

Monday, 8 April, 2019

Often takes a database refresh for it to come through... Looks OK this morning?

Margaret Bent

Sunday, 7 April, 2019

Notation for this and 14 other sources altered from 'Petronian' to 'post-Franconian'

Elina Hamilton

Thursday, 29 June, 2017

Date corrected (incorrect in catalogue description)

Karen Desmond

Saturday, 3 June, 2017

Request for images to be changed to correct portrait orientation.

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Monday, 23 January, 2017

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