GB-LEu Brotherton Collection Incunabula, Caxton

University Brotherton Library, Leeds, England

non-music MS with interpolated music: 16th century: c. 1530-6

Archive University Brotherton Library, Leeds, England (GB-LEu)
Shelfmark Brotherton Collection Incunabula, Caxton
Surface Paper
Numbering System None
Format portrait
Measurements c. 260 x 185 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LeedsU s.s.
Relationships
Provenance
  • England
Contents 2 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

The single piece of music, on ff. [34'-35], has text in honor of Henry Fitzroy (1519-36), Earl of Nottingham and Duke of Richmond and Somerset. Scribal concordance with LonBL 50856. Possibly copied in Cambridge. Caxton print formerly part of a larger collection of late 15th century theological tracts, in which two pieces of music were added on blank openings during the 1530's. In 1608, the volume was brought to Ripon Cathedral (Yorkshire) by the clergyman Anthony Higgin. Caxton Epitome and one piece of music removed from composite volume and rebound separately in 1952; sold to Leeds University in 1960.

Remainder of volume transferred in 1962 to British Museum, where it was divided into two sections; section with second piece of music now LonBL 50856.

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Physical Description

in poor condition but repaired and gauzed

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Binding

Rebound in 1952 in new parchment covers and placed in protective slip case.

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Notation

not indicated

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Foliation

34v-35

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Surface

Paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Unique exemplar of the print Epitome Margaritae Eloquentiae (Caxton, ca. 1480), with manuscript polyphony: 1 English secular piece

Anonymous

35 paper folios, ca. 260 x 185, in poor condition but repaired and gauzed. Rebound in 1952 in new parchment covers and placed in protective slip case. The single piece of music, on ff. [34'-35], has text in honor of Henry Fitzroy (1519-36), Earl of Nottingham and Duke of Richmond and Somerset. Scribal concordance with LonBL 50856. No initials or decoration.

Ca. 1530-6. Possibly copied in Cambridge. Caxton print formerly part of a larger collection of late 15th century theological tracts, in which two pieces of music were added on blank openings during the 1530's. In 1608, the volume was brought to Ripon Cathedral (Yorkshire) by the clergyman Anthony Higgin. Caxton Epitome and one piece of music removed from composite volume and rebound separately in 1952; sold to Leeds University in 1960.

Remainder of volume transferred in 1962 to British Museum, where it was divided into two sections; section with second piece of music now LonBL 50856.

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
34v indescipherable - -

indescipherable

Appears on: 34v
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: insufficient
Voice Text: indescipherable
35 contains the words "to our comforth and only joy" in lines thee, six and nine - Anonymous

contains the words "to our comforth and only joy" in lines thee, six and nine

Anonymous
Appears on: 35
Genres: Song
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: English
Voice Text: contains the words "to our comforth and only joy" in lines thee, six and nine
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
contains the words "to our comforth and only joy" in lines thee, six and nine Anonymous 35

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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. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.

Mortimer, Jean E, and Ronald H Martin. 1971. The Epitome Margaritae Eloquentiae of Laurentius Gulielmus de Saona. Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society.  Leeds.

Stevens, John E. 1961. Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court.  Cambridge. Pages: 441.

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, 19.

Fowler, J T. 1891. Ripon Minster Library. The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, 200-1.

Fowler, J T. 1873. Ripon Minster Library and Its Founder. The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, 371-402. Pages: 384, 396-7.

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

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description