US-CAh MS Lat 420

Harvard University Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass., United States

chant book with added polyphony: polyphony c. 1400, an added letter is dated 1434

Archive Harvard University Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass., United States (US-CAh)
Shelfmark MS Lat 420
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Provenance
  • Cividale del Friuli? Friuli? Italy
Contents Contains 5 compositions, 5 are anonymous.
General Description

A miscellaneous chant manuscript that includes two pages with mensural notation. One page contains monophonic mensural Benedicamus Domino tropes using prolation signs found also in the Parma 75 fragment and the St. Emmeram codex. The other page includes a setting of one verse of an Agnus Dei. All are written in Italian Trecento notation with multiple levels of semibreves and minim stems.

Michael Scott Cuthbert, 2018
Notation

Italian trecento notation with puncti divisiones, multiple levels of semibreves, and minims on five-line staves. Uses |: for minor prolation and a bar with three dots for major prolation, similar to the Parma fragment and the St. Emmeram codex.

Michael Scott Cuthbert

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
82v Benedicamus Domino - - Anonymous

Benedicamus Domino

Anonymous
Appears on: 82v
Genres: Benedicamus Domino, Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Benedicamus domino
82v Funde preces ... felle potato - - Anonymous

Funde preces ... felle potato

Anonymous
Appears on: 82v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Funde preces ... felle potato.
82v Letanti festi gaudio Benedicamus Domino - - Anonymous

Letanti festi gaudio Benedicamus Domino

Anonymous
Appears on: 82v
Genres: Benedicamus Domino, Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Letanti festi ga[u]dio Benedicamus domino
82v Gauditur Christi bonitas Deo dicamus gratias - - Anonymous

Gauditur Christi bonitas Deo dicamus gratias

Anonymous
Appears on: 82v
Genres: Deo gratias, Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Gauditur cristi bonitas Deo dicamus gratias
101v Agnus Dei - - Anonymous

Agnus Dei

Anonymous
Appears on: 101v
Genres: Agnus Dei, Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Agnus Dei
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Agnus Dei Anonymous 101v
Benedicamus Domino Anonymous 82v
Funde preces ... felle potato Anonymous 82v
Gauditur Christi bonitas Deo dicamus gratias Anonymous 82v
Letanti festi gaudio Benedicamus Domino Anonymous 82v

‡ denotes primary source study

Cuthbert, Michael Scott. 2008. Italian Sacred Music during the Great Schism in Light of New Discoveries.

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