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.
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) |
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| Shelfmark | MS Lat 420 |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
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| Contents | Contains 5 compositions, 5 are anonymous. |
General Description
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.
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‡ denotes primary source study
Cuthbert, Michael Scott. 2008. Italian Sacred Music during the Great Schism in Light of New Discoveries.
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