On f. 188' (originally left blank), a later hand added a 4-voice 'Nunc dimittis'. Copied in England. Owned by Joseph Mayer (1803-86) of Liverpool, whose collection was placed in city's public museum in 1867; this manuscript transferred to University Library after World War II.
GB-LVu Mayer MS 12034
University Library, Liverpool, England
Gradual with added polyphony: early 16th century
| Archive | University Library, Liverpool, England (GB-LVu) |
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| Shelfmark | Mayer MS 12034 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 128-131 x 88-90 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original covers of wooden boards; right half of front cover now missing. Original spine also lost, exposing vellum cords used to bind gatherings.
Notation
square chant notation
Ruling
red 4-line staves (bassus staff has five lines).
Foliation
New (18th-century?) ink foliation, 1-188; ff. 1-10 also have modern pencil foliation
Foliation
188v
Decoration
inked calligraphic initials and painted initials in gold, blue, and red-brown
Surface
Parchment
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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Sarum Gradual, with polyphony: 1 canticle
Anonymous
iv + 188 + i parchment folios, 128 x 94. (Flyleaf at end is stub only). New (18th-century?) ink foliation, 1-188; ff. 1-10 also have modern pencil foliation. Original covers of wooden boards; right half of front cover now missing. Original spine also lost, exposing vellum cords used to bind gatherings. No index. Square chant notation, with inked calligraphic initials and painted initials in gold, blue, and red-brown. On f. 188' (originally left blank), a later hand added a 4-voice "Nunc dimittis," in square chant notation on red 4-line staves (bassus staff has five lines).
15th century (Gradual); polyphony is later addition, perhaps from early 16th century. Copied in England. Owned by Joseph Mayer (1803-86) of Liverpool, whose collection was placed in city's public museum in 1867; this manuscript transferred to University Library after World War II.
188v
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‡ denotes primary source study
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, 27: 1-69.
Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.
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, 29.
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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