GB-Lbl Add. MS 10336

British Library, London, England

theory treatise: late 15th - early 16th century: c.1500

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 10336
Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 147 x 110 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBL 10336
Copyists
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Provenance
  • England
Contents 1 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Collection of treatises on music (by Jean de Muris, John Hothby, and others), with examples: 2 textless tenor parts, several fragments. Copied by several scribes, including John Tucke. of New College, Oxford. Owned by William Tucke in 16th century. Acquired by British Museum in 1836. LonLP 466 partly copied from this manuscript.

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Binding

New covers of blue leather on cardboard.

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Notation

not indicated

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Date

Treatises are from 14th and 15th centuries, but copied in 16th century

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-115, begins with first parchment flyleaf and omits various blank folio

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Foliation

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Decoration

Some primary initials and illustrations in red ink.

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Surface

vi paper + i parchment + i paper + 128 paper + i parchment + vi paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Collection of treatises on music, with examples: 2 textless tenor parts, several fragments

Dunstable-1, anonymous

vi paper + i parchment + i paper + 128 paper + i parchment + vi paper folios, 147 x 110. New pencil foliation, 1-115, begins with first parchment flyleaf and omits various blank folios. New covers of blue leather on cardboard. Treatises are from 14th and 15th centuries (by Jean de Muris, John Hothby, and others), but copied in 16th century by several scribes, including John Tucke (see below); LonLP 466 partly copied from this manuscript. Some primary initials and illustrations in red ink.

Ca. 1500 (HugheCM). Of English origin; compiled (and partly copied) by John Tucke, of New College, Oxford. Owned by William Tucke in 16th century. Acquired by British Museum in 1836.

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
18 untexted line of music -
Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453)

untexted line of music

Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453)
Appears on: 18
Genres: textless
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Composer Compositions
Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390-1453)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
untexted line of music
Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453)
18

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

Bent, Margaret, Ian D Bent, and Brian Trowell (editors). 1970. John Dunstable complete works. Musica Britannica, vol. VIII.  London. Pages: VIII [rev. ed.], 156, 207.

Charles, Sydney Robinson. 1962. The Provenance and Date of the Pepys Ms 1236. Musica Disciplina, 16: 57-71. Pages: 61.

Charles, Sydney Robinson. 1959. The Music of the Pepys Ms 1236. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 19, 116-40.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge.  Cambridge. Pages: II, 1; III, 305, 311, 313.

Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1936. Über Leben und Werke von Dunstable. Acta Musicologica, 8: 102-19. Pages: 117.

Davey, Henry. 1921. History of English Music.  London. Pages: 64.

Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1836], 30.

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Foliation Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note

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