GB-Lbl Add. MS 17001

British Library, London, England

Gradual with added polyphony: ? 15th century

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 17001
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 417 x 285 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBL 17001
Notations
  • strene
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous.
General Description

Sarum gradual with polyphonic piece on f. 175'; piece also appears in OxfBLL b.5 and (with text 'Amen') in LonBLC Nero E.viii. Copied in England. Purchased by British Museum from Rev. William Maskell in 1867.

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Binding

Original covers of brown tooled leather on boards

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Notation

'strene' notation (see BentN)

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Ruling

irregular (particularly middle lines) 15.6-16.3 mm

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Foliation

Original foliation, i-clxxv.

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Foliation

175v

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Surface

Parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Sarum Gradual, with polyphony: 1 Deo grattas

Anonymous

i + 175 + i parchment folios, ca. 417 x 285. Original foliation, i-clxxv. Original covers of brown tooled leather on boards. Polyphonic piece, in "strene" notation (see BentN), on f. 175'; piece also appears in OxfBLL b.5 and (with text "Amen") in LonBLC Nero E.viii.

15th century? Copied in England. Purchased by British Museum from Rev. William Maskell in 1867.

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

175v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
175v Deo gratias - Anonymous

Deo gratias

Anonymous
Appears on: 175v
Genres: Deo gratias, Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Deo gratias
General Note

O164
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Deo gratias Anonymous 175v

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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.

Bent, Margaret. 1984. The Progeny of Old Hall: More Leaves from a Royal English Choirbook. Gordon Athol Anderson (1929-1981) in Memoriam, Musicological Studies, vol. 49. 2 vols.1-54. Henryville, Ottawa, and Binningen: Institute of Mediaeval Music.

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. Pages: II, 46.

Bent, Margaret. 1968. New and Little-Known Fragments of English Medieval Polyphony. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 21: 137-56. Pages: 150-2.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge.  Cambridge. Pages: I, 271.

Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1486-7], 343.

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