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.
| Archive | British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl) |
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| Shelfmark | Add. MS 17001 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 417 x 285 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original covers of brown tooled leather on boards
Notation
'strene' notation (see BentN)
Ruling
irregular (particularly middle lines) 15.6-16.3 mm
Foliation
Original foliation, i-clxxv.
Foliation
175v
Surface
Parchment
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.
175v
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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. 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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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