GB-Lbl Add. MS 24198

British Library, London, England

Missal with added polyphony: first half of 14th century

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 24198
Surface Parchment
Format portrait
Measurements 322 x 220 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: GB-Lbm24198
Notations
  • post-Franconian
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 7 compositions, 7 are anonymous.
Notation

Petronian notation

DIAMM, 2017
Foliation

1-1v, 132-133v

DIAMM, 2017
Surface

Parchment

DIAMM, 2017
RISM Description

RISM B/IV 1: An early 14th century parchment manuscript (with additions of the 15th century) meas. 322 x 220 mm. and containing 133 folios. In addition, there are 4 blank unnumbered paper folios each end belonging to the 19th century binding. The codex is a Missal of the Augustinian Canons Regular, with special insertions for the church of St. Thomas the Martyr, Dublin. On f. 54v is the inscription Jacobus Cottrell abas [1526] sancti thome me possidet. The manuscript was bought by the British Museum in 1867 (or 1866), judging from the pencilled total of folios and the date at the end. The foliation is in modern pencil at t.r.r., while the binding is of plain chocolate brown leather over wooden boards. The spine bears the following title in gilt: Missale||Ad Usum||Abbatiae|| S. Thomae || Dublin. The large Gothic script of the ms corpus only allows room for some 18 lines per page. Except for the 15th century additions, the initials are in red or blue with blue-red filigree. The polyphony appears on 3 flyleaves of the first half of the 14th century, 1 at the front and 2 at the back. The Roman numerals VI and VIII appear in blue ink at t.m.r. on f. 132-133, while f. 1 has a red II in the same position. The ms was in fact arranged alphabetically, since the correct letter of the alphabet appears at the top of each folio at t.m.v. as follows: 132 (R), 133 (T), 1 (T). The music is from a motet manuscript written in Petronian notation on 13 red five-line staves per page (12 on f. lv). The signum rotundum occurs on f. 132. Initials are as in the Missal. Sharps sometimes have 4 dots inside.

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133v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
132 Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio / Rota versatilis - Anonymous

Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio / Rota versatilis

Anonymous
Appears on: 132
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Rosa versaulis Orbis dominatio vertitur in rota
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: f4
Voice Text: Rosa versaulis
General Note

Mot and T only

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 1.

Bent, Margaret. 1981. Rota versatilis--Toward a Reconstruction. Source Materials and the Interpretation of Music: A Memorial Volume to Thurston Dart, edited by Margaret Bent, 65-98. London: Stainer and Bell. Pages: facs.] plate 1;.

Bent, Margaret. 1987. The Fountains Fragments [facsimile with introduction]. Musical Sources, vol. 26.  Clarabricken: Boethius Press. Pages: facs.] plate 12.

132v Rosa mundi purissima, Maria, flos - Anonymous

Rosa mundi purissima, Maria, flos

Anonymous
Appears on: 132v
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Rosa mundi purissima, Maria, flos
General Note

Isolated upper voice of a motet only.

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 2.

132v Regis aula regentis omnia - Anonymous

Regis aula regentis omnia

Anonymous
Appears on: 132v
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Regis aula regentis omnia
General Note

Tr only here; see Princeton A 1 for all 3 parts.

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 2.

Levy, K J. 1951. New material on the early motet in England. A Report on the Princeton MS. Garrett 119. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 4: 220-239. Pages: [facs.].

133 Surgere jam est hora libere - Anonymous

Surgere jam est hora libere

Anonymous
Appears on: 133
Genres: Conductus
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Surgere iam est hora libere
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c4
General Note

Mot and T only

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 3.

133 untexted - -

untexted

Appears on: 133
Number of voices: 1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c3
General Note

Part of another voice (to item 2159)

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plate 3.

133v and 1 Trinitatem veneremur unitate / Trinitas et Deitas atque divinitas / Trinitatis vox, fons ecclesiae / Pro patribus - Anonymous

Trinitatem veneremur unitate / Trinitas et Deitas atque divinitas / Trinitatis vox, fons ecclesiae / Pro patribus

Anonymous
Appears on: 133v and 1
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 4
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Trinitatem veneremur unitate
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Trinitas et deitas atque divinitas
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Trinitatis vox, fons ecclesie
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Pro patribus
Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plates 4-5.

133v and 1 Te domina regina pariendo / Te domina Maria Jesse virgula - Anonymous

Te domina regina pariendo / Te domina Maria Jesse virgula

Anonymous
Appears on: 133v and 1
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Te domina regina pariendo
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Te domina Maria Iesse virgula
Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
Clef: c5
Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plates 4-5.

1v Trop est fol ky me bayle sa femme / Triumphat hodie Christi miles / Trop est fol ky me bayle sa femme / Si si qe la nuit vus preigne - Anonymous

Trop est fol ky me bayle sa femme / Triumphat hodie Christi miles / Trop est fol ky me bayle sa femme / Si si qe la nuit vus preigne

Anonymous
Appears on: 1v
Genres: Troped chant
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Trop est fol ky me bayle sa femme
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin, French
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Triumphat hodie Christi miles | Trop est fol ky me bayle sa femme
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: f4
Voice Text: Si si qe la nuit vus preigne
General Note

Complete except for first half of T.

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: (26), [facs.] plates 6, 83.

Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Regis aula regentis omnia Anonymous 132v
Rosa mundi purissima, Maria, flos Anonymous 132v
Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio / Rota versatilis Anonymous 132
Surgere jam est hora libere Anonymous 133
Te domina regina pariendo / Te domina Maria Jesse virgula Anonymous 133v and 1
Trinitatem veneremur unitate / Trinitas et Deitas atque divinitas / Trinitatis vox, fons ecclesiae / Pro patribus Anonymous 133v and 1
Trop est fol ky me bayle sa femme / Triumphat hodie Christi miles / Trop est fol ky me bayle sa femme / Si si qe la nuit vus preigne Anonymous 1v

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‡ denotes primary source study

Bent, Margaret. 1981. Rota versatilis--Toward a Reconstruction. Source Materials and the Interpretation of Music: A Memorial Volume to Thurston Dart, edited by Margaret Bent, 65-98. London: Stainer and Bell.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1978. Polyphonic Music for a Chapel of Edward . Music & Letters, 59, no. 4: 420-428.

Apfel, Ernst. 1959. Studien zur Satztechnik der mittelalterlichen englischen Musik. 2 vols. Pages: 30, 45f.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. History of Music in Sound. Pages: 58ff (transcription of no. 7 after this source and ONC 3).

Levy, K J. 1951. New material on the early motet in England. A Report on the Princeton MS. Garrett 119. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 4: 220-239. Pages: 222.

Handschin, Jacques. 1949. The Summer Canon and its Background. Musica Disciplina, 3: 55-94, volume 5 (1951), 65-113. Pages: I, 83.

Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1944. "Sumer is icumen in": A Revision. . Pages: 97.

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