GB-Lbl Add. MS 33989

British Library, London, England

non-music MS with interpolated music: early 16th century

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 33989
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Format landscape
Measurements 291 x 212 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBL 33989
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Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous.
General Description

Single piece of music, 'Sepe precinebant patres,' copied across back of bifolio in a volume of accounts for St. Mary's College (Mettingham, Suffolk), 1515. (New f. 128 and f. 142 are a bifolio folded to form a wrapper for ff. 129-141; new ff. 128 and 142'). Probably copied at St. Mary's College, in Mettingham, Suffolk.

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Binding

Original? covers of brown suede tooled leather

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Liminary Note

"Sepe precinebant patres" copied across back of bifolio

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Notation

not indicated

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Foliation

128 and 142v

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Foliation

Modern pencil foliation, 1-183

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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College accounts, with polyphony: 1 motet

Anonymous

183 paper folios, 291 x 212. Modern pencil foliation, 1-183. Original? covers of brown suede tooled leather. Accounts for St. Mary's College (Mettingham, Suffolk) for 1515. New f. 128 and f. 142 are a bifolio folded to form a wrapper for ff. 129-141; single piece of music, "Sepe precinebant patres," copied across back of bifolio (= new ff. 128 and 142').

Early 16th century. Of English origin; music probably copied at St. Mary's College, in Mettingham, Suffolk. Later owned by Thomas Martin (d. 1771) of Palgrave; Thomas Manning; and Charles Robertson Manning, rector at Diss, Norfolk. Acquired by British Museum in 1891.

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

128

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
128 Saepe praecinebant - - Anonymous

Saepe praecinebant

Anonymous
Appears on: 128
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Saepe praecinebant
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Saepe praecinebant Anonymous 128

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‡ denotes primary source study

Hamilton, Elizabeth Patricia Kathleen. 2009. A Study of Early Sixteenth-Century English Music Fragments from the DIAMM Database. University of Ottawa, MA. http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/handle/10393/20241.

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.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge.  Cambridge. Pages: I, 258.

Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1888-93], 153.

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