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.
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) |
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| Shelfmark | Add. MS 33989 |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | landscape |
| Measurements | 291 x 212 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original? covers of brown suede tooled leather
Liminary Note
"Sepe precinebant patres" copied across back of bifolio
Notation
not indicated
Foliation
128 and 142v
Foliation
Modern pencil foliation, 1-183
Surface
paper
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.
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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. 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