GB-Lbl Add. MS 35290

British Library, London, England

manuscript of polyphony: mid or late 15th century

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 35290
Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 280 x 203 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBL 35290
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • coloration in red
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • England
Contents 6 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Contains 49 mystery plays forming series from Creation and Fall of Lucifer to Last Judgment and Coronation of Our Lady. Music for Play XLVI, 'The Appearance of Our Lady to Thomas' (associated with York Weavers Guild) copied by a single scribe on ff. 235', 236, 238, and 241-241'. Pieces on ff. 241-241' in choirbook format; others in score format. Copied in York; plays exhibited by incorporated Trades of City of York at various times during 15th and 16th centuries. Belonged to the Corporation of York until 1553. Later owned by Sir Henry Fairfax, Ralph Thoresby, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Heywood Bright, and Bertram, 5th Earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913). Acquired by British Museum from Ashburnham in 1897.

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Binding

Original brown leather covers glued onto modern covers of brown leather over boards.

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Notation

black mensural with red coloration

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Date

Mid or late 15th century (WallYP).

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Ruling

red staves

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-254, uses '31' twice and omits some blank leaves

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Foliation

235v, 236, 238 and 241-241v

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Decoration

No initials or decoration.

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Surface

i paper + i parchment + i paper + vi parchment + 266 parchment + vi parchment + i paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Mystery plays, with polyphony for one play: 6 motets

Anonymous

i paper + i parchment + i paper + vi parchment + 266 parchment + vi parchment + i paper folios, 280 x 203. New pencil foliation, 1-254, uses "31" twice and omits some blank leaves. Original brown leather covers glued onto modern covers of brown leather over boards. Manuscript contains 49 mystery plays forming series from Creation and Fall of Lucifer to Last Judgment and Coronation of Our Lady. Music for Play XLVI, "The Appearance of Our Lady to Thomas" (associated with York Weavers Guild) copied by a single scribe on ff. 235', 236, 238, and 241-241'. Black mensural notation on red staves, with red coloration. Pieces on ff. 241-241' in choirbook format; others in score format. No initials or decoration.

Mid or late 15th century (WallYP). Copied in York; plays exhibited by incorporated Trades of City of York at various times during 15th and 16th centuries. Belonged to the Corporation of York until 1553. Later owned by Sir Henry Fairfax, Ralph Thoresby, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Heywood Bright, and Bertram, 5th Earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913). Acquired by British Museum from Ashburnham in 1897.

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
235v Surge proxima - Anonymous

Surge proxima

Anonymous
Appears on: 235v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Surge proxima
236 Veni de libano - Anonymous

Veni de libano

Anonymous
Appears on: 236
Genres: Introit, Proper
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Veni de libano
238 Veni electa mea et ponam in te thronum - Anonymous

Veni electa mea et ponam in te thronum

Anonymous
Appears on: 238
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Veni electa mea et ponam in te thronum
241 Surge propera amica mea columba mea II: Surge amica mea speciosa mea - Anonymous

Surge propera amica mea columba mea II: Surge amica mea speciosa mea

Anonymous
Appears on: 241
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Surge propera amica mea
241v Veni de libano - Anonymous

Veni de libano

Anonymous
Appears on: 241v
Genres: Introit, Proper
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Veni de libano
[-] Veni electa mea et ponam in te thronum - Anonymous

Veni electa mea et ponam in te thronum

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Veni electa mea et ponam in te thronum
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Surge propera amica mea columba mea II: Surge amica mea speciosa mea Anonymous 241
Surge proxima Anonymous 235v
Veni de libano Anonymous 236
Veni de libano Anonymous 241v
Veni electa mea et ponam in te thronum Anonymous 238
Veni electa mea et ponam in te thronum Anonymous [-]

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Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.

Burstyn, Shai. 1972. Fifteenth-Century Polyphonic Settings of Verses from the Song of Songs. Columbia University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 34-5.

Wall, Carolyn, and Ruth Steiner. 1971. York Pageant XLVI and Its Music. Speculum, 689-712.

Stevens, John E. 1961. Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court.  Cambridge. Pages: 453-457.

Westrup, Jack A (editor). 1954-. New Oxford History of Music.  London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: III, 198.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge.  Cambridge. Pages: I, 243.

Smith, Lucy Toulmin (editor). 1885. York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York ... in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries.  Oxford. Pages: 517-28, frontispiece, Plates II-III.

Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1894-9],236-8.

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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