GB-Lbl Add. MS 39255 N

British Library, London, England

non-music MS with interpolated music: late 14th or early 15th century

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 39255 N
Surface Other
Numbering System Foliation
Format landscape
Measurements 85 x 115 (CCM says 84 x 114) mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBL 39255
Notations
  • black full mensural
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • England
Contents 1 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

A collection of documents with polyphony on f. 110. Verso contains tenor part for an 'Asperges me,'; recto lists religious obligations of an Augustinian monastery to other houses in confraternity. Leaf with music probably copied at former Augustinian abbey at Cirencester, Gloucester. Once belonged to Prof. James Buckman (d. 1884), who superintended some excavations at ci. Presented to British Museum by Miss Corinna Hutchison in 1915.

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Binding

bound in a modern guard book: modern covers of maroon leather and cloth on boards.

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Notation

black mensural notation with hatchet-shaped longs and breves

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Ruling

13 mm

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Foliation

110v

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Foliation

Modern pencil foliation, 1-118

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Surface

paper (corpus); parchment (music leaf)

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Miscellaneous documents, with polyphony: 1 motet

Anonymous

ii + 118 + ii paper folios [modern guard book], upon which are mounted a collection of documents. Modern pencil foliation, 1-118. Modern covers of maroon leather and cloth on boards. Parchment leaf, 84 x 114, now mounted on f. 110 is only item within scope of this catalogue. Verso contains tenor part for an "Asperges me," copied in black mensural notation with hatchet-shaped longs and breves; recto lists religious obligations of an Augustinian monastery to other houses in confraternity.

Late 14th or early 15th century (music); list of religious obligations dates from late 13th century. Leaf with music probably copied at former Augustinian abbey at Cirencester, Gloucester. Once belonged to Prof. James Buckman (d. 1884), who superintended some excavations at ci. Presented to British Museum by Miss Corinna Hutchison in 1915.

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

110v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
110 Asperges me Domine isopo et mundabor - Anonymous

Asperges me Domine isopo et mundabor

Anonymous
Appears on: 110
Genres: Asperges me, Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Asperges me
General Note

O62
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Asperges me Domine isopo et mundabor Anonymous 110

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‡ denotes primary source study

Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 1-69.

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.

Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1911-15], 399.

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