A cartulary consisting mainly of grants to and by the priory of Augustinian canons at Blythburgh, Suffolk (who were dependent on the Abbey of St. Osyth, Essex), and a few 15th century glosses. Music is found on a flyleaf, f. i; this was formerly pasted to the front cover of the manuscript. It contains a typical English Gloria and Sanctus in three-part score, is bound in reverse with relation to the rest of the manuscript. The manuscript was bought by the British Museum on December 4th, 1922. In the 16th century it belonged to a Thomas Thurston.
GB-Lbl Add. MS 40725
British Library, London, England
Codex fragment (polyphony), still with host manuscript: mid-14th century
| Archive | British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl) |
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| Shelfmark | Add. MS 40725 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 260 x c 185 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 2 compositions, 2 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
leather over oak boards
Notation
Ars Nova written in black ink without ornament. Accidentals are often marked, and groups of ligatures are sometimes joining together (as is common in English usage). There are also unstemmed semibreves, without dot of division, used syllabically.
Ruling
12 five-line staves per page
Foliation
i, i verso, back board offset
Surface
Parchment
RISM Description
RISM B/IV 2 A late 14th century parchment cartulary meas. 260 x 180 mm. and containing i + 60 folios. The contents, which are arranged very roughly in alphabetical order, consist mainly of grants to and by the priory of Augustinian canons at Blythburgh, Suffolk, who were dependent on the Abbey of St. Osyth, Essex. There are a few odd 15th century glosses. The musical flyleaf f. i was formerly pasted to the front cover of the manuscript, whose binding is of leather over oak boards. The manuscript was bought by the British Museum on December 4th, 1922. In the 16th century it belonged to a Thomas Thurston. The Ars Nova notation is written in black ink without ornament on 12 five-line staves per page. Accidentals are often marked, and the common English usage of joining together groups of ligatures may be noted. The flyleaf, which contains a typical English Gloria and Sanctus in three-part score, is bound in reverse with relation to the rest of the manuscript.
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Sanders, Ernest H, Frank Llewellyn Harrison, and Peter M Lefferts (editors). 1983. English Music for Mass and Offices (I). Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, vol. 16. Monaco: Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre. Pages: 16, 271.
Summers, William John. 1977. A New Source of Medieval English Polyphonic Music. Music and Letters, 58: 403-14. Pages: 147-8.
Willetts, Pamela J. 1970. Handlist of Music Manuscripts aquired 1908-1967. Pages: 12.
Fischer, Kurt von, Max Lütolf, and Gilbert Reaney (editors). 1969. Répertoire international des sources musicales. Series B IV, vol. 2. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music. Pages: 239-240.
Davis, Shelley. 1967 (XXXIX)-1968 (XL). The Solus Tenor in the 14th and 15th Centuries. Acta Musicologica, 39 & 40: 44-64(XXXIX)-176-8(XL). Pages: 9.
Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music. London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: vol. 26, 11-12.
Apfel, Ernst. 1959. Studien zur Satztechnik der mittelalterlichen englischen Musik. 2 vols. Pages: II, 13f (complete facsimile of the music), 82f (diplomatic facsimile of no. 2 in score with ligatures reduced to single notes), 64f, 79, 82-84.
Reaney, Gilbert. 1953. John Dunstable and Late Medieval Music in England. The Score, 8: 22ff. Pages: 25f; 26 (transcription of part of no. 1).
[No Author] 1922. Sotheby catalogue December 4th, 1922. Pages: 25.
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1885 - 1906. Appendix, Part IV. Historical Manuscripts Commission: Tenth Report, Pages: 451-457.
Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1921-5] 144-5.
[No Author] None. Blythburgh Priory Cartulary. Pages: 2-3, I, 29-30.
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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; Surface Note
Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. RISM Description