GB-Cgc MS 240/126

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England

Collection of short religious texts and extracts with a gathering of songs: c. 1250-1300

Archive	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England (GB-Cgc)
Shelfmark	MS 240/126
Measurements	120 x 95 mm
Notations	neumes
Provenance	England
Contents	1 pieces from 1 composers

General Description

A collection of short religious texts and extracts, some by Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux and Richard of St Victor. A gathering of songs opens the MS, and other verse texts also appear later in the compilation. The items related to St Francis (songs 60a and 62 and several unnotated verses) suggest a possible Franciscan origin for the MS. a variety of hands and layouts, and a large number of short texts, some copied in separate gatherings, suggest that the MS was copied piecemeal; however, a contents list of late thirteenth or early fourteenth century (James) on p.2 indicates that the volume was complete by that point. The songs, all in the first gathering, are in late thirteenth-century hands.

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Notation

punctum and unconventional neumes. Songs 60a-64 probably copied by one notator (or several closely contemporary); 65 is in a different text- and music-hand. The punctum occurs rarely in the hand of the first notator, but vertical alignment lines on the stave are used very frequently, especially in 60b and 62. The b versicles of 60b are squeezed into the margins with some difficulty: from 61 onwards, both versicles of text are underlaid to each stave of music. 65 makes greater use of punctum and includes some unconventional neume forms.

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Folio / Pages	Composition / Item title	Source attribution	Composers (? Uncertain)
[-]	See http://www.diamm.ac.uk/resources/sbs/ for content information	-	Anonymous
See http://www.diamm.ac.uk/resources/sbs/ for content information Anonymous Appears on: [-] Voice: [no designation] Languages: none Voice Text: See http://www.diamm.ac.uk/resources/sbs/ for content information

Composer	Compositions
Anonymous	See http://www.diamm.ac.uk/resources/sbs/ for content information – [-]

Composition	Composers (? Uncertain)	Folios / Pages
See http://www.diamm.ac.uk/resources/sbs/ for content information	Anonymous	[-]

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Set: Sources of British Song 1150-1300

Type: Project Collection

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GB-Lbl Harley 3775 ()

GB-Lbl Royal 5 F. vii

GB-Lbl Royal 8 A. xix

GB-Lbl Royal 12 E. i

GB-Lbl Sloane 1580

GB-Llma COL/CS/01/001/001 (Liber de Antiquis Legibus)

GB-Llp MS 457

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GB-Lna E 163/22/1/2

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GB-MAmm A. 13

GB-Ob MS. Ashmole 1285

GB-Ob MS. Bodl. 79

GB-Ob MS. Bodl. 343 (The Bodley Homilies)

GB-Ob MS. Bodl. 937

GB-Ob MS. Digby 2

GB-Ob MS. Douce 139

GB-Ob MS. Laud Misc. 668

GB-Ob MS. Rawl. D. 1225

GB-Ob MS. Rawl. G. 22

GB-Ob MS. Tanner 169*

GB-Otc MS 34

IRL-Dtc MS 432

‡ denotes primary source study

James, Montague Rhodes. 1907-8. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College. Cambridge. Pages: i, 289-92.

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Monday, 23 January, 2017

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