Contains sermons; theological treatises and extracts; Albertano of Brescia’s Ars loquendi et tacendi; Hugh of St Cher’s Speculum missae; proverbs; exempla; lists; verses; songs (Latin, French and English). The music, which ranges from monodies to polyphonies for three voices, occupies odd pages and is in different hands. Possible connection to Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire (names of later owners connected to Kirkstall appear in MS) before MS entered library of Henry Savile (Watson); on the basis of content and dialect, Dobson tentatively attributed the MS to a Franciscan house in the east of England.

Square unmeasured

range from four-line to fifteen-line staves; stave lines are sometimes coloured

153, 154v, 155v, 200v, 201v

initials are sometimes coloured

Parchment

Sermons; theological treatises and extracts; Albertano of Brescia’s Ars loquendi et tacendi; Hugh of St Cher’s Speculum missae; proverbs; exempla; lists; verses; songs (Latin, French and English).

s.xiii ex.; 210 x 155 mm; many hands, booklets, blank leaves, later additions, quire size manipulation; possible connection to Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire (names of later owners connected to Kirkstall appear in ms) before ms entered library of Henry Savile (Watson); on the basis of content and dialect, Dobson tentatively attributed the ms to a Franciscan house in the east of England.

RISM B/IV 1: A 14th century parchment manuscript meas. 210 x 153 mm. and containing 201 folios. This theological and moral miscellany belonged in turn to Henry Savile Jr., Thomas Foxcroft of Christall and Thomas Bromhead of the parish of Leeds. The typical Arundel binding is of brown granulated leather with the arms of the Arundel library on the front cover. The music occupies odd pages and is in different hands. It ranges from four-line stave monodies to fifteen-line stave polyphonies for three voices. The stave lines may or may not be coloured, and the same is true of the initials. English, French and Latin texts rub shoulders together. (One piece, no. 3, is set first to Latin and then to French words). These are conductus or sequences, although no. 6 may also be termed an organum in spite of its note-against-note writing. The notation is square and unmeasured, though the occasional use of a semibreve shape for a breve and the presence of the English conjunctura confirms English origin. The ascending binary ligature with a square note at the top and oblong note twice as wide at the bottom is often written with the oblong note wavy, giving the impression that some sort of ornament like a trill is intended.

This information is reproduced here by kind permission of the publishers. It is COPYRIGHT and copying/reproduction of any of this content without permission may result in legal action.