Only f. 38' contains music. Copied in England. Owned by the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631); subsequent history same as for LonBLC Nero E.viii.
GB-Lbl Cotton Tiberius A.vii
British Library, London, England
non-music MS with interpolated music: Early 15th century
| Archive | British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl) |
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| Shelfmark | Cotton Tiberius A.vii |
| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 240 x 169 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Music partly obliterated by trimming
Binding
Modern covers of tan leather on boards, 1884
Notation
black void mensural notation
Ruling
mostly hand-ruled, some staves more regular: 22.2-22.7 mm
Foliation
38v
Foliation
New pencil foliation, 1-168
Surface
iii paper + 168 paper and parchment + iii paper
RISM Description
RISM B/IV 4: 14./15. Jh.; 167 Blätter Papier und Pergament, 295 x 230 mm. Moderne Foliierung von f. 1-167. - Einband: 1884; mit braunem Leder überzogene Holzdeckel.
Diese Sammelhandschrift des 14./15. Jh. enthält Gedichte, Chroniken unter anderem. Als f. 38 erscheint ein einzelnes Pergament-Blatt (ca. 240 x 165 mm) mit 12 Fünfliniensystemen und weißer Mensuralnotation des frühen englischen 15. Jh.
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Census Catalogue of Music Description
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Miscellaneous historical and poetical writings, with polyphony: 1 Gloria (incomplete)
Anonymous
iii paper + 168 paper and parchment + iii paper folios, 295 x 230 (f. 38, a parchment folio, measures ca. 240 x 169). New pencil foliation, 1-168. Modern (1884) covers of tan leather on boards. Only f. 38' contains music (partly obliterated by trimming). White mensural notation (not black mensural notation, as stated by HugESM).
Early 15th century. Copied in England. Owned by the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631); subsequent history same as for LonBLC Nero E.viii.
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Wright, Peter (editor). 2013. Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, VIII: Settings of the Gloria and Credo. Early English Church Music, vol. 55. London: Stainer and Bell for the British Academy. Notes: edition.
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, 27: 1-69.
Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.
Bent, Margaret. 1973. The Transmission of English Music 1300-1500: Some Aspects of Repertory and Presentation. Studien zur Tradition in der Musik: Kurt von Fischer zum 60. Geburtstag, edited by Margaret Bent, 65–83. Munich: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler. Pages: 77-8.
Russell, Theodore C. 1967. Cantus Firmus Technique in the Music of Fifteenth Century Manuscripts of English Provenance. Student Musicologists at Minnesota, 2: 52-77. Pages: 68-9.
Hughes, Andrew. 1963. English Sacred Music (Excluding Carols) in Insular Sources, 1400-C.1450. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 65-6, Plate III; II/1, 34, 62; II/2, 7, 93; III, 306-10.
Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1950. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music. Pages: 57, 94, 109.
Planta, J. 1802. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, Deposited in the British Museum. London. Pages: 241. Notes: physical description (partial).
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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
Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. RISM Description