GB-Lbl Harley 1512

British Library, London, England

Sarum Breviary with added polyphony: 16th century

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Harley 1512
Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 405 x 265 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBLH 1512
Notations
  • mensural
  • stroke
Copyists
Relationships
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Provenance
  • England
Contents 2 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Music appears only on ff. 2-2'. The scribe was probably Hugh Fletcher, whose name appears on f. 2'. Copied in England. Later owners include Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst (1684-1775); Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford (1661-1724); and Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford (1689-1741). Harleian manuscripts passed to newly founded British Museum in 1754-5, as one of the foundation collections.

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Binding

New covers of brown and tan cloth and leather over boards.

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Notation

partly in stroke notation, with breves and longs broken into repeated semibreves

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Foliation

2-2v

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-197

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Surface

iv paper + 197 parchment + iv paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Sarum Breviary, with polyphony:

1 puzzle canon, 3 fragmentary pieces = 4

(Binchois)-1, anon-3

iv paper + 197 parchment + iv paper folios, 405 x 265. New pencil foliation, 1-197. New covers of brown and tan cloth and leather over boards. Music on ff. 2-2' only, copied partly in stroke notation, with breves and longs broken into repeated semibreves. The scribe was probably Hugh Fletcher, whose name appears on f. 2'.

16th century. Copied in England. Later owners include Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst (1684-1775); Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford (1661-1724); and Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford (1689-1741). Harleian manuscripts passed to newly founded British Museum in 1754-5, as one of the foundation collections.

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
2 Amen dico vobis - Anonymous

Amen dico vobis

Anonymous
Appears on: 2
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: amen dico vobis
2v O Mater Dei memento mei - Anonymous

O Mater Dei memento mei

Anonymous
Appears on: 2v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: O mater dei memento mei
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Amen dico vobis Anonymous 2
O Mater Dei memento mei Anonymous 2v

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‡ denotes primary source study

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.

Fallows, David. 1976-7. English Song Repertories of the Mid-fifteenth Century. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 61-79. Pages: 75. Notes: contents list (partial).

Wright, Cyril Ernest. 1972. Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of 'Manuscripts in the British Museum.  London. Pages: 66,398. Notes: mention of MS.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge.  Cambridge. Pages: II,402. Notes: contents list.

Wanley, Humphrey. 1808-12. A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum.  London. Pages: II,101. Notes: physical description (partial).

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