GB-Llp MS 438

Lambeth Palace Library, London, England

Sarum Processional with added polyphony: 16th century: c.1500

Archive Lambeth Palace Library, London, England (GB-Llp)
Shelfmark MS 438
Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 218 x 141 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonLP 438
Notations
  • black void mensural
Copyists
Relationships
Provenance
  • England
Contents 3 pieces from 2 composers
General Description

A later hand added six single-voice litanies on ff. 179'-180'.Three (ff. 179'-180) are monophonic; the others (f. 180'), marked 'Faburdon,' are second voices for chants on ff. 121'-122' (TrowF). The name 'William Dundy' at bottom of f. 180' evidently refers to the scribe, and perhaps composer, of the added litanies. Copied in England. Came to Lambeth Palace Library in early 17th century. Collection transferred to Cambridge in 1648; returned to Lambeth Palace in 1664.

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Binding

Modern covers of brown morocco leather on wooden boards, gold-tooled with emblem of Lambeth Palace Library

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Notation

black void mensural notation

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Date

15th century (main corpus); litanies added ca. 1500 (FrereB)

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Ruling

5-line staves hand-drawn and irregular, 4-line staves 10.5-11.5 mm

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Foliation

180v

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-180.

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Decoration

Primary initials in blue ink; other decoration in red ink.

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Surface

i paper + ii parchment + 180 parchment + ii parchment + i paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Sarum Processional, with polyphony: 3 litanies

Dundy?-3

i paper + ii parchment + 180 parchment + ii parchment + i paper folios, 218 x 141. New pencil foliation, 1-180. Modern covers of brown morocco leather on wooden boards, gold-tooled with emblem of Lambeth Palace Library. Primary initials in blue ink; other decoration in red ink.

A later hand added six single-voice litanies on ff. 179'-180', in white mensural notation. Three litanies (ff. 179'-180) monophonic; others (f. 180'), marked "Faburdon," are second voices for chants on ff. 121'-122' (TrowF). Name "William Dundy" at bottom of f. 180' evidently refers to scribe, and perhaps composer, of added litanies.

15th century (main corpus); litanies added ca. 1500 (FrereB). Copied in England. Came to Lambeth Palace Library in early 17th century. Collection transferred to Cambridge in 1648; returned to Lambeth Palace in 1664.

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

180v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
180v (1) Litanies - Anonymous

Litanies

Anonymous
Appears on: 180v (1)
Genres: Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Litanies
General Note

O278
180v Kyrie ... Christe audi nos - Anonymous

Kyrie ... Christe audi nos

Anonymous
Appears on: 180v
Genres: Litany
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin, Greek
Voice Text: Kyrie ... Christe audi nos
General Note

O279
180v Kyrie ... Domine miserere -
Dundy, William

Kyrie ... Domine miserere

Dundy, William
Appears on: 180v
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Troped Kyrie
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin, Greek
Voice Text: Kyrie ... Domine miserere
General Note

O283
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Dundy, William
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Kyrie ... Christe audi nos Anonymous 180v
Kyrie ... Domine miserere
Dundy, William
180v
Litanies Anonymous 180v (1)

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‡ denotes primary source study

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, 1-69.

Trowell, Brian. 1980. Faburden-New Sources, New Evidence: A Preliminary Survey. Modern Musical Scholarship, 28-78. Stocksfield, Boston, Henley, and London. Pages: 72,74, 76. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).

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.

Warren, Edwin B. 1969. Life and Works of Robert Fayrfax. Musicological Studies and Documents.  American Institute of Musicology. Pages: 33,80. Notes: mention of MS; contents list.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1962. Faburden in Practice. Musica Disciplina, 11-34. Pages: 20. Notes: mention of MS; contents list.

Charles, Sydney Robinson. 1959. The Music of the Pepys Ms 1236. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 114. Notes: mention of MS.

Trowell, Brian. 1959. Faburden and Fauxbourdon. Musica Disciplina, 43-78. Pages: 60-1. Notes: contents list; transcription; discussion.

Trumble, Ernest. 1959. Fauxbourdon: An Historical Survey. Musicological Studies.  Brooklyn. Pages: 6,80. Notes: mention of MS; contents list.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1958, second ed. 1963. Music in Medieval Britain.  London: Routledge. Pages: 411. Notes: mention of MS; contents list.

Warren, Edwin B. 1957. Life and Works of Robert Fayrfax. Musica Disciplina, 134-52. Pages: 148. Notes: mention of MS.

Stevens, Denis W. 1955. Processional Psalms in Faburden. Musica Disciplina, 105-10. Pages: 110. Notes: mention of MS.

Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1952. Fauxbourdon Revisited. The Musical Quarterly, 22-47. Pages: 31. Notes: contents list; transcription (partial).

Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1936. Geschichte des englischen Diskants und des Fauxbourdons nach den theoretischen Quellen. Sammlung Musikwissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen.  Strasbourg. Pages: 123-4. Notes: mention of MS; contents list.

James, Montague Rhodes, and Claude Jenkins. 1930-2. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Lambeth Palace.  Cambridge. Pages: 610. Notes: physical description; contents list.

Frere, Walter Howard. 1894-1932, repr. Hildesheim, 1967. Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica: A Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: I,5. Notes: physical description; contents list.

Todd, Henry J. 1812, reprint 1965. A Catalogue of the Archiepiscopal Manuscripts in the Library at Lambeth Palace.  London. Pages: 56. Notes: physical description (partial).

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

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description