Music found on f. 220 (a back endpaper), apparently the only surviving remnant of a choirbook. Copied by a single scribe, except for musical scribbles at bottom of f. 220 added by later hand. Probably copied at Augustinian priory in Lanthony Secunda, Gloucestershire (BowersNS). Folio with music later removed from original context and used as pastedown in register of William Cheryton, Prior of Lanthony 1377-1401. Owned by Porter family, of Lanthony; Scudamore and Fitzroy-Scudamore families, of Holme Lacy; and Frances Fitzroy-Scudamore Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (d. 1820). Passed to Public Record Office, London, in mid 19th century.
GB-Lna C 115/78
The National Archives, London, England
non-music MS with interpolated music: 15th century: c.1425-50
| Archive | The National Archives, London, England (GB-Lna) |
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| Shelfmark | C 115/78 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 300 x 220 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 2 compositions, 2 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original covers of white leather over wooden boards
Notation
black void mensural notation with red black void coloration
Ruling
Staff height 15.5
Foliation
Modern pencil foliation, 1-220
Foliation
220 r+v
Decoration
Decorative Gothic initials in red and brown.
Surface
Parchment
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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Priory register, with polyphony: 2 Glorias (both incomplete).
Anonymous
220 parchment folios, 297 x 220; f. 220 [= back endpaper] trimmed from larger original size. Modern pencil foliation, 1-220. Original covers of white leather over wooden boards. Music found on back endpaper, apparently the only surviving remnant of a choirbook. White mensural notation with red void coloration. Copied by a single scribe, except for musical scribbles at bottom of f. 220 added by later hand. Staff height 15.5. Decorative Gothic initials in red and brown.
Ca. 1425-50 (BowersNS). Probably copied at Augustinian priory in Lanthony Secunda, Gloucestershire (BowersNS). Folio with music later removed from original context and used as pastedown in register of William Cheryton, Prior of Lanthony 1377-1401. Owned by Porter family, of Lanthony; Scudamore and Fitzroy-Scudamore families, of Holme Lacy; and Frances Fitzroy-Scudamore Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (d. 1820). Passed to Public Record Office, London, in mid 19th century.
220v
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‡ denotes primary source study
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: editions of both works.
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.
Bowers, Roger, and Andrew B Wathey. 1983. New Sources of English Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Polyphony. Early Music History, 3: 123-73. Pages: 153-6.
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.
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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