GB-Eu 64 [Altus] (Dunkeld Music Book, Douglas-Fisher partbooks)

University Library, Edinburgh, Scotland

partbooks: c. 1560

Archive University Library, Edinburgh, Scotland (GB-Eu)
Shelfmark 64 [Altus] (Dunkeld Music Book, Douglas-Fisher partbooks)
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 269 x 192 mm
Other Identifiers
  • olim (Former shelfmark): Dunkeld Antiphonary
Notations
  • black void mensural
Copyists
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • Scotland
Contents 18 pieces from 12 composers
General Description

Five partbooks of a set originally of six volumes, bound together (in order: A, Sex, T, Q, D). One scribe copied the motets; another scribe copied the Masses, on different paper. Copied in Scotland, possibly at Lincluden, a college housed in a former Benedictine monastery, near Dumfries, Kirkcudbrightshire. Inscription on f. Ill: 'Robert dowglas with my hand at the pen William fische[ar].' Robert Douglas (ca. 1530-1609), the possible original owner of the manuscript, was appointed Provost of Lincluden College in 1547. He was at the University of Paris during most of the 1550's. Upon his return to Lincluden in 1557, he probably brought with him three Attaingnant prints of 1542, from which some of the motets in this manuscript were copied.

An inscription on f. 1, in the hand of the 19th-century Scottish antiquarian David Laing, states: 'Antiphonarium in usum Ecclesiae Dunkeldensis'; this reference to Dunkeld Cathedral (in Perthshire) as the place of origin and use of the manuscript may have resulted from Laing's misreading of a contemporary inscription, in which he interpreted the abbreviation 'Linklden' (= Lincluden) as 'Dunklden' (= Dunkeldensis) (ElliottCM).

The manuscript was in the University Library at Edinburgh by 1695.

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Physical Description

Some damp-staining. There are several folios missing from the ends of volumes 1, 4 and 5 resulting in the loss of part of the Mass Cantate Domino (& perhaps accounting for the loss of most parts of Ashwell's Mass).

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Binding

Modern covers of yellow calfskin.

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Watermark

WillsherM states 'from the watermark we learn that the paper is of early 16th-century Normandy make' - an observation not confirmed by others.

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Notation

black void mensural

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Foliation

Two sets of foliation, continuous through the bound volume; the first counts only folios with music, the second includes the original parchment covers of the books

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Decoration

Initials in red ink

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Surface

paper, except for parchment folios at beginning, end, and between each of the partbooks. The motets and masses are copied on different paper; although the bifolio f. 114/121, in the motet section, is of the same type as that used for the masses (WarwickD).

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
2 Ave virgo gloriosa stella sole clarior [Certon]
Appears on: 2
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Certon]
2v–3v Inviolata integra et casta es Maria II: Te nunc flagitant devota corda III: O benigna O regina que sola [Certon]
Appears on: 2v–3v
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Certon]
General Note

At bottom of f. 3v one line of 'O florens rosa' - but the beginning fo the Sextus not the Altus - is copied & deleted; the Altus part then begins at the top of f. 4

4 O florens rosa mater Domini speciosa II: Genitrix virgo mater salutis excuset [Lupi]
Appears on: 4
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Lupi]
5 Virgo clemens et benigna jugi laude digna II: Felix et beata deo fecundata [Lupi]
Appears on: 5
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Lupi]
6 Pater noster qui es in caelis / Ave Maria gratia plena [Certon]
Appears on: 6
Genres: Ave Maria, Motet
Source Attribution: [Certon]
6 O Maria stans sub cruce triumphante [Claudin]
Appears on: 6
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Claudin]
6v Ad nutum Domini nostrum dicantis honorem II: Ut vitium virtus operiret gratia [Lupi]
Appears on: 6v
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Lupi]
7v Regina caeli laetare Alleluia II: Resurrexit sicut dixit Alleluia [Certon]
Appears on: 7v
Genres: Motet, Regina caeli laetare
Source Attribution: [Certon]
8v Benedicta es caelorum regina et mundi 23.13 (2p. Per illud ave prolatum; 3p. Nunc mater exora natum) [Josquin]
Appears on: 8v
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Josquin]
9v Vidi civitatem sanctam Jerusalem novam [Gombert/Wilder]
Appears on: 9v
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Gombert/Wilder]
10v Descendi in ortum meum ut viderem poma [Jachet]
Appears on: 10v
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Jachet]
11 Infelix ego omnium auxilio destituti II: Ad te igitur piissime Deus tristis [Rore/Willaert]
Appears on: 11
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Rore/Willaert]
12v Surge Petre et indue te vestimentis tuis (2p. Si diligis me Symon Petre pasce oves) [Jachet]
Appears on: 12v
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Jachet]
13v Ave virgo gratiosa [gloriosa] stella sole clarior [Jachet/Vermont]
Appears on: 13v
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Jachet/Vermont]
14v Salve celeberrima virgo Dei genitrix II: Haec est illa dulcissima que sanctarum [Lupi]
Appears on: 14v
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: [Lupi]
15v Te sanctum Dominum in excelsis laudant omnes II: Cherubin quoque ac seraphin sanctus - Anonymous
Appears on: 15v
Genres: Motet
17 Missa Felix namque - Anonymous

Missa Felix namque

Anonymous
Appears on: 17
Genres: Mass Ordinary
22 Missa Cantate Domino: GCSA - Anonymous
Appears on: 22
Genres: Agnus Dei, Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus]
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Berchem, Jacques (ca. 1505–1567)
Certon, Pierre (–ca. 1572)
Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)
Gombert, Nicolas (ca. 1495–ca. 1560)
Lupi, Johannes (ca. 1506–1539)
Mantua, Jacquet de (1483–1559)
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Sermisy, Claudin de (ca. 1490–1562)
Van Wilder, Phillip
Vermont, Pierre
Willaert, Adrian (ca. 1490–1562)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Ad nutum Domini nostrum dicantis honorem II: Ut vitium virtus operiret gratia 6v
Ave virgo gloriosa stella sole clarior 2
Ave virgo gratiosa [gloriosa] stella sole clarior 13v
Benedicta es caelorum regina et mundi 23.13 (2p. Per illud ave prolatum; 3p. Nunc mater exora natum) 8v
Descendi in ortum meum ut viderem poma 10v
Infelix ego omnium auxilio destituti II: Ad te igitur piissime Deus tristis 11
Inviolata integra et casta es Maria II: Te nunc flagitant devota corda III: O benigna O regina que sola 2v–3v
Missa Cantate Domino: GCSA Anonymous 22
Missa Felix namque Anonymous 17
O florens rosa mater Domini speciosa II: Genitrix virgo mater salutis excuset 4
O Maria stans sub cruce triumphante 6
Pater noster qui es in caelis / Ave Maria gratia plena 6
Regina caeli laetare Alleluia II: Resurrexit sicut dixit Alleluia 7v
Salve celeberrima virgo Dei genitrix II: Haec est illa dulcissima que sanctarum 14v
Surge Petre et indue te vestimentis tuis (2p. Si diligis me Symon Petre pasce oves) 12v
Te sanctum Dominum in excelsis laudant omnes II: Cherubin quoque ac seraphin sanctus Anonymous 15v
Vidi civitatem sanctam Jerusalem novam 9v
Virgo clemens et benigna jugi laude digna II: Felix et beata deo fecundata 5

denotes primary source study

Warwick, Alistair. 1998. Another look at the Dunkeld Music Book. University of Surrey, MMus. https://alistairwarwick.com/content/dunkeld-music-book(Accessed: 14-2-2033).

Sadie, Stanley (editor). 1980. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.  London. Pages: II, 807.

Elliott, Kenneth, and Frederick Rimmer. 1973. A History of Scottish Music.  London. Pages: 20.

Nugent, George Edward. 1973. The Jacquet Motets and Their Authors. Princeton University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 144ff.

Blackburn, Bonnie J. 1970. The Lupus Problem. University of Chicago, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 365, passim.

Elliott, Kenneth. 1964. Church Musick at Dunkell. Music and Letters, 228-32.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1958, second ed. 1963. Music in Medieval Britain.  London: Routledge. Pages: 194.

Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music.  London. Pages: XV,xv; passim.

Willsher, Harry M. 1945. Music in Scotland During Three Centuries (1450-1750): Being Contributions Towards the History of Music in Scotland. University of St Andrews, Ph.D. Pages: 807. Notes: watermark.

Gal, Hans. 1941. Catalogue of Manuscripts, Printed Music and Books on Music Up to 1850 in the Library of the Music Department at the University of Edinburgh (Reid Library).  London. Pages: 2.

Borland, Catherine R. 1916. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Mediaeval Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library.  Edinburgh. Pages: 113.

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