| Archive | The National Archives, London, England (GB-Lna) |
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| Shelfmark | E 163/22/1/3 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | None |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 680 x 460 [W:325 x 290] mm |
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| Contents | 5 pieces from 3 composers |
Copied by a single scribe, in England. Leaf removed from original context c. 1510; used as wrapper for rental of a manor within parish of Wye, Kent. Rental document later came to King's Remembrancer's Department of the Exchequer in London; subsequently transferred to Public Record Office. Leaf with music discovered in 1970 by Roger Bowers; now preserved separately.
In poor condition; center of folio missing
Now mounted on modern parchment folio
Black mensural notation with red coloration in score
Ca. 1455 (Roger Bowers).
Staff height 17-21
r+v
Elaborately illuminated initials and floral borders in gold, blue, green, and faded red, with filigree work.
Parchment
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4 Kyries (fragmentary)
(Dunstable)-1, (Power)-1, anon-2
1 fragmentary parchment folio, ca. 680 x 460, now mounted on modern parchment folio. In poor condition; center of folio missing. Black mensural notation with red coloration; score format. Copied by a single scribe. Staff height 17-21. Elaborately illuminated initials and floral borders in gold, blue, green, and faded red, with filigree work.
Ca. 1455 (Roger Bowers). Copied in England. Leaf removed from original context ca. 1510; used as wrapper for rental of a manor within parish of Wye, Kent. Rental document later came to King's Remembrancer's Department of the Exchequer in London; subsequently transferred to Public Record Office. Leaf with music discovered in 1970 by Roger Bowers; now preserved separately.
recto part 2
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| Folio / Pages | Composition / Item title | Source attribution | Composers (? Uncertain) |
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| recto part 1 | Kyrie eleison | - | Anonymous |
Kyrie eleisonAnonymous
Appears on:
recto part 1
Genres:
Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary
Voice:
[no designation]
Languages:
Latin, Greek
Voice Text:
Kyrie
General NoteK21 |
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| recto part 2 | Kyrie eleison | - | |
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Appears on:
recto part 2
Genres:
Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary
Voice:
[no designation]
Languages:
Latin, Greek
Voice Text:
Kyrie
General NoteK22 |
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| verso part 1 | Kyrie eleison | - | |
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Appears on:
verso part 1
Genres:
Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary
Voice:
[no designation]
Languages:
Latin, Greek
Voice Text:
Kyrie
General NoteK23 |
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| verso part 2 | Kyrie eleison | - | Anonymous |
Kyrie eleisonAnonymous
Appears on:
verso part 2
Genres:
Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary
Voice:
[no designation]
Languages:
Latin, Greek
Voice Text:
Kyrie
General NoteK24 |
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| verso part 3 | Kyrie eleison | - | Anonymous |
Kyrie eleisonAnonymous
Appears on:
verso part 3
Genres:
Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary
Voice:
[no designation]
Languages:
Latin, Greek
Voice Text:
Kyrie
General NoteK25 |
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| Composer | Compositions |
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| Anonymous |
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| Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453) |
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| Power, Leonel (–1445) |
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| Composition | Composers (? Uncertain) | Folios / Pages |
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| Kyrie eleison | Anonymous | recto part 1 |
| Kyrie eleison | recto part 2 | |
| Kyrie eleison | verso part 1 | |
| Kyrie eleison | Anonymous | verso part 2 |
| Kyrie eleison | Anonymous | verso part 3 |
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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.
Wathey, Andrew B. 1989. Review of: R. Strohm, Music in Late Medieval Bruges. Music and Letters, 81.
Wathey, Andrew B. 1983. Newly Discovered Fifteenth-Century English Polyphony at Oxford. Music and Letters, 58-66. Notes: concordances (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.
Seaman, Ann-Marie. 1978. The Music of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Lincoln College Latin 89: A Postscript. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 139-40. Notes: concordances (partial).
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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description