GB-Lrcp 734

Royal College of Physicians, London, England

choirbook fragment: 16th century

Archive Royal College of Physicians, London, England (GB-Lrcp)
Shelfmark 734
Surface Parchment
Format portrait
Measurements c. 595 x c. 395. Individual half-leaves are c. 290 x c. 395 mm
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • coloration in red
Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 4 compositions, 4 are anonymous.
General Description

Pages have been trimmed at the edges and parchment strip to join the two half-leaves has been added in restoration. Taken from (1) Decretales Gregorii; (2) Decretum Gratiani; (3) Decretalium Liber Sextus, all from the same Oxford bindery (sample image taken from Decretum Gratiani).

Part of the so-called 'Lost Choirbook II':

GB-Chester, Cheshire and Chester Archives, ZCX/1

GB-London, Royal College of Physicians, MS 734

GB-Nottingham, Archives Office, PR 20,332

GB-Oxford, All Souls College, MS 330

GB-Oxford, New College, printed books Ω.14.5 and C.1.2

DIAMM, 2017
Notation

Black mensural notation with red coloration

DIAMM, 2017
Ruling

height of stave: 15-18 mm

DIAMM, 2017
Foliation

1-2v

DIAMM, 2017
Surface

parchment

DIAMM, 2017

2bv

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Sets

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‡ denotes primary source study

Bent, Margaret. 1996. A new canonic Gloria and the changing profile of Dunstaple. Plainsong and Medieval Music, 5: 45-67.

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.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. None. Anshelm Hughes's papers.

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Magnus Williamson

Wednesday, 1 May, 2019

changed composition to 'Salve regina' (8855) - concordant with the one in GB-Oas MS 330, O503 in the revised Curtis-Wathey handlist

DIAMM, 2016

Monday, 23 January, 2017

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