GB-Odiamm Virtual Reconstruction of the Worcester Fragments ('Worcester 2' , the 'large-format volume') Virtual

DIAMM Virtual Manuscript Archive, Oxford, England

Reconstruction of dispersed fragments from more than one archive: 14th century: c.1300

This is a virtual reconstruction assembled from selected pages of other physical sources. Its pages and inventory are independent snapshots with retained provenance links.
Archive DIAMM Virtual Manuscript Archive, Oxford, England (GB-Odiamm)
Shelfmark Virtual Reconstruction of the Worcester Fragments ('Worcester 2' , the 'large-format volume')
Surface Parchment
Notations
  • English mensural
Relationships
Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 33 compositions, 33 are anonymous.
General Description

A reconstruction of a manuscript which was subsequently re-used as flyleaves in several Worcester manuscripts, and now survives as a set of fragments in two separate collections. Fragments from the collections Worcester Add. 68 and Bodleian MS. Lat. liturg. d. 20 - qqv. - form parts of this reconstruction.

The original ms was substantial, but fragments remain of only a few more than 13 folios. Offsets in MS. Bodl. 862 preserve mirror images of one surviving page (f. 6) and one lost page (14r). The ms. was probably broken up in the 1520s; fragments have been recovered from volumes bound c. 1527-31, most surviving in Worcester Cathedral. The original order of the fragments cannot be determined apart from some local continuities between leaves; the order here follows EECM57.

DIAMM, 2020
Notation

longs and breves, and the lozenge-shaped notes of the so-called English mensural notation

DIAMM, 2020
Ruling

9-12 red or brown five-line staves per page

DIAMM, 2020
Foliation

No original foliation visible. Foliation 1-13 plus 14r (the offset in MS Bodl. 862) follows Lefferts.

Note that 2 folios are reversed: f. 34r-v in MS. Lat. liturg. d. 20 is, in this reconstruction, 12 v-r;
fr. ix, f. 2 (only) of Add. 68 is reversed, so that 5r of this reconstruction consists of fr. ix, 1r & 2v; while 5v consists of fr. ix, 1v & 2r.

DIAMM, 2020
Decoration

red-blue initials

DIAMM, 2020
DIAMM Note

For other information, bibliography, etc see the related sources.

DIAMM, 2020

(6r) GB-Ob MS. Lat. liturg. d. 20, 28r

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Eric Nemarich

Wednesday, 19 November, 2025

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