The earliest register for Lincoln College, Oxford, with entries from 1470 to c. 1640. 31 parchment strips cut horizontally from a fourteenth-century English manuscript containing motets.
| Archive | Lincoln College, Oxford, England (GB-Olc) |
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| Shelfmark | LC/A/R/1 'Vetus Registrum' |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. Please refer to the external links for image availability. |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Format | portrait |
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| Contents | Contains 9 compositions, 9 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Both the paper and the parchment sewing guards are very clean, with the exception of the outer leaves of gathering 11, which are very dirty and worn.
Binding
Remains of a late gothic binding (15th century); alum tawed covers, spine missing. Offset of a parchment (?) flyleaf with red staves visible inside front cover. Parchment sewing guards around the outside of fifteen of the sixteen paper quires and in the centre of all sixteen, 31 in total.
Notation
Black full mensural (post-Franconian, ars nova) and black void mensural.
Ruling
Hand-ruled five-line red staves (220mm in width, 24mm in height); lead-point staves in a later hand.
Foliation
Original foliation (irregular) in the paper manuscript; no foliation visible on the sewing guards.
Decoration
No initials
Surface
Paper codex; parchment sewing guards.
DIAMM Note
Inventory provided by Joseph W. Mason. NB Two numbers separated by a forward slash are used when a single fragment is bound on the outside of a gathering and therefore is visible at two openings of the host volume.
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‡ denotes primary source study
‡ Mason, Joseph W. 2021. Newly discovered 14th-century polyphony in Oxford. Early Music, 49: 245–59. https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caab008.
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Joseph Mason
Thursday, 14 July, 2022
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