Fragments of manuscripts from Barlow bound together (f. 1 and 7-13 are all flyleaves). Ff. 4-5 are two pages of an originally larger codex. These pages bear notation; at the bottom of f. 5, there is an odd line of 15th century notation. There are no less than 10 pieces, mainly three-part settings of the Ordinary of the Mass, but also the popular sequence Mater, ora filium and the equally well-known Alleluya. V. Post partum virgo.
| Archive | Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob) |
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| Shelfmark | MS. Barlow 55 |
| Surface | Other |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | now 210 x 138 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 11 compositions, 11 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Ff. 4-5 lack the two top staves. Both pages are also cut away a little at the right margin.
Binding
brown cloth binding of the late 19th century
Notation
Ars Nova; black void at the bottom of f. 5
Ruling
4 accolades of 3 red five-line staves (counting the missing two staves at the top).
Foliation
4-5v
Foliation
foliated at t.r.r. in modern pencil; includes modern paper flyleaves
Decoration
text is red throughout except on f. 5v.
Surface
parchment; f. 1 and 7-13 are paper
RISM Description
RISM B/IV 2: Fragments of manuscripts from Barlow bindings collected together in a brown cloth binding of the late 19th century. Altogether there are 13 folios, of which f. 1 and 7-13 are all paper flyleaves belonging to the modern binding. Otherwise there are 6 leaves of various sizes dating from the 12th to the 14th century and foliated at t.r.r. in modern pencil. The modern paper flyleaves are also included in this foliation. Of interest here are f. 4-5, two pages of an originally larger codex now meas. 210 x 138 mm. and lacking the two top staves. These 14th century pages are written in Ars Nova notation on 4 accolades of 3 red five-line staves (counting the missing two staves at the top). The text is also red throughout except on f. 5v. At the bottom of f. 5, there is an odd line of 15th century white notation. Both pages are cut away a little at the right margin. There are no less than 10 pieces, mainly three-part settings of the Ordinary of the Mass, but also the popular sequence Mater, ora filium and the equally well-known Alleluya. V. Post partum virgo.
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‡ denotes primary source study
Apfel, Ernst. 1959. Studien zur Satztechnik der mittelalterlichen englischen Musik. 2 vols. Pages: II, 19ff (facsimile of f. 4v-5v), 83f and 88f (diplomatic facsimile of nos. 4 and 8 with ligatures resolved into single notes); I, 59, 61, 67, 70, 80.
Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1958, second ed. 1963. Music in Medieval Britain. London: Routledge. Pages: 295 (transcription of opening of no. 5 after Oxford, Bodleian Libr., Rawl. liturg. d. 3).
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