GB-Ob MS. Bodl. 862

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

fragment: 14th century: c. 1300

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Bodl. 862
Surface Parchment
Format portrait
Measurements 320 x 220 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: Worc
Notations
  • English mensural
Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 2 compositions, 2 are anonymous.
General Description

Leaves A-Bv removed and rebound in Lat. liturg. d. 20 as ff. 34-5. Offsets only remain. For description see Lat. Lit. d. 20. Rear board is an offset of a page no longer extant. See also the virtual reconstruction of 'Worcester 2' (the 'large-format volume') of which these fragments form part.

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Notation

English mensural (longs and breves, and the lozenge-shaped notes)

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Ruling

red five-line staves

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Foliation

A-Bv

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Decoration

red-blue initials

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Surface

parchment

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 1: for description see Lat. Lit. d. 20. These leaves A-Bv removed and rebound in Lat. liturg. d. 20 as ff. 34-5. Offsets only remain.

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
front board Alme veneremur diei preconia Alleluia. V. Justi epulentur - - Anonymous

Alme veneremur diei preconia Alleluia. V. Justi epulentur

Anonymous
Appears on: front board
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Dulciflua tua memoria
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: [P]recipua michi da gaudia
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: b flat between 3/4
Voice Text: de Dulciflua
General Note

Oxford, Latin Liturgical D 20; London, Add. MS. 25031; Chicago, MS. 654 A, p. 38.

Item Bibliography

Dittmer, Luther A (editor). 1957. The Worcester Fragments: A Catalogue Raisonné and Transcription, s.l. Musicological Studies and Documents, vol. 2.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: [facs.] no. 44.

rear board parts of one or more items of music 3 - Anonymous

parts of one or more items of music

Anonymous
Appears on: rear board
Number of voices: 3
Voice: Motetus
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Inviolata … ingtegra mater
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Inviolata
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Inviolata integra et casta
Layout

parts
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Alme veneremur diei preconia Alleluia. V. Justi epulentur Anonymous front board
parts of one or more items of music Anonymous rear board

Images © Bodleian Library, Oxford

Set: Worcester Fragments

Type: Fragments of a whole

GB-Lbl Add. MS 25031 (Worcester fragments)

GB-Ob MS. Bodl. 862

GB-Ob MS. Hatton 30

GB-Ob MS. Lat. liturg. d. 20 (Worcester fragments)

GB-WO Add. 68 (Worcester fragments)

‡ denotes primary source study

Summers, William John, and Peter M Lefferts (editors). 2016. English 13th-Century Polyphony (EECM 57). Pages: pp. 37-38 & plate 294.

Apfel, Ernst. 1959. Studien zur Satztechnik der mittelalterlichen englischen Musik. 2 vols. Pages: chapter 1 and opening of chapter 2 up to p. 63.

Dittmer, Luther A. 1959. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts V: Worcester Add. 68, Westminster Abbey 33327, Madrid Bibl. Nac. 192. Publications of Mediaeval Music Manuscripts, vol. 5.  Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1958, second ed. 1963. Music in Medieval Britain.  London: Routledge. Pages: 132ff.

Dittmer, Luther A. 1957. Auszug aus The Worcester-Music-Fragments.

Dittmer, Luther A. 1957. The Dating and the Notation of the Worcester Fragments. Musica Disciplina, 11: 5-11.

Dittmer, Luther A (editor). 1957. The Worcester Fragments: A Catalogue Raisonné and Transcription, s.l. Musicological Studies and Documents, vol. 2.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: introduction.

Dittmer, Luther A. 1954. An English Discantuum Volumen. Musica Disciplina, 8: 19ff. Pages: 29ff.

Dittmer, Luther A. 1953. Binary Rhythm, Musical Theory and the Worcester Fragments. Musica Disciplina, 7: 39-57.

Levy, K J. 1951. New material on the early motet in England. A Report on the Princeton MS. Garrett 119. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 4: 220-239.

Handschin, Jacques. 1949. The Summer Canon and its Background. Musica Disciplina, 3: 55-94, volume 5 (1951), 65-113. Pages: II, 66ff.

Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1944. "Sumer is icumen in": A Revision. .

Reese, Gustave. 1940. Music in the Middle Ages: With an introduction on the music of ancient times.  New York: W.W. Norton & Co.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1928. Worcester Mediaeval Harmony of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.  Burnham: Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society.

Ludwig, Friedrich (editor). 1926-9. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke, 1-3.  Leipzig: Publikationen älterer Musik. Pages: II, 34, 62.

Besseler, Heinrich. 1925. Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters: I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 7: 167-252. Pages: I, 219ff.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1923. Die Quellen der Motetten ältesten Stils. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 5: 185-222, Vol. 5 (1924) 273-315. Pages: 191, 274.

Floyer, J K, and S G Hamilton. 1906. Catalogue of Manuscripts Preserved in the Chapter Library of Worcester Cathedral.

Wooldridge, Harry Ellis, and H V Hughes (editors). 1897 and 1913. Early English Harmony from the 10th to the 15th Century. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society.

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

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. RISM Description