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.
| Archive | Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob) |
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| Shelfmark | MS. Bodl. 862 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 320 x 220 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 2 compositions, 2 are anonymous. |
General Description
Notation
English mensural (longs and breves, and the lozenge-shaped notes)
Ruling
red five-line staves
Foliation
A-Bv
Decoration
red-blue initials
Surface
parchment
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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Worcester Fragments
Fragments of a whole · 5 sources
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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 (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. 1957. The Dating and the Notation of the Worcester Fragments. Musica Disciplina, 11: 5-11.
Dittmer, Luther A. 1957. Auszug aus The Worcester-Music-Fragments.
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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Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. RISM Description