GB-Llp [ZZ] 1482.5

Lambeth Palace Library, London, England

Codex fragment (polyphony), still with host manuscript: c. 1300

Archive Lambeth Palace Library, London, England (GB-Llp)
Shelfmark [ZZ] 1482.5
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Mixed Foliation and Pagination
Format Portrait
Other Identifiers
  • olim (Former shelfmark): E. iota. 37
  • olim (Former shelfmark): x F xii
Notations
  • Ars Nova
  • black full mensural
  • English mensural
  • Franconian
External Links
Contents Contains 6 compositions, 6 are anonymous.
General Description

Two late 13th to early 14th century vellum leaves from a musical manuscript mounted upside down as front and rear flyleaves (formerly pastedowns) in a 1482 incunabulum (Lumen anime, seu Liber moralitatum). There is a bit of offset of music onto the front binding board, though the music on the leaves remains largely legible. The flyleaves contain four motets of English provenance; it is possible that these are two leaves from an alphabetical codex, with one leaf each from E and V. Only one item has a concordance elsewhere at the time of this entry: Eterne/Dona, which is incomplete in this source, though its quartus cantus (for which space had been allotted) survives as a fragment in US-Cu MS 654 appendix.

This source was first described in 2023 by library curator Mary Clayton-Kastenholz in an online seminar for the Society of Bookbinders.

The book was in Cambridge between 1648/9 and 1664 (shelfmark on A1v), but back in Lambeth in 1664 (shelfmark on A1r).

Richard Dudas and Peter Lefferts, 2025

stub before p. 99

Click an entry to see more information about that item.

Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
front pastedown v Eterne Deus rex glorie / Dona celi factor domine / [Tenor] 3 - Anonymous
Appears on: front pastedown v
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 3
Voice: Triplum
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3c4
Voice Text: Eterne Deus rex glorie

Voice: Motetus
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Dona celi factor domine

Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
Clef: f3
General Note

Lacking a quartus cantus (surviving as frag. in concordance) for which space had been allotted.

Concordances

Concordance (music and text) is US-Chicago 654, no. 2; concordance to text only is Lwa 33327, no. 5

front pastedown v [textless piece] (frag.)
Music only
1 - Anonymous

[textless piece]

Anonymous
Appears on: front pastedown v
Number of voices: 1
Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
Clef: b flat between 3/4
General Note

Incomplete (?) lower voice entered on bottom two staves. Corresponding upper voice(s) would likely have been written on blank staves above.

front pastedown r Ecce te Ezechiel / Salve regina misericordie / [Dominus] 3 - Anonymous
Appears on: front pastedown r
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 3
Voice: Triplum
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3c2
Voice Text: [E]cce te Ezechiel plane decuit, nec non Ysayas sic precinuit;

Voice: Motetus
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2c3
Voice Text: [S]alve regina misericordie, fons et origo vere leticie;

Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
Clef: c3
rear pastedown v Viraginis consorcio / Veneranda domina / Virga relegavit 3 - Anonymous
Appears on: rear pastedown v
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 3
Voice: Triplum
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Viraginis consorcio, perens Adam nephario;

Voice: Duplum
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Veneranda Domina preceteris, tua vigent omnia in etheris;

Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Virga relegatis, porta reserata; Anna gratie, moderata.
General Note

Three voices with middle-voice tenor.

rear pastedown r Veni creator spiritus / Virgo Maria mater / Virgo Maria genitrix / Veni creator spiritus 4 - Anonymous
Appears on: rear pastedown r
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 4
Voice: Quadruplum
Languages: Latin
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Veni creator spiritus mentes tuorum pie visita;

Voice: Triplum
Languages: Latin
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Virgo Maria mater, ora natum prece pia;

Voice: Duplum
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Virgo Maria genetrix regia, stirps mater egregia;

Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Veni creator spiritus mentes tuorum visita;
rear pastedown r Gloria patri (frag.) 3 - Anonymous

Gloria patri

Anonymous
Appears on: rear pastedown r
Number of voices: 3
General Note

Three-part setting in score with Gloria patri doxology melody in the middle voice.

Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
[textless piece] (frag.)
Music only
Anonymous front pastedown v
Ecce te Ezechiel / Salve regina misericordie / [Dominus] Anonymous front pastedown r
Eterne Deus rex glorie / Dona celi factor domine / [Tenor] Anonymous front pastedown v
Gloria patri (frag.) Anonymous rear pastedown r
Veni creator spiritus / Virgo Maria mater / Virgo Maria genitrix / Veni creator spiritus Anonymous rear pastedown r
Viraginis consorcio / Veneranda domina / Virga relegavit Anonymous rear pastedown v

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