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

front pastedown recto (rotated 180°)

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