Eight booklets (300 leaves), put together by Brian Twyne. F. 76 has music with partial text, ‘O lux beata trinitas ... funde lumen cordibus Bakwardis’. f. 76v has music with partial text, ‘Nowe wyll I un to my lady go and yt wyl be Newell Newell Newell to Mary came sent Gabriell under a tre’. F. 77 has English verses headed ‘Many let be thy carolues and be glad thys tyme of Cristmas’, ‘Almyzty God blessyd mot he be / Hath sent hys son thorow hys gret pytee’, four quatrains followed by a partial line of music. Originally made at and for the abbey of Lesnes (Kent).
GB-Occc MS 265
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England
non-music MS with added polyphony: 15th century(?)
| Archive | Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England (GB-Occc) |
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| Shelfmark | MS 265 |
| Surface | Paper |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 145 x 95 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
vellum on pasteboard, sewn on four bands, black-stained centrepiece on each cover, two cloth ties. c. 1600
Liminary Note
On f. iv is Bryan Twyne’s inscription ‘Schediastianum 11us’ and ‘No. 1732. 265. Vol. 12 B. III. 12’ and a list of contents.
Notation
square black full chant neumes with black void mensural notes to make a polyphony part
Ruling
F. 76 5 five-line staves; f. 76v 6 five-line staves; f. 77 has one four-line stave. All are hand-drawn, c. 12 mm high
Foliation
76
Surface
paper
76
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‡ denotes primary source study
Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 27: 1-69.
Various (compiler). 1957-. Index of Middle English Prose. Boydell & Brewer. Pages: 30.
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